NYT’ Opinions Editor, James Bennet, has been forced to resign for having the cheek to allow his section to publish an opinion deemed too controversial. Polly Boiko asks why it is that a newspaper’s op-ed section should be so scared of actual opinions.

Polly went to the #RhodesMustFall protest in #Oxford to find out why some are so keen to see the pulling down of a Victorian imperialist who had a whole #African country named after him and called being #English like winning the lottery.

Penny Lane, made famous by the Beatles song, had its street name signs vandalized during a recent Black Lives Matter protest. @Polly_Boiko went to talk to the people of #PennyLane, to find out what they think about the controversy, surrounding the world-famous street.

Party’s over for #Seattle’s #CHOP zone. City leaders say the authorities are going to reclaim the police-free precinct, after a string of shootings. #Utopian ideas. Great in theory. Not so great in practice...as Polly Boiko explains.

A chorus of international condemnation and threats is raining down on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for his US-backed plan to illegally annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Oh no, wait... there actually isn’t. @Polly_Boiko takes a look...

Thanks Corona! Big polluters gettin' dirty all over again

Meet Remdesivir! There’s a slim chance this brand-new antiviral drug might speed up coronavirus recovery, so America’s only gone and bought up the whole lot. Polly Boiko’s raided the medicine cabinet, and taken a closer look at this new pill.

You scrap my consulate, I scrap yours...Maturity levels are peaking in the land of geopolitics, as China and the US engage in tit-for-tat consulate closures in Houston and Chengdu. Polly Boiko explains.

ICYMI | Polly Boiko | Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons of prophet again?!

Forget Russiagate or shady foreign interference. The US election is hotting up, and there’s no limit to what royals, celebrities and tycoons will do (or pay!) to get their desired result. Polly Boiko lists some of the ways that the US election is being tampered with.

The British government is considering new laws that will allow #spies engaged in #undercover work to commit crimes… if there’s a good reason for it. What? So currently the spies are worried about breaking the law? Yeah, pull the other one.

The official 1665 Great Plague of London health advice - look familiar? | #PollyBites #coronavirus #covid19uk

The #vaccine war! Who’s going to claim credit for concocting the magic potion that’ll stop the global #pandemic, let us get back to our normal lives and get the world economy out of the tailspin it’s currently in? | #PollyBites @polly_boiko

If Joe Biden is a return to ‘normal,’ and it was ‘normal’ that led to people voting for Donald Trump... what happens next? #RT’s @Polly_Boiko asks whether a President Biden will just be more bombing, bullying and sanctions but with a nicer face to pander to progressives at home.

Isn’t it nice when long-term geopolitical foes kiss and make-up? Israel and Saudi Arabia may be about to do just that ... officially. Polly Boiko takes a look.

Jordan Peterson vs Book Burners | #PollyBites

Lloyd Austin - Biden's pick for Defense Sec is woke and wrong | #PollyBites Ex-general Lloyd Austin is #Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Although it looks woke, it's anything but, as @Polly_Boiko explains.

US Prisons are so horrific they saved Julian Assange #PollyBites

Storming the Capitol was bad - the hot takes were worse #PollyBites

The WhatsApp Exodus | #PollyBites