News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
J.K. Rowling has slammed Doctor Who star David Tennant following his pro trans speech at an LGBT awards ceremony because he said trans critics were a "tiny bunch of little whinging f***ers" who will "all go away soon".
This Pride month, why are some historical figures being falsely 'outed' as gay but not others, asks Steven Tucker. Activists rightly reject revisionism about 'gay Hitler', but less genocidal figures aren't so lucky.
How did corporate sponsors like Tesco feel when David Tennant said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist, asks C.J. Strachan. The corporate world is fast waking up to how divisive and damaging woke posturing can be.
During the Sacred Month of June, rainbows flutter in high streets like the banners of a sinister occupying force. Or is it a religious cult? Steven Tucker looks at the disturbing history of Gnostic castration movements.
Where did woke come from? Eric Kaufmann says it's not from Marxism but from something more visceral for the Left: the sacralisation of 'disadvantaged' minority groups and an overactive sense of guilt.
Can vaccines make you gay? Of course not, says Steven Tucker, though the idea keeps popping up. On the flip-side, the idea that Covid vaccines can save you from impotence was given credence in the pandemic.
History lecturers at the University of Liverpool have been told to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem in new guidance sent to staff.
James May has triggered a twitterstorm by accusing Pride of authoritarian tendencies with Too Much Bunting. But he's right, says Julian Mann – and it's Christians who are bearing the brunt of the growing intolerance.
Venues across the country are cancelling Eurovision gigs after Palestine protest groups instructed their followers to hound pubs showing the contest, with bars closing their doors as they fear for staff safety.
Why are the mainstream media suddenly desperate to spuriously link climate change to unrelated woke issues like transgenderism? 'Intersectionality' is to blame for the insanity, says Steven Tucker.
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