News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Joe Rogan's $100,000 vaccine debate offer to RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez, Howard from Take Take getting cancelled and Laurence Fox burning a Pride flag.
In the latest humiliation for the Prince and Princess of Woke, Spotify has pulled the plug on Meghan and Harry's Archetypes podcast. No wonder, says Alexander Larman, it was dull, repetitive and ridiculously short.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the arrest of Coronation protesters – where was the same outcry for lockdown protesters? – Tucker Carlson going nuclear and whether the Tories are finished.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are whether Matt Hancock or Simon Case is more loathsome, whether Chris Rock is funnier than Dave Chapelle and the right way to eradicate trans ideology.
Prince Harry has teamed up with controversial ‘trauma expert’ Gabor Maté, for a deeply private therapy session that you can watch online for £17.
Spotify has suffered $230 million in losses and has laid off 600 employees in one month. Paying Meghan and Harry $18 million for a rubbish podcast probably didn't help. Another classic example of ‘Get woke, go broke’?
Please sign the petition urging ITV not to cancel Jeremy Clarkson. What’s happened to him is an example of cancel culture at its most brutal. He doesn’t deserve to lose yet another job just because he upset a Duchess.
Whichever theory you go for, it all comes back to Meghan, says Nick Dixon. Why did the furore die down, only to suddenly flare up again? Just as she got rid of Piers Morgan, she now takes another gammon scalp.
Jeremy Clarkson will likely be dropped by Amazon, it has been reported, as he revealed he had emailed Meghan to apologise for his “disgraceful” column, which is alleged to have "incited violence against" her.
The only line that’s been crossed in the Clarkson affair is robust condemnation – which is perfectly legitimate – becoming an attempt to get him fired. That’s when vigorous public debate turns into cancel culture.
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