News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Netflix's Adolescence perpetuates the lazy trope of portraying a white boy as the perpetrator of deadly violence against girls, despite this being very rare in reality. But the Government is no better, says David Shipley.
Right-wing politicians are being shut out of Government across Europe, says Gavin Mortimer, as so-called 'progressive' elites in politics and the judiciary effectively rig what are supposed to be democratic elections.
Those who talk about far Right, hard Right or Right-wing extremism are probably finding a scapegoat for their own systematic internalised fascism, suggests Prof James Alexander.
The "alleged" problem of grooming gangs and claims of 'two-tier policing' are part of a "Right-wing extremist narrative" and police should record more non-crime hate incidents, a leaked Home Office report says.
The firewall around Alternative für Deutschland has begun to crack, as a desperate CDU says it is open to support from the pariah Right-wing party in passing mass migration measures.
"You’ll never be wasting our time," reads the Prevent poster. So why did the anti-extremism programme fail to stop the Southport killer, who had been referred to it three times? He's not the only one, says Charlotte Gill.
German democracy, which is somehow shaken to its foundations whenever anybody holds a TV debate with the wrong person, is once again on life support after Elon Musk tweeted support for AfD, says Eugyppius.
A fascist has been elected 47th President of the USA. Or so says the Guardian, which assembled a bunch of Left-wing academics to throw around lazy student insults. It just makes them look dumb, says Prof James Alexander.
Tommy Robinson was today jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to contempt of court for repeating libellous allegations in his film Silenced.
When Suella Braverman tried to speak at Cambridge last week, the university authorities caved into a pro-Palestine mob and allowed her to be cancelled. Starmer is to blame for cancelling the free speech bill, she says.
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