Toby Young

Is Chinese President Xi Jinping – the great architect of the Covid lockdowns – about to be defenestrated? Those are the rumours coming out of China – and the fallout from the lockdowns is part of the reason. https://t.co/ZMq60lBu9S

Rachel Reeves is once again cutting funding for training nurses, leaving us even more dependent on importing them. This is no way to fix the NHS, where 30% of nurses are already from overseas, says Prof Roger Watson. https://t.co/FsH3OaKZ9K

Rob Rinder says of the tweet that got Lucy Connolly banged up for 31 months: "She may have done it impulsively, but the problem was that what she said triggered a real world effect." Where's the evidence of that? A happened after B ≠ B caused A. https://t.co/ZpNck5lCVX

At least five Palestinians working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have been killed in an ambush by Hamas terrorists and others may have been taken hostage, the GHF has said. https://t.co/it3PCIKfDD

Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Colin Meade on why conspiracy theories are always wrong, even when there is a conspiracy; is Britain really the most miserable country in the world? wonders Noah Carl; and Tilak Doshi on the rise and rise of King Coal. https://t.co/P8mKXn4jWu https://t.co/VccaGqBruv

"It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was deemed for a time to be a deadly poison." So said Prof Richard Lindzen. He's right, says Chris Morrison. https://t.co/IGVdk1br6B

Shakespeare is the key to understanding Trump, says Prof James Alexander. Trump is not system-politics, is not deep-state politics. Trump is court politics. And Shakespeare is our guide to the flamboyance of the court. https://t.co/PGgKcGw38D

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. https://t.co/4BXKVpQzLD

'It’s no surprise that Prevent has gone to the dogs' -- My piece for Coffee House about how Prevent is a great illustration of Conquest's Second Law: the best way to predict an organisation's behaviour is to assume it's controlled by a cabal of its enemies https://t.co/JW6GUBIYZ7

Whatever is going on in Los Angeles, Western media want you to know that it is peaceful, okay? And any violence is due to unjustified escalation by the evil dictator in the White House. It's definitely not a riot. https://t.co/iF9jA7G3Fg

Rachel Reeves was accused of 'spend now, tax later' as she splashed the cash on the NHS and Net Zero today but with no clear sense of where the money was coming from. https://t.co/FQi4PiP7J9

Nearly half of all social housing in London, 48%, is occupied by foreign-born heads of household, costing the taxpayer around £3.6 billion a year in discounted rent, it's been revealed. https://t.co/p2bXX4FcLY

It's tempting to see in the Covid response some malevolent design. And it's easy to find elite networks that promoted the crazy policies. But there's a key reason why conspiracy theories are always wrong, says Colin Meade. https://t.co/D4EtB4qTv3

Keir Starmer's Chagos surrender deal will fund tax cuts for Mauritians, it's emerged, as the Mauritian Government says it will pay off its national debt, abolish income tax for 81% of Mauritians and raise minimum salaries. https://t.co/wX0znWYKHq

Peter Oborne and I are debating all things woke at Widcombe Manor in Bath on Thursday. For £100 you get to see the debate and participate in a wine tasting organised by Goedhuis Waddesdon. All proceeds to a blood bank charity. If you'd like a ticket DM me. Only five spots left.

A widely shared report found that Britain is the most miserable country in the world. But a closer look reveals that this almost certainly isn't true. https://t.co/Q9Syoqj5pt

Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Ben Pile on Miliband's bonkers solar blunder; anti-migrant riots erupt in Northern Ireland and two Romanian teens are accused of raping schoolgirl; and JFK Jr. removes all 17 members of the CDC vaccine panel. https://t.co/8Z7oS63NFx https://t.co/A2CTK5tu4F