Tag: Protests

The protests against China's ruthless Zero Covid policy continue to grow as President Xi Jinping shows no sign of changing tack despite even Hong Kong easing towards a more liberal approach.

Writing in the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill says the police should leave anti-monarchist protestors alone. This is 21st Century Britain, not 16th Century Britain.

Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands on Saturday as they removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the bicycle race by sitting in the middle of the road to block riders.

Metropolitan Police officers have justified their heavy-handed crackdown under Covid lockdown rules at a vigil held for Sarah Everard by claiming that the gathering was morphing into an "anti-police protest".

Hong Kong has been suffering a brain drain after years of enduring first anti-democracy crackdown and more recently Zero Covid lunacy.

New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police.

The NHS vaccine mandate should be cancelled to prevent staff shortages, the Royal College of GPs has said, as thousands took to the streets across England to protest against the policy.

An 'unplanned' anti-lockdown protest in Scotland's largest city has taken place today that appears to be one of the country's largest demonstrations since the pandemic began.

A filmmaker based in France has sent the Daily Sceptic some highly professional footage she recorded at last Saturday's anti-vacine passport protest in Paris. It features lots of vox pops with the protestors.

Headteachers have been told to call the police if parents concerned about the vaccination of their healthy teenager children against Covid ('anti-vaxxers', as the media puts it) protest outside school gates.