Day: 14 August 2022

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.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak should both pledge to do more to protect free speech as part of their leadership pitch. How about promising to ditch ’Non-Crime Hate Incidents’?

Dan Hannan has written a blistering column for the Telegraph, deservedly saying "I told you so” about the catastrophic impact of the lockdown policy on the economy, something he warned of in May 2020.

Is the Arctic really heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet? Only if you cook the data, says Chris Morrison.

Stuart Ritchie has written a good piece puzzling over why dozens of academics were so quick to leap to the defence of a university student who'd written a paper about masturbating to Japanese pornography.

Unconscious bias training has no scientific basis. It’s a form of jiggery-wokery designed to persuade people that Britain is a hotbed of racial prejudice, in spite of being one of the least racist countries on earth.

The philosopher Raymond Guess has come up with a useful term to describe the moral blackmail implicit in Covid, climate change and woke hysteria: the Argumentum Hystericum.

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.