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The BBC has been accused of giving children a “dishonest” view of communism after their website failed to mention mass killings.
The broadcaster’s educational branch BBC Bitesize has come under fire for failing to mention the millions that died under such governments.
The website even excludes referencing specific Soviet dictators altogether – including Joseph Stalin.
This is an earlier piece by BBC Bitesize that was about Stalin, can’t find the Lenin/Communism clip referenced in the story.
One dead after protests against KFC branches in Pakistan
Police in Pakistan have made dozens of arrests following a string of protests targeting KFC branches across the country which led to one man being killed.
Protesters, angry at the war in Gaza, have been urging a boycott of the chain, claiming it’s a symbol of the United States and its ally Israel.
At least 20 attempted attacks on KFC outlets have been recorded across the country in the past week, Pakistan’s Minister of State for the Interior Talal Chaudhry told the BBC.
I don't know who did this, but it's hilarious. pic.twitter.com/zH2XnsQRtq
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) April 19, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Imagine, as a mother, suddenly discovering that your two children have 34 half-brothers and sisters, or as a well-meaning sperm donor finding out that you are the unsuspecting father of 70 children?
This was the kind of shock thousands of Dutch families, parents and children faced this week after a new law revealed that fertility clinics have flouted regulations restricting the use of sperm donations.
Opposition parties in Italy have complained to the communications watchdog about a series of AI-generated images published on social media by deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right party, calling them “racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic”, the Guardian has learned.
The centre-left Democratic party (PD), with the Greens and Left Alliance, filed a complaint on Thursday with Agcom, the Italian communications regulatory authority, alleging the fake images used by the League contained “almost all categories of hate speech”.
A Pakistani jihadist cannot be deported despite renouncing his British citizenship because it would breach his human rights, official papers suggest.
Irfan Khalid was one of the leaders of a gang who plotted to carry out a 7/7-style mass terror attack in Birmingham and turn the city into a ‘little war zone’.
The conspiracy was smashed during Britain’s biggest anti-terror investigation, with Khalid sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2013.
h/t Kiki9
The second half of your life begins when you realize there is nothing stopping you from going to the park and making yourself a poke bowl while dressed like a loofah. pic.twitter.com/EdyEyQRGN5
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 18, 2025
Often performed on minors, “top surgery” creates permanent and disfiguring changes.
I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex.
West Kelowna golf course operators want restitution after on-course fight
The owners of a golf course in West Kelowna say they are demanding restitution from those involved in a physical altercation on their course earlier this week — an incident they describe as a desecration of the property and a breach of community values.
The confrontation at Two Eagles Golf Course and Academy was caught on video Monday and has since circulated online. It shows a heated dispute between two groups of golfers, escalating into shouting, shoving and punches, as others attempt to intervene.
The course is located on Westbank First Nation land and is under Indigenous ownership.
Canadian golfers get into a fistfight after one group accused the other group of playing too slowly, resulting in a broken jaw.
The incident happened at the Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna, outside of Vancouver, Canada.
Tension had been rising throughout the outing due… pic.twitter.com/FYq1GATAEx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 17, 2025
h/t DS
A pair of earthshattering, history-altering, Chris Christie-sized stories broke this week, but they’ve (mostly) skated beneath the political periphery. That’s because you can’t grasp the sheer enormity of the consequences until you connect them together.
On their own, they’re inconsequential, back-of-the-page news stories — scarcely soliciting a shoulder shrug from political wonks. But together, as a one-two punch, it will change American politics forever.
And it will murder the modern Democratic Party. There’s been a slow-moving coup… but nobody’s noticed!
American drummer Joe Seiders, part of Canadian indie-rockers the New Pornographers, has been arrested for alleged possession of child pornography with his bandmates declaring they are “shocked, horrified, and devastated” by the news.
Joe Biden made a clandestine visit to Harvard University “marked by gaffes”, according to the student newspaper, which said he referred to Ukraine as Iraq and dropped an ice cream.
The former president held a private seminar with 50 politics students that was kept secret until his arrival. But when word got out, a group of pro-Palestinian students assembled to protest outside the building.
Christian devotees were nailed to crosses and left covered in blood after self-flagellation during a re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion to mark Good Friday.
Swathes of Filipinos and foreign tourists flocked to the northern village of San Pedro Cutud in the Philippines to witness Ruben Enaje, 64, and two other devotees be nailed to wooden crosses. This is the 36th time Enaje has participated in the re-enactment.
Actors donning Roman soldier costumes hammered the carpenter’s palms with two-inch nails and ropes and fabric supported their bodies as they were raised on the crosses.
Raising a Sugar Glider from Infancy. pic.twitter.com/nynCKnopzF
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) April 17, 2025
