News Round-Up
12 August 2025
RFK Jr is Right to Defund the Development of mRNA Vaccines
12 August 2025
In a dark day for freedom of speech, BitChute, the video hosting service, has suspended its UK operations as a result of the Online Safety Act. Will WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal be next?
London is no longer one of the top five wealthiest cities in the world after losing more millionaires than anywhere else, including Moscow, owing to steep tax rises, among other reasons.
The UK Government is developing a pre-crime 'murder prediction' programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers. What could go wrong?
German journalist David Bendels has been sentenced to seven months' probation for a meme poking fun at the Interior Minister's lack of commitment to free speech. Irony is truly dead, murdered by 'liberal' authoritarianism.
Labour has dropped its plans for five local grooming gang inquiries that it promised in January when under pressure, saying it's now up to local councils to decide how to spend the £5 million allocated.
The UK Met Office has been caught reporting invented data from even more non-existent weather stations. New photographs show Newton Rigg weather station is closed, but the Met Office is still reporting readings from it!
Why is the UK in constant decline while Singapore thrives? What lessons does the one-time British city-state have for the UK? Prof Peter Coclanis and Dr Tilak Doshi have an idea: its leaders aren't bleeding heart liberals.
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.
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