News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The US is generally thought to be far more religious than Europe. However, a new paper that tracks people's locations with smartphone data suggests US religious attendance may have been substantially overestimated.
A prayer ban imposed at Katharine Birbalsingh’s school that was challenged by a Muslim pupil is lawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
In a legal battle over discrimination and free speech rights, a devout Christian social worker is suing an NHS-backed firm after his £25,000 job offer was rescinded due to his views on homosexuality.
The billion-pound slavery atonement proposed by the Church of England is slammed by Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, as yet another instance of British national self-loathing and Americanised symbolic virtue-signalling.
The UK Armed Forces are taking heat for their efforts to ramp up diversity amid historically low troop numbers, alongside proposals to remove Christian elements from Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Three years ago, a Yorkshire teacher was suspended and went into hiding due to death threats for showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He's still in hiding today.
The NHS is facing backlash for requiring patients to navigate an extensive list, including options like Goddess, Satanist, or Druid, when selecting religion, gender and sexual preferences during online registration.
Climate catastrophism is infamous for resembling a religious cult in its commitment to an extreme narrative and lack of rationality. Now social science has proven that this is exactly what it is, says Andy A. West.
A teacher has been sacked from a Church of England school after she refused to teach "extreme" LGBT lessons as part of religious education.
Hot summers, long droughts, warm winters, violent storms, even a hurricane – the 1600s were no stranger to extreme weather. The solution proposed at the time was self-denial. Sound familiar?
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