News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
Hundreds marched on Wembley on Sunday for a teenage girl banned from football for asking a "bearded" transgender opponent "Are you a man?" as a second protest is planned.
The police investigated House of Lords member and former Labour MP Ian Austin under hate speech laws for calling Hamas "Islamists", it has emerged.
A nine year-old who called a classmate a name and two secondary school girls who said another pupil smelt "like fish" are among thousands of people being investigated by police for non-crime hate incidents.
Following the tragic suicide of an Oxford student after he was shunned by friends, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Carole Sherwood asks what kind of society we have become when students live in constant fear of being cancelled.
Stephen Fry, Tom Holland and Ian McEwan are among a group of over two dozen top authors who have signed a letter telling the Government to end "cancel culture" by implementing the university Free Speech Act without delay.
The higher education watchdog has been urged to investigate a "political" campaign to oust Buckingham University’s Vice-Chancellor for being too "Right-wing".
Anthony Fauci's new memoir reminds us that he was the driving force behind gain-of-function research, ruinous lockdowns and devastating school closures, and that he could never accept fault, says Prof Jay Bhattacharya.
When Suella Braverman tried to speak at Cambridge last week, the university authorities caved into a pro-Palestine mob and allowed her to be cancelled. Starmer is to blame for cancelling the free speech bill, she says.
American playwright C.J. Hopkins has been convicted by a German court of likening Covid totalitarianism to Nazi Germany. This will only damage the credibility of the establishment forces who pursued him, says Eugyppius.
Former Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis has said he is unable to get a job – or an interview – in teaching because his political views are held in "disdain" by the Left-wing profession.
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