Day: 9 July 2024

The pro-mask cultists are at it again, says Dr. Gary Sidley. In the height of summer, no less, some NHS hospitals are re-imposing mask mandates. Here's how to complain.

Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths for 10-11 year-olds, new figures reveal.

As he left Downing Street, Rishi Sunak apologised for the Conservatives' record in Government. Mark Ellse imagines what he might have said had he apologised for lockdowns and Net Zero.

Labour's manifesto threatens us with an "expert-led" review to produce a "modern, inclusive and innovative" school curriculum. Former Government chief curriculum adviser Dr. Nicholas Tate looks at what this could mean.

France has been so distracted by keeping out the "far Right" that it failed to see it was letting in a far Left that poses a real threat to the French economy and the survival of the eurozone, says Matthew Lynn.

How seriously should we take Labour's New Britain proposal, asks James Alexander. "We should fear that it is ever instantiated; and we should fear that these are the sorts of people who are trying to instantiate anything."

Here's something the BBC won't tell you: Marine Le Pen's National Rally was the only party to increase its vote share in the second round of the French election, says Nick Rendell.

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.