News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Bosses at Heathrow Airport have told an upset Jewish passenger that staff are allowed to wear Palestinian flag badges to show they can speak Arabic, even though policy prohibits wearing political or religious items.
A Londoner whose baby's birth certificate was "defaced" by Home Office staff no longer feels safe in the U.K. as cases of antisemitism continue to rise across the country.
The Home Office is forcing some contractors to book hotels of “at least a minimum of three stars” to house small-boat migrants after costs soared to £8 million a day.
Ex-Home Office Asylum chief Emma Haddad has joined Amnesty International, a charity that described Britain's immigration policies as "inhumane, racist and divisive”. Is it any wonder we haven't been able to stop the boats?
Critics are claiming that the Home Office's policy of providing dual security passes to nonbinary staff for gender flexibility could compromise security and unnecessarily promote gender ideology.
Is that why they call it the Home Office? More civil servants in Priti Patel’s department are working from home than before Jacob Rees-Mogg urged them to return to the office.
The Free Speech Union has written to the Home Office asking it to withdraw its insistence that staff include their gender pronouns in their email signatures, arguing it's a breach of the ECHR and the Equality Act 2010.
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