Day: 9 August 2022

An elderly woman has been banned from a swimming pool after she demanded that a transgender employee left the female locker rooms.

Energy prices are set to more than double, with the average UK household facing an annual bill of £4,266 next year. Time to rethink the fracking ban?

The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.

Further doubts are being raised about the scale of global warming claimed by the U.K. Met Office, following publication of a damning report into U.S. weather stations which found 96% were corrupted by urban heat.

A recent survey found that 82% of Harvard faculty identify as liberal, and only 1.5% identify as conservative. The survey is consistent with similar surveys from previous years and vast amounts of other data.

Police officers in England and Wales are spending up to a third of their time on non-policing matters, including assisting heart attack patients due to high demand and an overstretched ambulance service.

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.