The head of the WHO privately believes Covid originated in a Wuhan lab, despite publicly dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a 'conspiracy theory'.
A 66 year-old man was told he couldn't give blood after he refused to answer a question on a pre-donation form asking whether he was pregnant. For the NHS, being 'inclusive' is more important than saving lives.
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President Erdoğan is about to pass a law making the spreading of 'misinformation' online a criminal offence punishable by three years in jail. He has cited Germany and France's anti-misinformation laws as justification.
The Online Safety Bill is a gold-embossed invitation to woke activists to censor their opponents in the name of protecting vulnerable people from 'harm'. Why is a Tory Government handing this weapon to its enemies?
Matthew Crawford explains in UnHerd why our highly educated, apparently rational, left-of-centre elites are so vulnerable to capture by quasi-religious cults, whether wokery pokery, climate hysteria, or Covidian 'science'.
Anti-lockdown scientists who were smeared and sidelined during the pandemic have set up a new scientific academy committed to the "free exchange of ideas".
Barton Swaim, an editorial writer for the Wall St Journal, has written a brilliant piece describing how America's liberal elite have persuaded themselves that any opinion they disagree with is simply 'misinformation'.
Watch my interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster about the risks to free speech posed by the Online Safety Bill. We need to wake up to this threat before it's too late.
First Google and now Microsoft Word has introduced an 'inclusive language tool', suggesting woke alternative to politically incorrect terms – so "assigned female at birth" instead of "biologically female".
Woke artists and musicians accused Joe Rogan of spreading COVID-19 misinformation and demanded he be kicked off Spotify. The result? He gained two million new subscribers.
Parents in Wales are suing the Welsh Government over plans to teach children as young as three about "sexual attraction" and gender idenity.
In this week’s episode of London Calling, the talking points are Kwasi Kwarteng’s U-turn, Russell Brand’s run-in with YouTube and what to do if you’re attacked by an anti-Tory protestor – fight back or play the victim?
King Charles has reluctantly agreed not to bang the drum for ‘sustainability’ and ‘net zero’ at Cop27, after Liz Truss advised him to stay away from the climate summit. Sounds like she’s done him a massive favour.
The Daily Sceptic had its best month ever in September, clocking up 2,210,060 page views. That brings our total since the site launched in April 2020 to 41,309,171. Not too shabby.
Why does the progressive left cling to the idea that human beings are entirely shaped by the environment when the scientific evidence that our genes play a major role in influencing our personalities is overwhelming? Ed West tries to crack this nut.
The Society of Authors, a trade union that’s been defending writers since 1884, has been ensnared in the woke cult and now does little to stand up for gender critical authors. How did this takeover happen?
Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned PayPal to stop trying to foist its woke views on the British public by censoring accounts of people and organisations that don’t share those views.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are the Italian election, Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget, the Canadian teacher with the comedy fake boobs, The Capture and PayPay’s attempt to censor the Daily Sceptic.
Forty two MPs, including a former leader of the Conservative Party, have written to the Business Secretary and the First Secretary of the Treasury urging them to do something about out-of-control, censorship-happy PayPal.
Why is it only the non-woke who are up in arms about PayPal’s censorship of the Daily Sceptic and the Free Speech Union? Thomas Prosser, an associate professor at Cardiff, explains why everyone should be concerned.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has lifted the fracking ban, arguing that tolerating the risks associated with it is now in the national interest, given the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
If we allow woke financial services companies to demonetise individuals and organisations whose political views they disagree with, then free speech is effectively over in the West.
In the latest episode of the Daily Sceptic, the talking points are PayPal’s demonetisation of the Daily Sceptic, the problem with Stewart Lee and the unspeakable wokeness of the Rings of Power.
