News Round-Up
3 May 2025
by Toby Young
The problem with the WHO isn't that North Korea has a seat on its Executive Board. The problem is that democracies have suddenly decided they want it to dictate policy during self-declared emergencies.
"No flying by 2050" – the reality of what Net Zero really means still seems to take people by surprise, but perhaps they are now starting to wake up, writes Professor Norman Fenton.
Italians are refusing to 'eat ze bugs' and be happy, as their Government bans the use of insect flour in pizza and pasta.
A conspiracy of pandemic preparedness zealots at the start of 2020 planted the seeds of the ensuing lockdown craziness, but by April this had given way to the petty authoritarianism of fools, argues Eugyppius.
Princess Eugenie has said she wants her son to be a climate change activist from “aged two” and has stopped using plastic at home in order to combat climate change, which causes modern slavery.
Those of us who assumed WEF meetings were full of altruistic, visionary leaders sourcing the most nutritious bugs for us to eat in our future (rented) EcoPods may be shocked to find there is a seedy side to Davos.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are whether Klaus Schwab is pulling the strings, Clarkson and the futility of apologising to the Twitchfork mob and Steve Baker coming out as a woke "LGBT+ ally".
Thomas Fazi has written a thought-provoking piece for UnHerd about the WEF on the eve of Davos. But is he right about just how powerful Klaus Schwab is? Or guilty of taking his egotistical braggadocio at face value?
Are the disturbing changes we are seeing in the world the result of a global conspiracy, or just a series of cock ups? Nick Dixon plots a way through the Red Pill vs Blue Pill debate.
An article in the journal Nature has praised the use of covert psychological strategies, aka propaganda, to induce compliance during the Covid pandemic and called for a redoubling next time. Why?
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