Day: 3 June 2024

Politics professor James Alexander defends the 'conspiracy theory' that the works of William Shakespeare were written by someone else.

Nigel Farage has declared he will stand to be a Reform MP as he takes over as Reform leader from Richard Tice. A former Tory Cabinet Minister says it's "bad news for the Conservatives".

Britain's oldest medical journal, The Lancet, has gone full woke. Its new author guidelines state that sex and gender "exist along a spectrum", and authors must now use the term "sex assigned at birth".

Simon Schama urged an audience at Hay over the weekend to stand up for freedom of expression, as his friends Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens did, and not capitulate to moralising censors.

According to veteran accountant Paul Homewood, the only thing Trump is guilty of is a book-keeping error – a misdemeanour, not a felony. His conviction is a travesty and will almost certainly be overturned on appeal.

Anthony Fauci will testify before Congress today about his role in the (mis)management of the pandemic. Expect him to admit he made up social distancing rules and thinks the virus may well have originated in a lab.

A new book by the head of an Oxford College wants unruly politicians brought to heel by lawyers and officials. But we should not throw away the sovereignty of parliament so lightly, says J Sorel.

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.