The following are some facts about violence against women in the UK: – A woman dies at the hands of a man every three days. – 1,425 women were killed in the UK between 2009 and 2018. – Almost all young women have experienced sexual harassment in public places. – Almost one in three women …
The University of Sussex, UK, has said it will not tolerate threats to “academic freedoms” amid calls for a professor to be sacked over her views on transgender issues. Defenders of Professor Kathleen Stock, an expert in analytic philosophy, have claimed transgender activists have launched a campaign to “bully” her out of her role, The …
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I case you haven’t read the news, some 216,000 children – mostly boys – have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found. The head of the inquiry said there were at least 2,900-3,200 abusers, and accused the Church of showing a “cruel indifference towards …
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I recently asked a British publisher if they could send a publication to an address in Washington DC. The publication never, apparently, arrived, so I contacted said publisher again. This time they said they had sent it to “Washington DC, United States Minor Outlying Islands” I had to point out to them that Washington DC …
Scientists have recorded the first known instance of a duck that has learned to mimic human speech. The duck, called Ripper, lives in Australia. It is quoted as saying: “You bloody fool.” Parrots, songbirds and hummingbirds were thought to be the only birds thought to be able to mimic human speech, though several mammals such …
