After less than a month in the job, Dr. Susan Monarez was given her marching orders as director of the US Centers for…
Author: Ashis Banerjee
I qualified at medical school forty years ago and used to be an emergency doctor in London. I have no affiliations of any sort. At a time of information overload and "fake news" I believe there is a place for unbiased evidence, free from opinions. Opinions are for people to form based on facts. I am tired of pointless and time-consuming debate over information readily available in the public domain.
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The Union Jack: A Symbol of National Identity, Unity, and Pride; or, A Relic from Britain’s Colonial Past?
Birmingham City Council has recently taken down St George’s Cross and Union Jack flags from lamp-posts, bus stops, and other street furniture, as…
Donald Trump, president of the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, jetted the entire width of America in a westward direction to…
The summer of 2025 has been marked by protests and counter-protests outside several hotels housing asylum seekers, as well as at other locations.…
The UK’s largest police force, the Metropolitan Police Service, which covers the capital city’s 32 boroughs but not the City of London, is…
On 24 July 2025, in his post on X, President Emmanuel Macron became the first G7 leader to commit to recognising a Palestinian…
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The Epstein Affair: A Tale of Conspiracy, Corruption, and Criminality in American High Society
Jeffrey Epstein’s notoriety as a prolific paedophile, and a growing clamour for the disclosure of his potentially damaging “client list”, are proving to…
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Japan’s Upper House Elections of 20 July 2025: A Day of Reckoning for the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, and its junior coalition partner, the Buddhist Komeito party, together won…
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Overtourism in Southern Europe: When Demand Overwhelms Supply, and Growth in the Tourist Trade is Unsustainable
Local residents in tourist hotspots across Southern European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea are increasingly unhappy, as demonstrated by recent anti-tourism protests in…
The Guadalupe River burst its banks and overflowed on 4 July 2025 in the Hill Country of central Texas, to the west of…