News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Regardless of how much your house is worth or where you live, you can still fall victim to a thug wielding a zombie knife. How delightfully egalitarian Britain has become, says Sallust.
For an example of urban decay, look no further than Gloucester, says Paul Sutton. Plagued by vape shops, dope smoking, drug dealing and feral kids on bikes, it's no wonder Fred and Rose West operated unnoticed.
Alumnus James Alexander bemoans the once glorious and eccentric legacy of Trinity College, Cambridge, now sinking into a state of soggy decline.
Are you reading this on the loo? If so, put down your phone RIGHT NOW! Joanna Gray explains why phones in loos are destroying society.
Once a city he adored, Edinburgh is now plagued by poor governance, unkempt streets and costly, ineffective public projects, says Dr Roger Watson.
The Spectator’s Gareth Roberts takes a swipe at the Tories, lambasting their 13-year record in which progressive ideas have corrupted U.K. institutions.
Doug Stokes, a professor of international relations at Exeter, has summarised the thesis of his new book, Against Decolonisation, for the Daily Sceptic: it's based on nonsense and is sapping our national self-confidence.
Through a combination of fear and indifference, our most important cultural institutions are allowing themselves to be bullied by woke activists into destroying themselves, writes Nick Timothy.
If you think you’re living through the worst of times today, think again — it’s usually like this, claims Tom McTague in Unherd.
In the dying days of 2022 there is at least one bit of good news – Mark Drakeford, Wales’s pound shop authoritarian, has announced he’ll step down in 2024.
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