Day: 12 July 2025

Nick Merriman OBE quietly quit English Heritage on June 24th "for personal reasons" after just a year as chief executive. Mike Wells wonders if other factors are at play as the woke quango runs out of money.

Water companies will use smart meters to increase prices in the summer, meaning customers will pay more during heatwaves.

The over-labelling of children with 'special needs' has failed a generation, says education support worker Mary Gilleece. But until the public is shown the human costs of this failure there will be no impetus to reform.

Cancellation attempts harm academics’ careers—even if those attempts fail. A new study finds that targeted academics see a 20% decline in number of papers published and a 4% decline in total citations received.

Runcorn's new Reform MP Sarah Pochin has warned that the town is being ravaged by a high number of illegal immigrants, but the local Labour council accuses her of lying. Steven Tucker investigates for the Daily Sceptic.

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.