Thousands of pages of emails were made public on Tuesday by BuzzFeed, having been obtained through a FOIA request. It took until Thursday for White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to call on a reporter willing to ask about them. Responding to a Fox News reporter, Psaki defended Fauci as …
Read More »Historical statue topplers finally meet their match in ongoing culture war, defeated by befuddling British bureaucracy
When the statue of English merchant and philanthropist – and slave trader – Edward Colston was torn from its plinth and tossed into Bristol Harbour by protesters a year ago this weekend, it looked like mob justice was about to take hold across the country and bronzed likenesses of historical …
Read More »A new book, ‘Cynical Theories’, finally takes woke warriors to task over crazy ideas such as ‘being fat is the same as being gay’
As it isn’t far from home, I feel an urge to visit the London suburb where a local council has permanently painted a pedestrian crossing blue, pink and white to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. When I find the crossing, I’ll stand in the middle, ignore …
Read More »The end of strategic ambiguity? America has finally stopped pretending it would risk war with Russia over supposed ‘ally’ Ukraine
Except, of course, there is no alliance between the US and Ukraine. This week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken effectively ended the notion that Ukraine has Western backers ready to step in at a moment’s notice if it finds itself under attack. Pressed on whether American forces could be …
Read More »A proper fight is finally about to break out after another nonsensical week in boxing – Canelo & Saunders could redeem the rubbish
There is something of a piece about Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul going at each other like playground enemies in Miami. Towards the end of another week full of words and devoid of substance, a spat over a single stolen hat seems strangely reflective of what boxing all too frequently …
Read More »Biden finally ‘admits’ to border CRISIS, says US couldn’t manage migrant surge & boosting refugee flow at same time
“The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people. We couldn’t do two things at once,” Biden told reporters on Saturday after playing a round of golf in Wilmington, Delaware. “And now we’re going to increase the numbers.” …
Read More »France finally outlaws sex with children under 15 after Duhamel-Kouchner incest scandal reignites age of consent debate
The Assemblee Nationale voted unanimously on Thursday to set the age of consent at 15, classifying sex with children under that age – as well as incestuous sex with anyone under 18 – as rape, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. “This is an historic law for our …
Read More »The Public Health industry’s mission creep has finally led it to medicalise racism – it was only ever a matter of time
“What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans,” declared Walensky. To show its determination to treat racism as a public health problem, the CDC has launched a new web portal, Racism and Health. Once upon a time …
Read More »Researchers finally unravel mystery behind Mars’ vast, reappearing cloud (PHOTO)
In 2018, the Mars Express captured a long, distended cloud blowing across the surface of Mars, extending some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) from a long-extinct volcano. Located in the southern Martian hemisphere, the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud appears and reappears every spring or summer on the Red Planet. It has …
Read More »False dawn’s truth? Scientists say they’ve finally cracked centuries-old mystery, thanks to the Juno probe
Also known as ‘zodiac light’, the false dawn phenomenon is a band of light that appears just after sunset and is at its brightest for people living in the northern hemisphere in March and April. In the southern hemisphere, the effect is most notable after sunset in the late summer …
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