Day: 2 August 2022

When the Premier League resumes on Friday, players will stop taking the knee. Finally, this pointless, hypocritical, virtue-signalling gesture is on the way out.

According to a new poll for YouGov, a majority of Conservative voters would like the next prime minister to hit the pause button on Net Zero. It looks as though Liz Truss will do what they ask.

Professor Matthew Goodwin has collaborated with the researcher David Rozado to look at the increasing use of woke words and phrases like 'transphobia' and 'white supremacy' in the British media. The results are alarming.

The Great Awokening is not unique to the English-speaking world. Researcher David Rozado finds that mentions of terms like 'sexist' and 'transphobic' have increased dramatically in Spain's newspaper of record.

Why is the NHS failing? Not because of Covid or inadequate funding. It's failing because the model is fundamentally flawed, according to a former NHS consultant. It is socialism in practice. Nice idea. Never works.

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are recent seismic activity in Iceland, the victory of the lionesses and the ensuing festival of virtue-signalling, and the shortcomings of an all-meat diet.

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.