News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
Reform UK is planning to launch a private prosecution of the men who fought police at Manchester airport earlier this year, saying the officers have been thrown "under the bus" while the men have gone unpunished.
Seven Spanish Christians were arrested in Paris last week after driving through the city in a bus protesting the "blasphemous" depiction of the Last Supper at the Olympics opening ceremony.
Covid-like restrictions should be used to stop the riots, according to Government adviser on political violence John Woodcock. We saw this coming, says Prof David Paton.
Forces must tackle all sides involved in civil disorder with "equal ferocity" a police leader has said, amid a row over "two-tier" policing after no arrests were made at a Muslim riot in Birmingham.
Guilty and about to face the consequences, two Just Stop Oil activists who hurled tomato soup at a Van Gogh masterpiece have been told to prepare for prison.
Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam has been jailed for five years and four other activists for four years for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
As two retirees who never attended a protest march before March 2020 but were galvanised by the draconian Covid response, Louise Pilcher and Rosie Thomas felt they had to be at the anti-WHO protest in Geneva.
Saboteurs opposed to "automobile capitalism" fail to storm the German Tesla factory before claiming credit for stopping production on a scheduled holiday when nobody was at work in the first place.
Venues across the country are cancelling Eurovision gigs after Palestine protest groups instructed their followers to hound pubs showing the contest, with bars closing their doors as they fear for staff safety.
In a scathing piece for the Telegraph, Prof Nigel Biggar admonishes Oxford academics and staff backing pro-Palestinian student protesters, suggesting they need a sharp lesson on history, ethics and law.
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