Day: 17 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.

The White House has been urging social media companies to censor ‘misinformaton' about climate change. But embarrassingly, a White House climate change official has just been sanctioned for scientific misconduct.

Pen America has organised an event to express solidarity with Salman Rushdie in which various well-known authors will read out passages from The Satanic Verses on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday.

Salma al-Shebab, a student at Leeds University, has been sentenced to 34 years by a Saudi court for following and retweeting dissident activists on Twitter.

According to an RAF insider, the Air Chief Marshall is willing to compromise national security at a time of growing threats from Russia and China to pursue his ‘equity, diversity and inclusion’ agenda.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, occupied it for twenty years, and in the process got about 200,000 people killed. What's less well known is that, after leaving, the U.S. stole $7 billion of Afghanistan’s money.

Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, looks at ‘tipping points’ – supposedly, points of no return after which the earth is doomed and we're all buggered. He isn't impressed.

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.