News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Hard left activists and their Islamist allies rioted in France's major cities last night following the surprise victory of the New Popular Front – a coalition of far Left activists and Islamists – in yesterday's election.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the 'far Right' unrest in Dublin, Geert Wilders winning in the Netherlands and Tommy Robinson getting arrested at the march against antisemitism.
As the August 25th deadline for the new EU online speech regulations approaches, Commissioner Thierry Breton warns social media companies to turn up the dial on censorship, or else.
According to a major new poll for the French newspaper Le Figaro, only a small minority believe the riots were caused by police brutality and social exclusion. Almost half blame "the disappearance of authority".
France's latest riots were not incited by its colonial past but because a cop shot a suspect who tried to flee. But it's clear this is a pretext for Leftists to violently advance their globalist agenda, says Eugyppius.
Civilisation in France is unravelling amid widespread violence, the influence of radical Left-wingers dreaming of a new revolution and the spread of conspiracy theories, President Macron has said.
The Mona Lisa has been attacked by a climate activist. Alongside the recent attacks on oil depots and Margaret Thatcher's statue, it appears that far Left criminal damage is becoming a major problem.
The looting in South Africa was triggered by last week's arrest of Jacob Zuma. But it's worth considering whether lockdown is a factor too. South Africa's GDP fell 7% last year, and unemployment stands at 32.6%
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