Scotland’s decision to make sanitary products free and available to all is arguably the best things to come out of 2020. Now it is about time the rest of the world follows suit.
Category: Opinion
COMMENT: Trump’s lies will be his most damaging legacy
Even though Trump is on his way out his continued commitment to lying is working to ensure that his supporters never accept his departure.
COMMENT: Stop arguing about the lyrics in Fairytale of New York. Just remove the slurs
Britain has many traditions around Christmas. Turkey and pigs in blankets for dinner, the John Lewis advert and having a drink before midday on Christmas Day are all things synonymous with this time of year.
COMMENT: President Macron’s new policies risk further stigmatising French Muslims
The President of France has started a ‘fight with Islamists’, by introducing a series of policies that will affect ordinary Muslims in France.
COMMENT: Democrats need to stop demonising Trump supporters
While the US election results were music to Democrats’ ears, some of the takeaways may not be what the party expected. Far from fulfilling the
COMMENT: No BBC, ‘virtue signalling’ is not a bad thing
Last week, the BBC published a comprehensive set of new rules to ensure “the highest possible standards of impartiality across the organisation”. These guidelines were to apply to all BBC employees, ranging from Laura Kuenssberg to Gary Lineker.
COMMENT: How social media is ruining our lives
Before smartphones became a necessity to everyday life, it was much easier to focus exclusively on ourselves. This dependence makes it all the more difficult to tackle the problems they present us.
COMMENT: Formula One can’t say ‘We Race As One’ and continue to race in countries that don’t support diversity
On the track, Lewis Hamilton has overtaken Michael Schumacher as the most successful driver in the sport’s history, meanwhile off it he has spearheaded calls for more diversity in the sport. These calls led to F1 announcing its We Race As One campaign before the season opener in June.
COMMENT: Senator Hirono’s criticism of Amy Coney Barrett takes political correctness too far
The partisan brawl of the Supreme Court hearings stirred up a commotion across the pond. The function of the confirmation procedure was to determine whether President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett was fit for the job – and the senate voted on Monday that she was.
COMMENT: China’s actions in Xinjiang cannot be ignored anymore
After the Holocaust, we said never again. But less than a century later one of the biggest cases of human rights abuse the world has ever seen, is happening in the North-Western province of Xinjiang, in China.
