Day: 5 December 2024

Five years on, it's clear that lockdowns were the greatest health economics mistake in modern history, says Martin Sewell. We would have been better off doing nothing. Next time, we should keep calm and carry on.

More than half of British businesses expect to put up prices and cut jobs to cope with the costs imposed by Rachel Reeves's Budget and National Insurance raid, according to a Bank of England survey.

The Church of England is overspending on HR and "politicised roles" such as diversity, social justice, LGBT and Net Zero officers at the expense of parishes, a report has warned.

Muhammad has become the most popular baby name for UK boys for the first time, new data from the ONS have revealed – not so surprising given a third of births are to non-UK-born mothers.

An Oxford prof has resigned from the Royal Society after it refused to expel 'climate change denier' Elon Musk. Since when has challenging the scientific consensus been a reason to kick someone out of the Royal Society?

A university Vice-Chancellor who called for climate change to become part of the curriculum on every course claimed more than £16,000 in expenses on flights, figures have revealed.

Is the EU about to cut off funding to the Green Blob? That's the prospect raised by an article in Politico, says Ben Pile, which reports that EU money is to be banned from being spent on "advocacy and lobbying work".

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.