News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest attack on parliamentary sovereignty, the High Court has ruled that the Government failed to comply with its own carbon emissions targets. The march to Net Zero continues – and the voters can go hang.
The Royal Navy has splurged £2.4 million on diversity and inclusion staff, sparking a furious outcry from ministers to prioritise weaponry over 'wokery' amid falling recruitment and equipment failures.
"A woke and extremist culture has infiltrated the Army," the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.
If you’ve not come across the term, 'degrowth' is exactly what it sounds like – reducing output in a bid to reduce emissions and hasten our pursuit of Net Zero. Alarmingly, it now appears to be Government policy.
Just because a globalist happens, on occasion, to be Jewish, doesn't make it suddenly anti-Semitic to use the word, argues Ian Price.
To lose one genuinely conservative Cabinet minister may be regarded as a misfortune... The political events of the last week are beginning to look like a globalist coup. Or is it just one monumental cock-up after another?
The back-pedalling race has begun. Now that we have a new Prime Minister in the UK, let’s see who else joins the contest – who will be inspired to go next. The list is a long one.
Grant Shapps has claimed he had to do his own research and bring his spreadsheets to Cabinet meetings to counter the skewed information being supplied by SAGE and block plans for a Covid lockdown last Christmas.
The idea that proof of Covid vaccination is required to travel abroad "is a reality... in this new world", says Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, who believes this could be "a feature for evermore".
The campaign to "cajole" young people into getting vaccinated against Covid has continued today, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warning that "if they want to travel internationally again", they must get 'jabbed'.
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