BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
We turned society upside down for fear of excess deaths from Covid, but today we have substantially more excess deaths, and in younger people, and there is a complete silence, Andrew Bridgen tells the House of Commons.
Polar bears often feature in climate fearmongering, but with overall numbers up, the bears that 'vanished' from one area, triggering alarm, probably just migrated elsewhere, a scientist has said.
Social media censors are using 'disinformation' claims to silence free speech, 136 academics, historians and journalists have warned Rishi Sunak.
Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all.
The Spectator's Heli-Liis Võrno draws parallels between her Soviet upbringing and current trends in the U.K., expressing concerns about creeping conformity and freedom of expression.
Paul D. Thacker has written an illuminating exposé of the shadowy workings of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and its leader Imran Ahmed, and their outsize role in driving online censorship.
Spiked's Andrew Tettenborn raises concerns about Ofcom's overreach in regulating media content, and why powers given to it by the Online Safety Bill should worry us all.
The rise of 'smart' technology that responds, not to the user but to external commands poses a serious threat to freedom, says Dr R P. However, since all technology is 'hackable', there is hope.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Caroline Dinenage's power grab, Rishi becoming a proper Conservative and Justin Trudeau's confusion about Nazis.
An academic who has criticised the teaching of “white privilege” in schools has been no-platformed from an education conference over claims she would make other speakers feel “unsafe”.
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