News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Everything white is racist these days, from white paint to the White Cliffs of Dover. And now milk, it seems, with the Wellcome Museum labelling it a "highly politicised liquid". Steven Tucker wades into the nonsense.
Our 'post-human' leaders like Macron, Houellebecq implies, have so successfully destroyed Western civilisation that its people, profoundly depressed by what has occurred, have basically given up living, says Steven Tucker.
The Church of England has committed to paying £1bn in slavery reparations. But the case for doing so is historical nonsense, say Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman. The Church never made any money from the slave trade.
Reform UK has reported Channel 4 to the police for "electoral interference" over the secret filming of a "planted" racist activist. The activist himself says he is "glad" and that the "truth will come out in the papers".
The Reform activist filmed by Channel 4 being racist has turned out to be an actor who is well-spoken but specialises in "rough voices" – though the activist and Channel 4 have denied he was a plant.
Kemi Badenoch has branded David Tennant a "rich, Lefty, white male celebrity" after he said he wished she "did not exist any more" because of her views on transgenderism and women’s rights.
Where did woke come from? Eric Kaufmann says it's not from Marxism but from something more visceral for the Left: the sacralisation of 'disadvantaged' minority groups and an overactive sense of guilt.
A Muslim entrepreneur has donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform U.K., saying migrants who came to Britain legally are dismayed that “we have lost control of our borders”.
Newspapers have come under fire for printing images of black footballers after England lost. But why is this suddenly 'racist', asks Steven Tucker. Must we now hide black footballers on a losing side from view?
The politically correct have long fretted that concerns to promote native plant species in gardens mask a fascist agenda. This is absurd, says Steven Tucker. Is nothing safe from Leftist politics?
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