News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Royal Parks have dubbed the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park "highly offensive", slamming it for peddling a "Victorian view of the world" with its portrayal of racial stereotypes.
EV owners got a shock when Sadiq Khan announced the end of the EV Congestion Charge exemption. But Ben Pile saw it coming, noting pricey EVs are really a bridging technology between having a car and not having a car.
Nigel Farage has said Sadiq Khan "hates England" after London cabbies were banned from flying England flags during the European Championships in Germany.
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.
Regardless of how much your house is worth or where you live, you can still fall victim to a thug wielding a zombie knife. How delightfully egalitarian Britain has become, says Sallust.
Sadiq Khan has apologised for suggesting the Chief Rabbi's criticism of his call for a Gaza ceasefire was due to his Muslim-sounding name.
London councils did not consider the economic cost of implementing the 20mph speed limits that are driving road-users up the wall, despite a cost-benefit analysis being a requirement.
Watch as an e-bike explodes at a London train station as four people narrowly escape injury. It comes after an e-bike caught fire outside Buckingham Palace and another exploded in a block of flats in Roehampton.
Dr. Tony Sewell continues to bust the myths of 'racist Britain' in his important new book Black Success, as he laments how black Britons are held back by a race relations industry that would make them permanent victims.
Locals have branded a Clean Air Neighbourhood a "cynical greenwashing scheme" after the Labour-run London council amassed nearly £12 million in fines from motorists.
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