News Round-Up
4 July 2025
The UKHSA pleads poverty to get out of providing any systematic appraisal of the models it used to justify lockdown despite having a £2.4bn Covid budget for the coming year, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
A civil servant at the Home Office has said that his colleagues would "ring the mental health services to check in on my sanity" if he were ever to propose ways of cutting immigration.
The English FA's over-zealous policing of 'racist' jokes has landed it facing racism allegations of its own. It's all part of the relentless rise of 'compelled offence', says Steven Tucker.
The Supreme Court has ruled against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda migrants scheme in a major blow to the Prime Minister after Suella Braverman warned he has no credible Plan B stop the boats.
Swedish oncologist Professor Lennart Hardell is among experts raising concerns about a possible link between 'microwave syndrome' and the rollout of high-energy 5G masts.
Australia is the latest country to buy in to the 'clean energy superpower' myth, says David Craig. In reality, it's cheap, reliable fossil fuel that enables countries like China and India to be manufacturing superpowers.
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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