In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Aviva cracking down on sexism by being sexist, British Airways not taking sides by removing a Jewish sitcom and Tucker Carlson launching a new media network.
Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender and that social transitioning should be "extremely rare" in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues.
Audi will hit the brakes on its rollout of electric car models as consumer demand plummets in the face of high prices compared to petrol models.
Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.
Over a third of young people want to live under a leader who ignores elections and parliaments, according to a recent poll. What's driving this love of authoritarianism and should we be worried?
The nursing and midwifery council has banned 'misgendering' in its first 'free speech' guidance for practitioners. While broadly backing free speech on political issues, it draws a line at anything said to individuals.
A study has found that individuals are more likely to give atypical answers to moral dilemmas when others have already given such answers. This 'online moral conformity' is surely relevant to the age of lockdown.
Scrooge is everywhere at this time of year as the archetypal Christmas miser. But on some issues, like immigration, it's ultimately not kind to be anything other than Scrooge-like, says Steven Tucker.
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.
