News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In Episode 8 of the Sceptic, Laurie Wastell talks to David Livermore on doubts about Lucy Letby's guilt, Angus Dalgleish on the Covid Inquiry's criticism of lockdown and Steven Tucker on immigration and Michel Houellebecq.
Keir Starmer says he will never withdraw from the ECHR because there is "no need" and Rishi Sunak did not disagree, despite it being the reason he failed to stop the boats. Nigel Farage says it's time to ask the people.
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
Porsche has scrapped its sales targets for EVs amid a slump in demand. A previous goal of 80% by 2030 has been watered down and the company now says sales will depend on uptake and how the technology develops.
Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
President Biden delayed stepping down in part because he doubted Kamala Harris was up to the challenge of an election battle with Donald Trump, sources have said.
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.
Trans activists' claims that the puberty blocker ban will increase child suicides are unfounded and dangerous, an independent review has found.
Ben Affleck has told his daughter that she needs to be "realistic" about her demands for mask mandates after the 18-year-old was left "extremely disheartened" by the "ridicule" she received in response.
Donald Trump has vowed to axe Government support for electric cars and other green schemes from "day one" if he regains control of the White House.
Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam has been jailed for five years and four other activists for four years for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
A female publisher is pursuing her case for unfair dismissal after she was hounded out of her job for publishing gender-critical author Kathleen Stock. These woke witch hunts must stop.
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