News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
How have we got into a scenario where merely holding a dissenting opinion can result in the loss of your job and career? HR expert C.J. Strachan looks at the chaos EDI is causing among well-meaning employers.
Leading free speech writers association PEN America has cancelled a major literary festival and awards ceremony amidst a boycott by the pro-Palestine far Left in a further sign of the death of irony.
Do public protests change anything? A new study examines 14 protest movements in the U.S. since 2017, and finds that only one had any discernible impact on public opinion.
Police Scotland staff have been given a script defending Humza Yousaf after he faced a deluge of hate crime reports.
Why does the world keep being sucked into collective crazes like transgenderism, MeToo, lockdowns and BLM in recent years? Lionel Shriver takes the question head on.
Just as critical social justice ideology finally seems to be going out of fashion, the Church of England has decided to double down on woke claptrap and embark on an orgy of racial self-flagellation. That'll fill the pews!
Graham Low, a former police officer, says an incident recorded in a Channel 4 docu series illustrates the moral cowardice of senior police officers, who threw good officers under a bus to appease 'community leaders'.
"The only surprise is he hasn't named one the Sadiq line": Sadiq Khan was today blasted for "virtue-signalling nonsense" as he unveiled new names and colours for all six London Overground rail lines in a £6.3m project.
Senior BBC employee Dawn Queva was sacked recently for calling white people a "parasitical deviant breed". Steven Tucker delves in the murky history of the bizarre belief system that underpins these racist ideas.
The anarchy at Pimlico Academy during the BLM hysteria in 2020 contrasts with Katharine Birbalsingh's success in imposing iron discipline and shows the other pole to which multicultural society tends, says Steven Tucker.
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