News Round-Up
23 May 2025
Jordan Peterson: Net Zero Alarmism is a Mental Illness
22 May 2025
by Will Jones
Labour is tightening the rules around debanking to protect customers in light of Nigel Farage’s high-profile row with NatWest, requiring banks to explain closure decisions in writing and allow them to be challenged.
Glastonbury festival organisers have been urged to cancel a performance by Hamas-supporting Northern Irish rap group Kneecap over a rant in which they urged fans to kill their local MP.
A snowballing exodus of high-earners from Britain – the top 5% of whom pay half of all income tax – is a disaster for Rachel Reeves brought on by her own war on wealth, financial advisers have warned.
There is no such thing as 'positive' discrimination. And when it creeps into life-or-death professions like policing or flying a plane, it stops being merely unjust. It becomes dangerous, says Daniel Fessahaye.
Covid tyrant queen Jacinda Ardern is set to tour the UK and US to promote her new memoir, subtitled A Different Kind of Power. Kiwis remember all too well Ardern's use of power and are still suffering the effects.
After decades of pushing the climate alarmist narrative that Arctic ice is melting fast, scientists have now claimed that the near 20-year stable Arctic sea ice is "unsurprising" and predicted by their models.
In the Daily Sceptic, Laurie Wastell reviews the Home Affairs Select Committee's report on the Southport riots and concludes that MPs distrust the public almost as much as the public distrusts them.
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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