British Airways recently made 'history' by flying its first flight with an all black crew. But all they’ve really done is take a bunch of staff who happen to be black, and assign them to one particular flight.
A study has found that Americans with higher cognitive ability are more supportive of free speech and less concerned about political correctness. If the woke are less intelligent, how did they gain so much influence?
We now have a NATO Foreign Minister, a journalist with sources "close to Zelensky" and a former Israeli PM all saying that Western leaders opposed a peace deal because they wanted to "weaken", "press" or "smash" Putin.
Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, who served as mediator between Russia and Ukraine at the war's outset, has said in an interview that the West blocked a draft peace deal because they wanted to "keep striking Putin".
According to the UN, 2.85 million Ukrainians refugees are residing in Russia, more than in any other country. However, this number cannot be taken at face value, due to allegations of forced population transfers.
No papers have been published at the Large Hadron Collider since last March because scientists object to co-authorship with Russian institutes and individuals. This virtue-signalling does nothing to help Ukraine.
South Korea saw a large spike in excess mortality even after 90% of over 80s were double-vaccinated. Yet Hong Kong saw an even greater spike. And there, less than 30% of over 80s were double-vaccinated.
Boris Johnson argues that we should give Ukraine longer-range artillery, tanks and perhaps even planes. This is a coherent position. By contrast, the position of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz makes no sense at all.
Once-great academic institutions are fond of commissioning long reports into their historical ‘links’ with racism. The latest institution to partake in this ritual is the American Society of Human Genetics.
It’s possible that a serious crisis is developing in the NHS, and mortality will remain elevated for some time. However, we’ll only know that once we have the data. At the moment, there’s no reason to panic.
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