Day: 5 June 2022

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Juliet Samuel is unimpressed by the mild criticisms of Jesus College's China Centre in an internal report. Shouldn't Jesus just admit that lending its name to this pro-Beijing propaganda factory was a dreadful mistake?

Ex-Free Speech Union Director Inaya Folarin Iman has written a great piece for the Telegraph arguing that the multi-ethnic nature of the Jubilee celebrations give the lie to the claim that Britain is a racist society.

NASA says Antarctica is losing 147 gigatons of ice a year. With 26,500,000 gigatons of ice in the continent, this is an annual loss of 0.0005%. At the current ice melt it will all be gone in about 200,000 years.

According to a new poll, the public vastly overestimates the size of minority groups. Britons believe 20% of the population is black, 15% Muslim and 15% gay or lesbian. The real figures are 3%, 4% and 1.8% respectively.

A study on Long Covid in Nature included data that show up to 4% of the vaccinated sought medical care for vaccine side-effects, but the authors failed to mention this astounding result.

Business and current affairs magazine the Economist has suggested that instead of treating Covid like the flu, we should start treating the flu like Covid.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.