The dream of space flight is thrilling. The human race has many good reasons to venture into space. However, the practical realities make space tourism an exceptionally stupid innovation in leisure.
Gordon Brown and the Labour Party say they do not want two 'tiers' within the British House of Commons. But there are already many tiers amongst MPs, not least as a consequence of inconsistent devolution around the UK.
IPSO, the UK press regulator, judged that Caroline Criado-Perez and the New Statesman misled readers when claiming that domestic abuse is the largest cause of morbidity in women aged 19 to 44.
"Comment is free, but facts are sacred," wrote C.P. Scott, legendary editor of The Guardian. But what about logic? When it comes to rational argument, writers for The Guardian tend to take too many liberties...
Our society exaggerates the threat of violence, whilst ignoring the violence that people inflict on themselves. Suicide is an epidemic, and it disproportionately kills men. Here are the stats that prove it, and a call to abandon our passive tolerance of the quietest killer, in favour of active political engagement.
Today can we celebrate a partial victory for truth, but the battle is not over. Two weeks ago, I wrote how feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez cited a made-up statistic about domestic abuse in an article for the New Statesman's website. She stated that British women are suffering an 'epidemic' of...
Caroline Criado-Perez describes herself as a journalist, though she is famous as a feminist campaigner. Did she intentionally violate the ethical code of journalists, by citing a bogus statistic about domestic violence?
A baby's body lies in a Ukrainian field, fallen from the sky. The world mourns her death, and that of the other 297 people killed when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over East Ukraine. They were killed by...
Ann Coulter says she hates football, because it is not tough enough, not competitive enough, not very popular, and not sufficiently individualistic. But if Ann Coulter was a sporting animal, she would be a dressage horse...
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