Tag: Corruption

MPs will be spared from a new council tax premium on second homes that they voted to permit, leaving taxpayers picking up five-figure bills.

Ed Miliband has been accused of breaking the Ministerial Code after his department approved an application for a solar farm owned by the millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince.

Springer Nature medical journal Cureus has just published a peer-reviewed article on the corruption of major medical journals. One of the authors, Dr Raphael Lataster, summarises his argument.

Keir Starmer has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts – including Taylor Swift tickets and clothes for his wife – as donor Lord Alli is probed by the Parliamentary watchdog for "non-registration of interests".

Ed Miliband's brother David is being paid by a venture capital outfit that is likely to benefit from his brother's Net Zero policies, it has emerged. But this conflict of interest has not been publicly declared.

Why did journalists listening to Starmer give him such an easy ride, asks David Craig. There was a question about Oasis, but not one on mass immigration, Net Zero, two-tier policing or expensive 'gifts' for the PM.

The Green Blob's incestuous network of commercial interests makes it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Lords Science and Technology Committee's report on long-term energy storage is tainted, says David Turver.

"Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers etc.," says Cochrane co-founder Professor Peter Gøtzsche.

The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.

Imagine a risk-free business scheme in which you get to create the market, manage its regulation, then confine people to their homes until they buy it. Welcome to the WHO's world of pandemic management, says Dr David Bell.