News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A female publisher is pursuing her case for unfair dismissal after she was hounded out of her job for publishing gender-critical author Kathleen Stock. These woke witch hunts must stop.
Book influencer Tilly Fitzgerald has been sacked by Waterstones after saying she would enjoy "tearing up" books by a gender-realist author.
J.K. Rowling has slammed Doctor Who star David Tennant following his pro trans speech at an LGBT awards ceremony because he said trans critics were a "tiny bunch of little whinging f***ers" who will "all go away soon".
How did corporate sponsors like Tesco feel when David Tennant said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist, asks C.J. Strachan. The corporate world is fast waking up to how divisive and damaging woke posturing can be.
Can Australia’s eSafety Commissioner block content globally on demand? Not today, ruled the Australian Federal Court, in a win for Elon Musk. But the war is far from over.
A British female darts star has forfeited her chance to the win the Denmark Open after refusing to face a transgender player, calling for the sport to ban male athletes.
A senior volunteer at the NSPCC has revealed she quit the charity over concerns about trans "grooming", saying the charity has been "completely captured" by Stonewall and asks primary school pupils their pronouns.
DEI initiatives and woke ideology are not making workplaces friendlier but hostile to anyone not fully on board with them, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez. "The pitfalls are not theoretical to me – I’ve lived them."
The great Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume would have some things to teach today's woke activists, says Prof James Allan: about a mind-independent reality that has no truck with claims of 'my truth'.
A Christian man had his social worker job withdrawn because it was feared his beliefs would lead to the suicides of LGBT patients, an employment tribunal has heard.
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