Day: 2 April 2025

MPs will be spared from a new council tax premium on second homes that they voted to permit, leaving taxpayers picking up five-figure bills.

President Donald Trump has reportedly told his Cabinet that Elon Musk is stepping back from his Government role of running DOGE to return to the business world.

Energy suppliers have told Ed Miliband to increase the cost of gas boilers to boost the uptake of heat pumps and EVs – because nothing says 'good product' like deliberately increasing the prices of competitors.

Andy West was stunned this week when Grok told him that reading his book The Grip of Culture had blown its mind. But despite the AI agreeing this should change everything, its replies to others remain bound by orthodoxy.

Support for Labour has dropped to a new low of 21% while the Conservatives lead on 26%, ahead of Reform on 25%. The cost of living was the top concern while climate change barely made the top 10. Time to sack Ed Miliband?

It has taken President Trump and his energy dominance agenda less than 60 days to put the entire edifice of the climate juggernaut – over 30 years in the making – on the brink of collapse, says Dr Tilak Doshi.

Last week, 20 officers broke into a Quaker Meeting House and arrested six women. Was this another crackdown on free speech, like the parents arrested for criticising their child's school? Not so fast, says Ben Pile.

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.