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Judges Are Having Their Wings Clipped and Progressive Activists Only Have Themselves to Blame
The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.
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Met Office Must Answer Growing Doubts About Rising U.K. and Global Temperature Claims
Further doubts are being raised about the scale of global warming claimed by the U.K. Met Office, following publication of a damning report into U.S. weather stations which found 96% were corrupted by urban heat.
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Are There Any Conservatives Left at Harvard?
A recent survey found that 82% of Harvard faculty identify as liberal, and only 1.5% identify as conservative. The survey is consistent with similar surveys from previous years and vast amounts of other data.
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NHS Sending Police Officers to Heart Attack Callouts Due to High Demand and Paramedic Shortages
Police officers in England and Wales are spending up to a third of their time on non-policing matters, including assisting heart attack patients due to high demand and an overstretched ambulance service.
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News Round-Up
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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And Finally…
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the difficulty of maintaining a lawn during a water shortage, the Alex Jones trial – is James worried? – and, in Culture Corner, The Offer, The Sandman and Prey.
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There is No Food Crisis – If Only We Stopped Burning it as ‘Green’ Biofuel
3.5M tonnes of EU palm oil go to make biodiesel – the same as the amount of sunflower oil exported by Ukraine and Russia combined. There's only a food crisis because we burn food rather than use it to feed people.
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“Frankie Boyle is Too Woke to Cancel”: The Weekly Sceptic Interviews Comedian Leo Kearse
The third pilot episode of the Weekly Sceptic is now out. Host Nick Dixon interviews comedian Leo Kearse and they discuss Frankie Boyle being too woke to cancel, how to save comedy and much more.
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“If We Get Covid, So Be It”: Cries of Hypocrisy as Australia Allows Covid-Positive Cricketer to Play Despite Deporting Djokovic Over Vaccine
Australia's decision to field a Covid-positive cricketer at the Commonwealth Games has sparked claims of hypocrisy given the country's hard line on lockdowns and its decision to deport Novak Djokovic over the vaccine.
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The Lessons of New Zealand’s Failed Zero Covid Strategy Must Be Learned
"Ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure," writes Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya.
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