Private school closures doubled if you compare the first six months of this year with the same period last year, thanks to Rachel Reeves’ spiteful VAT raid.

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.

JR Rowling has said she's thinking of setting up a prize for "the most craven, bootlicking capitulation to the gender Taliban", with the Polari Prize, the National Library of Scotland and the Edinburgh Fringe frontrunners.

Gary Lineker, the disgraced Match of the Day presenter, has been nominated for a National Television Award, as has the state-funded anti-free speech propaganda series Adolescence.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich has banned staff from using the terms 'husband' and 'wife' in case it offends gender non-conforming couples.

Labour ministers have ditched the Conservatives' plans to curb the power of councils to restrict traffic and levy 'unfair' fines and parking charges. The war on motorists continues.

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.

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.

Tom Skinner, a former Apprentice contestant and all-round Essex man, is enjoying a moment in the political limelight after being invited to a barbecue in the Cotswolds by JD Vance.

The Olympic medal-winning swimmer and outspoken critic of transwomen competing in women's sports is one of three new peers put forward by Kemi Badenoch.