Keir Starmer was asked today whether a woman can have a penis. A simple question, you would have thought, but it completely stumped him. Expect all left-wing leaders to be asked this question in interviews from now on.
Given the field day the world’s petty bureaucrats, busybodies and bourgeois bullies have had with Covid, it's something of a victory to go to France and see things change so fast for the better.
A group of doctors is launching a legal challenge against the UK Government’s offer of a Covid vaccine to healthy five to 11 year-olds, branding it "reckless" and "grossly irresponsible".
January's age-standardised mortality rate was the second lowest on record for that month. And February's was too. On average, there has been no excess mortality since August – despite the Delta and Omicron waves.
Much of the media breathlessly reported "unprecedented heatwaves" at both of Earth's poles last week and another mass coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef. But dig down and you find the truth is very different.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
