Day: 10 April 2024

Using the MHRA's own information on the frequency of adverse reactions to the Pfizer Covid vaccine, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson come to some sobering estimates of the scale of harm.

Four years on from lockdown, are we already forgetting? The taped-off playgrounds, the debilitating isolation, the 500,000 reports to the police of lockdown infractions. We must not forget, says Joanna Gray.

Sales of Volkswagen electric cars have plunged by almost a quarter in Europe as demand for battery-powered vehicles stalls and buyers return to petrol.

The ECHR's discovery of a human right to be protected from climate change is the culmination of decades of overreach in what human rights law requires at the expense of democracy, says Dr David McGrogan.

The NHS will review all transgender treatment, as the landmark Cass report says that the evidence for allowing children and young people to change gender is built on "shaky foundations".

'How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers' ran the extraordinary headline in the Independent. Needless to say, the story was a complete washout, says Chris Morrison.

In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Will Wragg's "bravery" sending fellow MPs' phone numbers to a sexting blackmailer, Angela Rayner's tax lies and the Tories' latest poster fail.

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.