News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Chinese Government could bring Britain's roads to a standstill by remotely stopping Chinese-made electric cars, MPs have been warned.
Foreign state control of British news organisations is to be outlawed, in a move by Rishi Sunak to block the attempted UAE-takeover of the Telegraph.
Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, former State Department cyber supremo Mike Benz explains how the U.S. Deep State and NATO put censorship into overdrive after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Full transcript here.
"A woke and extremist culture has infiltrated the Army," the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity.
A leaked recording reveals that the U.S. military told a pharma exec at AstraZeneca that the virus "posed a national security threat" on February 4th 2020 – weeks before a single death had occurred.
A Net Zero military will lose, says Guy de la Bédoyère. "At no time in history has a state consciously chosen to compromise its capability by seeking to introduce unreliable equipment." But we are now.
Our enemies are weaponising our luxury ‘green’ beliefs against us as we enter the second phase of a global war, says energy expert Prof Gwythian Prins. "Net Zero threatens national security."
The Government's new Terrorism Bill imposes over-the-top requirements on churches, village halls, cricket clubs and other local venues to carry out risk assessments and force volunteers to undergo anti-terrorism training.
The Danish Government has proposed a ban on setting the Quran alight in public citing national security concerns, prompting fears of a return of blasphemy laws to Europe to appease violent Muslims.
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