‘For all Russell Brand’s platitudes about rejecting the presiding establishment, he ends up settling for one of the two major parties. Ed Miliband’s Labour, apparently because they are slightly less horrible than the Tories. This […]
‘NHS doctors who work in private healthcare “on the side” are directly harming the health service, a senior consultant has said. In a confessional article in medical journal the BMJ, cardiologist Dr John Dean said […]
‘All 3,000 state-funded secondary schools in the country should allow pupils to stay overnight particularly inner-city schools blighted by knife crime because of its “civilising” influence, the outgoing master of Wellington College has said. Sir […]
‘The United Nations, the World Health Organization and Nepalese authorities have announced efforts to vaccinate some 500,000 children against measles amid last week’s earthquake that killed more than seven thousand people. Claiming a measles epidemic […]
‘Internal traffic data from Infowars.com suggests that Alexa is fixing its rankings system to target conservative and anti-Obama administration news websites while artificially boosting the rankings of pro-government leftist media outlets. The controversy first arose […]
‘The global market for oncology drugs increased 10.3 percent last year and may reach $147 billion by 2018, according to IMS Health. Spending is rising due to better treatments and higher survival rates. Global spending […]
‘Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to the defense of Ehud Olmert as a character witness in the corruption trial against the former Israeli premier in the country’s Supreme Court. In a retrial in […]
‘Religion has been waning in influence for several centuries, especially in Europe and North America. There have been a few brief and local revivals, but in recent years the pace of decline has accelerated. Today […]
‘A toxic chemical used in the controversial drilling practice known as fracking has been detected in the drinking-water supply of Pennsylvania homeowners, according to a paper published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National […]
‘A United Nations official has called for a moratorium on secret negotiations over a United States-European Union “free trade” deal, citing concerns that the corporate tribunals likely to be included in the final pact would […]
‘New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam Skelos, were arrested on Monday on federal corruption charges. Accused of committing fraud, extortion, and accepting bribes, Skelos allegedly abused his official position […]
A federal judge threw out claims by a California man who became a media sensation after he found a government GPS tracker in his car. ‘Yasir Afifi says he was due for an oil change […]
‘Herd immunity! Where have I heard that idiomatic, epidemiologic term before? Oh yes! It’s the U.S. CDC and FDA’s Raison de’ Être for vaccines. Recent demographics for pertussis, or whooping cough, coming out of Washington […]