The True Story of “Hidden Figures,” the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: Not all 1960s NASA brainiacs were bespectacled White men.

Eric Adams charged with taking bribes and foreign campaign contributions: Another US politico-crime first - Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be subject to criminal charges.

Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network: Claims from last year that under Musk’s ‘leadership’ Twitter became indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social.

Elon Musk says he wants free speech, but his track record suggests otherwise: Elon Musk is only really a ‘free speech absolutist’ when it comes to his own speech.

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk: Probably not a bad thing, but it’s definitely a hypocritical thing vs what Musk likes to pretend his values are.

The EU far right wants to give Elon Musk a free speech award: What a surprise that it’s only the far right that want to award Musk the same status as Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai et al.

Sakharov Prize: A prize given by the European Parliament to “individuals or groups who have dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights and freedom of thought”.

Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X: Musk presumably decided that his wealth was more important than his supposed ‘principles’.

Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak, poll suggests: 45 point drop in approval since the election.

The case for public funding of UK political parties: One possible alternative to the current system of most funding coming from donors.

Almost half of UK political donations come from private wealthy ‘super-donors’: Maybe letting very wealthy people effectively buy elections isn’t exactly ideal for democracy.

Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk: It’d be hard to argue this wasn’t true even if Mr Musk wasn’t so…problematic.

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia: The unspeakable cruelty we’re seemingly okay with raining down on people who want or need to migrate knows no bounds.

Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20: The earlier exploding pager attack has been followed up with a similar attack via walkie-talkies.

‘BlueAnon’ conspiracy theories flood social media after Trump rally shooting: The first Trump assassination attempt sparked a wave of conspiracy theories from both sides of the political spectrum.

Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in deadly attack: Seemingly a coordinated attack on Hezbollah via explosive pagers.