News Round-Up
6 October 2024
by Will Jones
Miliband Summons the Green Unicorns
6 October 2024
by Ben Pile
Islamists in Nigeria have slaughtered thousands of Christians in the past five years. But the media aren't telling us about it, says Julian Mann.
The Government's consultation on "non-statutory guidance" for schools on gender identity shows how weak it is, says Mark Ellse. The problem is it failed to amend the Equality Act, which protects "gender reassignment".
A new Hope Not Hate report warns that Tory MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg are part of a "Right-wing insurgency undermining minority rights" – showing what's so dangerous about Michael Gove's new definition of 'extremism'.
Lee Anderson has announced he is defecting from the Conservative party, from which he is currently suspended, to Reform U.K.
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.
Lee Anderson's critics are not being honest about Sadiq Khan's failure to condemn the antisemitism flooding London's streets and why this particular racial prejudice gets a free pass in Khan's capital.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Keir Starmer making trouble in Parliament on behalf of an Islamic mob, Sunak suspending Lee Anderson and the French showing us how to deport hate preachers.
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.
France suffers another violent attack by an Islamist, and just like with the deadly knife attack at the Eiffel Tower in December, once again the authorities deny it is a terror attack or politically motivated.
Three years ago, a Yorkshire teacher was suspended and went into hiding due to death threats for showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He's still in hiding today.
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