News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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'.
Residents are receiving fines for minor waste infractions, such as a £400 penalty for putting cardboard in a Brighton bin, with even seniors penalised for litter-picking.
A retired sociology professor has been stripped of her honorary titles by two universities after suggesting on social media that someone should "blow up the venue" of a Jewish Labour conference.
A woman who helped organise the Black Lives Matter protest that toppled the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston has admitted fraud after £30,000 donated by the public went missing.
The BBC is boycotting mayoral briefings in Bristol after the council banned a reporter for asking a Labour politician why he flew across the Atlantic to give a 14-minute speech on climate change.
Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter surge. I think he's wrong again, and for the same reason – a misunderstanding of herd immunity.
The models from SAGE and others all forecast a huge summer surge as we reopen, but the predictions are already wrong. With the peak expected in the next month, we'll soon know how wrong they are.
The homelessness rate in Bristol, including the number of families with children needing temporary accommodation, has more than tripled over the past year of lockdowns, with figures surging after each lockdown.
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