The new 'progressive' elite is waging war on meritocracy as being supposedly 'white' and 'racist' and is pushing quotas and race-based selection in its place, writes Adrian Wooldridge.
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.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused a BBC reporter of lying during an interview in a row over whether incidents of hate speech are increasing on the social network.
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.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Nike's spectacular trans flop, the Dalai Lama's creepy behaviour and the depravity of Channel 4.
The woke obsession with 'anti-racism' and 'facing up to' past involvement in slavery is really all about advancing a thinly-veiled revolutionary, anti-British agenda, says Cambridge historian Prof. Robert Tombs.
The widower of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, who was killed by the Covid vaccine, is pursuing legal action against AstraZeneca, arguing the vaccine is an unsafe "defective product".
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.
Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies is leading a boycott of Nike for its partnership with a transgender influencer to promote its sports bras and female sports clothing range.
Did the original lockdown of January 2020 work in China? It was the role model for all that followed, and even some sceptics think it was effective on its own terms. But is that what the evidence shows?
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