News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Bosses at Heathrow Airport have told an upset Jewish passenger that staff are allowed to wear Palestinian flag badges to show they can speak Arabic, even though policy prohibits wearing political or religious items.
Israeli passengers have voiced outrage over harassment and "degrading treatment" by customs officials wearing pro-Palestine badges at Heathrow Airport.
Google's swift sacking of 50 employees protesting over Gaza is the beginning of the end of the employee activist, says C.J. Strachan. Across the West companies are realising a politicised workplace is a dysfunctional one.
Forget hate speech laws, says Dr David McGrogan. Speech in the workplace is already micromanaged in intolerable ways by employment law – and it's getting worse.
A prayer ban imposed at Katharine Birbalsingh’s school that was challenged by a Muslim pupil is lawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
A Christian man had his social worker job withdrawn because it was feared his beliefs would lead to the suicides of LGBT patients, an employment tribunal has heard.
In a legal battle over discrimination and free speech rights, a devout Christian social worker is suing an NHS-backed firm after his £25,000 job offer was rescinded due to his views on homosexuality.
A women’s football competition has been branded misogynist after it was won by a team featuring five transgender players, amid accusations one had broken an opponent’s leg in two places.
A controversial West End theatre production about race, identity and sexuality in 21st century America will put on two nights for black-only audiences to watch the play "free from the white gaze".
Arbitrarily classifying every woman pushing 50 as being latently disabled due to the menopause seems perilously close to legislating that females as a whole are inherently unfit for employment, says Steven Tucker.
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