News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
"Surely Parliament will get the chance to vote on the WHO Pandemic Treaty," has been a common refrain. Not according to the Government, which repeatedly refused to assure MPs they would get a say on the binding agreement.
Fourteen Australian Senators and MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that he reject the impending WHO Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations as violations of national autonomy.
As former Minister Kwasi Kwarteng prepares to step down at the next election, Paul Hicks writes to him to suggest that now is the time to act without fear or favour on Net Zero, the vaccines and the WHO pandemic treaty.
We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.
Opposition to Net Zero has belatedly been pushing through, but there is a long way to go. The MPs now standing up for realism could start by coming clean about the inner workings of the green blob, says Ben Pile.
NHS founder Aneurin Bevan was a demagogue typical of the period, says J. Sorel in his review of Nye at the National Theatre. "Bevan, an early ally of Oswald Mosley, really could’ve ended up in either camp."
The Human Rights Act 1998 was a judicialisation of politics, says Dr David McGrogan. "It transfers political decisions away from democratic processes and into the courts, where it will be unsullied by the electorate."
Governments of every political stripe have complained that the civil service obstructs their plans. Dr David McGrogan looks at how a little known legal ruling gets in the way of bring civil servants to heel.
George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.
At a parliamentary debate on excess heart deaths last week, MPs demanded that the Government publish the full data on deaths by Covid vaccination status so the impact of the vaccines can be properly ascertained.
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