Russia’s feared new major offensive in Ukraine has already started, Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said today, warning that Ukraine is using more munitions than the military alliance is producing. ‘We see no sign whatsoever that [Russian] president [Vladimir] Putin is preparing for peace … What we see is president Putin and Russia still wanting to control Ukraine’,... 

Ukraine has gone on the attack and launched a counter-offensive to strike back at Russian forces in the south. The southern military command announced today they had carried out the long-awaited manoeuvre, reflecting Kyiv’s growing confidence as Western military aid flows in. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne cited southern command spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk as saying: ‘Today we... 

A left-wing British politician is calling on police to begin arresting citizens who laugh at ‘offensive jokes.’ Yes, really. SNP politician Julie McKenzie has accused the Netflix special featuring Jimmy Carr of spreading “hate speech” for including a joke about the holocaust. “Jimmy Carr and his Netflix hate speech, and his applauding audience should be prosecuted,” McKenzie tweeted. Scottishdailyexpress.co.uk... 

Pope Francis has thrown Jesus Christ and the apostle Paul under the bus to placate Jews over “offensive” comments he allegedly made about their ersatz “books of sacred law,” following a demand for clarification from Israel’s top rabbis, Vatican and Jewish community sources said on Monday: Last month Reuters reported exclusively that Rabbi Rasson Arousi, chair of the Commission of the Chief... 

Jews fear that because they are so closely associated with “greedy banker” stereotypes that a character in the new “Harry Potter” movie could subliminally turn children into “Hitler Youth”: It is not often that I am stopped in my tracks. But the press photography from the new Gringotts wing of Warner Bros’ Harry Potter Studio tour positively shrieked with antisemitic tropes; the long-nosed... 

Australian reporters working for ABC Tasmania were angered when they were advised by top brass to stop using the word “pedophile” to refer to an accused serial child molester because it could discourage other pedophiles from seeking help. “Oh, won’t someone think of the poor pedophiles!” A senior producer at the network informed employees that Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS) had “mentioned... 

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from Parler from offensive jokes, despite the site claiming repeatedly to be pro-free speech. Parler came back online for many users on Monday, after being kicked off of the internet and app stores by the Big Tech giants determined to shut the site down, claiming the conservative-oriented social media platform hosted violent content, and attempted... 

Renowned children’s author and playwright Sir Michael Morpurgo will omit The Merchant of Venice from the children’s book based on Shakespeare’s plays he is working on because he doesn’t want to “offend” Jews: Sir Michael, 77, is modernising Shakespeare plays for children and teenagers in a book titled Tales from Shakespeare, designed to make them more appealing to a young audience. The... 

Putting past art under the spotlight of today’s ever-changing woke standards can show us just how ridiculous political correctness has gotten in today’s digital age. Today’s world of constantly moving goalposts for woke standards has introduced the phenomenon of putting art of the past under the microscope of today. This has led to classic literature being injected with blackface in the name... 

A paper from computer scientists from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found that machines were more likely to flag tweets from black people than white people as offensive: It all boils down to the subtle differences in language. African-American English (AAE), often spoken in urban communities, is peppered with racial slang... 

A Google executive sparked a fierce backlash from employees by using the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation, according to internal documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Many Google employees became angry that the term was used while discussing a product aimed at children, because it implied that families have children, the documents show. The backlash grew large... 

A police force in the UK has been on the receiving end of derision after authorities encouraged citizens to report “offensive comments” that don’t even rise to the level of hate crimes. “In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South... 

People promoting “hostility” towards a religion or the transgendered online could get much harsher sentences, of up to six years in jail, especial if they have a large online audience according to new proposals. The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has drafted changes to public order offences, including anyone perceived as targeting online a “protected characteristics” including “race;... 

A 53-year-old man from Stockholm has been convicted of offensive behaviour, as he among other things ate bacon in front of three women in hijab on a commuter train. It was on a commuter train in Stockholm, that the man began to eat bacon in front of three veiled women, reports marsta.nu. According to the prosecution, the man demonstrative began to chew the pork in front of the women, and then followed... 

The US and NATO are building up their offensive capabilities on the Western borders of Russia and its ally Belarus, prompting Moscow to take reciprocal measures, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the two countries’ top military brass. “Those actions undermine strategic stability and are forcing Russia to take reciprocal defensive measures, including some in the Western theatre,” the...