A jazz lecturer whose lessons were boycotted after he questioned critical race theory and criticised BLM, forcing him to resign and "destroying" his life, is not a racist, a leading conservatoire has admitted.

There have been more than three times the number of claims under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for Covid jabs than during the previous four decades for all other vaccines combined – but only 1% have been successful.

A group of Chagos islanders who have returned to the territory to protest against Sir Keir Starmer’s handover deal have been told by Britain they must leave or face up to three years in jail.

Even more censorship is on the way. The Government has announced plans to force AI chatbots to comply with malicious communications laws – and to give itself Orwellian powers to bring in further speech restrictions.

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.

A "great friend" of Sir Keir Starmer, Philippe Sands KC, has shared an £8 million pot for his work negotiating the Chagos Islands surrender deal to cede the territory to Mauritius.

Nigel Farage has announced a Reform 'Shadow Cabinet' for the first time, with Robert Jenrick appointed 'Shadow Chancellor' and his fellow ex-Tory minister Suella Braverman made Education and Equalities Spokeswoman.

A mother and child have been shot dead at a high school ice hockey match in Rhode Island by a man identifying as a woman who is reported to be the child's transgender father.

Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans to cancel local elections in May "in light of recent legal advice", reversing the decision to delay them in 30 local authorities until 2027.

A further 36 universities face legal action from more than 170,000 current and former students, who say they did not receive the full education they paid for during Covid.