News Round-Up
18 June 2025
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Andrew Tate's confrontation with the BBC, Robert Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign and the literal and metaphorical fall of Joe Biden.
Cases of gonorrhoea have soared by 50% in the past year to the highest on record, while those of syphilis are the highest since 1948, as sexually transmitted infections bounce back following lockdown.
The World Health Organisation and the European Union yesterday announced their collaboration on global digital vaccine passports at a joint press conference in Geneva.
Two academics analysed prehistoric burial sites and found that some men were buried with female-typical objects and vice versa. They conclude that there was a "non-binary minority" in pre-historic Europe.
Children's campaigner Molly Kingsley was horrified to discover she was spied on by the Government for opposing school closures during the lockdown and is prepared to bring legal action to hold ministers to account.
In 2015, the world's richest countries agreed to devote $100 billion a year to 'climate finance' in the Global South. So far, this includes a power station in Bangladesh, an airport in Egypt and ice cream parlours in Asia.
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.
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