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.
The worst political word of our time is ‘delivery’, says Prof James Alexander. It's on the lips of every politician, but this "Amazonisation" of politics completely misunderstands what politics is about.
The failed assassination of Trump represents a security failure by United States Secret Service that is so astounding, it will rightly inspire conspiracy theories for years to come, says Eugyppius.
Lisa Nandy says she wants to end the "culture wars". This from a woman who said male rapists should be sent to women's prisons and who belongs to a party whose leaders wasted no time in taking the knee for race rioters.
How seriously should we take Labour's New Britain proposal, asks James Alexander. "We should fear that it is ever instantiated; and we should fear that these are the sorts of people who are trying to instantiate anything."
Le Pen's National Rally won the popular vote in the French election with 37% – higher than the 34% that gave Keir Starmer his UK landslide. But the party came third thanks to being shunned by the Right-wing Republicans.
One of Germany's largest political parties, Alternative for Germany, has been debanked by a major banking chain following a campaign by activist group Grandmothers Against the Right.
Labour previously endorsed Gordon Brown's plan to renew Britain's constitution with a strongly Left-wing flavour. David McGrogan has had a look and is stunned by the sheer incompetence on display.
Labour is set to win a landslide with a majority of 170 for Starmer on 410 seats, the exit poll shows. Conservatives slump to 131, Reform on 13 and the Lib Dems on 61. A new Labour era dawns. God help us all.
Zadie Smith looks back with glazed eyes on the good old days of Blair, and welcomes the likely dawn of a new Labour era. Prof James Alexander takes the writer to task for her simplistic view of the world.
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