News Round-Up
12 August 2025
RFK Jr is Right to Defund the Development of mRNA Vaccines
12 August 2025
The cat is out of the bag, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth. The vitriolic reaction to Congress’s plans to cut tax credits for renewables lays bare how 'cheap' wind and solar really are, and how subsidies are never enough.
Britain risks becoming a hotel for the world's criminals, warns Guy Dampier in the Telegraph, as new analysis reveals that illegal small boat migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average Brit.
In the last 10 years, Germany has welcomed a lot of ill-behaved young men for no discernible reason, and along the way citizens have had the dubious privilege of discovering whole new categories of crime, says Eugyppius.
The Left is in a panic over the defunding of the Gavi 'Vaccine Alliance'. But while the global vaccine industry has been lucrative, the biggest drivers of improved health are sanitation and nutrition, says Dr David Bell.
Are British Muslims trying to ban dogs? It's a rumour that's been swirling for years – and it's true that in Iran hardliners occasionally moot the idea. But in this case the rumour seems to be false, says Steven Tucker.
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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