Britain will build new gas power stations, Rishi Sunak has said, as he vows not to risk blackouts to achieve Net Zero. But his claim that building a whole supplementary power system will "keep bills down" is nonsense.
Could RFK smash the two-party system in this year's US election? The one-time Democrat now-independent scion of America's most famous political dynasty already leads the under-35s and could deny Trump or Biden a majority.
A diversity row has erupted at the U.K.'s national AI institute after 180 staff signed a letter questioning the "inclusivity" of the appointment of four male senior scientists.
Lee Anderson has announced he is defecting from the Conservative party, from which he is currently suspended, to Reform U.K.
The head of the Government’s climate watchdog told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, FOI documents reveal.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Pro-Palestine protesters have sprayed and slashed the University of Cambridge's historic painting of British statesman Lord Balfour who paved the way for a Jewish state in the Middle East.
Transgender health doctors and activists successfully helped shape NHS policies for more than a decade, with 'gender-affirming care' and castration of self-identifying 'eunuchs' prominent among the 'standards'.
The BBC's Football Focus these days feels like "a slog, like homework, but with nothing to be learned by the end of it", says Simon Jordan. Quality has been sacrificed to tick woke boxes. Time to put it out of its misery?
An all-pervasive 'just be kind' mindset in every walk of life is turning the economy to mush, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes. And it's being driven by out-of-control HR.
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