Day: 9 May 2022

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the local election results, Sinn Fein's success and its implication for the UK's future, Beergate, Roe v Wade, and Chums, Simon Kuper's monumentally chippy new book.

The relentless catastrophising of 'extreme' weather is becoming almost a daily occurrence at the BBC, but the reality in the data is very different from the alarmist picture presented.

Keir Starmer has gambled his career on being cleared over Beergate by making an extraordinary vow to quit if he is fined by police – with Angela Rayner also promising to do the same.

Prince Harry's new eco-project tells people who fly to New Zealand for a holiday to make sure they buy local honey and re-use their towels – as though that will make up for the six tonnes of CO2 emitted in the flight.

In defending his country’s own neutral stance, the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the West of “double standards”, describing NATO’s bombing campaign in Libya as a “criminal and unacceptable act”.

People with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to COVID-19 vaccination compared to those with normal weight, but the previously infected do not have this problem, a study has found.

Watch my interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster about the risks to free speech posed by the Online Safety Bill. We need to wake up to this threat before it's too late.

Holidaymakers jetting off today face airport chaos, with delays to flights and queues stretching outside the terminals. Airports laid off almost half their staff during the pandemic and failed to replace them in time.

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.