A Dispatch From the Woke Wars
27 May 2023
by Toby Young
Paris police showed their U.K. counterparts how to deal with road-blocking eco-loon protesters as they used tear gas and baton charges to stop activists disrupting oil giant Total's annual general meeting.
Organised groups are sabotaging and stealing cameras being installed across London to enforce the expansion of Ulez charges in the latest example of grassroots resistance to the anti-car policy.
Footage released by the London Fire Brigade shows the moment yet another e-bike spontaneously catches fire and explodes in a London block of flats.
The collateral damage of the pandemic response was "substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people", a major new study has found.
Is the war on woke misconceived? At the moment, the wokesters are in power but not in office. Maybe, if they became our official masters, they would behave a little more mercifully. Then again, maybe not.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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