Oxford is Now More or Less a Quango
14 June 2025
by Darren Gee
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The Guardian's Fiona Harvey has delivered her latest climate sermon, in which she claims that "deniers" have now accepted "the science" and moved on to economic arguments ahead of COP30. What tosh, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
Nigel Farage doesn't need to win the next election to be in power, says Prof James Alexander. Starmer is already announcing his immigration policies. But will the Labour PM really follow through and 'Take Back Control'?
Meet the ecosexuals: people who have sex with trees, mud and lumps of coal to save the planet. Lauded by the likes of the Guardian and Teen Vogue, the crazy green fringes are hitting the mainstream, says Steven Tucker.
In the Guardian's latest climate gobbledegook, Friederike Otto redefines climate change as a "crisis of justice", focusing on moralising and social justice rather than the science, argues Charles Rotter.
According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.
Veni, vidi, vici, said Caesar: "I came, I saw, I conquered." Well, Trump, of his first week, could well say: "I spoke, I signed, I listened." Read Prof James Alexander's review of the opening days of Trump's second term.
The Guardian has been indulging in climate zigzaggeration of late, says Prof James Alexander. Such a zigzagging whirlwind of alarmist exaggeration deserves to be shared more widely, if only to ward off the unwary.
Hugh Grant and 70 other "leading cultural figures" have written an open letter protesting the Guardian's plan to sell the Observer to loss-making start-up Tortoise Media. Charlotte Gill looks at what the fuss is about.
Record levels of coral across the Great Barrier Reef have been reported for the third year in a row, confounding the alarmists who continue to predict doom. Yet the BBC runs a story insisting the reef is in danger!
As Joey Barton goes on trial for uttering hurty words online, Steven Tucker examines the Guardian's claim that ex-footballers are prone to "far Right conspiracy theories" and finds it to be... a conspiracy theory.
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