News Round-Up
18 June 2025
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Kevin Spacey getting cancelled despite being cleared, the FA refusing to light up Wembley in honour of Israel and the Daily Wire doing its own Snow White.
In the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain's lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order.
Ian Price wonders what further atrocities Hamas will have to commit before the BBC decides to call them terrorists. And why is the Corporation so reluctant to publish its report into its own historic antisemitism?
Car park spaces should become wider and burning electric cars dunked in baths of water, under proposed Government guidelines to prevent battery fires spreading out of control.
Medical regulations forbid the targeting of children with advertising and 'bribery' as it undermines informed consent. Why then are U.K. clinics doing just that when it comes to vaccines, asks Dr. Elizabeth Evans.
In a cheery tweet from the opening of the World Health Summit in Berlin, German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has declared that it's "only a matter of time until the next pandemic comes".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has signed up all nine million Londoners for the Planetary Health Diet by 2030, which envisages a largely organic vegetarian plan with meat cut to World War Two levels of 44g a day.
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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