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.
Matt Hancock has admitted "do not resuscitate orders" were "wrongly applied" during Covid and should be "reviewed" – but defended lockdown and said its supporters need to "unite" to defeat sceptics.
Labour is continuing to hand out more than £500 million to foreign farmers – about the same amount projected to be raised by its inheritance tax raid on British farms that threatens to "destroy" them.
In the Brave New World of 2024 Britain, the Stasi meet the Keystone Cops in a kind of Carry On Kafka. But does the comic dimension of the authoritarianism detract from the moral outrage?
Arrest warrants have been issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court in a move condemned as an "assault on the universal right of self-defence".
The BBC Verify unit used a Labour Party activist as an "independent tax expert" to back its analysis of Government figures on the farm tax, analysis that Keir Starmer then cited as proof he was correct.
Ford is to cut 800 jobs in Britain and 4,000 roles across Europe over the next three years as part of a plan to cut production of electric cars as sales stall and competition from China steps up.
A school faces backlash from parents after it said it removed all Christmas references from a pantomime performance for pupils and parents to make them feel "safe and valued".
The Bank of England Governor today joined Britain's biggest retailers including Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's warning that job cuts are "inevitable" after Rachel Reeves's tax-hiking Budget.
With a looming jobs bloodbath from Ed Miliband’s crusade to make Britain the global leader on climate change a civil war within Labour is about to break out over Net Zero, says Matthew Lynn.
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