Day: 26 August 2022

Julie Burchill has written a terrific piece for Mail+ about the seemingly unstoppable rise of the new puritans – the woke brigade who want to cancel anyone who doesn't share their narrow, quasi-religious ideology.

Dr James Alexander has ventured into a minefield for the Daily Sceptic and tried to tiptoe through the bizarre logic than underpins the trans movement.

Who needs conspiracy theorists when you’ve got school books teaching children that Covid vaccines are “95% effective”? This is now the situation in Norway.

Professor David Livermore has responded to Meta’s Oversight Board which has requested feedback on Facebook’s misinformation policy. He thinks the only items that should be flagged misinformation are egregious nonsense.

According to a draft document seen by Reuters, the EU plans to urge world’s biggest economies to redouble their efforts to reduce carbon emissions at COP27, seemingly blind to the energy crisis engulfing the continent.

Since the Maidan uprising, the U.S. has taken an intense interest in Ukraine, and many of the decisions it has made seem almost designed to provoke Russia. Was this all in aid of sabotaging the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

There have been 16,200 more non-Covid deaths than expected since the spring vaccine booster rollout began, mostly in the over-75s. If all of them were due to vaccine injury it would be a rate of one every 275 doses.

Climate change activists want to redefine what counts as scientific proof to make it harder to rebut their alarmist claims.

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.