There is no solid proof masks ever slowed the spread of Covid and they may have made things worse, England's former Deputy Chief Medical Officer and now UKHSA boss has said.
The BBC has admitted that the concept of "white privilege" is contested after its youth-focused news service received a complaint over its "controversial" definition of the term.
Woke books that were bought for huge advances by inexperienced editors have flopped commercially, insiders say, including a $500,000 'queer feminist' novel (3,500 copies) and Elliot Page's $3m trans memoir (68,000 copies).
Scots are to be forced to rip out their gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps within as little as two years of buying a home under "hugely expensive" plans unveiled by Humza Yousaf's Government.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the 'far Right' unrest in Dublin, Geert Wilders winning in the Netherlands and Tommy Robinson getting arrested at the march against antisemitism.
Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry he became convinced lockdown was needed to counter the "man-made" coronavirus due to material from "friends outside Government", adding to the picture of why the world locked down.
Gas hobs and boilers are to be banned in all new homes in Oxford from 2025 under the council's radical Net Zero 2040 plans.
In a new report, the Washington Times details NewsGuard's close funding ties with Big Pharma as the media monitoring organisation has sought to close down criticism of vaccines and Covid policies.
Brussels has been left reeling by what EU politicians see as a "nightmare" victory for Geert Wilders and his 'Nexit' supporters in yesterday's Dutch general elections, reports in the Netherlands say.
Rishi Sunak is under huge pressure to act on legal migration today after figures showed that a record 1.2 million people arrived in 2022, driving a net increase of three-quarters of a million people in a single year.
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