Kim Jong-Drakeford Steps Down, After Turning Wales into North Korea During Pandemic
Spiked's Austin Williams says goodbye and good riddance to Mark Drakeford. The outgoing Welsh First Minister is an authoritarian zealot.
Day: 16 August 2023
Why Medicine Safety Will Get Worse Not Better
Nick Hunt diagnoses the U.K. medicines regulator's shortcomings relative to other industries, and the prognosis looks bleak. Root and branch reform is needed, but he's not holding his breath.
Disney’s Snow White Remake isn’t ‘Daring’ or ‘Brave’. It’s the Usual Assemblage of Woke Clichés about Female ‘Empowerment’ that Will Reinforce Young Women’s Cynicism About Romantic Love
Judging from the publicity, the new Snow White looks to be the latest example of Disney’s self-cannibalization. Law professor David McGrogan asks what's wrong with dreaming about romantic love?
Father Ted Creator Graham Linehan Blasts Arts Venue for ‘Discrimination’ After Axing His Edinburgh Fringe Show ‘Over His Stance on Gender Issues’
In the latest example of ‘woke censorship’ at the Edinburgh Fringe, Leith Arches comedy club has pulled the plug on a show featuring Father Ted creator, Graham Linehan, over his views on gender.
Germany Has Partnered With Gates Foundation to Tune of Billions Of Euros
Germany is a crucial partner – not funder – of the Gates Foundation and the co-funding it has provided both to projects and to programmes runs into the billions, not the millions.
On the Self-Inflicted Political Crisis of the German Ruling Establishment, and Why Banning Alternative für Deutschland Will Deepen their Failures
Eugyppius cautions Germany's political establishment against banning AfD because it lacks the tools to move from a soft authoritarian regime to a hard one.
The White Heat of Technology and the Rapid Pace of the Changes it’s Causing is Driving Us All Nuts
Historian Guy de la Bédoyère has written a brilliant essay for the Daily Sceptic about the dizzying pace of change in the 21st Century and why it leaves many older people feeling frustrated and dispirited.
News Round-Up
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.
