News Round-Up
6 July 2025
by Will Jones
This October 31st, put away your M.R. James, Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft, and settle down to read some of Houellebecq's Halloween Horrors instead. They’re far more frightening – and real, says Steven Tucker.
What's Keir Starmer's greatest achievement to date? Well, it's not exactly a crowded field, says Prof James Alexander, but coining the phrase "Heineken phrase" would get his vote. Probably.
There are eight billion people to feed, and that's not possible with subsistence farming. But it would be just as disastrous for local farms to be forced out of business by globalist oligarchs, says Dr David Bell.
With 8.5 million computers knocked out worldwide by a simple faulty software update, the CrowdStrike debacle throws into stark relief the serious drawbacks of a centralised, digitised world, says Dr. R P.
In a response to Robert Kogon's recent article pointing out that Bill Gates doesn't actually own the WHO, Ben Pile says the sceptics need to be more sceptical and avoid conspiracy theories.
The bottom has fallen out of the EV market as consumers wake up to the drawbacks. Jeffrey Tucker argues that behind the boom was the illusion created by lockdown that EVs were paradigmatic of the 'Great Reset'.
The World Economic Forum likes to present itself as forward thinking and leading humanity into a bright, progressive future. But in truth the Davos ideology is fundamentally atavistic and anti-modern, says J Sorel.
Forget the Ukraine war, the escalating Middle East conflicts and China's threats to Taiwan. The elites gathered at Davos last week heard that the world's "top concern" is "disinformation". They're coming for our thoughts.
"No one is safe, until everyone is safe" runs the WHO Covid vaccine slogan (why not, don't the vaccines work?) Dr David Bell has a better one: "No one is safe, from the devisers of inane slogans."
Lower Western birthrates lead to a reduction in CO2, which helps combat climate change, says the WEF’s Prof Sarah Harper. But not if there is a rise in births from increasing immigrant populations, argues Igor Chudov.
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