News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
Has the Demise of DEI Been Greatly Exaggerated?
14 April 2025
Most young people – 52% of Gen Z, aged 13-27 – are in favour of turning the UK into a dictatorship, according to an alarming study for Channel 4.
Science is showing that free speech is built into the brain, says Dr. Christopher Badcock. The latest insights from neuroscience suggest that the censorious are regressing to infantile cognition where no nuance is allowed.
The new Energy Bill "gives sweeping executive authority to Government ministers", says Dr David McGrogan. "As law-making, it is a travesty. As policy, it is inexcusable." But by merging law and technology it is the future.
The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
We're publishing another dispatch from our anonymous Hong Kong correspondent on the Daily Sceptic about the catastrophic consequences of the Chinese Communist Party's Zero Covid policy.
Two days ago on the Daily Sceptic, we asked why Hong Kong's hospitals are under so much pressure, given low infection rates? A reader and Hong Kong resident has provided the answer – the city's 'Dynamic Covid Policy'.
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