News Round-Up
...has warned that outlawing ‘Islamophobia’, as defined by Labour, would “curtail free speech”, according to the Telegraph. “The Morlocks come out in London” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple explains...
...has warned that outlawing ‘Islamophobia’, as defined by Labour, would “curtail free speech”, according to the Telegraph. “The Morlocks come out in London” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple explains...
...a ‘green’ Karl Marx” – There is no trace of ‘degrowth communism’ in Karl Marx’s work, says Phil Mullan in Spiked. “Mike Lynch planned to investigate Lucy Letby ‘injustice’” –...
...few other quick comments… There are some mild improvements to the bill, including specifications that “harms” should be “serious”, “imminent” and with “significant and far-reaching consequences”. However, the fundamentals remain...
...Sunak, which warned that labels such as ‘disinformation’ were being abused. Their ‘Westminster Declaration’ said: “We are all deeply concerned about attempts to label protected speech as ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’ and other ill-defined...
...‘off-limits’ topics. If what we wish to say amounts to lawful free speech, we should say it. However, people are increasingly self-censoring out of fear of reprisals. Unfortunately, this can...
...to kick back” “What happens next? Gauging the fallout from the pandemic” – The Spectator‘s Fraser Nelson reviews Niall Ferguson new book, Doom, which suggests, he says, that the “worst...
...the noisy and petulant parasites in but not of liberal culture: sometimes we call them ‘politically correct’, sometimes ‘woke’, and we associate them with ‘identity politics’, ‘intersectionality’ and ‘virtue-signalling’. They...
...because, apparently, it’s enough for just one person to get “hacked” for the journal to publish entire editions filled with nonsense. And finally none of the journal’s readers noticed either,...
...writes Paddy Hannam in Spiked. “Where did Covid begin?” – Author Lord Matt Ridley speaks to talkRadio about his new book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid. https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1463458191044448260...
...respond include: any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought), or, regardless of cause, any...
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