Liz Truss is to lift a ban on fracking, with the first drilling licences in nearly three years expected to be issued as early as next week. But unless the energy is prioritised for the UK it won't touch prices.
The BBC has boasted that it triggered the removal of a Facebook vaccine injury support group with over 250,000 members. Are the injured no longer even allowed to talk to one another?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
'Climate guru' Michael Shellenberger was at the US Congress today to testify that climate alarmism is not based on science and there is no climate emergency that warrants destroying our energy security and prosperity.
Robert Jackman writes about his recent trip to Qatar for a World Cup 'test run' match, where he found a country still in the grip of Covid theatre, mask mania and digital discrimination.
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission report has said the virus may have leaked from a US lab and implies that Government agencies may be covering it up, in a report that otherwise pushes a standard Zero Covid line.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
The EU has set out plans to raise £101bn via a windfall tax on renewable energy suppliers and bring in a "demand reduction" law to address the growing crisis.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has admitted that her agency falsely claimed it was monitoring vaccine safety in 2021 and that it only actually did so from March 2022 – but it still refuses to release the full data.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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