In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Marianna Spring's disregard for the truth, Róisín Murphy's sweet revenge and Gavin Newsom's lockdown mea culpa.
The Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has hit back at the defunding of the defence industry in the name ESG, saying it threatens peace and security. But do the woke activists care?
A U.S. federal court has ruled that the Biden administration violated the U.S. Constitution by making threatening demands of social media companies that they censor dissenting scientists over pandemic policies.
Britain will commit to provide £1.6bn ($2bn) to the UN-backed Green Climate Fund to help developing countries cope with climate change, the Prime Minister has said. You could build a lot of schools for that money.
A Democratic party leader who pledged to “dismantle” the Minneapolis police following the death of George Floyd has called for a crackdown on crime after she was violently carjacked in front of her children.
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.
Christopher Stevens in the Mail has reviewed Helping Our Teens, a BBC 2 show that he says shows the real price of Covid in the terrible impact of lockdowns on the U.K.'s two million troubled teens.
The fear is being ramped up again as the WHO warns of "concerning trends" for COVID-19 ahead of winter with "increasing deaths" as the new BA.2.86 Pirola variant spreads. Run for the hills.
No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key Government auction, dealing a blow to the U.K.'s renewable power strategy that critics said "may represent a landmark moment".
Former Government Minister Esther McVey has said that the scandal of the Covid vaccines shows that the lessons of the dangerous drug Primodos have still not been learned.
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