News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Lisa Nandy says she wants to end the "culture wars". This from a woman who said male rapists should be sent to women's prisons and who belongs to a party whose leaders wasted no time in taking the knee for race rioters.
The Church of England has committed to paying £1bn in slavery reparations. But the case for doing so is historical nonsense, say Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman. The Church never made any money from the slave trade.
More bosses are pulling the handbrake on costly diversity initiatives after realising they have allowed toxic identity politics to enter their workplace and wasted millions of pounds on pointless schemes.
Is it time for St. George to stand aside for St. George Floyd? Or is there another makeover of England's patron saint that would make him acceptable to the professionally offended and anti-English crowd?
Corporate totalitarianism represents a new ideological development in the history of humanity, says Dr Rowena Slope. Global elites driving an authoritarian 'progressive' agenda that expands their own power and wealth.
Humza Yousaf has received more complaints under Scotland's new hate crime bill for his 2020 speech about "often being the only non-white person in the room" than J.K. Rowling, it was claimed today.
Will discrimination on the basis of intelligence be banned next? That's the suggestion Lionel Shriver explores in her new novel MANIA, based on the craziness of the last few years. Read her interview with Laura Dodsworth.
An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest used her profile to raise money for charity and then spent it on herself, a judge said as she was jailed for two and a half years.
If you're a member of the National Trust then you can help save it from woke ideologues by voting for Jonathan Sumption and others recommended by Restore Trust for election to the Council.
A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour has found that political mass gatherings in the US had no effect on the course of the pandemic. Which makes it even less likely that lockdowns did.
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