Levels of contagion are setting new records, hospitals are overwhelmed, governments are starting to introduce lockdowns, and not only for unvaccinated people – the picture of the fight against Covid-19 looks quite disappointing. However, there’s still a place for good news: Research teams report positive results while trialling new medicines …
Read More »This may get me branded a domestic terrorist, too, but parents fighting to stop ‘boys in skirts’ using girls’ restrooms are right
I was not surprised that I didn’t have to wait long for validation from the US of Vladimir Putin’s criticism last week, in which he claimed Western society has devolved to “things that are simply monstrous… like when children are taught from an early age that a boy can easily …
Read More »‘This is totalitarianism’: Doctor ejected from his US hospital for not being jabbed vows to keep fighting for medical freedom
“This is totalitarianism. I’ve come out and said, ‘No, you’re not going to do that, not on my watch’… I’m willing to give my life to this cause.” These words prove just how divided America is. They belong to Doctor Rake, an anesthesiologist at the prestigious University of California, Los …
Read More »‘I don’t have $50’: UFC’s Norma Dumont says she is ‘fighting to survive’ ahead of Las Vegas headliner amid promotion pay row
Dumont will top the bill of a UFC event for the first time at the Apex on Saturday night as the Brazilian takes on American rival Ladd, who stepped in when former bantamweight champion Holly Holm was forced out due to a knee injury. Ladd was seen failing desperately to …
Read More »George Galloway: Facebook is fighting to the death to stop those with the ‘wrong’ opinions from being heard
If you had told me during the years I sat with Nick Clegg in the British Parliament that the achingly liberal member for Sheffield Hallam – later to become deputy prime minister of the UK and Sir Nick – would become chief censor of the biggest public square on the …
Read More »Catholic lives matter: The campaign group fighting the endemic bigotry that’s Scotland’s ‘dirty secret’
The burning down of Catholic churches is not the sort of thing you expect in a so-called ‘progressive’ nation. But it’s happening in, of all places, Scotland, a country with a left-leaning government that is aggressively pursuing some of the most woke legislation in Europe. Back in July, the 163-year …
Read More »‘The US government is censoring private conversations,’ says the ‘conversion therapist’ fighting a legal battle not to be silenced
Should private discussions between a counsellor and minors worried about their sexuality be allowed? Therapist Brian Tingley believes they should, and has taken to the courts to fight his case. Brian and his team are keen to overturn a district court decision in the state of Washington to reject his …
Read More »I’m fighting an election in Norway next week to stop equality before the law and freedom of speech being stolen from us by stealth
Principles have been relegated to the far corner of the room in the hyper-commercial neo-liberalist age. A general discussion on the guiding principles by which we should govern our lives is a rare occurrence. I would like to make a case for self-preservation right now. Self-preservation is a legitimate instinct …
Read More »Russian & Belarusian troops practice fighting side-by-side in huge war-games, with rockets & tanks deployed across Eastern Europe
In a statement issued on Friday, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Zapad-2021 drills had begun in earnest, across 14 separate training grounds from the Baltic Sea to Central Russian cities like Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod. © function.mil.ru Troops from former Soviet republics, including Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as …
Read More »US has nothing to show for two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, Putin says, despite efforts to impose Washington’s own values
In a meeting with students on Wednesday, Putin criticized what he said amounted to the US’ mishandling of its presence in Afghanistan, which ended abruptly in August when the Taliban took the capital, Kabul. “The result is one tragedy, one loss… American troops were present in this region, and for …
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