News Round-Up
12 May 2025
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
Will society really collapse if there is a digital alternative for small change? Many sceptics are worried about the implications of the decline of cash and the arrival of CBDCs. But is the fearmongering justified?
Graham Low, a former police officer, says an incident recorded in a Channel 4 docu series illustrates the moral cowardice of senior police officers, who threw good officers under a bus to appease 'community leaders'.
Tomorrow, a Church of England minister, sacked and reported to terrorist watchdog Prevent for a sermon on identity politics and the right to dissent will begin his appeal at the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
The town of Viviez in Aveyron in France has just seen a lithium battery storage and recycling installation erupt in flames, igniting more fears about the dangers of these batteries.
Up to 12% of UNRWA staff – more than 1,400 UN aid agency employees – are associated with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to Israel's Defence Minister.
Tickets are still available for the Free Speech Union’s Cambridge Speakeasy on Thursday in which a panel of speakers including Ross Clark will debate Net Zero.
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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