News Round-Up
8 May 2024
Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to mount as a ferry company bans them and observers warn of a sharp rise in explosions of the highly flammable lithium batteries.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Sadiq Khan’s 3rd term, the take over of the Greens by Islamists – where are you, Hope Not Hate? – and whether Rishi’s right to predict a hung parliament.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
In a scathing piece for the Telegraph, Prof Nigel Biggar admonishes Oxford academics and staff backing pro-Palestinian student protesters, suggesting they need a sharp lesson on history, ethics and law.
Despite a retreat from the egregious overreach seen in earlier drafts, the WHO's proposed Pandemic Accords will still give the WHO control over how future pandemics are managed, warns campaign group UsForThem.
Shameful scenes of pro-Palestine supporters chanting the genocidal slogan 'From the river to the sea' and inciting an 'intifada' have sprung up at universities across the country.
Alumnus James Alexander bemoans the once glorious and eccentric legacy of Trinity College, Cambridge, now sinking into a state of soggy decline.
The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which helps those left disabled after having a vaccine and families of those who died, is to be reviewed after a massive rise in claims following the Covid jab rollout.
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