News Round-Up
20 April 2025
by Will Jones
Rapists Can No Longer Claim to be Women
19 April 2025
by Will Jones
Douglas Murray's critics are wrong, says Robert Kogon: it's not a "trivialisation of the Holocaust" to suggest that gleefully burning Jews alive or beheading them is an atrocity of a similar kind.
The reaction of the woke Left to the massacre of Israeli civilians makes it clear that their attempts to no-platform people in the name of making people feel 'safe' is just a rhetorical smokescreen.
Liberal critics of gender identity ideology like Douglas Murray believe we can have the LGB without the T. But, argues politics professor James Alexander, it may not be possible to have the former without the latter.
A headmistress in Norway is being cancelled because she voiced her frustration when a Muslim student refused to shake her hand because it was ‘haram’.
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Leftist meltdown over the National Conservatism conference, the U.K. surrendering to China and Trump projecting masculine power in his CNN 'Town Hall'.
According to William Shawcross's report on Prevent, the definition of 'right-wing extremism' by counter terrorism officials was so capacious it included Jacob Rees-Mogg, Rod Liddle, Douglas Murray and Melanie Phillips.
The Left’s embrace of ‘intersectionality’ – a theoretical rationale for building coalitions between disparate groups – has been a strategic masterstroke. Is it time for the Right to follow suit?
Douglas Murray has written two pieces about the attack on Salman Rushdie, one for the Telegraph, the other for the Spectator. In both, he urges British politicians to unequivocally stand behind the author.
Who comprises the current Establishment? According to Douglas Murray, it's the public sector elite – the people running universities, museums, regulators, the BBC and all the major charities. And they're all woke liberals.
Since Elon Musk's $44 billion offer for Twitter was accepted, non-woke accounts have been surging in popularity, while Owen Jones, James O'Brien and Emma Watson have seen their follower counts plummet. What's going on?
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