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12 August 2025
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Keir Starmer claiming the Culture War is a figment of the Tory imagination, DeSantis dropping out and the House of Lords holding up the Illegal Immigration Bill.
The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that the Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa two years ago was unlawful.
Humza Yousaf was told by Nicola Sturgeon’s most high-profile medical adviser to "hold a drink at all times" to get round her rules on wearing a face mask when he was Health Secretary, the Covid Inquiry has heard.
Gary Lineker ought to be an obscure figure, says Dr David McGrogan, but the fact he is central to the national debate symbolises much of what is wrong with the way things are going. He exudes the midwit phenotype.
The Net Zero green energy illusion is dying as reality catches up with it, says Francis Menton. But the economies of the U.K. and Germany are dying as well as Net Zero takes them down with it.
Electric vehicles will never dominate the market, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has said, and will likely peak at under 30%, in the latest sign that car companies are backing away from the troubled technology.
Obsessed by modish woke ideology, the National Trust has devised a competition in Sir Isaac Newton’s name which Sir Isaac Newton himself would not be eligible to enter.
Scientific peer-review is failing science, says Peter Civan. After peer-reviewing papers for 10 years, Dr Civan says he is no longer willing to support a system that serves only the interests of publishing businesses.
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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