More than 40 academics have intervened in support of a planned appearance at Oxford by Prof. Kathleen Stock, after students have tried to cancel her talk because she disputes that 'transwomen are women'.
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Leftist meltdown over the National Conservatism conference, the U.K. surrendering to China and Trump projecting masculine power in his CNN 'Town Hall'.
Pope Francis has told millennials to stop being "selfish and egotistical" and to start families instead of having pets. Philip Pilkington agrees, adding that immigration is a Ponzi scheme that cannot solve the crisis.
The WHO is under pressure to withdraw guidance for schools recommending that toddlers "ask questions about sexuality", "explore gender identities" and learn about "enjoyment" of "early childhood masturbation".
NYC's death toll in the first Covid wave was unusually high. Many blame the ventilator panic. However, new analysis shows that ventilators cannot be held responsible for more than a fifth of the deaths that spring.
The U.K. Government is set to spend £600,000 ($755,000) on social media surveillance to identify “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives”.
British Gas has thrown a large spanner into the Government's Net Zero ambitions by stating that it will refuse to install heat pumps in millions of homes where they won't make it warm enough.
Privacy – one of the most basic rights in any free society – is under threat from the Online Safety Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The central issue is the undermining of encryption.
A primary schoolteacher has lost her job and is facing a raft of investigations for questioning the advice from Stonewall and Mermaids to encourage a 'gender transition' of an eight year-old pupil without medical evidence.
Bear Grylls has said he is "embarrassed" by his past support of veganism, which he now says is bad for you and that his health has been transformed by only eating red meat, in the latest blow for the woke fad.
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