Day: 26 March 2025

President Donald Trump's administration is set to end funding to GAVI, the global vaccine partnership co-founded by Bill Gates, as part of the cancellation of more than 5,300 USAID programmes.

'Insurance', 'leasehold' – two of the dullest words in the English language. But that's a problem, says Margaret Rothwell, as Labour is about to legalise highway robbery for landlords via the iniquitous leasehold system.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves stood accused of losing control of the economy today as she desperately cut spending further despite record tax rises to cover a £14bn black hole largely of her own making.

Kim Leadbetter has agreed to postpone implementing her proposed assisted dying law until 2029, after the next election, raising the possibility that the troubled legislation will be put out of its misery.

Kathleen Stock’s former university, the University of Sussex, has been fined a record £585,000 after it was found to have "failed to uphold" freedom of speech and academic freedom as a result of its transgender policy.

Gender ideology is so obviously ludicrous that it has spawned hundreds of silly charts across the public and private sector to try to get itself taken seriously. Caroline Ffiske takes a look at some of the worst.

It is a sad reflection on our age that the line 'lies, damned lies and statistics' was forgotten, says Prof James Alexander. Good political sense can never be grounded on statistics, but only on history and criticism.

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.