Day: 15 August 2022

In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago and why it won't do Trump any harm, the disgraceful assault on Salman Rushdie and Jerry Sadowitz’s cancellation in Edinburgh.

American medicine has abandoned meritocracy. Black students are seven times more likely to be admitted to medical school than similarly qualified white students, and nine times more likely than Asian students.

If the WHO thinks it’s worthwhile declaring a public health emergency after five Monkeypox deaths, shouldn’t the 770 excess deaths of children across Europe so far this year also be flagged as a public health emergency?

Jordan Peterson has written a great essay for the Telegraph about the utopianism that underpins the net zero agenda of the global corporate and political elites. Like other utopian projects, it will immiserate us all.

Comedians and public figures from across the political spectrum have condemned the decision of the Plesance Theatre to cancel a performance by the comedian Jerry Sadowitz.

Binge-eating and lack of exercise during lockdown has led to a massive increase in people suffering from Gout. 234,000 patients were admitted to hospital with gout in 2021/22, according to NHS Digital.

A new study in Iceland seems to show that, for most age groups, the more doses of COVID-19 vaccines you have, the more likely you are to be reinfected.