In this week’s London Calling, the topics are how big your Christmas tree should be, whether it will be too dangerous to hunt on Boxing Day, Avatar: The Way of Water and Jeremy Clarkson’s GoT fantasy about Meghan Markle.
The BBC’s ‘Climate Disinformation Specialist’ (who knew?) has written a piece saying that exaggerated claims about Oxford’s 15-minute neighbourhoods plans have led to councillors receiving death threats.
The Free Speech Union has set up a new Writers’ Advisory Council and created a safe haven for beleaguered authors who are concerned their speech rights aren’t being adequately defended.
In an excellent piece for the Critic, Fred Skulthorp asks some probing questions about the BBC’s ‘Disinformation Unit’, which has become an enforcer of Covid orthodoxy over the past three years.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has given a must-watch interview to Freddie Sayers at UnHerd in which he reveals what he learned when Elon Musk invited him to visit Twitter HQ.
An NHS Trust in the Midlands is advertising for a ‘Director of Lived Experience’ – salary £115,000. Bit tone deaf, given that a newly-qualified NHS nurse earns about £27,000.
In this week‘s London Calling, the talking points are the Big Freeze, the glowing review the podcast got in the National Review (‘An Odd Couple For Our Odd Times’), that Netflix documentary, Andor and Hot Skull.
The National Grid has put two coal-fired power stations in North Yorkshire on stand-by because of the ‘emergency’, i.e., cold weather. Zero-carbon renewables just aren’t cutting it. Who could have predicted that?
A new peer-reviewed study in nature reveals what many of us have known for some time: the unvaccinated suffered appalling discrimination during the pandemic, including the removal of fundamental human rights.
In a brilliant article in the National Review, Michael Brendan Dougherty says the debate on London Calling between #TeamToby and #TeamJames is “the most relevant ongoing conversation on planet Earth”. No, really.
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