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.
John Tierney has written a terrific piece for City Journal puncturing the myth of male privilege. By almost every metric, he points out, women in contemporary western societies are faring better than men.
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.
The new head of the Metropolitan Police has said the only acceptable additions to police uniforms are poppies, Help for Heroes wristbands and the police memorial badge.
Sadiq Khan's expansion of the hated Ultra Low Emissions Zone has started in chaos, as cameras are vandalised, TfL's number plate checking website crashes and councils outside London are refusing to put up Ulez signs.
A Conservative councillor was arrested by Northamptonshire police and held in custody for nine hours because he expressed his support for free speech on Twitter.
In an excellent guest column in the Times, the fearless Lionel Shriver takes aim at lazy journalists who use the phrase "scientists say” to justify attributing extreme weather and wildfires to anthropogenic climate change.
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.
The Free Speech Union has just published a report on carbon literacy training, a new threat to free speech. The careers of employees forced to undergo this may suffer if they challenge the activist agenda behind it.
Peter Wilby, a Left-wing journalist who denounced conservative sinners from his pulpit in the Guardian, Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman, has been convicted for having indecent images of children on his laptop.
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