OECD countries will spend 18% of GDP on energy this year, compared to only 10% last year. That’s 8 percentage points of GDP that we could have spent on infrastructure or tax-cuts. The energy crisis isn't over.
In the latest incident of academic cancel culture, a respected psychologist was forced to resign after he published criticism of a black colleague's work. 1,300 academics signed an open letter calling him "racist".
The new OpenAI chat bot behaves in a remarkably human-like way. But researcher David Rozado has found that it displays clear political bias. This is no small matter, given how influential it is likely to be.
Ursula von der Leyen recently stated that 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, before deleting the tweet. Sceptics claim she let slip the true number of deaths, but more likely is she just got confused.
Contrary to claims made by feminists, a recent study finds no evidence that women face a ‘pink tax’ when shopping for bathroom products. And don’t accuse the authors of ‘sexism’ – all three of them are women.
A scandal is developing in Hungary concerning possibly-illegal foreign financing of the opposition party. Documents declassified by the Hungarian parliament suggest the U.S. government may have been involved.
According to the 2021 Census, only 36.8% of Londoners say they are "White British". Just two decades ago, the figure was 59.8%. On present trends, the UK's capital will be less than 30% "White British" by 2030.
In an unusually frank outburst, the former French Ambassador to the US stated, "When the Americans want to do whatever they want, including when it’s against international law, as they define it, they do it."
For the last six months, European leaders have been practically begging Qatar for more gas. So unless Gary Neville's critics want to boycott their central heating, they haven't got the moral high ground.
The failed Minsk II agreement might have prevented the war in Ukraine. Yet in 2020, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a journalist that he only signed the agreement in order to "buy time".
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