MPs Join Last-Ditch Fight to Stop Illegal Covid Passports

Tory MPs say they’ll defy Boris Johnson and vote against illiberal vaccine passports. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hasn’t just angered large swathes of the British public with his planned vaccine passports: he’s also angered his own MPs and legislators on the other side of the House, many of whom have now pledged to vote against such a measure.

Women And Children Last: The Infamous Sinking of La Bourgogne

The sinking of the French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne on the morning of 4 July 1898 was one of the most disgraceful of disasters in maritime history due to the cowardly and criminal behavior of the crew. Instead of the heroic sacrifice that has often been the shining moment in such a terrible tragedy, the crew of the steamer “fought like demons for the few lifeboats and rafts”, drawing out their knives and threatening passengers with it. Out went for a toss “Women and children first!”, famously established by the soldiers of the sinking Birkenhead, half a century earlier, and by the crew of the Titanic fourteen years later. Only one woman passenger from La Bourgogne was saved, and all children perished.

Shed Loads of Migrants sit Hunger Strike Out

Members of the Belgian government, two UN rapporteurs, and several associations have expressed concern about the fate of 450 migrants in Belgium who have been on hunger strike since the end of May. In recent days, some of them have stopped taking fluids. Some are reportedly so exhausted that they are in imminent danger of death.