News Round-Up
8 May 2025
Conservatives Slump to 17% in Poll
7 May 2025
by Will Jones
Council Net Zero Madness
7 May 2025
Modern elites have become fixated on banning 'hate', seeing it as the root of society's ills. But what would we humans be without our hatred, asks Paul Sutton. Where would be our art, our literature, our passion?
Nick Carter in the Australian has written a merciless attack on Keir Starmer's handling of the summer riots and says the lesson for Australia from Britain's failed diversity experiment is clear: stop before it's too late.
Critics warn that the Government's review of tackling violence against women and girls poses a risk to free speech.
A biomedical scientist who called her Portuguese neighbour a "Spanish whore" during a row over a fire alarm was cautioned by police for a hate crime and struck off. No wonder the cops have no time to solve burglaries.
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.
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