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.

As the tragic events in Nepal unfolded, ghoulish greens in Europe circled the spectacle, says Ben Pile. In the twisted 'morality' of environmentalism, the only 'cause of death' that counts is climate change.

Professor James Alexander responds to John Tomasi and Tyler VanderWeele's recent proposal that universities should simply come clean about being on the 'progressive' Left, saying the idea, while appealing, will never fly.

The Nepal flash floods were caused by collapsing bedrock, not a melting glacier, scientists who have studied the satellite images have said.

Keir Starmer is quitting as an MP after being ousted from No. 10 by Andy Burnham, triggering a by-election, in yet another U-turn after he previously promised to stay on, it was revealed today.

Global greening is being supercharged in the African savannah, new research published in Nature has found, with higher CO2 levels driving a 28% increase in plant growth in just 32 years, writes Andrew Sibley.

A shock poll has seen the Conservatives push Reform UK down to third place for the first time since January last year as Nigel Farage's woes continue and Kemi Badenoch extends her run of rising fortunes.

No, going on and on about your manifestly unworkable or ill-advised idea won't 'shift the Overton Window', says Eugyppius. This is not a sensible way of approaching public debate.

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.

Steven Tucker has an idea for Michel Houellebecq's next novel: the Great Replacement switches up and starts sending hordes of sexually voracious young women instead of men – and suddenly everyone is pro-open borders.

Green taxes are decimating British industry and driving up energy prices, with nothing to show for it as emissions are merely pushed offshore, says Kathryn Porter, who has a new report setting out the damning details.

The Conservatives have edged ahead of Reform in a poll for the first time in 18 months as Badenoch’s popularity continues to rise. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage faces a reopened donations inquiry.

Dame Maureen Lipman has called on an actor who withdrew from a West End play she was involved over her pro-Israel views to "grow up", stop being “so cowardly” and speak to her directly.

Another poor set of GCSE resit results leads Ellie Hodges to ask: is repeatedly asking young people with low aptitude for maths to put themselves through this trial by numbers really the best way to inspire ambition?

The United Nations has told Britain to build statues of African people to atone for the slave trade, following a vote in which UN member states agreed to demand reparations from former slave-trading nations.

Andy Burnham has refused to rule out increasing borrowing and raising taxes despite an ongoing market rout that has sent borrowing costs to their highest level in decades – including following Liz Truss’s 'mini-budget'.

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.

Now it's the ONS's turn to push the fake heatwave deaths scare, says Paul Homewood. Dubious modelling is used to tout the manifestly false claim that summer is killing people when winter always has by far the most deaths.

What all the calls for 'reparations' for slavery seem to forget, says Tim Sargent, is that Africans were enslaving one another for millennia before Europeans arrived, and it was Africans who on the whole did the enslaving.

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch has vowed to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 by slashing Britain’s welfare bill.

Far from condemning Britain, Zanzibar celebrates the British role in ending slavery with monuments to those who "set free the slave". It's something the C of E and the rest of the woke reparations brigade could learn from.