Day: 22 March 2024

The leak of the Police Scotland training materials telling officers they should target actors and comedians for 'hate speech' has intensified concerns that the new draconian legislation will kill comedy.

Science found a "near non-existent" benefit of face masks, the Covid Inquiry Lead Counsel told Devi Sridhar last week. "Should this debate have been bypassed?" he asked her. "Exactly," she replied.

Calls for a boycott of Nike are growing over a "woke" rainbow redesign of the England flag on the Euro 2024 football kit, with Rishi Sunak wading in to the row saying the company "shouldn't mess" with the flag.

A recent study found that bad Covid infections may have reduced people's IQ by up to 6 points. However, the study didn't actually look at change in IQ scores and the findings are consistent with other explanations.

It's becoming clear to everyone except our rulers that Ukraine is losing and can now never win if winning means expelling all Russian troops, says David Craig. The longer it goes on, the worse it gets for Ukraine.

BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor falsely claims that South Sudan is experiencing "extreme heat" for March. In fact, says Chris Morrison, March is the equatorial country's hottest month and the temperatures are typical.

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.