politics

Spain’s Aspiring Prime Minister Spreads Bunkum on Primetime Television

The leading candidate for the Spanish prime minister position is using a deceptive technique called Gish gallop during a televised…

9 months ago

Idiot of the Week: Jair Bolsonaro

The Idiot of the Week title goes to a politician who could easily win it every week. The pugnacious Brazilian…

3 years ago

Marius Ostaficiuc

A Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician from the city of Iasi in eastern Romania, Marius Ostaficiuc took the biscuit when…

3 years ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won with brio the Idiot of the Week title after the media unearthed a slew…

3 years ago

Russia Will Redouble Efforts To Strengthen Its Narratives

“The sentencing of Alexey Navalny to two years and eight months in a penal colony yesterday, as well as the…

3 years ago

Funding Journalism in Ukraine: Ask the Oligarchs

Four large players dominate the media market in Ukraine, a country where television is the main source of news. Independent…

3 years ago

Idiot of the Week: Douglas Ross

MP Douglas Ross beat off competition to win the Idiot of the Week title. Within hours only of becoming the…

4 years ago

Idiot of the Week: David Perdue

The Idiot of the Week award goes to US Senator David Perdue of Georgia, a Republican, for posting an image…

4 years ago

Idiot of the Week: Pauline Lee Hanson

Her deep thoughts about public health and the idea to share them publicly won Pauline Lee Hanson our Idiot of…

4 years ago

Idiot of the Week: Nigel Farage

Treading in the footsteps of Dominic Cummings, the UK prime minister’s most senior adviser who drove hundreds of miles in…

4 years ago