The brother of the Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi is reportedly refusing to take part in de-radicalisation programmes in prison.  Hashem Abedi, 24, has been imprisoned at HMP Frankland near Durham since March 2020 after being found guilty of the…

Nearly 700,000 Britons were told to self-isolate for ten days last week by the NHS’s COVID-19 proximity app.  Official figures from NHS data showed that for the week up to July 21st, 689,313 alerts had been sent to users of the app in England and Wales…

A previously rejected plan to install 23 large bronze sculptures and an underground learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament has been given the go-ahead by the government.  Speaking to the BBC , communities secretary…

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China has issued a warning as the UK’s carrier strike group enters the South China Sea en route to Japan.  Headed by the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the strike group has so far conducted maritime exercises with the UK’s Indo-Pacific…

Paypal and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Monday a partnership that will see the two companies join in a combined “research effort” initiative with the aim of “fighting extremism and hate through the financial industry and across at…

Scottish citizens are calling for the resignation of the first minister Nicola Sturgeon after state archive records published on Friday showed that, in 2020, 1,339 people died due to drug-related complications.  The rate of drug deaths recorded in Scotland…

Protests in France intensified over the weekend as masses of people took to the streets across the country to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s domestic vaccine ‘health pass’. As the third weekend of consecutive protests against Macron’s government…

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has implored Afghan citizens to take up arms against the Taliban as the Islamist group continues to make huge advances across the country in the wake of the withdrawal of Western powers.  Speaking in the Afghan…

We are all repeatedly told, both explicitly by our supposed betters and implicitly in virtually all political messaging, that the fundamental choice in politics is between the left and the right. There is supposedly no avoiding the fact that one This binary…

A Belarusian athlete, who refused to board a flight home from the Tokyo Olympic Games, has been granted asylum by Poland.  Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a 24-year-old sprinter, was reportedly ordered to return home by Belarusian sporting officials acting…

Carl and Callum discuss the Daily Beast's new hit piece on Tim Pool, the ACLU's descent into wokeism, and how white people are blackfishing for clout. Listen to the Audio Version

As a med graduate, I predicted one year ago, using the unholy power of scepticism, that it’s highly unlikely a vaccine will stop the pandemic. Trying to vaccinate against this is like trying to vaccinate against the common cold. The And even with the new…

Beau and Carl chat about the mighty Persian army that Xerxes The Great assembled in order to invade Greece during the second Greco-Persian war, the one that includes the battle of Thermopylae. They discuss if the giant figures reported by
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The New York Times instructed its staffers at the beginning of the pandemic not to investigate leads surrounding the possibility of COVID-19’s leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Spectator World Edition has revealed in an exclusive

Early reports have indicated that at least four vessels off the coast of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman are broadcasting warnings after they suddenly lost control of their steering. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has…