Day: 28 August 2024

The Chief Executive and founder of European Tesla-rival Polestar has quit after seven years at the helm after sales plunged 40% in a year.

Lego has said it will take the hit and pay up to 60% over the odds to buy lower-petroleum plastic in a race to remove fossil fuels from its bricks. It won't affect prices, they say. But for how long?

The WHO has removed hundreds of monkeypox deaths from its reported toll as the case fatality rate drops to just 0.2%. This is not a global emergency by any sane definition, says ex-WHO medic Dr David Bell.

Why did journalists listening to Starmer give him such an easy ride, asks David Craig. There was a question about Oasis, but not one on mass immigration, Net Zero, two-tier policing or expensive 'gifts' for the PM.

Who are the biggest losers from tax haven? In short, it’s high-tax European countries like the UK. Productive activity that generates profits takes place in the UK, and then the profits get taxed in Ireland.

Is probability all in the mind, as the Bayesians say, or does it tell us about the real world as well? Will Jones delves into the mind-bending twists and turns of how our brains make sense of the uncertainties we face.

Keir Starmer's claim in his Rose Garden speech that the Tories left the economy "worse than we imagined" is belied by strong recent growth figures and the public availability of economic data, says Seb Charleton.

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.