News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
BBC Verify should just explain things, and then let people decide for themselves, says David Frost in the Telegraph. But isn't that what the BBC is supposed to do anyway?
"I’m not a Covid conspiracy theorist. I was right." Allison Pearson defends her pandemic record against detractors who still haven't noticed that sceptics got it right and conformists were consistently wrong.
A coup d’état, as originally defined, is a coup inflicted by the state on the people. This makes COVID-19 a coup d’état, says Dr James Alexander. Modern politics could be considered death by a thousand coups.
It's not just Earth that is at risk from carbon dioxide emissions, it seems. Meet the scientists who worry about the impact climate change will have on alien life.
The BBC's war on misinformation is blatantly one-sided, says Simon Cottee. The 'misinformation' in mind is almost always from conservative sources, while the 'fact-checkers' aren't so accurate themselves.
A survey has found that half of Democrat voters endorse election conspiracies, which is only slightly less than the proportion of Republican voters who do so. Election denial is a bipartisan problem.
What was most sinister about the striking off of Mr. Adil from the Medical Register for spreading Covid 'conspiracy theories' is that what the court was most concerned about was his refusal to recant his beliefs in public.
The surgeon struck off by the GMC for publishing Covid "conspiracy theories" shows that our so-called right to free speech is subject to the whims of officials and judges, says law expert Dr. David McGrogan.
In this, the final episode of London Calling in its present form, England's answer to Statler and Waldorf explain why they've decided to call a truce in the five-year battle between Team Toby and Team James.
Life Saving has become the dominant ethos of our age, presented as popular justification for extreme policies from lockdowns to mass migration to Net Zero. It sounds anodyne but its consequences are anything but.
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