News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
An inquiry into vaccine safety is "very likely", a senior MP has said, as a cross-party group of MPs blasted the medicines regulator for failing to sound the alarm about serious side-effects.
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.
The WHO Pandemic Treaty is a legally binding agreement that will commit the U.K. to adopt all measures set out by the Director-General during a future 'pandemic'. Yet Parliament will at no point scrutinise or vote on it.
Keir Starmer's coming revolution is more radical than his opponents realise, says J Sorel. His vision is to codify Blair's Britain and place it beyond the reach of politicians in the hands of bureaucrats and judges.
We MPs failed the country during Covid, says Danny Kruger. The country was subjected to extremely harmful measures that did little or no good and politicians nodded them through. "We must do much better next time."
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
Almost half the Conservative backbench MPs in Parliament belong to a caucus promoting extreme collective Net Zero ideas that is funded by a small group of green billionaire foundations.
Tony Blair's former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, who now sits in the Lords as a Labour peer, has backed Kemi Badenoch on trans rights by saying children should not be encouraged to change gender.
Rishi Sunak has suffered one of the biggest rebellions of his premiership as dozens of Tory MPs voted against his Net Zero plans, forcing him to rely on Labour votes to push through his electric car quotas.
Roger Watson delves once again into the eccentric and grammatically challenged world of petitions to Parliament and finds little to encourage but plenty to amuse.
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