An academic who has criticised the teaching of “white privilege” in schools has been no-platformed from an education conference over claims she would make other speakers feel “unsafe”.
The Cabinet Secretary has been warned by senior civil servants of a “woke takeover of Whitehall” that risks “improperly” influencing Government policy.
The Home Office is forcing some contractors to book hotels of “at least a minimum of three stars” to house small-boat migrants after costs soared to £8 million a day.
Four in every five vehicles sold must be electric by the end of the decade, ministers have told car bosses, despite Rishi Sunak’s decision to delay a ban on new petrol sales.
Parents no longer believe their children need to be in school full-time if they are anxious, and increasingly think "life's too short" not to have a term-time holiday, a report has found.
The terrible truth is that even Sunak's mild watering down of Net Zero may be unlawful, says Allister Heath. The PM needs to change the law.
Rumble has rejected a “dangerous” demand by MPs to demonetise Russell Brand’s channel, as it vowed to shun “a cancel culture mob” – and issued a stinging rebuke to the baying politicians.
Young people in the workplace don't have the skills to debate, disagree and work alongside people with different opinions, and lockdowns are to blame, Channel 4's Chief Executive has said.
With news that private sales of electric vehicles fell last year and with the Prime Minister set to delay the looming ban on petrol vehicles, Patrick O'Flynn writes that you'd have to pay him to buy an electric car.
Rishi Sunak is poised to ditch the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and slow the phasing-out of gas boilers as he scales back costly green pledges.
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