News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are Matt Hancock being forced to eat kangaroo scrotum, whether England is being 'invaded' and the hateful antics of hard Left campaign group Stop Funding Hate.
U.S. TV host Trevor Noah has been blasted for inventing a large-scale 'racist backlash' against Rishi Sunak, who became Britain's first non-white Prime Minister this week.
Rishi Sunak has reimposed the ban on fracking lifted by Liz Truss, in his first major shift away from her policy agenda. He also hinted he would bring back the ban on onshore wind farms.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the double standards of woke willy-waving, Eddie Izzard gatecrashing all-women shortlists and our new pint-size PM.
In this week’s London Calling we discuss whether Rishi’s coronation is a WEF coup, the oddity of Just Stop Oil attacking a man who agrees with them about everything, and whether the world ‘globalist’ is anti-Semitic.
Rishi Sunak’s installation as Prime Minister is not the result of a globalist plot masterminded by the WEF. If there’s an invisible hand at work, it’s that of the financial markets.
New PM Rishi Sunak was the lockdown Chancellor. But he has also boasted he cut short an overseas trip to stop lockdown last December. Can he be trusted to stick to a sceptical line on the new public health orthodoxy?
Arguments about how ‘conservative’ the leadership candidates are is pointless since no one really knows what ’conservatism’ means and looking back to Bolingbroke, Burke or Oakeshott doesn’t really help.
Even if you dislike Boris because of his support for lockdowns, vaccine passports and Net Zero, he would be a better PM than Keir Starmer and Labour will be more likely to win the next election if the Tories choose Rishi.
Publications like the Times and Nature are still publishing pieces pushing the case for lockdowns using discredited claims and fantasy modelling. We are not out of the woods yet. The lockdown fanatics have gone nowhere.
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