Speaking on Wednesday, Britain’s immigration minister, Kevin Foster, said that individuals who fail to apple for settled status by the June 30 deadline will not immediately lose their rights, which are protected by law. Instead, immigration officials will begin to issue 28-day warnings to those who are eligible for the …
Read More »‘Living memorial’ or ‘identity politics’? Congress passes bill making Juneteenth federal holiday to mark the end of slavery
Lawmakers voted 415-14 to pass the bill on Wednesday, making the 19th of June “Juneteenth National Independence Day,” the twelfth federal holiday and the first created since Martin Luther King Day was established in 1983. While President Joe Biden has given no indication he would veto the measure, it still …
Read More »Scientists discover ‘living fossil’ thought to have been extinct for 273mn years on ocean floor near Japan
The creatures in question are non-skeletal corals and crinoids, or sea lilies, who were found proliferating on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 100 meters (330 feet) below the surface, off the coasts of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan. They managed to survive undetected, having gone AWOL from the fossil …
Read More »More than half of people living in democracies believe their freedoms have been overly restricted during the Covid-19 pandemic
The study, conducted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation and brand tracking firm Latana, published on Wednesday, claimed that in democratic countries, citizens have become less satisfied by their government’s response to the pandemic over the course of the past year. Polling more than 53,000 individuals in 53 democracies, the …
Read More »As an Englishman living in Scotland, I’ve seen the anti-English hatred that’s being stoked up by Scottish nationalists
This week, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon again attracted headlines for basically telling English people not to come to Scotland for fear of spreading Covid. While Sturgeon would no doubt pass this off as a sensible measure to combat the pandemic, the reality is that a latent …
Read More »‘Collective West is living in fantasy land’: Russia’s FM spokeswoman speaks to RT amid new wave of anti-Kremlin craze
The consistently cold relations between the West and Russia have been heightened by a series of major scandals recently, despite these being based on imaginary grounds. For instance, massive military drills in Russia’s southeast have prompted hysteria in multiple NATO countries and a fresh wave of doomsday predictions regarding an …
Read More »‘The Father’ is a masterful film about living with dementia… and a reminder that America’s MSM is a dementia simulation machine
The Father is a terrific movie that tells the story of an aging man struggling with dementia, and it has left me rattled as it’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the delusional and disorienting nature of American life. The film is rightfully nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming Academy Awards as …
Read More »If he aims to stay relevant, Trump must stop living in the past & focus on Biden’s screw-ups, because there will be plenty of them
Despite Donald Trump’s faults, I liked him as president. Then again, I’m not the type of person who looks at the president as someone I’d be keen to have over for a Sunday barbecue. As a voter, I want someone in office who can get the job done, and Trump …
Read More »Britain is punching above its weight and living in the past as it announces plans to build nuclear warheads and take on China
Boris Johnson has confirmed Britain’s intentions to tilt towards the Indo-Pacific with a primary focus on China in the UK’s latest security and foreign policy review. Although the comprehensive document and its tone were not specifically anti-Beijing and acknowledged that Britain’s trading relationship with China was important, it branded the …
Read More »‘Being Muslim raises fundamental problems with living a Danish life’: Political party wants would-be citizens’ religion on record
The right-wing populist Danish People’s Party (DPP) is proposing that, as part of an ongoing overhaul of immigration and naturalization rules in the country, in future, would-be citizens should declare their faith, or lack thereof, in order to be considered for Danish citizenship. “For many people being Muslim raises some …
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