Politics
The UK government’s Ascension Island plan for asylum seekers is utterly preposterous
Besides being obviously callous, the government's repeated threats to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island are deeply unserious and completely unworkable
Beware the book ban: schools and libraries are a battleground in the culture war
Moral panics and culture war point-scoring are driving book bans in the US - and, given America's culture dominance, around the rest of the world too
Definitions matter – say what you mean, and mean the agreed-upon definitions
If we cannot agree on definitions of what words mean, we will never agree about the ideas and concepts those words describe.
In Turkey, conspiracy theories about the Peace Treaty of Lausanne run riot
Conspiracy theories about the Treaty of Lausanne and its implications for Turkish sovereignty are common in Turkey, and are being weaponised by cynical political movements
January 8th, and the insurrectionist riot provoked by Bolsonaro and the Brazilian army
When Bolsonaro supporters stormed Brazilian parliament on January 8th, the attack was merely the culmination of years of lies and provocation from the former President and the army
Institute Question of Science in Brazil: from fighting pseudoscience to advising governments
IQC - born in response to Bolsanaro and forged in the fight against COVID-19 pseudoscience - aims to establish its permanent place in post-Bolsanaro Brazil
Andrew Bridgen: How a Conservative MP got red-pilled on Covid vaccine misinformation
After months of sharing COVID-19 vaccine scaremongering and misinformation, Andrew Bridgen MP was finally suspended from the Conservative party
If Vladimir Putin wants to label liberals and the West “Satanic”, so be it
As the invasion of Ukraine continues to falter, Putin has sought to justify his actions with accusations of Satanism - by which he really means Western liberal values
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