German Chancellor Angela Merkel has considerations that Twitter's “problematic” suspension of Donald Trump's account, within the wake of final week's assault on the Capitol, is an encroachment on freedom of opinion, her spokesman mentioned. ...

Cancel tradition is flourishing in a 3rd of UK universities, a brand new report exhibits. Lengthy-dismissed as a right-wing speaking level, censorship has grown into an insidious beast behind the skinny veil of risk-management rhetoric. ...

UK PM Boris Johnson has preemptively declared restrictions on outside sports activities matches for even the lowest-risk areas forward of the second lockdown’s scheduled finish. He hasn’t specified the necessities for the followers keen to attend. ...

We dwell in a world the place greater than 1 / 4 of college college students are scared to voice their views in case their opinion provokes the wrath of the campus language police. ...

Social media can't be allowed to suppress scientific discourse, critics stated after Fb ‘fact-checkers’ flagged as ‘false’ an Oxford professor’s report citing the Danish research on effectiveness of facemasks towards Covid-19. ...

Social justice campaigner and World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe has claimed that she discovered the response when she first took the knee "weird", confessing that she had anticipated "immunity" from criticism as a result of she is a white lady. ...

Paris Saint-Germain defender Presnel Kimpembe has defended himself after he got here underneath fireplace for “liking” Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Instagram put up wherein he was extremely vital of French president Emmanuel Macron. ...

Dozens of Melburnians defied stern warnings from the police and turned up at a banned anti-lockdown rally, which was swarmed by throngs of officers who used full drive to impose harsh Covid-19 restrictions. ...

With the uneven political waters in Britain and the nation’s future unclear, the small subarctic islands of Shetland have declared they need independence. Given their distant location, they’ve each proper to go it alone. ...

British style mogul Dame Vivienne Westwood has used a embellished soccer displaying Julian Assange's face as a prop outdoors the Outdated Bailey courtroom in London, delivering a forceful speech whereas the WikiLeaks founder faces extradition. ...