Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
The Spanish Government has reimposed mask mandates in hospitals and health centres across the country from today, overruling most of its 17 regional authorities.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, has diagnosed the main cause of our current malaise: acceleration anxiety. No longer relating to eternal things, we are anxious only to reach the future as fast as possible.
Workers are putting in fewer hours than before the pandemic around the world as the number of sick days surge, according to a new global report.
Following the New Year's Day earthquake in Japan, people have been taking refuge in a centre where, because of Covid, they are made to sleep in a mask with the doors open. In winter. Elderly people. To "reduce risk".
Universities and libraries are hastening the demise of print media – and Covid is still the excuse, says Aditya A. If you ask for a print newspaper they look at you as if there's something wrong with you.
Further scientific evidence has emerged showing that summer sea ice in the Arctic has shown no significant decline since 2007, contradicting the alarmist claims of the Net Zero zealots.
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.
