News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Will Trump ever admit he was wrong to back lockdown in March 2020 – a decision that doomed America to years of crisis and sank his re-election hopes that year? Jeffrey Tucker is hopeful that truth will finally prevail.
The past week has seen cancel culture come to the Right, as conservatives pick off those responsible for off-colour Trump assassination jokes and social media posts. But cancel culture is always wrong, says Andrew Doyle.
Amid the most dramatic week in U.S. politics for years, the petty British media appear to have nothing better to do than play gotcha with Nigel Farage. What a pathetic spectacle, says Laurie Wastell.
After the Rumble with the Mumble debate, Biden's support is slipping away. But since he made clear that folks will have to prise his cold dead hands away from the Presidency, his Democrat critics have gone awfully quiet.
Could RFK smash the two-party system in this year's US election? The one-time Democrat now-independent scion of America's most famous political dynasty already leads the under-35s and could deny Trump or Biden a majority.
A recent poll found that RFK Jr – the once-Democrat-now-independent presidential candidate known for his environmental and anti-vaccine activism – is more popular among voters than either Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
Last night, Megyn Kelly asked the Republican presidential hopefuls whether Donald Trump was right to be proud of Operation Warp Speed, which approved the mRNA Covid vaccines in record time. Here's what they said.
Republicans' trust in the scientific community has fallen off a cliff. And is it any wonder? Before he was pro-lockdown, Anthony Fauci said "that’s something that I don’t think we could possibly do in the United States".
In a recent poll, only 36% of British Conservatives said the pandemic is over. By contrast, 75% of U.S. Republicans say the same. What explains this gap? Republicans get their news from less "alarmist" outlets.
President Joe Biden doesn't seem put off by the prospect of legal challenges over his plans to impose vaccine mandates on federal workers, telling his critics: "Have at it."
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