One of the UK’s most notorious serial killers has been offered a COVID-19 jab before millions of Britain’s elderly and most vulnerable — a move condemned as a “national scandal,” according to a report.
Levi Bellfield — who murdered three people, including 13-year-old Milly Dowler — received a letter offering him a vaccine in the coming weeks even as the program has only just been rolled out to those over 70, The Sun said.
In 2020, the title for the Nation’s Worst Governor indisputably went to New York’s Cuomo. But in 2021, Governor Kate Brown of Oregon is trying to make an early bid for the job by vaccinating teachers ahead of seniors.
The extinction of reason, justice and freedom on campus is now to be institutionalised as American government policy
Has there ever been such a profound and jarring disconnect between a new American president’s words and actions on his very first day in office?
In his inauguration speech, President Joe Biden hymned unity. America, he said, must “stop the shouting, and lower the temperature”. It must put behind it “anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness” and reaffirm “history, faith and reason”.
Yet within hours of that speech, Biden signed a slew of executive orders to set America on a path of anger, resentment, hatred, division, lawlessness and joblessness and which undermine history, faith and reason.
Rough translation – If I have been abused by the adopted half-brother of my transgender father’s partner who has become my mother, is it incest?
The freedom of a satirical cartoonist to satirise has limits even in France, it appears. The best-known, and best, French daily newspaper, Le Monde, this week bowed to some of its readers — and infuriated others — by apologising for a website cartoon which, it said, “could be interpreted” as an insult to transgender people and a “minimisation” of incest.
Alberta’s premier has offered another sharp rebuke of the U.S. president’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, going so far as to accuse him of showing “disrespect for America’s closest friend and ally.”
In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney criticized newly inaugurated president Joe Biden’s decision to block the US$8-billion cross-border energy project on his first day in office.
After the 1968 summer of riots, journalists, politicians, and sociologists spent many words and dollars trying to find and cure the “root cause” of the racial unrest. They failed, but eventually a solution did emerge. The root cause of riots turned out to be rioters. Peace returned to the streets once police adopted new crowd-control tactics and prosecutors cracked down on lawbreakers. Mob violence came to be recognized not as an indictment of American society but as a failure of policing.
The New York Times story opens with a scene of unmitigated horror: “On May 30, 2019, Mohamed Abdulrahman Ahmed should have been in class preparing for exams. Instead, neighbors found the gifted high school senior hanging lifeless from a beam in his home in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. He had taken his own life.” Since this is the New York Times, it comes as no surprise that the ultimate culprit is none other than Donald J. Trump, and his nefarious “Muslim Ban” that his wise successor’s handlers have now consigned to the dustbin of history.
Aside from ABC chief anchor George Stephanopoulos’s fiery exchange with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Sunday’s This Week was awash with ridiculous and repugnant pronouncements from their mostly liberal cast. Between suggesting America was getting over something akin to Nazism and proclaiming the extremist violence from the left was morally justified, ABC was out to normalize dangerous thoughts and behavior.
President Joe Biden plans to sign restrictions Monday on travel to the United States to mitigate Covid-19 transmission, two White House officials confirmed Sunday.
That title is as accurate as the “Trump Muslim Ban”.
Prominent writer flees Portland after increased threats from ‘Antifa extremists’
Journalist Andy Ngo has told Sky News how he had to flee his hometown of Portland, Oregon after increasing threats on his life by “Antifa extremists”.
Portland has been one of the homes of intense Antifa rioters since the summer of riots in 2020 which saw several federal buildings sieged and destroyed.
“My hometown of Portland, Oregon is the epicentre of American Antifa”.
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Where to start?
Justin Trudeau’s hand-picked governor-general resigned in disgrace.
Hours into his presidency, Joe Biden killed the Keystone pipeline project.
It adds up to a rocky week for the prime minister. And yet it could have been worse, for the big clouds of the past few days came with a political silver lining for the government. There are times when one storm does chase another.
Without Donald Trump’s much-awaited exit from the White House and Julie Payette’s unceremonious departure from Rideau Hall, Trudeau was destined to spend the week on centre stage, tied to a vaccine hot seat.
Human populations are set to decline in countries from Asia to Europe – and an unusual form of rewilding is taking place
For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population Bomb; since then, neo-Malthusian rumblings of imminent disaster have been a continual refrain in certain sections of the environmental movement – fears that were recently given voice on David Attenborough’s documentary Life on our Planet.
At the time the Ehrlichs were publishing their dark prophecies, the world was at its peak of population growth, which at that point was increasing at a rate of 2.1% a year. Since then, the global population has ballooned from 3.5 billion to 7.67 billion.
In Spain, Entire Villages Are Up For Sale — And They’re Going Cheap
Italy’s abandoned villages plan to save themselves from ruin by selling homes for $1 or less
Facebook apologises for banning users from mentioning National Trust beauty spot Devil’s Dyke after branding it ‘hate speech’
Facebook has apologised for issuing bans to people who mentioned the name of a Sussex beauty spot, branding it ‘hate speech’.
Users on community group Brighton People had been referring to Devil’s Dyke, a well known tourist attraction which has attracted visitors since the Victorian times.
But while they were innocently chatting about the spot, which has roads, pubs, restaurants and parks named after it, they say Facebook threatened them with bans if they continue to refer to it by its name, receiving messages suggesting they were using hate speech.
