News Round-Up
12 May 2025
In what looks likely to be the first of many private school closures as a result of Labour's VAT raid, Alton School in Hampshire has shut its doors, sending its pupils scrambling to find places in the state sector.
A group of 26 nurses are suing the NHS for forcing them to get changed in front of a sexually active biological male who claimed to identify as a woman.
Rishi Sunak's big new policy is "If you can vote, you should fight”, whereas Keir Starmer's is "If you can fight, you should vote". But is either what the country needs? asks James Alexander.
Elon Musk has suggested Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to cover up the truth about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, Christian Drosten is more guilty of that than Fauci.
In a landgrab for Reform voters, the Prime Minister has announced that if re-elected the Conservatives would bring back National Service – although the policy isn’t as bold as it seems at first glance.
We don't like it when Africans and Asians come to Europe and tell us how to run our affairs. So we should stop telling them how to manage theirs – particularly when it comes to wildlife conservation.
Ben Pile is rallying sceptics to action, urging them to wield democratic tools like petitions and direct engagement with MPs to challenge the Net Zero agenda. The Government must know there's a debate to be had.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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