News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Nigel Farage's election surprise, Trump's absurd show trial and a bumper week for the 'Far Right' smear
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has written in the Telegraph to counter "ludicrous claims" that pursuing Net Zero will boost the economy and drive growth, calling it "patently not true and wishful thinking".
Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by 80%, blaming Liz Truss (no, really), and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
Nigel Farage will join the launch of Liz Truss's new 'Popular Conservatism' movement, advocating for hardline policies on immigration and tax cuts, marking the former Prime Minister's determined return to politics.
Last year, the Foreign Office sanctioned pro-Putin blogger Graham Phillips, the first time it has sanctioned a UK citizen. Peter Hitchens says if we don't object, other critics of the Govt's foreign policy could be next.
In an op-ed last year, Rishi Sunak wrote, “I am a Thatcherite, I am running as a Thatcherite and I will govern as a Thatcherite.” So what's his latest proposal to tackle rising food prices? Socialist price caps!
Liz Truss’s speech in Washington last week makes her the first major British politician to recognise that the unless we win the culture war, the UK is doomed to economic stagnation.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are whether the Grammys are satanic or just naff, Kemi Badenoch's promotion and the oxymoronic new 'Department for Energy Security and Net Zero'.
Liz Truss‘s contention that she is only partly to blame for the market turmoil that followed her mini-Budget, with the Bank of England also being culpable, is gathering support – from Robert Peston, among others.
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