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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Newcastle fan given a three-season ban for saying 'transphobic' things on X, e.g. "transwomen aren't women", is taking legal action against the club with the help of the Free Speech Union.
English football teams are falling over one another to tick all the EDI boxes, even to the point of snooping on 'heretical' fans. But this sinister wokery distracts from their real problems, says Jack Watson.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
Richard Littlejohn highlights the extraordinary revelation that the Premier League's 'Stadium Stasi' has snooped on and banned a gender critical lesbian for her political beliefs.
A football fan has been given a three season ban for saying she doesn't think transwomen are women after being investigated by an intelligence unit embedded in the Premier League. Read the story of the 'Stadium Stasi'.
When the Premier League resumes on Friday, players will stop taking the knee. Finally, this pointless, hypocritical, virtue-signalling gesture is on the way out.
Officials are disappointed with Premier League football for having what has been titled the "worst vaccination rate" in the world of sports and are considering how to increase uptake now that other measures have failed.
Tottenham Hotspur has become the first Premier League club to announce they will be trialing vaccine passports ahead of the new season. A negative test will suffice though this is not included in plans for future passes.
Fans won't be alone in being barred from stadiums later this year if they've not been vaccinated. Premier League players and staff will also need to have received two doses of a Covid vaccine for matches to go ahead.
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