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After more than a year of insinuations and allegations that have ultimately bloomed into open diplomatic warfare, the Chinese have launched a concerted fightback against the UK – and you have to consider they might have a point. Not only have the UK and the USA spent the last year …

Tomasz Greniuch, a historian by training, has resigned his position as regional director of Poland’s influential Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). It came on Monday after weeks of pressure from politicians, activists and public figures, who saw him as an extremely inappropriate choice to hold the position given his past …

The designer, Troy Leavitt, is currently working with development studio Avalanche Software on the high anticipated video game, but many on social media appear to want him nowhere near the project now that his past has been put under the spotlight. Leavitt’s YouTube videos have included titles like “The Injustice …

The proposed inquiry is designed to “defame” the teaching community and will have a “devastating” effect, more than 600 French academics have warned, in an open letter published in Le Monde newspaper. “We can only deplore the indigence of Frederique Vidal, who is using the repertoire of the far right …

“Will American Ideas Tear France Apart?”asks the New York Times in an article, published earlier this month, quoting prominent intellectuals concerned about the impact of theories on gender, race and post-colonialism on French solidarity.  French President Emmanuel Macron has led a complete volte-face in France against the notion of “separatism” …

The ‘No Glory for Hate Act’, sponsored by Representative Linda Sanchez (D-California) and co-sponsored by 13 other Democrats, calls for banning any “twice-impeached president” from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The ashes of such a president couldn’t be inurned at Arlington, either. The bill’s heading refers to prohibiting the …

As part of a long-running dispute over proposals to make “Big Tech” companies pay for news content hosted on their platforms, Facebook has blocked all access to news-related content in Australia. Described as “arrogant and disappointing” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the standoff – which had also involved similar threats from …

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, his account of living in a communist labor camp, “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”  We have seen this cruelty first-hand through the historical documentation of communist gulags and Nazi concentration camps, and the way that …

Now that the Democratic Party has control of both houses of Congress and the presidency, calls for reparations, like those by Ta-Nehisi Coates, or more recently, the Contract With Black America touted by the rapper Ice Cube, will no doubt be given a serious hearing. Ice Cube is set to …

The 200-plus dioceses, and the churches and schools the Catholic Church operates under their names pulled down over $3 billion in taxpayer-funded aid from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as part of the US coronavirus bailout of small businesses, according to an Associated Press (AP) investigative report published on Thursday. …