News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Germany's Foreign Office has been caught pressuring embassy officials to grant entry visas to thousands of fake refugees with forged passports. Eugyppius opens a window on how the mass migration sausage is made.
Judges are the world’s greatest confidence tricksters, says Dr. David McGrogan. Purporting to apply neutral law, in fact they impose their own politics via tendentious interpretations skewed towards elite biases.
The U.K. is housing so many asylum seekers that more than half the foreign aid budget earmarked for poor countries is now being spent in Britain, new figures suggest.
'Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers' is a headline tailor-made for the anxieties of 2024. And while the actual story was not so blood-boiling, it still shows our property rights are in peril.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
In the shocking case of Abdul Ezedi, once again we find a naïve priest endorsing a 'conversion', while bishops oppose the Rwanda Bill in the Lords. Our elites' 'compassion' is putting British lives at risk.
Amid an immigration surge, a shortfall of 250,000 homes and soaring rents, the Irish Government has sent in riot police to Tipperary where locals are protesting the closure of the last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.
Scrooge is everywhere at this time of year as the archetypal Christmas miser. But on some issues, like immigration, it's ultimately not kind to be anything other than Scrooge-like, says Steven Tucker.
The Supreme Court has ruled against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda migrants scheme in a major blow to the Prime Minister after Suella Braverman warned he has no credible Plan B stop the boats.
Politicians claim to be cutting the asylum backlog, but what they don't tell you is they are approving 76% of applications – more than double the EU average – and failing to deport most of the rest, says David Craig.
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