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Experts have found “shocking” levels of violence in children’s television shows, including Peppa Pig.
A new study looking into violence featured in animated series and films found that more than eight moments of pain and brutality were inflicted across a selected range of entertainment aimed at children.
The characters appeared sympathetic to the victims of pain in just half of the incidents, with a lack of empathy recorded in several other instances.
The UK immigration minister has blasted lawyers’ tactics after their eleventh-hour legal challenges prevented more than 35 Jamaican murderers, rapists and other criminals from being deported on Wednesday morning.
Speaking on Wednesday, immigration minister Chris Philp said that 13 “dangerous” criminals had been deported in the early hours on Wednesday morning, but many had been left off the flight due to last-minute legal challenges by their lawyers.
Confused fans of the Netflix show The Umbrella Academy have called it ‘political correctness gone crazy’ that Elliot Page will continue playing a female character despite coming out as a transgender man when it’s considered unfair for cis people to play trans roles.
On Tuesday, Elliot – who is best known for his role as Juno, when he played a pregnant teenage girl and went by the name Ellen – announced that he was transgender and that his pronouns are ‘he and they’.
He was universally embraced by Hollywood; stars like Ellen DeGeneres congratulated him and Netflix announced that he would stay on in his role as Vanya Hargreaves, a cisgender lesbian, in The Umbrella Academy, which he has already held for two seasons.
So now she’s a lesbian playing a guy?
A politician named after Adolf Hitler has won a seat at a Namibian election – but says he has no plans for world domination.
Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in the former German colony, where a number of streets, places and people still bear German names.
A statue of Darth Vader has appeared on a Bristol plinth where Black Lives Matter activists tore down a monument to slave trader Edward Colston. Actor Dave Prowse, who played the iconic villain in Star Wars, died in recent days.
British police have arrested a 57-year-old after two women were stabbed while shopping in the northern English city of Burnley. The authorities have requested people not to speculate about the man’s motivations.
Lancashire police reported that they were called to an incident at 9:30am local time after two women were stabbed in a Burnley city branch of popular department store Marks & Spencer.
A second senior information technology employee has been fired from the Ontario government after the alleged theft of $11 million in pandemic relief funds, the Star has learned.
Shalini Madan was terminated with cause from her $132,513-a-year job as manager of E-Ministries Support at the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services.
She had been suspended with pay since Aug. 11.
Her dismissal came after her husband, Sanjay Madan, was sacked from his $176,608-a-year post as director in the Ministry of Education’s iAccess Solutions Branch in early November.
Dad cops a plea, Mom and the kids go free if they haven’t already fled the country.
The campaign from the Danish Women’s Society, which features footage of women hitting their men in the face and laughing about it, has been slammed for sexism. The organisation insisted that the message was that domestic violence was never acceptable and that it was completely misunderstood by the public.
Here’s The Danish Men's Council’s Facebook-post about it.
(Google Translate gives a quite good translation.)The headline goes something like:
”Dear Danish Women's Society. Does domestic violense only begin, when the man hits back?”https://t.co/1krJkiIxpD— Manderaadet (@manderaadet) November 28, 2020
Tsk tsk, such man haters!
Guilt-free meat has moved closer to consumer reality after Singapore became the first country to approve a lab-grown product.
The Singapore Food Agency on Wednesday said the chicken made by US start-up Eat Just met its safety standards for use in nuggets, paving the way for a commercial launch in the Asian city-state.
Differing from plant-based meat substitutes, which are made from ingredients such as pea or soyabean protein, “in vitro”, “cell-based” or “cultured” meat is produced from animal cells grown in vats.
Better than bugs I guess. Maybe.
A Hungarian MEP who co-founded Viktor Orban’s anti-LGBT Fidesz party has resigned after he was caught breaking lockdown to attend a mostly-male orgy in Brussels.
Jozsef Szajer, a founding member of Fidesz, allegedly tried to flee the 25-strong orgy through a window as police busted in on Friday night, attempting to shin down a drainpipe but hurting himself in the process.
Caught by cops he then tried to claim diplomatic immunity before being let off with a warning. Many of the men inside were ‘stripped and naked’ as they tried to flee, according to police – while local media reported that the ‘naked’ party attendees also included EU diplomats, who have not been identified.
Two people died and several others were injured in a pedestrian zone in the western German city of Trier, after being struck by a vehicle on Tuesday, local police said.
Details of the incident were unclear, but a police spokesman told the dpa news agency that the driver had been detained, corroborating local reporting.
“We have several injured people in the pedestrian zone, who were hit by a car. The car is secured, the driver has been detained,” the spokesman said.
ＢＲＥＡＫＩＮＧ: Two dead and many injured after a car ploughed intentionally into pedestrians in #Trier Germany 🇩🇪 #TerrorAttack #Christmas pic.twitter.com/gncjJ2twad
— Blano (@BLANOsVideos) December 1, 2020
BREAKING – Car plows through pedestrians in the German city of Trier, at least 2 dead, 10 injured. The police rammed the car and arrested the driver.pic.twitter.com/oQHM83arwv
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) December 1, 2020
Twitter – Trier
