Nigel Farage has said he would be willing to lead a merged Reform-Conservative party after the election as a "national opposition" of the "centre Right in this country".
In the latest Sceptic podcast, Laurie speaks to Molly Kingsley on Covid vaccines and the infected blood scandal, Charlotte Gill on taxpayer-funded wokery and Noah Carl on the Lancet’s embrace of gender ideology.
It's 'advocate', not 'advocate for'. Just because an error is common, doesn't stop it being wrong. And no, you can't 'advocate against'; that's an oxymoron. Can we at least get our words right, pleads Will Jones.
Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy made by ex-PM Jacinda Ardern amid blackout fears.
Mark Steyn, the former GB News presenter, has taken Ofcom to court accusing it of "killing his career" after he questioned Covid vaccines on air, with the regulator saying his programmes caused "harm to viewers".
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.
Pro-Palestine protesters have targeted 20 Barclays across the U.K., smashing windows and throwing red paint over the bank branches in London, Bristol and Manchester.
Olaf Scholz is coming under pressure to follow Emannuel Macron's example and call a snap election after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in EU elections.
Labour’s expected manifesto pledge to recognise a Palestinian state is a gift to Jihad and a perverse reward for Hamas's October 7th pogrom, says Jake Wallis Simons. But do the Palestinians actually want a state?
Sometimes mistaken for a cuddly group of tree huggers who just want better care for the environment, in fact the Green party is terrifying, says Annabel Denham.
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