News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
Here Comes the Politics of Kindness
28 April 2025
by Will Jones
Climate sceptics have been accused of attacking the free press and intimidating journalists into pushing a sceptical line by press regulator Impress. That's laughable and an inversion of the truth, says Ben Pile.
When rapists are Right-wing we, rightly, hear all about their crimes. But not so much when they're Left-Wing, says Steven Tucker. Which is probably why you've never heard of the alleged crimes of this gay rights activist.
Sensational new discoveries arising from long-forgotten early aerial photographs indicate that ice has remained stable and even grown slightly since the 1930s over a 2,000 km stretch of East Antarctica.
Nanny state zealots, in a post-pandemic world obsessed with what's good and bad for us, have ensured all debate remains tilted in their direction using skewed statistics and emotional anecdotes, says Abbie MacGregor.
President Trump's dumping of the Paris climate agreement is a huge deal, saving billions of dollars and the nation's car industry, among much else. Let not the alarmists in denial say otherwise, says Tilak Doshi.
Daily Mail journalist David Southwell gives an insider perspective on why the media failed us so badly during Covid and what was going on inside newsrooms as they unquestioningly churned out government propaganda.
Get ready for four years of foam-flecked anti-Trump sneering and fury from the British media, predicts David Craig. The more successful Trump is at growing the U.S. economy, the more unhinged it will be.
RFK Jr is being blamed for a 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa. What this ignores, says David Marks, is that 98% of the cases were reportedly vaccinated a week earlier and the fatality rate was 10 times higher than normal.
Ofcom has been accused of double standards after fining GB News £100,000 for "partiality" in an interview with Rishi Sunak, while ITV is yet to be penalised for allowing Ed Balls to interview his wife, the Home Secretary.
They've done their best to big up Kamala and make it seem as though she has an IQ over 75, but the legacy media can't win it for her, says Prof James Allan. The trouble is no one trusts them anymore.
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