Is This the Experiment that Started the Pandemic?
21 May 2025
by Will Jones
April Fools Round-Up
1 April 2025
by Will Jones
Rachel Reeves must raise taxes immediately to plug a fresh £50bn hole in the public finances, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, one of Britain’s most respected economics organisations.
Sir Keir Starmer has declared that the UK will recognise a state of Palestine in September unless Israel makes peace with Hamas, in a move critics say treats statehood as a "bargaining chip" and "rewards Hamas".
Nigel Farage has demanded an apology from Labour Minister Peter Kyle after he accused him of taking the side of paedophiles like Jimmy Savile for wanting to scrap the Online Safety Act over free speech concerns.
A leaked internal email from a BBC Executive Editor reveals that the corporation has issued prescriptive and biased instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Town councillor John Edwards, who asked questions about 300 Afghans put up in a local hotel, was "reported to police for stirring up racial hatred", and has also been placed under "investigation" by a "monitoring officer".
In the past week, an image of a desperately thin Gazan child has been splashed on the front pages of newspapers worldwide. What they miss out, says David Collier, is that the child has a serious genetic disorder.
Migrant hotel protests erupt across the country as 'tinderbox' Britain catches fire, says Laurie Wastell. But as the state launches a new clampdown on online speech, politicians will do anything but fix the migrant crisis.
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.
Potential safety issues with solar panels were known to a council for more than a year before a fire broke out at a primary school this month, following a similar fire at a community centre in June 2024.
Covid vaccines saved far fewer lives than first thought, a major new analysis from Stanford's Professor John Ioannidis and team has concluded – closer to 2.5 million than the 14 million claimed by the WHO in 2022.
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