News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Labour was accused of "gambling with public safety" as it unveiled a plan to free prisoners after just 40% of their sentence and a Minister suggested jail terms should be shorter still.
Millionaire eco-tycoon Dale Vince appeared to call Hamas "freedom fighters" last year and then waged a war of censorship against any media which reported his words. But the Guido Fawkes blog is standing up to him.
Labour's Prisons Minister claims that "we're addicted to punishment", as the party considers releasing prisoners after they've served only 40% of their sentences. This is a recipe for more crime, argues Noah Carl.
On Friday, Labour's euphoria from its likely victory will dissipate in hours, and the Leftist factions will emerge from the darkness and the unravelling will start, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
Keir Starmer’s planned VAT raid on private schools is likely to breach human rights law because it singles out private education for the levy, a senior lawyer has said. The Left gets entangled in its own Blob.
Labour claims its Education Tax on private schools is to raise revenue for the state sector. But it's unlikely to do that – and no wonder when the policy's architect is clear that it wants private schools to disappear.
Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy made by ex-PM Jacinda Ardern amid blackout fears.
According to Keir Starmer, Labour's plans for a publicly-owned Great British Energy company will help "close the door to Putin". But the UK's high gas prices are due to Net Zero, not Russia, says Ben Pile.
Jordan Peterson thinks a Labour Government will be a "catastrophe". "A culture that thinks that diversity is unity is also a culture that thinks that a man can be a woman. You can’t get more confused than that."
J.K. Rowling has said she would happily do a spell in jail if a future Labour Government makes it a hate crime to deliberately call someone by the 'wrong' (i.e., biologically correct) pronouns.
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