News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
Forget racism and sexism, the latest fad from Left-wing academics is 'suicidism': the prejudice against letting people kill themselves. Are you guilty? Take care, lest you make your victims, er, suicidal, they warn.
Trans activists' claims that the puberty blocker ban will increase child suicides are unfounded and dangerous, an independent review has found.
The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
Ministers were given a stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting COVID-19 if they shut schools, a damning new report from parent campaigners has revealed.
It's hard to make sense of a policy that spends billions on lockdowns to 'save lives' while also assisting many of the same people to commit suicide.
The was a spike in the number of mental health referrals in the U.K. in March 2021 compared to February 2020, before the onset of lockdowns. At the same time, the number of patients actually receiving care has fallen.
Lockdown has been a major contributory factor to the increase in attempted suicides among Australians aged five-25 over the past six months, according to Kids Helpline.
The provisional rate of suicides for 2020 is lower than that of 2019 – but this may be due to delays to coroner inquests caused by Covid and lockdowns, meaning the real figure could be much higher, according to the ONS.
The last month has seen more suicides on the Humber Bridge than normally happen in a whole year. Many were young people. The lockdowns are taking their toll on mental health.
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