News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A company called Logically has been paid handsomely by governments to carry out 'fact checks' on off-narrative climate claims to get them discredited and their sources demonetised. But the 'fact checks' are truly dire.
The alarming thing about the monitoring of lockdown and vaccine sceptics by the 77th Brigade and others is that such people are now regarded not as critics of Government policy, but a danger to public safety.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, in partnership with Big Brother Watch, have discovered they were being spied upon by various shadowy state agencies, including the 77th Brigade. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.
In this week's London Calling, the discussion topics are being spied upon by the 77th Brigade, Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs, the teachers' strike, Delingpole's 900-seater event in Central London and season 4 of Fauda.
Various state agencies, including the 77th Brigade, spied on lockdown sceptics, according to Big Brother Watch. Incredibly, the Government convinced these agencies that critics of its polices are enemies of the state.
In a major victory for free speech, the Online Safety Bill has been put on hold until the Autumn and may well never see the light of day again. This is, by some distance, the best news of the year.
Big Brother Watch is holding a benefit tomorrow night at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green in partnership with Comedy Unleashed. Geoff Norcott is on the bill and tickets start at £20.
The campaign group Big Brother Watch has launched a legal challenge against mandatory Covid passes in Wales, calling for the “authoritarian, invasive and unevidenced” scheme to be scrapped.
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