Five Reasons to Be Cheerful
7 July 2024
by Joanna Gray
Biden’s Comeback Interview Backfires
7 July 2024
by Haven Pell
"Not in my backyard!" The Green Party's co-leader is staunchly opposing plans for a 100-mile stretch of pylons through his constituency under Keir Starmer's Net Zero strategy.
Sallust raises red flags about the seismic impact of the Muslim Vote in the 2024 General Election, warning that future elections are increasingly set to be dominated by hostile sectarianism.
Critics have slammed Keir Starmer for reneging on promises of change by appointing the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance as the new Minister of State for Science.
Joanna Gray offers a spirited take on current affairs, finding reasons to be cheerful amidst political failures, media influence and even culinary comforts.
Critics are pushing for swimming pools to ditch restrictive post-Covid booking rules, arguing that they hinder access to exercise and risk creating a "lost generation" of young swimmers.
After carefully avoiding interviews with even friendly reporters, the White House realised that some serious damage control was required. But Biden's comeback interview backfired badly, says Haven Pell.
In the UK, as in the US, the Covid pandemic response switched abruptly in mid-March 2020 from a standard public health plan to a totalitarian lockdown-until-vaccine plan. Debbie Lerman digs into why this happened.
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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