News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A female publisher is pursuing her case for unfair dismissal after she was hounded out of her job for publishing gender-critical author Kathleen Stock. These woke witch hunts must stop.
Central digital control is growing and the debanking scandal has shown the dangers. As many worry that a Chinese-style "social credit" system is creeping into the West, the Together Association looks at what can be done.
Millionaire eco-tycoon Dale Vince appeared to call Hamas "freedom fighters" last year and then waged a war of censorship against any media which reported his words. But the Guido Fawkes blog is standing up to him.
After carefully avoiding interviews with even friendly reporters, the White House realised that some serious damage control was required. But Biden's comeback interview backfired badly, says Haven Pell.
One of Germany's largest political parties, Alternative for Germany, has been debanked by a major banking chain following a campaign by activist group Grandmothers Against the Right.
Sick of woke censorship? You ain't seen nothing yet. With Labour coming to power in a landslide, the Free Speech Union is bracing for an all-out assault on our precious freedom of expression.
Covid vaccine injuries are going mainstream in Australia. A major news network this week gave over a quarter of a Covid special to vaccine safety and some important facts were aired, says Rebekah Barnett.
Oxford's Professor Carl Heneghan has extracted the main points from the case against Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine brought by the Kansas City Attorney General, and they're damning.
BBC 'Disinformation Correspondent' Marianna Spring worries about Russian spies, trolls, bots and Brexiteers. But most of all she worries "real people" will be "emboldened" to talk about politics online.
In episode three of the Sceptic podcast: David Turver on Labour's Net Zero delusions; Chris Morrison on the Met Office's hot air; and Freddie Attenborough on Australia's effort to censor the entire internet.
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