News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Rishi Sunak will likely hand over to Keir Starmer on Friday. But how much difference will it really make, asks Steven Tucker. We'll still get Net Zero, mass immigration, high taxes, trans madness etc. etc.
Ten years after the rural backlash that forced David Cameron to ban onshore wind developments, Ed Miliband is planning to resume the rollout of wind farms across the English countryside.
We should vote Conservative to keep out the Trots and their permanent revolution, says Peter Hitchens. No no no, that just ratifies the Uniparty, says Matt Goodwin. Professor James Alexander ponders the dilemma.
Labour will win because the public are rejecting the Tories' failed attempt at technocratic government, says Dr David McGrogan. But they will soon reject Labour's technocracy too. A new kind of government is needed.
The Tory election campaign is like one of those England batting collapses – paradoxically both distressing and enjoyable in equal measure, says Sean Walsh. The problem is the party has forgotten how to be conservative.
Ex-Labour MP Stella Creasy has had her office vandalised, with smashed windows and "Labour child bombing liars" graffitied on the pavement outside.
Wind turbines as tall as 800ft are set to get the green light after Ed Miliband pledged to lift the ban on new onshore wind farms under a Labour Government.
In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.
Lurking behind the election, Paul Sutton spies Tony Blair and his technocratic heirs, similarly committed to putting the 'grown-ups' in charge and smearing and smothering all dissent.
Just as the corporate world is finally waking up to the catastrophic damage EDI has caused, Labour is about to make it worse than you can possibly imagine, says C.J. Strachan.
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