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by Will Jones
An AfD candidate in Germany has won a mayoral election for the first time via the novel strategy of standing on an appealing political platform, seeing off rivals who opted instead to try to subvert the choices of voters.
'Public health' has always been the handmaiden of tyranny, casting a veil of 'hygiene' over abhorrent practices like eugenics and genocide, says Dr David Bell. The public must take back control from the 'experts'.
The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
The WHO insists it is not about about to seize state sovereignty, despite its proposed pandemic treaty changes making completely clear states are required to do what they're told. Why is it not being truthful?
More people who voted Conservative in 2019 plan to back Reform U.K. at the next general election than Labour, a poll has found. The Tories are in deep trouble.
Momentum is building against the WHO's Pandemic Treaty power grab – but as 'fact checkers' falsely claim WHO directions won't be legally binding, will enough people wake up to the threat in time, asks Ben Kingsley.
Promises broken and new records set on immigration. And yet, our new Home Secretary shrugs his shoulders and says, "This figure is not showing a significant increase from last year's figures."
Rishi Sunak is under huge pressure to act on legal migration today after figures showed that a record 1.2 million people arrived in 2022, driving a net increase of three-quarters of a million people in a single year.
Voters are increasingly worried about immigration as the scale of Tory failure on the issue becomes apparent, but not enough to support the politicians who will actually do something about it, it appears.
Roger Watson delves once again into the eccentric and grammatically challenged world of petitions to Parliament and finds little to encourage but plenty to amuse.
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