News Round-Up
12 August 2025
RFK Jr is Right to Defund the Development of mRNA Vaccines
12 August 2025
The truly appalling thing about the Lucy Letby case has been the way in which vital legal precedents of wrongfully convicted mothers were disregarded by the judges, says legal expert Dr Peter Hayes.
A former SNP Equalities Officer who said he wanted to "beat the f—" out of gender critical feminists is a "dangerous" predator, prosecutors have said after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults.
In case there was any doubt that civil servants are biased against Conservative administrations and prefer Labour policies, a series of Guardian columns by a Labour superfan civil servant should put the matter to rest.
Covid vaccine maker BioNTech has returned to making a loss as vaccine sales tank. Yet the company projects a return to pandemic-level sales in the autumn. Does BioNTech know something that we don’t, asks Robert Kogon.
Trump has picked J.D. Vance, the anti-mask mandate Senator from Ohio, as his VP running mate. Strong move, says Thomas Buckley, and not just because Trump-Vance fits perfectly on a sign.
The BBC has been caught spreading misinformation that hurricane Beryl is a "sign of a warming world". This pinning weather on humans is alarmist propaganda with no scientific basis, says Chris Morrison.
In a special episode of the Sceptic, Laurie Wastell speaks to Professor Eric Kaufmann on where woke came from, how it influences Western politics and what we can do about it.
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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