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Drag Queen Story Time – Straight-Up Virtue-Signalling

January 8, 2019 | by Jo Bartosch | 3 Comments

If you go down to the library today you could be in for a big surprise. It might have passed you by, but for the past two years councils across the UK have been inviting drag performers to read stories to pre-school age children. To date there have been 50, reaching 8,000 kids. The stated aim […] Read more

Who’s Afraid of the Bedfellow Wolf? – A Response to Quillette

January 7, 2019 | by Dan Fisher | 3 Comments

Watch or read as Dan Fisher lays out the case against a Quillette article arguing that radical feminists are as bad as extremist transactivists. If the above embedded video is not available on your browser, you can access the video here. On January 2nd, Quillette published an article warning against ‘centrist liberals’ teaming up with […] Read more

The Solution to the War On Drugs and the Addiction Crisis? The Free Market.

January 3, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

by Burt Walker The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure and has exacerbated the addiction crisis gripping America. Legalization offers a solution. In April 2016 my then-23-year-old daughter told me she was an addict and asked for my help. This began a journey of heartache, frustration, fear, and anger. My desperate search for information […] Read more

Yemeni Baha’i Says Hamed Haydara’s Recieved Unfair Appeal Hearing, No Verdict Yet

January 3, 2019 | by Tara Abhasakun | 0 Comments

Yemeni Baha’is say that Hamed Haydara, a Baha’i sentenced to death one year ago, received unfair treatment by a judge in an appeal hearing on Monday. A Baha’i in Yemen told Conatus News that Hamed Bin Haydara, a Baha’i sentenced to death by Yemen’s ruling Houthi party Ansar Allah since January 2018, received unfair and […] Read more

The Hijab Crisis – Unveiling Islamic Privilege in Postcolonial Nigeria

January 1, 2019 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

Protests and scuffles over the use of the Islamic veil by Muslim schoolgirls have been sweeping across Nigeria in what is being called The Hijab Crisis. Read more

Does Africa Need a Religious Reformation?

December 23, 2018 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

While Africa is rapidly changing and progressing in many ways, Christian and Islamic fundamentalism hold the continent and its people back. Africa’s religious landscape is changing very rapidly, in various ways. These changes include the introduction of new religions and adjustments in the modes of worship as well as the personalities that are revered. Transformations […] Read more

Back to the Bad Old Days? Football, Racism and Raheem Sterling

December 17, 2018 | by Ralph Leonard | 0 Comments

Does the abuse hurled at the footballer Raheem Sterling signify a return to the bad old days of Eighties racism? Or does it represent an excuse to slam the working classes as racist and ignorant? The question of racism in football bubbles up to the surface every now and again. Whether Ron Atkinson calling Marcel […] Read more

Criminalising Vulnerable Women Groomed into Prostitution

December 16, 2018 | by Emma Chesworth | 0 Comments

This is the story of ‘Ann’ – a woman who grew up in the care system, groomed and exploited, still marked by permanent records for the sexual crime of prostitution. Ann* is now 43 and a project worker living in Middlesbrough and she knows she is lucky to be where she is now, compared to […] Read more

Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts: A Missed Opportunity To Unite Voters

December 16, 2018 | by Lysander Stephenson | 0 Comments

Trump’s corporate tax reform – arguably the most important provision in what is colloquially known as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was in retrospect very badly marketed. Intuitively, it seems highly likely that the package of corporate tax cuts alienated Trump’s supporters and thus, in turn, contributed to Republicans’ midterm losses in November. […] Read more

Cracking at Consciousness: Why I Love Lucy

December 15, 2018 | by Emeka Ikpeazu | 0 Comments

Luc Besson’s 2014 film Lucy garnered criticism even before it premiered. This criticism stems from the movies foundational claim that “we only use 10% of our brain.” It is an obvious myth that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of neuroscience could debunk. The famous case of railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage is enough to debunk […] Read more