A surprising video of French police beating up a person who wasn’t carrying a masks confirmed the authorities’ iron-fist method to implementing rules and suppressing protests. Will this be the brand new norm when the pandemic has handed? ...

It’s not transphobic for Hungary and Poland to need to recognise solely women and men and uphold their conventional, conservative lifestyle. However this places them on a collision course with the EU’s proposed new LGBTIQ legal guidelines. ...

The nominations for the 63rd Grammys have been met by some loud and influential voices implying that artists of color have been snubbed due to their ethnicity. However the details don’t seem to again these claims up. ...

Alyssa Milano is the newest celeb to supply an “olive department” to Trump backers after calling them racist up to now. Lower than 48 hours later, she was again to her venomous rhetoric, proving requires unity are simply lip service. ...

After months of carnage in US cities, tensions are rising between the 2 foremost perpetrators, Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Given their completely different ethnic make-ups and agendas, it’s a shock this unholy alliance lasted so lengthy. ...

4 German holidaymakers who have been illegally quarantined in Portugal after one was judged to be constructive for Covid-19 have received their case, in a verdict that condemns the widely-used PCR check as being as much as 97-percent unreliable. ...

Canberra didn't take care of atrocities laid naked in a report which discovered that elite particular forces’ homicide of prisoners and harmless civilians in Afghanistan was “disgraceful.” Sadly, the responsible will most likely get away with it. ...

Barack Obama is out selling his new guide by puff-piece media interviews, a reminder of how a lot he bought away with as president and the truth that he couldn’t deal with the extent of scrutiny thrown at his successor, Donald Trump. ...

Donald Trump has been a US president who has revelled in lies and obscenity. As we think about his legacy, his continued crass behaviour ought to make us ask how such a nugatory individual received the job within the first place. ...

Pop psychologist Jordan Peterson’s concepts have been branded ‘hate speech’ by his writer’s tearful staff, despite the fact that his books pay their wages. Little question they’d want their firm to publish feminist bilge like I Hate Males. ...