News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In all the mindless clamour to shame Britain into paying eye-watering 'reparations' for slavery, it is forgotten that Britain had to force Africa to give up its slaving ways. Peter Harris tells the untold story.
Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu, recently smeared as a climate change 'denier' by BBC Verify, explains why Net Zero hysterics, not sceptics like him, should be the ones facing criminal prosecutions.
A deadly heatwave in West Africa was "impossible" without climate change, claims the BBC. But read the fine print and you learn that El Niño was the more likely culprit.
BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor falsely claims that South Sudan is experiencing "extreme heat" for March. In fact, says Chris Morrison, March is the equatorial country's hottest month and the temperatures are typical.
The constant calls for Britain to apologise for slavery miss one hugely important fact: that Britain was almost single-handedly responsible for abolishing the abhorrent trade, at immense cost to itself.
A BBC Editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation and remain in the U.K., it has emerged.
British Transport Police is set to launch a bursary for "British African students" in an attempt to fight "systemic racism" and "Afriphobia" in the force in a move critics have slammed as "more discrimination".
It's time to start paying people to take vaccines to boost take-up. That's according to Dr. Raymond Duch, an Oxford academic writing in the Financial Times. This is the lesson he's taken from the Covid pandemic, apparently.
Germany and the EU have funded Covid vaccine-maker BioNTech's expansion into Africa to the tune of £500m. But what vaccines are the new facilities going to be making exactly when BioNTech only has one product?
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson has claimed that climate change is driving mass immigration into Europe. However, surveys reveal that it was the over-reaction to Covid that has really triggered the exodus.
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