In possibly the most stupid contribution to the Covid Inquiry so far, Lee Cain has said Boris Johnson was wrong to listen to a diversity of views but should have had more diversity in his "white and middle-aged" team.
Senior Conservative MP Paul Bristow, a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Science Department, has broken ranks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call for a "permanent" ceasefire in Gaza.
Censorship is growing as librarians and curators increasingly take it upon themselves to try to protect readers from the supposed threat posed by "problematic" books, says Frank Furedi.
The Welsh Government is to redefine women to include self-identifying transgender 'women' under planned new laws.
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 primary school teacher sacked for refusing to take Covid tests and wear a face mask during the pandemic has lost her discrimination legal battle.
Sadiq Khan has "probably watched the large turnouts at last weekend's pro-Palestinian protests and decided he must be, if not on the right side of history, then at least on the right side of voters", writes Tom Harris.
The crisis at NatWest has deepened after a profit warning sent shares in the taxpayer-owned lender plunging and the City watchdog launched a review into its handling of the Nigel Farage debanking fiasco.
Was lockdown worth it? That's the key question the Covid Inquiry should be asking, says Lord Frost. But it's increasingly clear that it has predetermined the answer and is just going through the motions.
Dr. Ahmad Malik has been suspended without pay for speaking up about Covid vaccine harms and is now raising funds to fight back against his employer for free speech and patient safety.
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