Day: 29 June 2023

Ireland's new hate crime bill will impose the most draconian free speech restrictions we've seen anywhere in a Western liberal democracy. It‘s even worse that Scotland‘s Hate Crime and Public Order Act.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that universities can no longer take race into consideration when granting admission in a landmark decision that ends the widespread discriminatory practice of 'affirmative action'.

All our mainstream media have claimed that the Wagner mutiny has weakened Putin. But the evidence suggests the opposite, writes David Craig, after the Russian leader swiftly faced down the threat.

The unsayable truth about the UK housing crisis is that prices are so high because demand is strong, and demand is strong because the UK has welcomed 10 million migrants in 25 years, says Lionel Shriver.

Eugyppius takes a closer look at the surveillance data that show flu was suppressed by Covid, the viral interference phenomenon that likely explains it, and why it means lockdowns are a really bad idea.

Dr Roger Watson makes his first trip to China since Covid and finds some surprises, including a society less visibly scarred by lockdown than the UK and a senior nurse who says she was never required to wear a face mask.

Net Zero doesn’t envisage a transformation of industrial society, only a gradual and forced winding down of living standards, and its buildings and street interventions reflect that, writes J Sorel.

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.