There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is, for obvious reasons, typically ignored in such discussions: the way they are used by American journalists to endorse […]

A leading member of one of Britain’s most prominent mosques is a senior member of Hamas, it has emerged. Mohammed Sawalha, a trustee of Finsbury Park Mosque, is a top figure in the Palestinian group, considered a terrorist organization by the UK and US. In Britain, only the military wing of Hamas is banned, which […]

The mainstream media went into meltdown over Donald Trump feeding some fish in Japan. Let that sink in. The farce began when Trump was seen on camera with Japanese Prime Minister Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spooning fish food out of a box to feed koi carp in the Akasaka palace in Tokyo. Trump then empties […]

US President Donald Trump says that new gun laws would have made “no difference” in preventing the massacre at a church service in the state of Texas that left 26 people dead. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, the president said more gun restrictions might […]

From lurid reports of Trumpian ‘golden showers’ in Moscow to unverified claims of Russia ‘hacking’ Hillary Clinton’s email, a high-ranking US lawmaker is on a mission to determine if journalists were paid to push an anti-Russian document. Even before Donald Trump ascended to the White House, the US media had been relentlessly driving the narrative […]

A teacher accused of filming up his pupils skirts for his own sexual gratification will not face any criminal proceedings. Andrew Corish, 60, fell short of being convicted because a court ruled his actions did not amount to a criminal offence. Corish, from Caterham, Surrey, told the Evening Standard he apologized to the victims in […]

President Trump said Tuesday that stricter gun laws would have equated to more deaths in Texas this past weekend, and that ‘extreme vetting’ for purchasing firearms is ‘not going to help’. Trump, currently on a tour of Asia, answered questions from reporters in Seoul Tuesday on gun control in the US, following the church shooting […]

On Monday’s New Day, as Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake appeared as a guest, CNN host Alisyn Camerota spent nearly five minutes repeatedly pushing in favor of more gun laws in the aftermath of recent mass shootings, lamenting that it seems “hopeless” to expect Congress to take action.  During the interview — which took place […]

In what sounds like the dystopia described in George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ thousands of Londoners have had their mobile phone data tracked by the government to find out where they live and work. Now the method could be used instead of the national census. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been trying to build up […]

False claims made by Boris Johnson about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British mother who has been detained by Iran, may result in her being handed an extra five years in prison. The UK foreign secretary incorrectly said she was in the country to “train journalists” when she was actually holidaying. Johnson told a select committee last […]