News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are the Matrix attack on Farage, the Tories' catastrophic election campaign and Keir Starmer's hidden agenda.
Nigel Farage was one of the few British politicians to stand up for our right to self-determination and helped us to break free of an overbearing European power. Why can’t he see the Ukrainians are in the same position?
Ben Pile analyses the environmental policies in the Conservative and Labour manifestos and struggles to spot the difference.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Rishi Sunak losing two by-elections, Sadiq Khan's woke makeover of the London Overground and Putin's murder of Alexei Navalny.
In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
The former head of Interpol, Björn Eriksson says his chief security concern now is the erasure of cash, as worries grow about the vulnerability of electronic payment systems to attack.
Time is not on the side of Ukraine in its long-running counter-offensive, says Colonel Richard Kemp, as it is battling not just against the strongest Russian defences but also the clock of U.S. electoral politics.
In this week's London Calling, James Delingpole unveils a new conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic. And, of course, he thinks the Russian coup was misdirection by Putin. Also, the new India Jones reviewed.
Ian Rons denies being a pro-Ukrainian, Establishment shill and challenges James Delingpole, Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson to debate him on a platform of their choice.
Ian Rons sets out the reasons why he thinks it's very unlikely that Putin will use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine and worries that exaggerating this risk has stopped us providing Ukraine with vital weapons.
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