News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The scale of waste of taxpayers' money on woke projects like 'trigger warnings' for plays is staggering, says Charlotte Gill. No wonder no matter how much money is thrown at the arts the sector is always 'on its knees'.
Guardian staff are in open revolt after being told they have to spend at least three days a week in the office from Jan 1st, with some complaining it will mean spending less time with their pets.
Today's students get very, very angry if you call them 'snowflakes'. On a completely unrelated note, students at Oxford are being offered crayons so they can engage in 'mindful colouring' to relieve stress.
The worst thing is that young people are not growing out of their snowflake tendencies. Instead, society is being forced to encourage the eccentricities of the young. This doesn't end well.
The 'deep state' is real, and it is powerful. Rock the boat too much and it will find a way to get rid of you, as Dominic Raab found out when he asked civil servants to implement laws to curb the power of activist judges.
"If you are an employer, you call it firm management, if you are the union, you call it bullying," advised the ACAS trainer. Pretty much sums up the Dominic Raab debacle.
Whether you support Dominic Raab or not probably reflects your prior politics, but even so, there is a clear problem now that 'bullying' is defined subjectively of allegations being weaponised, says Dan Hannan.
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