In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast – recorded live at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square – the talking points are Nigel Farage reaching the jungle final, Robert Jenrick quitting and Alex Jones's return to Twitter.
The Government’s Climate Minister has been flown thousands of miles back from the COP28 environment conference in Dubai to vote for the Rwanda bill and will then be flown back again, it has emerged.
New polling has found that around a fifth of the British public would back the return of Covid measures right now with almost half saying masks should be mandatory on public transport.
Nigel Farage has hinted that he could join the Conservatives if there was a change of leader as he blasted the party for imposing the third lockdown and for overseeing record tax levels and immigration figures.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted he wanted non-essential shops to open before schools in the first lockdown and it's emerged he pushed for schools to be closed before shops in the second lockdown.
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.
A retired sociology professor has been stripped of her honorary titles by two universities after suggesting on social media that someone should "blow up the venue" of a Jewish Labour conference.
Should Volodymyr Zelensky continue to fight endlessly in pursuit of a comprehensive defeat of Russia which may be unattainable – or should he consider cutting his losses and reaching a compromise?
Scientists at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have demanded the power to set global climate policy as they despair at the slow pace of climate action.
Scotland's highest court has ruled the U.K. Government acted lawfully by vetoing Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender laws in a humiliating defeat for First Minister Humza Yousaf.
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