News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
With an £80 million revenue drop and growing calls for a licence fee boycott, BBC bosses are struggling to prove that Britain's biggest broadcaster remains worth the cost.
DJ Liz Kershaw has slammed pro-Palestinian activists for jeopardising summer festivals by pressuring Barclays to withdraw vital sponsorship over its links to Israel.
Following a celebrity boycott, the organisers of the Hay Festival have terminated their sponsorship deal with investment firm Baillie Gifford due to the firm's ties to Israel and fossil fuel companies.
Calls for a boycott of Nike are growing over a "woke" rainbow redesign of the England flag on the Euro 2024 football kit, with Rishi Sunak wading in to the row saying the company "shouldn't mess" with the flag.
Doritos sacked a transgender influencer after finding out he had written social media posts threatening to do "thuggish things" to a 12-year-old girl.
A growing boycott of Bud Light over its partnership with trans 'influencer' Dylan Mulvaney has hammered parent group AB InBev, where sales fell 17.4% in Q4 2023 on top of 16.6% in Q3.
Waitrose owner John Lewis is facing calls for a boycott after it launched a magazine for staff which advises parents on how to find breast binders for 'trans children'.
The U.K. Government has stopped advertising on Twitter, adding to Elon Musk's challenge of reversing declining revenues amidst a corporate exodus from the platform.
NewsGuard has established itself as a major force in the mass-censorship of online dissent, working with the U.S. Government and others to discredit and demonetise websites that question official information.
Rishi Sunak is being urged by 46 MPs to end the Government's support for the Conscious Advertising Network, an anti-free speech organisation that encourages advertisers to boycott Right-wing media.
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