Sickness and disability benefits should be made as "easy as possible" to claim as the current system is too "stressful", the long-awaited Government review by Sir Stephen Timms has said.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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There is something profoundly wrong about what we are watching today: on the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, thousands of 'kind' Leftists are going onto social media to celebrate it, says C.J. Strachan.

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Hospitality businesses are warning of a jobs bloodbath as Andy Burnham launches a huge 'tourist tax' raid, with England's mayors and local councils given new powers to impose uncapped levies on overnight stays.

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A Nature editorial on the Jason Arday affair, blaming everyone except Arday himself, chooses progressive ideology over basic honesty and scientific integrity, says Jerry A. Coyne in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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Police have finally dropped a year-long investigation into three hero passengers who tackled a man exposing himself in front of children on a train – though only because the CPS has refused to take the case forward.

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A proposed ban on 'conversion therapy' in Northern Ireland could criminalise parenting, restrict religious freedom and "leave teachers fearful of expressing honestly held views", a DUP Minister has said.

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The just-published 2025 PISA data about the UK’s schools, showing England racing ahead of Scotland and Wales, completely vindicates Michael Gove’s education reforms. So why is Labour so determined to dismantle them?

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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RNLI lifeboats carrying 140 Channel migrants were denied entry to two ports before docking near Portsmouth, where they were met by hundreds of masked protesters.

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Shiloh Hendrix got a $1,000 fine and 200 hours of community service for using a racial slur. The Somali man who filmed her had rape charges dropped "in the interest of justice". Only in Minnesota, says Steven Tucker.

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Baroness Sue Gray says working in Starmer’s No 10 was unbearable because no one could be trusted: "It just got to the point where, you know, everything you say, you feel somebody is recording it."

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Being attacked by your opponents is one thing. Being turned on by your allies is another. For that reason, the coverage in the left wing media would have been more painful for Jason Arday than in the right wing media.

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.

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In a brilliant article in the Dispatch, Jesse Singal argues that the whole sorry saga of Jason Arday points to the need for more press freedom, not less.

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The idea that academia, despite its massive Left-wing skew, is rife with anti-Black prejudice is absurd, argues Noah Carl: underrepresentation does not equal discrimination.

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Labour has edged ahead of Reform for the first time in 18 months as more of its 2024 voters return to the fold, with Reform meanwhile leaking support to the Conservatives.

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The Met Office has quietly axed its dedicated wind and storms chapter from its annual climate report – just as decades of data show UK wind speeds are falling. Funny that, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.

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Andy Burnham keeps announcing policies that weren't his. Jason Arday passed exams he couldn't write. Steven Tucker spots some astonishing parallels between Britain's two greatest fabulists.

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