John Kirby, spokesman for America's National Security Council, recently claimed that Russia has lost 20,000 men since December. Is this figure plausible? Based on the best available information, the answer is "yes".
A report published today reaffirms what the evidence has long shown: Britain is among the least racist countries in the world. Despite this, media mentions of "racism" are up dramatically.
A recent Guardian article claims that elite universities are “highly conservative institutions”. In fact, they're institutionally woke. A recent poll at Harvard found that only 1.5% of faculty identify as conservative.
In October 2020, 51 former intelligence officials claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a "Russian information operation”. New testimony suggests the Biden campaign "played an active role" in this.
A study has found that people with better environmental knowledge are less anxious about climate change. This suggests that improving people’s knowledge could help to reduce anxiety – particularly among the young.
Recent polls have found that the majority of Brits are still very much pro-lockdown. But what explains their support for a policy that imposed such huge costs? Noah Carl examines six factors that may be involved.
Words like 'sexism', 'racism' and 'transphobia' have increased in frequency not just in American media, but in media all around the world. The Great Awokening, as it's known, appears to be a global phenomenon.
There’s no way that China’s lockdowns passed a cost-benefit test, let alone a basic human rights test. But it’s hard to explain all the data if you assume they had no impact on viral transmission, argues Noah Carl.
A chart has been doing the rounds on Twitter that appears to show a dramatic fall in the number of men in Ukraine. However, it is based on flawed projections, which don't account for the female skew among refugees.
China’s lockdown “worked” in the sense that it stopped the virus in its tracks. So does this mean Europe's lockdowns worked? No, China's lockdown was far stricter, and the effect of lockdown is not linear.
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