News Round-Up
12 August 2025
RFK Jr is Right to Defund the Development of mRNA Vaccines
12 August 2025
Gas boilers in new homes will be banned as soon as next year and they will be required to have heat pumps and solar panels under plans being spearheaded by Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner.
The AfD has been designated as Right-wing extremist by Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, enabling surveillance of the party to be ramped up and paving the way for it to be banned.
There's method in Trump's tariff madness, says Ramesh Thakur. Uniting his America First, anti-Net Zero and anti-DEI policies is an imperative to untangle the US from strategic dependence on an ascendant China.
The IMF and World Bank have been captured by eco-zealots and lost sight of their original purpose, says Tilak Doshi. Developing countries, desperate for energy and growth, are the biggest losers.
Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election from Labour by just six votes, overturning a majority of 14,700 and triggering a political earthquake that threatens to shatter the hegemony of Labour and the Tories.
Special Episode of the Sceptic: Doug Stokes on what’s next for Ukraine, the future of NATO, the significance of Trump’s trade war and why Europe needs to get serious.
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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