News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The UK Armed Forces are taking heat for their efforts to ramp up diversity amid historically low troop numbers, alongside proposals to remove Christian elements from Remembrance Day ceremonies.
I spent last Saturday ‘guarding’ Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square in case it was assaulted by any masked protestors carrying spray cans and Palestinian flags. Things did not turn out as I expected.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the sacking of Suella Braverman, the media gaslighting over the pro-Palestinian Armistice Day protests and the bizarre return of David Cameron.
Memories of 2020 are now fading, meaning it can be easy to forget how on that Remembrance Sunday some bravely defied the lockdown to gather at war memorials. But we must not forget, as the tyranny must not be repeated.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators "targeted" Jewish families leaving a synagogue, following a gathering of hundreds of thousands for a 'peaceful' march on Armistice Day.
It's shameful that so many British Jews were too intimidated to come to London on Saturday, says Allison Pearson, who was in Parliament Square to mark Armistice Day.
Should the right to protest trump the rights of those who wish to honour the fallen? Dr David McGrogan argues it should not and liberals cannot duck the issue by appealing to an absolute right to free speech.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Tommy Robinson's return to Twitter, the pro-Palestinian Armistice Day protests and Keir Starmer's missing poppy as he promotes Islamophobia Awareness Month.
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