In a damning report, the UN has slammed UK police for allowing criminals to choose their gender, warning that it undermines protections for women and girls, distorts rape statistics and erases vital data on male violence.
We might've won the Cold War, but Britain's now sliding into soft totalitarianism, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph, as state control, high taxes and strong-armed conformity erode our hard-won freedoms.
Benefits to households with foreign nationals have soared to £941 million a month, doubling in three years and now consuming over 15% of all Universal Credit payments.
The harrowing case of a Christian asylum seeker allegedly obstructed by an Islamic network within the Home Office has raised urgent questions about bias, internal influence and systemic failures in Britain's asylum system.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Attempts to cancel comedian Andrew Lawrence are in full swing after he cracked a joke about the Liverpool parade crash, prompting a swift show cancellation and a social media pile-on.
Ed Miliband has torn into Tony Blair for being "defeatist" on Net Zero – even while admitting he could lose his seat to Reform, who want to scrap the agenda altogether.
Second-hand electric car prices are plummeting – losing more than half their value within two years – thanks to heavy discounting and a flood of cheaper new models flooding the market.
Locals have slammed the BBC for damaging protected habitats to film Springwatch, branding it "hypocritical" after wildflower meadows were plated over and lorry access routes carved into a National Trust estate.
On the Sceptic this week: Chris Bayliss on the scandal of Commonwealth voting, Sarah Phillimore on the bar’s scrapped EDI plans and Eugyppius on Germany and South Africa.
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