News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
While China advances with cutting-edge nuclear power, Britain's green zealots have us stuck with sky-high bills and a nuclear sector in disarray, says Ben Pile.
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
Sales of electric vehicles plunged 12.5% across Europe last month, fuelled by a sharp drop-off of 30% in Germany and 12.5% in the Netherlands.
A new investigation reveals the US military spread anti-vaccine propaganda in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic, using fake accounts to undermine China and cast doubt on the safety of Chinese vaccines.
The West used to know why we should obey the law – our Christian faith gave us the answer. But as the sea of faith continues to withdraw, the void is being filled by sinister ideologies, says Prof James Alexander.
From higher Chinese crop yields thanks to CO2 to the discovery that cows are net methane reducers, there’s lots of good climate news out there. But the mainstream media is too busy promoting Net Zero to report it.
The state-subsidised electric car market has crashed in China and the country is trying to dump the vehicles on the West, but the same is happening here as well. For manufacturers it's going to be a blood bath.
Why has China cancelled the creator of its Covid vaccine? Yang Xiaoping, once a national hero, has been deposed from the National People's Congress and nobody knows why, says John MacNab.
Following on from his article on the HIV 'inserts' in SARS-CoV-2 and the HIV research being conducted in Wuhan, Robert Kogon discovers that the WIV was the main partner in the German-Chinese virology network.
It's increasingly clear the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. But could it have been made in the USA? Will Jones says there's a clue in the fact that China only seemed to learn of the leak once the sequence was published.
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