Day: 17 March 2024

Tough penalties, including funding cuts and loss of enforcement powers, are to be introduced by the Government for councils flouting new local support requirements in low-traffic zones.

The SNP's anti-Islamophobia campaign is in disarray following the revelation that Lindsay Taylor, the face of the campaign, works for the extremist organisation Muslim Engagement and Development.

Meet Kacper Surdy, a 20 year-old British student whose Twitter/X account @Ringwiss has made him an unlikely go-to resource for Washington's top policymakers.

The BBC faces another antisemitism scandal as two journalists, responsible for accusing Israeli soldiers of abusing Gaza hospital medics, have endorsed videos glorifying Hamas attacks and anti-Israel content online.

A courageous teacher, sacked for refusing to comply with a young girl's desire to identify as a boy, is set to voice concerns for her welfare at an employment tribunal.

Cambridge University’s Centre for Climate Repair has a team in the Arctic busily experimenting with spraying seawater over the ice to try to thicken it in a plan branded "insane" and "dangerous".

Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, reports the BBC. Unmentioned is that banana output has doubled over the past 20 years, surely helped by a little extra warmth and atmospheric CO2.

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.