New Catallaxy

I did a very small survey. Asked my next-door neighbour what she thought of the government giving 2,900 entry visas to Gazan Palestinians. She hadn’t caught that news. Hmm? Next I asked a chap in my club gym. He was suitably appalled. Asked another chap. He said that he agreed with the policy. He thought…

Where do you put religion in your lives is my question for the week. Mind you, I am talking only about the true religion Christianity, with an honourable place for Judaism. I am not talking about the nonsense that goes under the name of Islam, or for that matter any of the Eastern religions like…

Greetings from Syktyvkar, Russian Federation. Syktyvkar is located on the Sysola River and is the capital city of the Komi Republic as well as its largest city and administrative centre.  Syktyvkar is a moderate sized city with a population around 200,000 located some 1,200km NE of Moscow.  Founded in 1586, it was granted city status…

Read a very long article here on the BBC’s website last week.  In essence, it is a thinly-disguised apologia for the IOC’s decision to allow Imane Khelif to compete in women’s boxing despite being banned by the International Boxing Association (IBA), which governs amateur boxing. Is the chromosome test conducted by the IBA, which apparently…