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According to the Sun, RT Diagnostics, a company based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, has been charging thousands of unsuspecting customers £79 ($107) for fit-to-fly and day two and day eight quarantine test certificates, then dumping the returned Covid-19 tests in the bin.  Ordinarily, I’d be shocked but not surprised that …

According to a report in Danish media, the country’s intelligence services had been working at the behest of the notorious US National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on leaders throughout Europe, including Germany’s Angela Merkel. This is not the first time such allegations have been made, with the US having …

‘Greater Idaho’ is an initiative that has been taken up by several rural counties in both Oregon and California. The basic premise is that these counties want out from under the thumb of left-wing governance due to the ever-growing divide between Republicans and Democrats on policy. The move would shift …

A few years ago, an academic and author named Harry G. Frankfurt wrote a book called ‘On Bulls**t’.  The title is self-explanatory, and the subject matter is as expected. Still, a repeating theme of the book is how quickly and easily people claim to be experts on a given topic …

“Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson told viewers on Tuesday evening. He went on to claim that “quite a few …

Russian-American relations have gone through some interesting curves on the road recently, leaving many commentators at a loss. Stern warnings, a military showdown, reported plans to deploy the US Navy to the Black Sea (subsequently apparently cancelled), President Joe Biden calling his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and proposing a face-to-face …

Spring is here, and vaccine fever is in full swing. My social media is flooded with selfies of people proudly displaying their vaccine cards – the post-pandemic version of engagement photos, it would seem. Friends sometimes text me joyously to tell me they’ve received their second shot, and then doggedly …

Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights – a new position created by the UN Human Rights Council in March of 2020 – issued a stinging preliminary report last week condemning US and EU sanctions against Venezuela. Ms. Douhan has urged the US, EU …

Those who did not receive their $600 stimulus payment on Monday have been using the ‘Get My Payment’ tool on the IRS website to track where their money is, and the various explanations have led to a litany of confusion. Some have reportedly been told that their stimulus checks are …

“#MissFrance2021 is not an anti-Semitic competition,” Citizenship Minister Marlene Schiappa tweeted, sending her support to April Benayoum, Miss Provence and the first runner-up in this year’s Miss France contest. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he was “deeply shocked” by the hate directed at the beauty queen. “We must not let …