A drugs suspect accused of swallowing his stash has spent more than three weeks in police custody as officers wait for him to go to the toilet. Officers are tweeting updates of what they describe as #PooWatch.

The 24-year-old man was arrested by officers from Essex Police's Operation Raptor West, the gangs and street crime unit, in Harlow, Essex on January 17. He is charged with two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and is allegedly part of a London gang.

He is believed to have inserted a batch of drugs into his body.

Over the past several months, progressive columnists have decided that they have had quite enough of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, the University of Toronto psychology professor who has ruffled post-modern sensibilities with his common-sense analysis and refusal to engage in the use of recently-invented transgender pronouns. Perhaps it is simply jealousy—Peterson has amassed an audience of millions—but the columns condemning him have been painful screeds to read, revealing the inability of their authors to understand either Peterson's ideas or his motivations. A few of them take his work so out of context that they border on slander.

But a good question to ask Peterson's detractors would be why? Why do they hate him so much? Why are so many liberals so determined to mock and malign him at every turn? Why do they see him as such a dangerous figure, when the impact of his work in the real world is so overwhelmingly positive?

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I want to understand how a normal brain becomes conservative," my professor said. "That is the thing that most puzzles me." At the time (I was in my early twenties) I completely agreed*. That was the question. Sometimes I would stare at a picture of G. W. Bush like Hamlet staring at a skull, pondering how any sane human could have voted for him. It just didn't make sense. Progressivism was so obviously correct that it baffled me that anyone could deviate from its basic principles. I didn't hate conservatives. I even knew one or two. I was just befuddled by them.

Most social scientists feel today about conservatives as my professor and I did then. Almost all social scientists (especially social psychologists) are socially liberal, and most of them voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. To many of these scientists, conservatives are like eccentric antiquities that belong in a museum, where they can be carefully studied. Consequently, social psychology journals are littered with articles about conservatives. Many paint a Hieronymus Bosch-like picture of them as flawed, fallen creatures: rigid, dogmatic, close-minded, fearful, prejudiced, and inclined to authoritarianism. Scales that describe traits found among conservatives more than progressives have scary names such as Right Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Benevolent Sexism, to name a few.

However, other researchers have expressed concern that this unflattering image of conservatives might be an unfortunate manifestation of bias from within the academy. Because most social psychologists are progressives, they simply take progressivism for granted, assuming that it is the right way to view the world and that, therefore, any divergence from its tenets is wrong and requires explanation. This leads to disparaging depictions of conservatives in the same way that having evangelical Christians study doubters would lead to disparaging depictions of atheists (imagine the scales: Unholy Skepticism Scale, Doubting Thomas Scale, et cetera). Scholars have begun to support this argument with research that suggests that progressives and conservatives are equally biased so long as scholars examine the right topics and targets. In fact, in an upcoming meta-analysis (a study that combines all effects from other studies), Dr. Peter Ditto and his colleagues found no statistically significant difference between progressives and conservatives on measures of bias.

The healthcare system in Mosul is still far from adequate due to the "massive extent of devastation" inflicted, more than six months since the end of the battle for the city, UNICEF's representative in Iraq told RT.

The situation in Mosul remains tough, with its residents having extremely limited access to health facilities, despite all the efforts of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and other humanitarian organizations, Peter Hawkins said. The official has recently paid a personal visit to Mosul to hand over equipment to a public health laboratory and witnessed the situation on the ground.

"What we need to understand is the extent of the problem. This is a massive city. Mosul city probably faced one of the biggest urban warfares since World War II and 2.2 - 2.4 million people affected. It's an enormous challenge to everybody to try and clear everything up and get the people working again," Hawkins told RT.

All US stock market indexes were down when they closed amid a volatile trading week that some analysts say could be on pace to match the 2008 financial crisis.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 1,032 points on Thursday, or 4.15 percent, closing at 23,860.46. The Nasdaq Composite was down 274 points, closing at 6,777.16, and the S&P 500 lost 100 points to close at 2.581.

After plunging 666 points last Friday and 1,175 points on Monday, the Dow seemed to stabilize at just under 25,000 on Tuesday, oscillating between 600 points up at its highest and 560 points down at its lowest.

The head coach of the Latvian skeleton team Dainis Dukurs stated that during the Olympics, Latvian athletes need to be extra careful so that 'nobody' can taint their food or drinks with doping.

He recalled that Russians "don't think favourably" of the Latvian skeleton team after the scandal with doping.

"Reading what they wrote about us in their media and social networks, it's like it was us who initiated the Richard McLaren report and the verification of the Denis Oswald commission," added Dukurs.

So, just in case any other athletes get accused of doping - you can always say the Russians spiked your drinks.

The Foreign Office decision to hand out free hijabs on World Hijab Day has been branded "ridiculous." A counter-extremist think tank hit out at the FO for supporting an "oppressive culture."

Senior officials at the Foreign Office (FO) were offered the chance to wear the hijab to acknowledge "liberation, respect and security," on #WorldHijabDay, February 1.

Maajid Nawaz, head of the Quilliam Foundation, criticized the department for "supporting World Hijab Day and the institutional oppression of women through modesty culture, while brave Iranian women risk all to remove hijab tyranny."

FO staff chose to wear the headscarf - which covers the head and neck while still revealing the face - on the same day fellow women took to the streets in ultra-conservative Iran to burn the veils, Nawaz said. Women in the Middle-Eastern Muslim country are forced to wear the veil or risk being arrested and jailed.

A New York high school has cancelled a Hunchback of Notre Dame play after students complained about casting the main character as a white woman.

Ithaca High School group Students United Ithaca wrote a letter in January requesting the role of Esmeralda be re-cast after a white student was chosen to play the Roma character.

The students described the actress as being the "epitome of whiteness," due to her blonde hair and hazel eyes. "At best, this is cultural appropriation. At worst, it is whitewashing, a racist casting practice which has its roots in minstrelsy," the letter wrote.

The group called on the school to recast the role with some of "the many talented brown and black female students," at Ithaca. Alternatively, it urged the school to choose a different play with new auditions.

Children as young as nine have phoned the Papyrus HOPELineUK service, the suicide prevention charity said. Recent callers included a 12-year-old girl who said she was convinced she was going to die after her school's attempts to stop her being bullied only made the situation worse.

Papyrus chief executive Ged Flynn told the Press Association: 'A girl of 12 was ringing from the school. '

She said: "The school has heard from me, and my mum and dad, and my uncles and grandmother that I'm being bullied.

"The school keeps saying they've fixed it. I can't go on any more. I'm ringing from the girls' toilets and I'm terrified. They're banging on the door now".

Emergency generators have run out of fuel in at least 19 health facilities in the Gaza Strip as Israel's deadly decade-old siege on the territory tightens.

The health ministry in Gaza announced Tuesday that the generators have shut down in 16 primary care clinics and three major hospitals, but that medical staff have been ordered to stay at their posts and do what they can to assist patients.

On Tuesday, the UN humanitarian coordination agency OCHA warned that "emergency fuel for critical facilities in Gaza will become exhausted within the next 10 days," unless donors step in to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe." But for patients and medical personnel on the front lines, the catastrophe is already happening, and it is only the latest chapter in the forced collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.

At the al-Nasr children's hospital, head of intensive care Dr. Raed Mahdi said that the lives of dozens of children in his unit are at risk.

According to the health ministry, Mahdi said overcrowding and pressure on medical staff and supplies had reached a crisis point at his hospital as children were being transferred there from other facilities that had lost all power.