Should you save a dying stranger if you know they eat MEAT? Oxford philosopher controversially argues that it can be ethical to let them die

Letting meat eaters drown is ethical because of the suffering they cause to animals, an Oxford University academic has controversially argued.

Dr Michael Plant, a philosopher focusing on happiness, who eats meat himself, claims that, according to some moral philosophies, it can be justifiable to let people like himself die.

His argument stems from a conflict of what he says are two commonly held beliefs.

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£27m of taxpayer money ‘wasted’ on woke projects such as ‘decolonising 120,000 dried plants’

A taxpayer-funded quango has spent millions of pounds on “woke” projects including decolonising a collection of 120,000 dried plants, it has emerged.

UKRI, the government body responsible for funding research and innovation, is accused of spending £27 million of public funds on “embarrassing” and “low-grade” projects.

This includes research that aims to decolonise collections of music and sculptures and a project that will explore the representation of gender and LGBTQI+ people in castle histories.

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David Icke is banned from entering most of Europe after Dutch government deemed the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theorist a ‘threat to public order’

The government of the Netherlands has banned British conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering most of Europe for two years amid fears his planned presence at a weekend demonstration in Amsterdam would spark unrest.

Icke, 70, is a prominent advocate of the belief that a race of lizard people have taken over the Earth by posing as human leaders.

He was previously kicked off Twitter for spreading misinformation surrounding Covid-19, with some of his wild claims suggesting that Jewish people and 5G mobile phone towers were behind the pandemic.

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Now private messages can land you in prison

The jailing of two police officers for offensive WhatsApp messages sets a terrifying precedent.

Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it a crime in the UK to post anything ‘grossly offensive’ on a ‘communications system’. The law essentially covers anything sent over the internet or with a mobile phone. In recent years, police and prosecutors have jumped at any opportunity to enforce it, whenever someone complains that they feel hurt by what they have seen online or on social media. People who have been caught out by this law include: YouTuber Count Dankula, who was fined by a humourless Scottish sheriff for a joke video; Caroline Farrow, a journalist who was threatened with a criminal record for the ‘crime’ of misgendering a trans activist; and Joseph Kelly from Glasgow, who was given 150 hours of community service for a Twitter post, in which he rejoiced at the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore.

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NBC: Paul Pelosi ‘Did Not Immediately Declare an Emergency or Leave His Home’ When Police Arrived

Update: Here’s Why NBC News Deleted a Report on the Paul Pelosi Attack

New details have emerged about the attack on Paul Pelosi, which (again) raises more questions about the incident.

Sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News that when officers responded to the high-priority call, they were unaware they’d been called to the home of the Speaker of the House.

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Is identifying as a dragon ANY different to biological men claiming to be women? Contentious journal article warns of ‘absurd consequences’ of pro-trans argument

If men can identify as women and be taken seriously we must also accept people identifying as dragons or trans-abled, according to a controversial journal article.

So-called trans-abled are people who identify as disabled but are not.

A recent example is 53-year-old Norwegian Jørund Viktoria Alme who was born an able bodied man but now identifies as a women paralysed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair as a result.

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Lunatic NBC Historian: If GOP Wins ‘Our Children’ Could Be Potentially ‘Arrested And Conceivably Killed’

Michael Beschloss – Lunatic

NBC historian Michael Beschloss, who is known for making hyper-partisan and fanatical claims, claimed without evidence during a segment this week that if Republicans win the midterm elections next week that children could be arrested and killed.

Beschloss’ remarks on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” comes after President Joe Biden urged the country to unite and repeatedly demonized Republicans as a threat to American democracy during a speech this week.

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King Charles doesn’t travel without his teddy bear or toilet seat: royal author

King Charles always travels with a trusted companion and a throne fit for a king, according to a royal author.

The king is known to have an outrageous list of demands, but it was recently revealed that he “doesn’t like square ice cubes” and, like any 5-year-old boy, Charles “travels with a childhood teddy bear.”

Mom was a tough act for anyone to follow but Charles is just weird.

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Was Alex Jones right about hormone disruptors?

He had a unique explanation for physiological changes in men and women

The age at which a girl first starts her period can reveal a great deal about both her physical health and her social context.

In Western countries, the average age at menarche fell from 16.5 years in 1840 to 13 in the 1990s. Most medical historians believe this to have been the result of improved nutrition and reduced impact of infectious disease in childhood. The richer societies became, the earlier girls began puberty.

But, peculiarly, since the turn of the century that relationship between affluence and age at menarche has gone into reverse. Now it is girls of lower socioeconomic status who get their periods first. 

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No word on whether the cow was saved …

Gunfight in Jenin: Terrorist goes to slaughter a cow – and is eliminated

… Farouk Salameh, the Islamic Jihad official reported as killed in the gunfight, arrived at a meat shop in order to slaughter a cow for his wedding, which was scheduled to be held Saturday.

He fired at the forces, refused arrest, and was eliminated by the Border Police unit. Israel’s defense echelon had decided to arrest Salameh after receiving intelligence information regarding a terror attack that he planned to carry out.

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CBC shutting down its China news bureau

They made Justin cry.

CBC News is shutting down its Beijing news bureau after a more-than-40-year presence in China, saying it was forced to take the step after officials have ignored repeated requests for a journalist work visa.

“There is no point keeping an empty bureau when we could easily set up elsewhere in a different country that welcomes journalists and respects journalistic scrutiny,” said CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon, announcing the move in a blog posted Wednesday.

Heartbreaking.

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