Day: 10 April 2023

In London Calling this week, we discuss the Guardian devoting 0.1% of its net worth to atone for its slave trade links and its attempt to deflect attention from the scandal by accusing the Royal Family of the same sin.

'Go woke, go broke.' The opposite may also apply. Nintendo, the Japanese maker of Super Mario Bros. Movie, resisted pressure to use diversity casting, and has hauled in $377 million globally, setting box office records.

There’s no way that China’s lockdowns passed a cost-benefit test, let alone a basic human rights test. But it’s hard to explain all the data if you assume they had no impact on viral transmission, argues Noah Carl.

"I don’t regret speaking out, but I won’t pretend that it has been an easy ride." Headteacher Mike Fairclough spoke out to safeguard kids from the damaging effects of Covid restrictions - and he has paid a high price.

Following similar label changes to U.S. public broadcasters, the BBC has been designated "Government Funded Media" on its Twitter profile. The Beeb’s leadership is now pushing back against Elon Musk’s decision.

“Coronations used to be about the future,” says J. Sorel. But judging from what we’ve heard about it and the bizarre invitation, it will be an uninspiring look backwards into Britain's recent past.

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.