News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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.
Do public protests change anything? A new study examines 14 protest movements in the U.S. since 2017, and finds that only one had any discernible impact on public opinion.
Pro-Palestine protesters have sprayed and slashed the University of Cambridge's historic painting of British statesman Lord Balfour who paved the way for a Jewish state in the Middle East.
What is happening in Gaza is not genocide, argues Douglas Murray. "It’s not even regionally remarkable." After all, Assad murdered 600,000 Arab Muslims in Syria – and where were the protests then?
When New Zealand's 'Freedom Convoy' protests rose up against Jacinda Ardern's severe 'No Jab, No Job' mandates, a professional filmmaking team was there to capture it. Watch the film they made.
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