News Round-Up
14 May 2025
Another Flaw in Ed Miliband’s Clean Power Agenda
14 May 2025
by Ben Pile
The Hidden Mechanisms of Unfreedom
14 May 2025
The Church of England has said that there is “no official definition” of a woman, leading many to wonder where bishops were while their school biology lessons were happening.
I was a 13 year-old boy during the summer of 76 and had the time of my life – skateboarding, swimming, playing cricket. Happily, there were no climate change alarmists and health fascists ordering children to stay inside.
According to Esther McVey, Jeremy Hunt has pledged never to reimpose a full lockdown in response to a Covid-style pandemic. Bit of wiggle room there, but an encouraging sign. Will the other candidates follow suit?
Communist SAGE advisor Susan Michie has warned that the leaderless Tories will 'sit on their hands' and 'let Covid rip'. If by that she means another lockdown won't be imposed in the near future, then thank God for that.
The problem is that those subscribing to the woke ideology bully the rest of society into acquiescence and self-censorship. This is coercion and control. This is societal abuse: society is being abused by the woke mob.
A teacher writes that she has quit, saying the lockdowns, masks and testing were bad enough, but the final straw was being told to hide a child's 'gender change' from their parents.
Software engineer David Kirkwood peers into the murk of Professor Neil Ferguson's code for his COVID-19 model and finds a sprawling, amateurish mess that was never going to produce anything of value.
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.
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