News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
We are tempted at times to call our enemies Narcissists. But narcissists are harmless, says Prof James Alexander. It is the vain that are the trouble. And in the age of social media we live in the Kingdom of the Vain.
How did corporate sponsors like Tesco feel when David Tennant said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist, asks C.J. Strachan. The corporate world is fast waking up to how divisive and damaging woke posturing can be.
Can vaccines make you gay? Of course not, says Steven Tucker, though the idea keeps popping up. On the flip-side, the idea that Covid vaccines can save you from impotence was given credence in the pandemic.
James May has triggered a twitterstorm by accusing Pride of authoritarian tendencies with Too Much Bunting. But he's right, says Julian Mann – and it's Christians who are bearing the brunt of the growing intolerance.
Will people waving their arms around and making strange noises in public really help dismantle anti-autistic prejudice, or just make them look like they are mocking the disabled, asks Steven Tucker.
The Network Rail 'diversity champion" behind the controversial 'Pride pillar' has found himself at the centre of a misogyny row as his social media history comes under scrutiny.
Rishi Sunak is under pressure from almost 70 Conservative MPs to give schools a legal duty to publish materials used in sex education lessons after a judge ruled they did not have to for commercial reasons.
An NHS Trust has installed a huge permanent display of the gender ideology flag on a hospital building –a sign, says Caroline ffiske, of an EDI industry out of control and sucking up taxpayers' cash.
The new head of the Metropolitan Police has said the only acceptable additions to police uniforms are poppies, Help for Heroes wristbands and the police memorial badge.
Nick Dixon and Toby Young talk about the hatefulness of Stop Funding Hate, the Conservative councillor suspended for objecting to Pride and the Left-liberal hypocrisy on show in the Huw Edwards BBC scandal.
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