Month: May 2025

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.

Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police – the force recently in the news for blocking white job applicants – intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job.

The number of migrants crossing the Channel so far this year has hit 10,000 in record time under Labour, as the total runs 40% higher than last year despite Starmer's pledge to "smash the gangs".

Which ideology is most receptive to bullshit? A Swedish study found that social conservatives are more receptive than social liberals but that Greens were the most receptive of all.

COVID-19 started in America, not China, a new Chinese Government report has claimed, in the latest salvo in the five-year long propaganda war over the origins of the virus.

Transgender women are to be banned from playing women’s football in England following the Supreme Court ruling that trans women are legally men, as the FA follows its Scottish counterpart in bringing in a ban.

The media are wrong to pin the blame for the Canadian Conservatives' loss on Trump, says Prof James Allan. In truth, the Tories' vote was sky high – but the Left-wing vote coalesced around Carney.

Has Tony Blair really turned on Net Zero? A close reading reveals the master of spin speaking out of both sides of his mouth, green fanaticism undimmed. Tony Blair will never be the solution to Ed Miliband, 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.