A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is abandoning the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative after coming under pressure from Republican politicians over its support for woke climate policies.
There is a "high chance" that Rachel Reeves will be forced to announce emergency spending cuts this spring, Barclay's Chief Economist has said, as borrowing costs surged again on Friday.
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform’s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
Britain came "within a whisker of blackouts" on Wednesday after plunging temperatures and low wind power generation left electricity grid operators struggling to keep the lights on.
Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?
Thousands of civil servants are to strike "indefinitely" following an order to return to the office for three days a week, a move described by a trade union as "Victorian".
Households paid the equivalent of £2 million an hour to gas power stations today after low wind power output and freezing temperatures left electricity grid bosses scrambling to keep the lights on.
Keir Starmer is set to block a national inquiry into child grooming gangs in Parliament today, ordering his MPs to oppose an amendment tabled by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that would trigger a new official inquiry.
Elon Musk's father has confirmed that the billionaire Tesla owner has expressed an interest in buying Premier League team Liverpool.
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