Month: June 2022

The Free Speech Union is hosting a fundraiser tonight at the Backyard Comedy Club. Click below to buy tickets. Prices start at £20.

A study by four economists has found that school closures in the US caused a large decline in math pass rates. This result provides yet more evidence that the switch to remote learning harmed children's education.

Hot on the heels of Frances Ryan in the Guardian calling for the return of masks, mass-testing and self-isolation, Channel 5 presenter Jeremy Vine has said vulnerable people should stay home and shield once more.

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.

There have been nearly 6,500 more deaths than usual in England and Wales from causes other than COVID-19 in the eight weeks since April 23rd, a period corresponding to the spring vaccine booster campaign among over-75s.

Here we go again. It's the middle of summer and the leading opinion piece in the Guardian calls for the return of masks, mass-testing and quarantine in response to rising infections and hospitalisations.

The Met Office's forecast that England will revert to hunter-gathering by 2040 leads a crowded field of strong contenders in this year's Eco Crackpot of the Year Awards.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a gay bar in Oslo, Norwegian pundits have been quick to blame anti-woke culture warriors like Jordan Peterson. Almost no one has mentioned radical Islam.

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.

In this week's London Calling, the topics are college reunions, Greta Thunberg, Paul McCartney, Roe v Wade and the steaming pile of horse manure that is Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.