Which ideology is most receptive to bullshit? A Swedish study found that social conservatives are more receptive than social liberals but that Greens were the most receptive of all.
Yvette Cooper will publish a "league table" of "offences committed by foreign criminals living in the UK while awaiting deportation". The problem is that some nationalities are more likely to be deported than others.
Many British Pakistanis are married to their first cousins. A major study has confirmed that the children of such unions have higher rates of hospital usage, learning difficulties and speech and language difficulties.
The Left has become completely obsessed with the fictional TV show 'Adolescence', with the BBC having run dozens of articles. But how useful is it for understanding violence in Britain?
One of the most consistent findings in the social sciences is the negative association between education and fertility. However, a new paper finds that education may not have any effect on fertility after all.
Taxing the rich at a higher rate than the poor to pay for public services is entirely appropriate and most governments around the world do it. But fretting endlessly about inequality doesn’t make much sense.
Britain’s leading scientific journal, Nature, has published an article declaring that public health "has not been politicised nearly enough" and must therefore be "aggressively" politicised. Yes, you read that right.
Macron claims that Russia is an “existential threat” to Europe. Yet his actions belie this. France has given Ukraine 12 times less aid than Denmark. And it's still importing billions of euros of Russian energy.
A paper documenting the association between Left-wing views and poor mental health has been retracted on trumped-up grounds. One of the complaints is that the authors used "judgemental language".
Young men are increasingly voting for the Right, while young women are increasingly voting for the Left. What explains this? A Norwegian study finds that its largely due to shifting attitudes to "gender equality".
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