Day: 16 September 2022

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.

Attenborough's doom-laden Frozen Planet II picked a group of islands lapped by a warm and salty current to push the Arctic sea ice loss narrative. The good news is the polar bears are thriving.

Dr Gary Sidley sets out the case for why facemasks against COVID-19 are ineffective and harmful and mask mandates in healthcare settings must be dropped without delay.

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?

Sanctions are crushing Europe's economy. Either mainstream parties will roll them back, or they’ll get voted out and populist parties will tear them up. Whatever happens, sanctions could break the Western alliance.

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.