News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Royal Parks have dubbed the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park "highly offensive", slamming it for peddling a "Victorian view of the world" with its portrayal of racial stereotypes.
"Sorry, who is she meant to be?" The new Tatler portrait of the Princess of Wales is "egregiously, intolerably, jaw-hits-the-floor bad", says Alastair Sooke, the Telegraph's Chief Art Critic.
First Charles and then Kate – it's hard to ignore the soaring cancer rate when two members of the Royal Family are diagnosed within weeks. But are we being gaslit about what's behind the surge, asks Melissa Kite.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Lee Anderson's defection to Reform U.K., the 'Henley Plot' to bring back Boris and the Daily Sceptic's latest Twitter pile-on.
After suffering the ignominy of a rejected petition to Parliament, Dr Roger Watson takes a look at the other petitions that have been cast upon the proverbial scrap heap and finds an unexpected world of entertainment.
Princess Anne said lockdown robbed her father Prince Philip of social interactions before his death and that the Queen's solitude at his funeral was "thievery" in a rare glimpse of the royals' view on Covid restrictions.
The Coronation threatens to be a ghastly, hand-wringing affair in which a furrowed-browed King Charles pays tribute to the NHS and the LGBTQ+ community before ceremonially taking the knee in front of Commonwealth leaders.
On any objective reading, the Royals’ treatment of Lady Hussey is nastier than her 'transgression', and it is Fulani who has behaved the most despicably, writes Ramesh Thakur.
Harry and Meghan "want their own apology" after Lady Susan Hussey met with black charity boss Ngozi Fulani (born Marlene Headley) for 'reconciliation' talks at Buckingham Palace this week, it has emerged.
Prince William, like other Royals, is happy to lecture us about about climate change. But the truth is the Royal Family's carbon footprint is 50 times greater than that of the average U.K. family.
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