News Round-Up
12 May 2025
"If we ignore high-quality evidence, we arrive at the conclusion we want." Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say that the Royal Society lockdown report authors appear to fully understand the politics.
Following the conviction of journalist Peter Wilby on child pornography offences, Guy de la Bédoyère recalls the time as a 14 year-old he was sexually assaulted by BBC broadcaster Derek Cooper on a sleeper train.
The Free Speech Union has just published a report on carbon literacy training, a new threat to free speech. The careers of employees forced to undergo this may suffer if they challenge the activist agenda behind it.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s 90-day probe into the origins of COVID-19 censored the input of intelligence agency scientists who concluded the virus was most likely genetically engineered.
The Digital Services Act comes into force today, empowering the EU to force social media companies to take down 'disinformation', including "gender and sexuality" content that's "part of a wider 'anti-woke' narrative".
Hundreds of bald eagles and other large birds are being killed by wind turbines across the U.S. every year, but green activists don't seem to care, as California rolls back its protections yet further.
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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