Day: 8 June 2025

The boss of British Gas owner Centrica, Chris O’Shea, has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to raise taxes to bring down energy bills. As if taxes weren't high enough already.

The Darlington nurses – eight pioneering campaigners who formed their own union to defend the rights of women – have won a landmark battle for a female-only changing room in an NHS hospital.

The number of UK children being vaccinated against diseases including measles and whooping cough has collapsed to the lowest levels in more than a decade as trust in vaccines plummets following the Covid vaccination drive.

At an England World Cup qualifier in Barcelona on Saturday night, bored England fans started chanting: "Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na now, Starmer is a c*** is a c***, Starmer is a c***.”

In what the American novelist and critic Walter Kirn calls "the most 1984-ish thing I've ever f****** read”, a new, Orwell estate-approved edition of 1984 comes with a 'trigger warning'.

Has Nintendo gone woke? That's the fear among gamers as the new Switch 2 is released. Maybe not, says Steven Tucker – but the underlying code, with its 'inclusive language guidance', is another matter.

Attorney General Lord Hermer – who was last week accused of likening ECHR-sceptics to Nazis – seems to think 'Schmitt' is a polite way of saying 'Hitler'. He obviously has not read Schmitt, says Professor James Alexander.

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.