Some Covid restrictions were "idiocy" and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief Karl Lauterbach has admitted.
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.
The more vaccine doses an area of England has received, the greater the number of excess deaths it has experienced, a shocking new analysis of official data for England has found, adding to worries about vaccine safety.
Changes to the Equality Act supported by the Government mean that owners will have to start policing customers' banter to avoid liability for offence caused to staff. This is the opposite of a 'war on woke'.
The most common argument that China is responsible for the coronavirus is that it has covered up the origins and refused to cooperate in investigations. How much truth is there in these allegations?
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.
A 14 year-old girl who attends a secondary school in England – where she says one in five girls in her year identifies as trans or non-binary – writes anonymously to expose the truth about what's going on.
The Guardian asked women to share their experiences of being "subjected to online misogyny" – and soon found itself barraged with replies from women for whom the main source of online misogyny was, er, the Guardian.
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 whether the Grammys are satanic or just naff, Kemi Badenoch's promotion and the oxymoronic new 'Department for Energy Security and Net Zero'.
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