As euphemisms go, ‘sex worker’ is right up there with ‘collateral damage,’ ‘alternative facts’ and having a ‘number two’ – such is the detachment the phrase has from the reality it masks. On the one hand, ‘sex worker’ conjures up fantasies of hot, high-end, happy Hollywood hookers a la Julie …
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In a statement on Sunday afternoon, New York-based Cornell University reported that police have been investigating a bomb threat on campus grounds. “Ithaca Campus Law enforcement is on site and investigating campus bomb threat. Security perimeter is in place. Continue to avoid central campus,” the school tweeted. According to a …
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According to an alert sent out by the school and shared online by recipients, police are responding to calls of multiple bombs in campus buildings, many of which are being evacuated and blocked-off by police. A Yale Police Department officer told Yale Daily News that multiple law enforcement agencies have …
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The project, reportedly paid for by a £80,633 grant from the taxpayer-funded UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, will apparently expose authors who have been “offensive to historically enslaved, colonised or denigrated people”. It is being conducted jointly with the University of Florida, and has also received funds from the …
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Last week Oriel College, Oxford erected a plaque for a statue of Cecil Rhodes which sits on the main façade of the college building. The explanatory panel has been added to the statue after its existence came under threat last year during a spate of BLM [Black Lives Matter] protests …
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No, no, no, ten thousand times… NO! I do not accept any kind of ‘personal guilt’ – no matter how hard the wokeys with their fascist tendencies push and push and push. Let me explain some fresh wokeist nonsense that’s pretty much guaranteed to have you scratching your head in …
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Speaking ahead of a videoconference with officials, Putin said that “no words of sympathy can drown out the bitterness of losses, the pain of these losses, especially when it comes to young people who are just starting their lives. This is a huge disaster, and not only for families who …
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On Monday morning, Bekmansurov entered Perm State University, the leading educational institution in the city just over 1,000km east of Moscow. According to reports, the 18-year-old killed at least six people and injured 28 more. Bekmansurov, a first-year student, had been at the university for ten days, studying forensic science. …
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Have you ever seen a nine-year-old boy smiling happily as he looks over the steering wheel of a supersized truck, blasting down the highway? No? Not yet maybe, my fellow parents, but give it time. And forget medicine, architecture or the law for your offspring. Nah. Truck that. Driving a …
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It was always going to happen. And now it’s official: women outnumber men at American universities on a scale that’s never been seen before. Not just slightly, or by a considerable margin, but by record, unprecedented levels. By the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women constituted 60% of college …
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