A chilling tale of how overzealous social workers fuelled by ‘satanic panic’ led to innocent parents across the UK having their children ripped away from them has been explored in a new documentary.
From coffee mums in a leafy north-London suburb to presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, dozens of communities have been rocked by bizarre and spurious allegations of adults ritually abusing children, in the name of Satan, despite no evidence for this.
Channel 5’s ‘When Evil Came To Rochdale’, which
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A brief hubbub erupted in Washington this week over an unspecified “national security threat” that some sources now believe is related to a Russian plan to use nuclear weapons in space. The prospect is cause for concern but not panic.
First, here are four
For some, turning 30 meant getting family and friends together for a big party, or going on that once-in-a-life time trip they had always wanted to experience.
But reaching the milestone has apparently become somewhat terrifying for Generation Z, those born between 1998 and 2012, as they fear becoming ‘unattractive hags’.
That’s according to a recent Reddit thread, in which millennials and those older have become alarmed by the younger generation’s horror at celebrating their 30th.
‘Gen Z’s fear of
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At least 48 people have died following the devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan’s main island of Honshu yesterday, reducing tens of thousands of houses and buildings to rubble and leaving terrified survivors to brave sub-zero temperatures on the streets, unable to return to their homes.
Dozens of people are still missing and unaccounted for amid the New Year’s disaster, with the death toll expected to rise sharply as rescuers begin to recover victims buried beneath the debris.
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For decades, the Department of Commerce has maintained a little-known list of technologies that, on grounds of national security, are prohibited from being sold freely to foreign countries. Any company that wants to sell such a technology overseas must apply for permission, giving the department oversight and control over what is being exported and to whom.
These export controls are now inflaming tensions between the United States and China. They have become the primary way for the U.S. to throttle
The decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, experts warned today.
Officials launched the programmes, which will see 30million offered a flu jab and 25million invited for a Covid vaccine, in September — a month earlier than planned, citing fears the Pirola variant would overwhelm the NHS.
But scientists told MailOnline that the ‘flip-flopping’ approach towards the start date created mistrust and ‘inevitably increased some people’s anxiety’.
Others also warned the rollout’s
Britain could already be infested with bed bugs, an expert has warned amid an ongoing crisis in France.
Across the Channel, people are struggling to tackle the mass infestation of the parasitic bug.
The tiny blood-suckers have been caught crawling on train seats and inside Paris’s bustling Charles-de-Gaulle Airport in recent weeks.
Also, Eurostar has been placed on alert to step up ‘preventative treatment’ across the network to stop the spread of the bugs.
But microbiologist and founder of Bed
Pet are usually cuddly balls of fluff to come home to, however sometimes they can act a little out of character.
Animal lovers from around the world have shared terrifying snaps showcasing times their pets unintentionally sent them into panic mode.
Bored Panda decided to collate the best into a gallery which
The new media technology was going to make us stupid, to reduce all human interaction to a sales pitch. It was going to corrode our minds, degrade communication, and waste our time. Its sudden rise and rapid spread through business, government, and education augured nothing less than “the end of reason,” as one famous artist put it, for better or for worse. In the end, it would even get blamed for the live-broadcast deaths of seven Americans on national
