News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Everything white is racist these days, from white paint to the White Cliffs of Dover. And now milk, it seems, with the Wellcome Museum labelling it a "highly politicised liquid". Steven Tucker wades into the nonsense.
Did God save Donald Trump? That's what many are claiming, including the man himself. Such supposed acts of divine intervention can be handy politically, but even the Vatican is increasingly sceptical, says Steven Tucker.
Our 'post-human' leaders like Macron, Houellebecq implies, have so successfully destroyed Western civilisation that its people, profoundly depressed by what has occurred, have basically given up living, says Steven Tucker.
With France thrown into chaos by a rash election won by the far Left and violence erupting on the streets, Steven Tucker turns to Michel Houellebecq for insights into what is going on at a deeper level.
Rishi Sunak will likely hand over to Keir Starmer on Friday. But how much difference will it really make, asks Steven Tucker. We'll still get Net Zero, mass immigration, high taxes, trans madness etc. etc.
This Pride month, why are some historical figures being falsely 'outed' as gay but not others, asks Steven Tucker. Activists rightly reject revisionism about 'gay Hitler', but less genocidal figures aren't so lucky.
During the Sacred Month of June, rainbows flutter in high streets like the banners of a sinister occupying force. Or is it a religious cult? Steven Tucker looks at the disturbing history of Gnostic castration movements.
Can vaccines make you gay? Of course not, says Steven Tucker, though the idea keeps popping up. On the flip-side, the idea that Covid vaccines can save you from impotence was given credence in the pandemic.
Newspapers have come under fire for printing images of black footballers after England lost. But why is this suddenly 'racist', asks Steven Tucker. Must we now hide black footballers on a losing side from view?
The politically correct have long fretted that concerns to promote native plant species in gardens mask a fascist agenda. This is absurd, says Steven Tucker. Is nothing safe from Leftist politics?
Even the BBC's Monty Don complained that the surprise winner at this year's Chelsea Flower Show was a box-ticking exercise. Gardening has been colonised by wokesters who see racism everywhere, says Steven Tucker.
Steven Tucker has had a look at the Muslim Vote's 18 demands, which include lower car insurance premiums, and thinks some of them sound awfully like 'jiyza' – a tax on non-Muslims paid to Muslims.
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