Green levies devised by Michael Gove and due to be imposed from next year will increase household shopping bills by up to £140 a year, according to the Telegraph.
According to new data released by the ONS, school closures disproportionately affected the most disadvantaged children. Lockdown sceptics predicted this – but were ignored by the Left and the teaching unions.
A Telegraph investigation has laid bare the extent to which shadowy, 'counter-disinformation' units within Whitehall were used to suppress dissent during the pandemic.
The BBC's new multimillion pound Verify unit is paying an army of fact-checkers to root out 'misinformation'. The BBC should start with its own deluge of factually-dubious claims about the 'climate emergency'.
An Oxford College has issued a "trans inclusion statement" threatening students with expulsion if they "misgender" their trans peers. Sounds like a case for the Free Speech Union!
Roz Possnett, the trans activist who disrupted Kathleen Stock's talk at the Oxford Union, is the daughter of an XR activist and a town hall chief who introduced a four-day week. Is this Britain's wokest family?
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 number of children now persistently absence from school has surged to 1.6 million after Lockdowns “normalised” staying at home, says Children's Commissioner. And constant strikes by teachers are making things worse.
Keir Starmer spoke with Dale Vince, the Just Stop Oil backer who gave £1.5 million to the Labour Party, just days before he announced a ban on new oil and gas developments.
North Korea has just been given a seat on the WHO's Executive Board, with a vote on the appointment of the WHO's six regional directors and, potentially, on the replacement of the Director General.
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