Another European Empire Ends at Waterloo
"...over 40% in the capital city voted to leave the EU. And the Brexit Party is doing almost as well here as in the country as a whole..."
23 May 2019 - 12:34
Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards
"Low skills in numeracy have consequences."
23 May 2019 - 06:00
Caitlin Johnstone: US Accuses Syria of More Chemical Attacks just as Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
"“A leaked OPCW document challenges claim that Assad used chemical weapons in Douma in April 2018, the basis for US military strikes..."
22 May 2019 - 18:00
Lord McCrea Lambasts UK Government for Ignoring Parents on Compulsory Sex Education Regulations
"Parental responsibility must be maintained and parental rights of withdrawal from sex education ought also to be maintained."
22 May 2019 - 16:26
Franco-British Relations, Headed for Rupture?
"Brexit is a catalyst for accelerating the discussion of reform of the EU."
21 May 2019 - 13:59
US House of Representatives Threatens Turkey with $5 Billion in Sanctions
"A US House of Representatives resolution enjoying bipartisan support will make Turkey liable to US sanctions should it proceed with its attempt to purchase the S-400 missile defence system."
20 May 2019 - 17:01
Few City Blues on Brexit
"The FT describes the city as ‘sleepy’ and ‘lacking London’s global buzz’."
20 May 2019 - 14:13
“Masses of People Crammed into Huge Metropolises”: Erico Tavares Interviews Harry Redner on the Troubling Future of Western Civilisation
"Europe will have ... to reduce immigration"
18 May 2019 - 08:00
A Second Referendum: Unfair, Dishonest and Undemocratic
"Maybe though, if there’s an appetite for it, we could have a referendum on returning to the EU in 40 years time. Always assuming that there still is an EU."
16 May 2019 - 13:53
Mysterious Assassination Rocks the Serb Republic
"... another assassination, this time of businessman Slavko Krunić, a slightly more prominent figure, again grabbed the headlines in the Republika Srpska."
15 May 2019 - 17:12
Jim Jatras: My Role in Weaponizing ‘Moral Equivalence’ and ‘Religious Freedom’
"It’s confession time …"
13 May 2019 - 14:38
A Second Referendum: Misleading Claims and False Temptations
"The one thing we can be sure of is that the ‘People’s Vote’ lobby will use every possible trick at its disposal."
11 May 2019 - 14:58
On Futures Trading: An Interview with Jack Schwager
"In that sense trading over a longer horizon has more efficacy, but emotionally it is a very difficult thing to do."
10 May 2019 - 20:59
RSE Should Focus More on How to Build Long-Term Relationships, High School Students Tell Pollsters
"A majority ... of young people think that forming a lasting relationship is harder now than it was for previous generations."
10 May 2019 - 15:01
No ‘Stebbings’ in Much Middlemarch
"Why the mink in the first place? After all, they are not native to this country."
9 May 2019 - 16:03
First Overseas Deployment of RAF’s F-35B Lightning Fighter Jets Scheduled
"The enormous cost of the F-35 fighter jet programme, which at over $1.3 trillion is currently “the world’s largest defence programme” has led to criticism from some quarters."
9 May 2019 - 07:00
Hungarian Government Takes Steps to Defend Persecuted Church, Priorities European Culture based on Christian Values
"Prime Minister Orbán expressed his frustration with an equivalence being drawn between democracy and liberalism, describing his government's politics as "Christian democratic"."
8 May 2019 - 16:45
Opinion: The IMF’s latest no-deal warnings are sloppy and overblown
"Worse still, some of the numbers the IMF uses – for example those related to ‘border disruptions’ – appear to be plucked from thin air."
8 May 2019 - 12:35
Who’s Afraid of Chlorinated Chicken?
"The US has a population of 330 million people but only produces 343,000 tonnes of lamb. That is less than a quarter of the per capita amount that the UK produces."
4 May 2019 - 22:00
MIT’s Guoping Feng Interviewed on the Growing Incidence of Autism
"We want to find the truth. That’s the only thing I care about, to find the cause so that I can find a treatment or a cure to help these kids."
3 May 2019 - 20:08
Interregnum
"The trans-partisan alliance of liberal market economics and progressive morality that has dominated politics can no longer explain the world nor provide a political and moral compass."
3 May 2019 - 14:43
Language Death and Cultural Diversity
"Perhaps it’s time for us to celebrate the world’s ruggedness instead."
2 May 2019 - 17:00
Plea Bargaining or Plea Extortion? Federalist Society Documentary Highlights “the Astonishing Array of Coercive Tools” Used to Extract Confessions in US Criminal Justice
"There does seem to be some bipartisan support for reform, but it remains to be seen whether oversight of the federal prosecutorial system can command any significant legislative attention."
25 April 2019 - 17:35