To mark St. George's Day, the Daily Sceptic is publishing an essay about Britain's role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As the author says, we have much to feel ashamed of, but we also led the efforts to stamp it out.
Doctors say the NHS is facing its worse crisis since records began – but it's nothing to do with Covid. Rather, a shortage of care home staff is preventing hospitals from discharging elderly patients, causing a bottleneck.
Why did the Global Virome Project, a well-funded public health initiative set up to investigate the origins of viruses in 2018, fail to investigate the outbreak of COVID-19? Matt Ridley and Presenjit Ray investigate.
The number of people testing positive for Covid per day in the U.K. has fallen by 40% since last week and is now at its lowest since last June.
Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers in the last three months and expects to lose another two million more in the three months to July. Has the streaming giant become too woke for its own good?
The President of Sri Lanka issued a sudden ban on chemical fertilisers last April, forcing farmers to go organic. The result is the worst financial crisis since 1948 and impending food shortages.
Peter Kearney, Director of Communications for the Catholic Church in Scotland, has written a great Thunderer for the Times explaining why he's joined the Scottish Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union.
Daily Covid infections in the U.K. have fallen by a third since last week, while deaths have plunged by a fifth. Turns out, last week's NHS warnings of armageddon if we didn't lock down again were a false alarm. Shock!
The philosopher Kathleen Stock has written a brilliant critique of the Online Safety Bill, pointing out that it is fundamentally misguided for the state to try to protect its citizens from 'psychological distress'.
Listen to the Daily Sceptic's Noah Carl debate Triggernometry's Konstantin Kisin on whether arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia is the right response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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