Law firm Pogust Goodhead is pursuing a class action case against the Tavistock. One thousand children rushed into irreversible, life-changing medical procedures are expected to join the case.
Energy prices are set to more than double, with the average UK household facing an annual bill of £4,266 next year. Time to rethink the fracking ban?
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the difficulty of maintaining a lawn during a water shortage, the Alex Jones trial – is James worried? – and, in Culture Corner, The Offer, The Sandman and Prey.
Listen to a pilot of the new Weekly Sceptic podcast. The topics include Liz Truss’s pledge not to lockdown, the Lionesses’s victory and the ‘appalling abuse’ of BBC weathermen, e.g., telling them to ‘get a grip’.
Is this the end of woke? The new CEO of Warner Bros Discovery has shelved Batgirl, an uber-progressive, race-swap superhero movie, writing off the $90M already spent on it.
Sir Patrick Vallance is stepping down as the Govt's Chief Scientific Officer. The Daily Sceptic looks back at his record over the past two-and-a-half years and it’s not great. If only we'd had Anders Tegnell instead.
Is the tide finally turning? In the past week some of the BBC's most woke, finger-wagging scolds – Gary Lineker, Frankie Boyle, Dara Ó'Briain – have been targeted for cancellation or literally cancelled.
When the Premier League resumes on Friday, players will stop taking the knee. Finally, this pointless, hypocritical, virtue-signalling gesture is on the way out.
According to a new poll for YouGov, a majority of Conservative voters would like the next prime minister to hit the pause button on Net Zero. It looks as though Liz Truss will do what they ask.
Professor Matthew Goodwin has collaborated with the researcher David Rozado to look at the increasing use of woke words and phrases like 'transphobia' and 'white supremacy' in the British media. The results are alarming.
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