Embed from Getty ImagesLet's see how the gentle world of chess has been getting on... Gah! Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the deadly nerve agent "novichok" when making assassination attempts against both defectors in the UK and internal political rivals like Alexei Navalny. But a new "first" in the long history of poisonings was opened this month in the Russian republic of Dagestan, where a 40-something chess player named Amina Abakarova attempted to poison a rival by depositing liquid mercury on and around her chess board. ...
Holed up in a 14th century castle in southwestern France is the philosophical architect of the far-right right race riots that have recently swept Britain and inspired White supremacists around the world. 77-year-old Renaud Camus is the man responsible for the "Great Replacement Theory." This race-driven conspiracy theory claims that a liberal elite is plotting the destruction of White civilisations by encouraging African and Asian immigrants to replace European culture with their own. So who is Renaud Camus? For a start he is quite bright and quite driven. He has degrees in history, literature, philosophy and law and has taught ...
Barnaby Rudge is one of the least read of Charles Dickens' novels today, but it has a sudden contemporary relevance. Because the book is set against an outbreak of rioting in London: The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association, argued that the law would enable Catholics to join the British Army and plot treason. ...
As Central Bylines on Threads has spotted, Nigel Farage has not got off to a good start with his constituency responsibilities.
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The Indpendent reports that the Prime Minister, in an apparent hint that further regulation could be considered, has said that the Government will have to "look more broadly at social media" after recent rioting. They remind us that false information which spread on social media about the identity of the alleged Southport knife attacker has been seen as playing a role in sparking the recent violence, leading some to call for tougher regulation: Commentators have been particularly concerned about the impact of content on X, formerly Twitter, whose owner Elon Musk has been heavily criticised for his own posts about ...
