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I interviewed Toby Young about this ironic and shocking case of censorship.

An article about some of the details neglected by Rishi Sunak’s bright, breezy ‘Britcoin’ video.

A lot of thinking is upside down at the moment. It has a discombobulating effect on the contemporary rational thinker. In Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay wrote “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

The New York Times opinion piece on masks is too late. And it is wrong. It’s not true that mask mandates did nothing. Yes, it is true they did nothing to halt the transmission of Covid, but the mask mandates damaged us all.

It doesn't look good for balance or evidence when the Covid-19 inquiry is asking for lateral flow tests and masks.

My mask does not protect you, and your mask does not protect me.

Of all the days to test the Emergency Alerts scheme, the UK government had to pick St George’s day. On the day we should celebrate a saint who exemplifies chivalry and courage, our phones were ordered to squeal and quake, to drill us for disaster and fear.

Why is Costa Coffee glorifying elective double mastectomy?

It would be better to pardon and return the 120,000 Covid fines than fine yet more partygoers.

An interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, authors of 'The Covid Consensus'.

How the weather forecast is a temperature check for nudge in the media

People are fretting about re-introducing masks, but not about thousands of non-Covid excess deaths.

A government whistleblower lets the mask slip

Pfizer sponsors a new Marvel comic.

Plant-based sales disappoint.

It is three years since Boris Johnson's speech instructing the nation to stay at home.

On the day of the Coronation, six Republican protestors were arrested and put in cells. They were detained without charge for sixteen hours. Crucially, they were arrested as they unloaded placards, and before protest was underway. They were arrested, in other words, for ‘pre-crime’.

Editing Roald Dahl is gross cultural vandalism. Enough is enough.

Transcript of my speech at the Cambridge Union debate

We’re nearly two years into the pandemic, but these protests are not going away.

And why it was always about you, Plan B...

We're going through the looking glass when dictionaries make up meanings.

By Patrick Fagan, behavioural scientist and co-author of 'Free Your Mind'.

This isn't a fight against a virus anymore, it's a fight for freedom

Absent heroes, the cancellation of Andrew Tate and how to radicalise a generation of young men.

Part One - Humility or Hubris?

EU bureaucrats want to add crushed cricket flour to bread.

The Lockdown Files are a warning to never let government ‘scare the pants’ off us again

Today is the last day to submit your response to the Covid-19 Inquiry terms of reference consultation. Here’s why you should do it! This is the the juicy part, the response to Page 2. Areas not covered, that the Inquiry should address:

Secretive government units have been monitoring the speech of British citizens and removing content from social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, as I explained in my book, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

Social media is turning us into the ultimate everyday propagandists.

Eastenders preaches climate change.

Ukraine sets out its vision for 2030.

The anonymous account of a nurse on a virtual Covid ward.

While the Department for Education plays musical chairs, the authors of The Children's Inquiry argue we have to put children first.

How climate activists and policy makers are weaponising children’s fears to push their agenda.

The partnership between Sky and the Behavioural Insights Team could affect impartiality in its pursuit of politically contentious Net Zero.

New book out 8th June 2023

Is the former Secretary of State for Health being honest about his reasons to go on 'I'm a Celeb'?

A guest article by Dr Gary Sidley.