News Round-Up
30 May 2025
by Toby Young
How likely is it that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine? Not very likely, says Ian Rons, who can envisage only negative consequences for Putin if he goes nuclear.
More than two and a half years since Boris Johnson confined the nation to its homes, the Guardian has finally decided it's time to run some criticism of it.
Why did PayPal double down on its political censorship policy last week, threatening to fine people $2,500 for wrongthink, only to then retreat again? And will this U-turn be enough to stop a mass exodus of its customers?
The NHS waiting list for routine operations has topped 7 million for the first time, leaving 1 in 8 people in England waiting for treatment. The number out of work due to long-term sickness is at a record high of 2.5m.
The Government started out publishing the raw vaccine data, presumably in the belief they would support the narrative. It wasn't long before it got a nasty surprise as infection rates in the vaccinated soared.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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