News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
King Charles has unveiled Sir Keir Starmer's legislative programme for his Labour Government, complete with more race equality laws, more renters' rights and a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban.
We don't like it when Africans and Asians come to Europe and tell us how to run our affairs. So we should stop telling them how to manage theirs – particularly when it comes to wildlife conservation.
As King Charles undergoes surgery, many older men know how an enlarged prostate can greatly narrow the horizons of one's life, says Drew Clode. But an operation like a TURP can be life-changing.
King Charles gave the opening address at COP28 – and veered into sandwich-board territory, referring to 'tipping points' and 'irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse'. Chris Morrison buries his head in his hands.
English architecture has now reached a consensus, says J Sorel. "That is: that there can be no escape from the madding crowd. Every public place is to become a walkable, human-scaled sitting area-cum-playground."
In the latest display of elitist eco-hypocrisy, King Charles has forced four ministers to take a taxpayer funded long-distance flight to his Scottish mansion for a Government meeting on carbon emissions.
What is the meaning of the Coronation? Two sociologists tried to answer that question in 1953 and many of their observations could equally well be made 70 years later.
“Coronations used to be about the future,” says J. Sorel. But judging from what we’ve heard about it and the bizarre invitation, it will be an uninspiring look backwards into Britain's recent past.
The Coronation threatens to be a ghastly, hand-wringing affair in which a furrowed-browed King Charles pays tribute to the NHS and the LGBTQ+ community before ceremonially taking the knee in front of Commonwealth leaders.
In the last Weekly Sceptic podcast of the year, the talking points are Charles's lacklustre multicultural King's speech, the arrival of thought crime in the UK and the censorship of science during the pandemic.
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