Top universities including Imperial College and Glasgow have told staff and students that saying "the most qualified person should get the job" is a "microaggression", among other examples of woke language policing.
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.
Cambridge University 'misinformation researcher' Sander van der Linden picked a fight with Nate Silver recently and ended up looking like a fraud who edits his Wikipedia page through a legion of sock puppet accounts.
Google is pausing its new Gemini AI tool after users blasted the image generator for being "too woke" for generating images of Asian Nazis, black Vikings and female medieval knights.
Still today, the U.S. CDC recommends that children as young as two wear a face mask to protect against Covid. When will public health officials accept the evidence that they don't work, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Rocking horses should be banned, beetles have a right to privacy and Pokémon teaches cruelty to animals – PETA and the animal rights activists can often seem beyond parody. But are we being had, asks 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.
