News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the UK, interest in news has halved since 2015 amidst a worldwide plummet in engagement with current affairs. The BBC reports on a global survey showing a sharp loss of trust in news providers and a hiding from reality.
Dulwich Prep London is ditching Native American tribe names for mythical creatures in its house system over concerns of "cultural appropriation".
The politically correct have long fretted that concerns to promote native plant species in gardens mask a fascist agenda. This is absurd, says Steven Tucker. Is nothing safe from Leftist politics?
BBC Verify should just explain things, and then let people decide for themselves, says David Frost in the Telegraph. But isn't that what the BBC is supposed to do anyway?
Even the BBC's Monty Don complained that the surprise winner at this year's Chelsea Flower Show was a box-ticking exercise. Gardening has been colonised by wokesters who see racism everywhere, says Steven Tucker.
Amid outcries over Gary Lineker's remarks on Rwanda and criticism of its Gaza coverage, the BBC is set to review its portrayal of ethnic minorities and class for "groupthink".
There's been no increase in air turbulence accidents for 30 years, according to official figures. But that didn't stop the Guardian and BBC claiming otherwise in their reporting on the Singapore Airlines incident.
The BBC has blamed the Singapore airline turbulence incident – in which one man died of a heart attack and at least 30 were injured – on, wait for it, climate change.
The BBC is confronting the fact that the EV market is collapsing. Naturally, this is starting to cause a panic because all those pesky climate targets enshrined in law aren’t going to be met.
A Palestinian jailed for his part in murdering an Israeli man is used as a regular contributor by the BBC’s Arabic channel without his conviction being disclosed.
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