The CIA offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges.
Back at school for just two days, Jack Watson was irked to be told by his French teacher that French is being made more 'trans inclusive' by messing around with the already baffling gender of words.
While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older groups, the US CDC has just recommended the new booster for everyone over six months, insisting “the benefits exceed the risks for everyone”.
It's time, says Aditya A, to crack down on graduate visas to Indian students not at the top universities. "Allowing them to come even though they take Mickey Mouse degrees and are not here to study anyway is perilous."
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said criticism of California’s tough COVID-19 restrictions was valid and he would have taken an entirely different approach, given what he knows now about the pandemic.
Oliver Brown has written a stirring tribute to the defiance and determination of Novak Djokovic, who "stuck it to the two countries who locked him out" by winning in both the U.S. and Australia this year.
In February 2020, a few days after being released from his quarantine "imprisonment", Germany's first Covid patient told an interviewer: "I’m doing great. I was never in fact doing poorly."
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.
