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G20 Ministers Meet in Brazil to Discuss “Disinformation” Censorship Agenda – Leaving No Doubt Over Which Side They’re On
G20 ministers met in Brazil last week to discuss "misinformation", just as the country ramps up the censorship in an escalating 'war' with Elon Musk's X, leaving no doubt over which side they're on.
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Labour’s Tax Raid on Independent Schools Will Harm the Least Well-Off
VAT on private schools won't harm the most well-off. Rather, because refugees from independent schools will get places at good state schools that would otherwise go to disadvantaged pupils, it will harm the least well-off.
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The Scythian Origins of Scepticism
Prof James Alexander reviews Christopher Beckwith's The Scythian Empire, naming it his book of the year for its thesis that scepticism and other key philosophical developments came from one remarkable ancient people.
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Electric Car Values in Free Fall as Second-Hand Prices Halve in Two Years
Electric vehicles are losing value at an "unsustainable" rate as a slowdown in consumer demand causes used car prices to halve in two years, leasing companies have warned.
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“How Many People Would You Let Die?” Asked Boris Johnson When Graham Brady Said Lord Sumption Was Right to Challenge Lockdown
Graham Brady, the former leading Tory backbencher, has revealed that Boris Johnson asked him "How many people would you let die?" when he said Lord Sumption was right to challenge lockdown.
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News Round-Up
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Will Labour Adopt the 10% Limit on Private School University Places?
Will Labour adopt a 10% limit on private school admissions at top universities? It would obviously be deeply unfair, but many on the Left believe such top-down quotas are needed to achieve 'justice', says Dr Nicholas Tate.
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The German Establishment is Finally Turning Against Immigration – and the EU Will Follow
The triple knife murder at a 'Diversity Festival' by an asylum seeker has been the catalyst for the German establishment finally to turn against immigration, says Eugyppius. And the EU will follow.
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Climate Scare Stories Keep Turning Out to be False
Shrinking islands, vanishing polar bears, collapsing coral reefs – the media loves a good climate scare story. There's just one problem, says Bjorn Lomborg: all of these have turned out to be false.
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Huw Edwards Spared Jail for Receiving Sexual Images of Children as Young as Seven
Disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been spared jail for receiving sexual images of children as young as seven from a convicted paedophile as he was handed a suspended sentence today.
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