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The Chinese military will be brought to “world-class standards” by 2027, when it marks its 100th anniversary, President Xi Jinping promised in his opening speech at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party on Sunday. Over the next five years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will intensify troop training …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced the education system inherited from British colonialism and urged reforms that could help the country move forward, at an educational policy summit on Thursday. “The British provided this education system to prepare a servant class for themselves to meet their needs,” Modi said at the …

Ferris State University in Michigan has placed Professor Barry Mehler on leave, after the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism posted a profanity-laced video as introduction to a course. “I was shocked and appalled by this video,” FSU President David Eisler told local news …

They’ve gotten awfully ballsy about admitting it, too. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s eponymous publication is infamous for pushing anti-family, veritably anti-human messages in a less-than-subtle fashion on millions of social media users without a care for “optics.” On Christmas Day, no less, Twitter users were treated to a gleeful jeremiad about …

In the aftermath of the recent German Federal election many people were wondering how Die Linke (The Left) had become so relegated to the sidelines as to lose 30 seats and become the smallest party in Germany’s parliament. Many liberal publications were quick to place blame on Sahra Wagenknecht, one of …

The curriculum’s new element, which has reportedly been inspired by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, also questions why British prime ministers to date have been white. It also discusses “microaggressions” – apparently referring to actions that can marginalise people from minority backgrounds. Examples include touching a black student’s hair …

Taking to Facebook on Friday, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki praised the recent conclusion by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, claiming it “confirmed what is literal” – that “constitutional law has superiority over other sources of law,” which he said many other EU member states have also realized.  He made it clear, …

Monday was the deadline for New York’s healthcare workers to receive their first vaccine dose, and the state’s facade of blissful obedience has already begun to crack. While New York City Health + Hospitals head Dr. Mitchell Katz has reported that just 5% of city nurses were unvaccinated (and presumably …

Extinction Rebellion, or XR as it has become known, is a UK-based activist group which claims to be a non-partisan protest movement to persuade governments to act on climate change. While it does so non-violently, its protest does take the form of what it calls “civil disobedience” as we have …

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed a lot about social inequality, and led to a lot of talk about the impact of the pandemic on various groups of people. One of the biggest concerns was the revelation that there were disparities in the risks and outcomes of Covid-19 among BAME people, …