With news that private sales of electric vehicles fell in the U.K. last year and with the Prime Minister set to delay the looming ban on petrol vehicles, Patrick O’Flynn writes in the Telegraph that you’d have to pay him to buy an electric car . Who remembers those simpler, happier da…
US government lacked scientific evidence before recommending mRNA vaccines to pregnant and breastfeeding women :: Facebook censored those sharing accurate information Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the Centers for Disease Control (source: @CDCDirector) It is safe for pregn…
The European Court of Human Rights recently handed down its decision on admissibility in the case of MA and Others v France . The case is being brought by 261 applicants (of a wide range of nationalities, all of whom are prostitutes) who wish to challenge the French law 2016-444 of 2016, whic…
Our picture shows the Royal Navy’s HMS Rattler intercepting the Brazilian slave ship Andorinha off Lagos in August 1849 (from Illustrated London News , December 29th 1849). The Restitution Study Group , speaking for black people who descend from the slaves the West Africa’s kingdoms …
The phrase ‘post-truth’ was invented, it seems, about 10 years ago. As usual, books were published with it in the title five years later – by Matthew d’Ancona, Evan Davis, Julian Biaggini and others. Davis and d’Ancona used the language to defend the establishment. And so has Sam Leith this week…
