News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Helen MacNamara, who is giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry today, was the Government ethics chief who was at the heart of a very unethical lockdown-busting party at the height of the pandemic.
As Zac Goldsmith resigns over the supposed "apathy" of the Government on environmental issues (yes, really), Camilla Tominey says it just goes to show that there's no pleasing the Net Zero extremists.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Theresa May attending a socially distanced party in lockdown, Lewis Schaffer triggering the censors on GB News and should 'Terf Island' become a theme park ride?
MPs can work themselves into a lather of indignation when Mr. Brexit is caught overseeing a hypocritical workplace, but where's the outrage over the lockdowns themselves and the surge in unexplained excess deaths?
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Guardian's antisemitic cartoon, Vice going woke and broke and whether Tucker Carlson will enter politics.
Commenting on the Boris Johnson trial, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson comments that "it’s not just right but important that politicians end up ensnared in the traps they set for others".
Boris Johnson has today published his long-awaited ‘partygate’ defence, ahead of his appearance before the Privileges Committee tomorrow afternoon.
Former Health Secretary Sajid Javid was a champion of vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and pushed for a Christmas lockdown last winter. He must not become Prime Minister.
Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
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