Day: 6 September 2024

The publisher of a schoolbook intended to promote diversity has apologised after portraying a typical Irish family as cabbage-chewing, potato-munching xenophobes.

The prison population has hit a new record high after an influx of rioters were jailed or remanded after last month's disorder – as the Government prepares to release thousands of prisoners early due to overcrowding.

What’s happened in Europe over the last ten years is simple. A sizeable number of voters wanted less immigration but none of the mainstream parties represented them. Populist parties came in to fill the gap.

Lawyers are set to be given a new professional duty to "advance equality, diversity and inclusion" by the Bar Standards Board. It's a breach of human rights and a recipe for tyranny, says barrister Sarah Phillimore.

The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked COVID-19 may have also released a "highly evolved" strain of polio in 2014, according to a new study from France's prestigious Pasteur Institute.

The "surging seas are coming for us all", UN chief Antonio Guterres warned last week. The only solution is to send him lots of money. Give me a break, says Chris Morrison: there's no evidence sea levels are rising fast.

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.