News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Alas, once again a government has introduced a law to curb free speech and outlaw 'hate'. But if speech is so unpopular that some deem it hateful, that speech is the speech most worth protecting, says Lawrence Krauss.
A shocking new poll reveals the extent of Humza Yousaf's plummeting popularity in Scotland, driven by backlash against his controversial hate crime laws.
Police Scotland "can’t cope" with the deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP's new law, while officers are confused about who should be charged because of inadequate training, frontline officers have warned.
Woke HR has created a workplace that is failing workers and their employers because the creative mavericks are isolated, sidelined and silenced, while those who are promoted are the appeasers, the cowards and the mediocre.
The leak of the Police Scotland training materials telling officers they should target actors and comedians for 'hate speech' has intensified concerns that the new draconian legislation will kill comedy.
The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, 327 years after the incident that provoked it, when Thomas Aikenhead became the last Brit to be hanged for blasphemy, says C.J. Strachan.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Rishi Sunak clinging on, Scotland's new hate crime law and whether Ofcom is gearing up to withdraw GB News's broadcasting licence.
J.K. Rowling has vowed to continue "calling a man a man" in defiance of controversial new SNP hate crime laws, which she branded "ludicrous".
A Spanish priest is facing up to three years in prison on "hate crime" charges for his heated words about Islam. "There is no longer any true right to free speech in Spain," he said.
Tory MP Bob Stewart was convicted last week of committing a hate crime during an altercation with a heckler on the street. This is madness, says Fraser Myers – the footage shows it was just a heated argument.
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