News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
George Orwell himself is being cancelled, says Paul Sutton. In a conversation with Oxford Literature postgraduate students, it became clear that the great opponent of authoritarianism was no longer welcome.
For an example of urban decay, look no further than Gloucester, says Paul Sutton. Plagued by vape shops, dope smoking, drug dealing and feral kids on bikes, it's no wonder Fred and Rose West operated unnoticed.
Drivers have slammed "bizarre" and "grossly unfair" plans by Green Party councillors to charge SUV and large vehicle owners more to park in Oxford.
Next month the 15-Minute-City guru himself is coming to Oxford to give a talk. Urban planner Carlos Moreno is the thinker behind the authoritarian anti-car idea enthusiastically embraced by the UN and other alarmists.
It's time to start paying people to take vaccines to boost take-up. That's according to Dr. Raymond Duch, an Oxford academic writing in the Financial Times. This is the lesson he's taken from the Covid pandemic, apparently.
The newly formed Independent Oxford Alliance has surged in opposition to the contentious low-traffic neighbourhoods in Oxford, aiming to provide a responsive and inclusive alternative to mainstream parties.
Gas hobs and boilers are to be banned in all new homes in Oxford from 2025 under the council's radical Net Zero 2040 plans.
'Low Traffic Neighbourhood' chiefs are acting like "dictators", Florence Pugh's father Clinton has said after he was forced to shut a café.
Net Zero doesn’t envisage a transformation of industrial society, only a gradual and forced winding down of living standards, and its buildings and street interventions reflect that, writes J Sorel.
An Oxford College has issued a "trans inclusion statement" threatening students with expulsion if they "misgender" their trans peers. Sounds like a case for the Free Speech Union!
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