Day: 16 May 2022

In this week's London Calling, the topics are the WHO pandemic treaty, the woke Ninjas who risked life and limb to take on... middle-aged feminists and my excitement about seeing Top Gun: Maverick.

Toddlers’ speech and motor skills have dropped sharply in the wake of the pandemic owing to limited opportunities to interact and learn, official data show.

Colin Wright has written a good piece for his Substack newsletter about the hysterical reaction to his brilliant cartoon illustrating how American liberals have taken a hard left turn in the past 15 years.

Schoolchildren face further disruption in their exams this summer because of a shortage of invigilators, which unions are blaming on a fear of catching Covid in 'unsafe' school environments.

NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the start of the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce, a new report reveals, as a record 6.4 million people are on waiting lists.

Anti-lockdown scientists who were smeared and sidelined during the pandemic have set up a new scientific academy committed to the "free exchange of ideas".

For the first two years of the pandemic, Iceland and Australia did not see any spike in excess mortality. That has now changed, casting further doubt on claims the vaccines are 90% effective against death.

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.