If human beings ever do make contact with extraterrestrial life, what will we say? If some scientists have their way, it seems all Earth will have left to announce is "Hello. Sorry we’re so white".
Have black Americans really inherited 'weak genes' from their enslaved ancestors? That might sound like racist pseudoscience, but, bizarrely, it's a central claim in the current clamour for reparations in the U.S.
School 'strikes' where children bunk off lessons to join protests for fashionable causes are growing in popularity. The latest cause to be taken up by disturbing numbers is protests against Israel's war in Gaza.
Green propagandists are busy transforming Father Christmas into 'Eco-Santa' who gives out finger-wagging advice about saving the planet instead of gifts. But resistance isn't futile, says Steve Turner.
Steven Tucker recalls the Christmases of the pandemic years, when disturbing 'Covid-safe' Santas, sporting face masks and pushing vaccines, stalked the land and haunted children's dreams.
Scrooge is everywhere at this time of year as the archetypal Christmas miser. But on some issues, like immigration, it's ultimately not kind to be anything other than Scrooge-like, says Steven Tucker.
The peoples of the old Empire have colonised England in reverse, declares a poem on the London Underground. Is it really helpful to rub the natives' noses in it like this, asks Steven Tucker.
The Turner Prize still thinks it's avant garde and subversive when in reality it just repeats the same monotonous Establishment platitudes and woke yawnfests as everyone else, says Steven Tucker.
Steven Tucker wonders whether sanctimonious, oikophobic elites like Leo Varadkar and Paul Lynch might one day develop the wisdom to stop and ask themselves: "Are we the baddies?"
If you though the 'trans' Roman Emperor museum stunt was ridiculous, in the U.S. there's a museum whose T. rex skeleton 'came out' as nonbinary back in 2017, proudly announcing its pronouns were they/them.
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