News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Keir Starmer making trouble in Parliament on behalf of an Islamic mob, Sunak suspending Lee Anderson and the French showing us how to deport hate preachers.
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.
J Sorel dissects the recently unveiled portrait of the Speaker of the House, finding it to be the perfect expression of a ruling class that believes it's under siege and asserts its authority with hysterical earnestness.
Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the Commons, hopes to speed up the reopening of the House so that Parliament may return to normal sooner than was previously anticipated.
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