News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
During last summer's leadership campaign, Rishi Sunak promised to shut down the UK's 30 Confucius Institutes. But he's now done a reverse ferret.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to rewrite equality law to protect women by clarifying 'sex' is biological, making it easier to bar trans people from female sports and single-sex spaces.
So much for Rishi Sunak's 'war on woke'. Tory backbenchers are waking up to the fact that the Worker Protection Bill, which the Government is supporting, would massively extend the scope of the Equality Act.
When will the Left learn that not everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi? Calling your opponents ‘fascists’ is not just crass, it’s stupendously lazy and boring.
Britain will be hammered by a wave of strikes every day in the run-up to Christmas in a new ‘Winter of Discontent’. Rishi Sunak is in office, but not in charge – and the public’s anger is growing by the day.
Today's Autumn Statement of tax hikes, giving the UK the highest tax burden in 70 years, is a direct consequence of the disastrous decisions taken during the pandemic to borrow and spend so much on lockdowns.
A recent poll found far more people blame the war in Ukraine for the cost of living crisis than lockdown. But the data are clear: inflation started as lockdown ended and no impact from the start of the war can be seen.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are Cop27, climate change reparations, the midterms, Trump’s imminent declaration and Matt Hancock’s no-show on I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
The UK has backed a $1 trillion climate 'reparations' initiative that would require it to hand over huge sums to poorer countries due to its alleged culpability for their 'extreme weather'.
Rishi Sunak has performed his first U-turn and said he will now attend COP27, having previously said he was too busy. He also repeated the eco-fantasist mantra: "There is no prosperity without action on climate change."
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