News Round-Up
7 May 2024
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?
COP27 is about a jet-setting elite trying to make a world of fewer, poorer people who "live meagre, circumscribed lives", an ecologist has said.
In this week’s London Calling we discuss whether Rishi’s coronation is a WEF coup, the oddity of Just Stop Oil attacking a man who agrees with them about everything, and whether the world ‘globalist’ is anti-Semitic.
New PM Rishi Sunak was the lockdown Chancellor. But he has also boasted he cut short an overseas trip to stop lockdown last December. Can he be trusted to stick to a sceptical line on the new public health orthodoxy?
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