Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement feels like an epoch defining event. Yes he did it before, says Ben Pile, but this time is different. The world now is waking up to the folly of Net Zero.
Thierry Breton has resigned as European Commissioner, blaming Ursula von der Leyen's "questionable governance", after being snubbed during negotiations in a move that is sure to delight his nemesis Elon Musk.
Green parties took a kicking in the European elections, but centrist parties committed to the green agenda gained ground. Will these managerialist technocrats cling to their economically ruinous policies? asks Ben Pile.
Germany and the EU have funded Covid vaccine-maker BioNTech's expansion into Africa to the tune of £500m. But what vaccines are the new facilities going to be making exactly when BioNTech only has one product?
"We have set the building blocks for a Health Union, helping to vaccinate an entire continent – and large parts of the world," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week.
G20 leaders have agreed to a plan to eventually impose digital currencies and digital IDs on their populations, despite concerns that governments will use them to control people's spending and crush dissent.
The Digital Services Act comes into force today, empowering the EU to force social media companies to take down 'disinformation', including "gender and sexuality" content that's "part of a wider 'anti-woke' narrative".
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Rupa Huq's slur against Kwasi Kwarteng, von der Leyen’s 'tools' and the BBC’s laughable ‘mostly peaceful’ Leicester narrative.
Ursula von der Leyen has called for discussion and deliberation to begin on whether to impose an E.U. wide mandatory vaccination law.
