Day: 1 May 2023

In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the collapse of First Republic Bank, the mercenary agenda behind the purchase of Wrexham FC and whether Hong Kong is more undemocratic than the U.K.

According to the financial analyst Robert Kogon, the big winner from the Covid vaccine gold rush is not Pfizer, but BioNTech, which has made over $31 billion in Covid vaccine-related profits in the past two years.

Will the collapse of First Republic Bank mean the death of ESG? Isn't it about time the people running banks focused on saving their own businesses, rather than saving the planet?

Just Stop Oil was protesting in Central London today, stopping people from getting to work in Westminster and Lambeth. Needless to say, no protestors have been arrested.

In the latest encouraging sign of pushback, transgender pupils are to be banned from competing in PE lessons against pupils of the opposite biological sex, new Government plans advise.

Anheuser-Busch bought an expensive ad slot during the NFL Draft last week and used it to show country music fans enjoying Bud Light. But disgruntled ex-fans of the beer are far from impressed.

Even on conservative assumptions, a '90% relative effectiveness' for a vaccine is just a 0.00027% absolute effectiveness for a young person. This was not properly explained, undermining informed consent.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.