News Round-Up
19 March 2024
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point decided to drop the “Duty, Honour, Country” motto from its mission statement last week in favour of a bland reference to "the Army Values".
J.K. Rowling has vowed to continue "calling a man a man" in defiance of controversial new SNP hate crime laws, which she branded "ludicrous".
GB News has hit back against Ofcom's decision to uphold complaints about shows hosted by Tory MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies after the regulator found five episodes breached broadcasting rules.
The heat pump rollout is failing because people don't want them, the National Audit Office has warned. In 2022, gas boiler installations outnumbered heat pumps 27 times over.
Civil servants at the ONS, Britain’s official statistics body, have threatened to go on strike after being asked to work in the office for two days a week.
MPs on the Right of the Tory party have held talks with moderates about uniting behind Penny Mordaunt to replace Rishi Sunak, hammering out a pact to neutralise her woke views on gender.
Former Neighbours actress and pop star Holly Valance has declared she is voting Reform at the next election, saying she hoped the insurgent party would blow the Tories "to smithereens".
A new Hope Not Hate report warns that Tory MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg are part of a "Right-wing insurgency undermining minority rights" – showing what's so dangerous about Michael Gove's new definition of 'extremism'.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers since the pandemic, with no obvious explanation for what lies behind it.
The head of Frontex, the EU's border and coastguard agency, has said he doesn't think it is really possible or desirable to keep migrants out of Europe. Unfortunately, that's his job.
The NHS is to introduce electric ambulances, raising concerns that its drive for Net Zero is being put above patient safety owing to the limited range and long charging times.
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