In this week's London Calling, the talking points are climate change, the Conservative leadership election, psychedelic drugs, and whether the global liberal elite are misguided do-gooders or just plain evil.
According to a new study in Lancet Planetary Health, between 2000 and 2019, there were an average of 65,000 excess deaths per year in England and Wales associated with cold, but fewer than 800 a year associated with heat.
The Free Speech Union has created a new campaigning tool so Conservative members can write to the candidates in the leadership race, urging them to stand up for free speech. If you're a Tory member, please email them now.
Have we reached peak woke? In Hollywood and Silicon Valley, maybe. But in education, museums, galleries, arts organisations, Whitehall, quangos, the BBC, the NHS, public sector law firms, large charities etc, not a chance.
In a major victory for free speech, the Online Safety Bill has been put on hold until the Autumn and may well never see the light of day again. This is, by some distance, the best news of the year.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the likely honourees in Boris's Lavender List, the runners and riders in the Tory leadership contest and the stinking weasel poo that is Thor: Love and Thunder.
A group of senior Conservative figures, including Lord Frost, have written to Nadine Dorries urging her to ditch the 'legal but harmful' clause from the Online Safety Bill.
I was a 13 year-old boy during the summer of 76 and had the time of my life – skateboarding, swimming, playing cricket. Happily, there were no climate change alarmists and health fascists ordering children to stay inside.
According to Esther McVey, Jeremy Hunt has pledged never to reimpose a full lockdown in response to a Covid-style pandemic. Bit of wiggle room there, but an encouraging sign. Will the other candidates follow suit?
Communist SAGE advisor Susan Michie has warned that the leaderless Tories will 'sit on their hands' and 'let Covid rip'. If by that she means another lockdown won't be imposed in the near future, then thank God for that.
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