A key vote for Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2030 in Berlin has failed to reach the turnout threshold to be deemed valid, with just 18% turning out to vote, in a major setback for activists.
Despite three nine-year-olds being gunned down by a trans shooter at a school, activists are still rallying the troops to protest for a 'Trans Day of Vengeance' – months after raising money for firearms training.
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.
More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
COVID-19 is not responsible for the "explosion" in heart deaths, a major autopsy study has shown, leading a top heart specialist to pinpoint the vaccines as the "only new proven cause of heart damage".
A looming British ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after Brussels watered down its own restrictions amid opposition from the German auto industry.
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 the attack on Kellie-Jay Keen by trans rights activists, the BBC's perverse insistence on calling a rapist "her" and the brutal cancellation of Alfie Brown.
Residents fed up with low traffic neighbourhoods have launched an extraordinary rebellion against the controversial schemes – by setting them alight and taking on the green zealots who police them.
The victory of the Farmer-Citizen Movement in recent Dutch elections is part of a pushback against a 'Great Food Reset' that aims to replace small farmers with 'sustainable' multinational giants, says Thomas Fazi.
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