Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has criticised the proposed £15 increase in the BBC licence fee as "excessive" amid a cost of living crisis and growing public discontent, with a rising demand for a pay-per-content model.
The Telegraph's Andrew Orlowski blasts the UK's sluggish response to its energy crisis, blaming bureaucratic delays, a decline in nuclear capacity and proposing small modular reactors as a belated remedy.
Tory MP Gareth Johnson is opposing London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion, slamming it as an "unfair stealth tax", as the scheme raised £5.3 million in its first week.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
COP28 President, Dr Sultan Al-Jaber, has contested the scientific basis for phasing out fossil fuels, contradicting the UN's call for a total oil and gas phase-out.
U.K. universities offering 'woke' master's degrees have fuelled concerns over the exploitation of immigration loopholes, prompting calls for stricter regulations to reduce net migration levels.
Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust has come under scrutiny for introducing a form that asks patients to choose their gender identity from a list of 13 options.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
UCL lecturer Dr Jenny Bulstrode has stoked outrage with her “historically stupid” suggestion that Britain did not end the slave trade.
Children as young as seven are skipping school to join pro-Palestine marches organised by Stop the War Coalition, a front for the Socialist Workers’ Party.
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