News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam has been jailed for five years and four other activists for four years for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
The truly appalling thing about the Lucy Letby case has been the way in which vital legal precedents of wrongfully convicted mothers were disregarded by the judges, says legal expert Dr Peter Hayes.
The medical evidence against Lucy Letby is clearly defective, says medical and legal expert Dr. Peter Hayes. None of the infant deaths were regarded as suspicious at autopsy. So why was her appeal rejected?
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.
In ruling that oil cannot be extracted without taking into account its impact on Net Zero, the U.K. Supreme Court has delivered yet another blow to the country's dying industries, says Ben Pile, not to mention parliamentary sovereignty.
The future of Britain’s oil and gas industry has been thrown into doubt after a landmark decision by the Supreme Court that found emissions from burning fossil fuels must be considered when approving new drilling sites.
The Justice Secretary who oversaw the courts during the pandemic has called for an amnesty for the more than 29,000 people given criminal convictions for breaking Covid rules.
Matt Hancock, the ex-Health Secretary, has failed in his bid to have Andrew Bridgen's libel case thrown out after Hancock branded him antisemitic, paving the way for a full trial.
Keir Starmer's coming revolution is more radical than his opponents realise, says J Sorel. His vision is to codify Blair's Britain and place it beyond the reach of politicians in the hands of bureaucrats and judges.
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
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