‘The world has gone mad’: Real Housewives of Sydney star Victoria Rees slams renaming of Coon Cheese to Cheer after the brand was deemed racist to Aboriginals By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:26 BST, 18 July 2021 | Updated: 13:28 BST, 18 July 2021 Coon Cheese launched its new name, Cheer, this … Read more
NYT Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury is retiring the term ‘op-ed’ at the paper The New York Times has said that it will retire the term ‘op-ed’ and replace it with ‘guest essay’, a rebrand that follows a string of furious controversies in the newspaper’s Opinion section. Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury announced the change in a column … Read more
David Hume (1711-1776) was a UK philosopher (pictured, statue in Edinburgh) David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the most important UK philosophers, best known for his work on scepticism and empiricism and his contribution to the Enlightenment. Hume saw philosophy as experimental science of human nature and tried to describe how the mind works in … Read more
The University of Edinburgh has come under fire after it renamed a tower bearing the name of 18th century philosopher David Hume over his links to slavery. The David Hume Tower will now be known as 40 George Square, the university confirmed, following pressure from activists, despite a petition amassing less than 2,000 signatures. The campaign … Read more
Baton Rouge activist rips into school board member after catching her ‘online shopping’ during a debate on renaming Lee High School after the Confederate general she had defended for ‘freeing his slaves’ Gary Chambers, who was a candidate for the Louisiana state senate last year, called on Connie Bernard to resign at a school board … Read more