News Round-Up
6 July 2025
by Will Jones
Lucy Connolly has been mistreated by prison officers who have handcuffed her, "manhandled her without provocation" and stripped her of privileges, Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice has said after visiting her today.
People can no longer rant about bloody murder, says James Alexander. The judges condemned Lucy Connolly as if she were Boadicea, but she was just a Shakespearian plebeian voicing the sentiments of anyone shocked by murder.
Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for 31 months for a tweet posted in the wake of the Southport murders, has failed in her attempt to be released early after the Court of Appeal refused to reduce her sentence.
Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for 31 months over a tweet during last summer's riots, has again been refused leave to spend time with her daughter and sick husband in a move said to "confirm" she is a political prisoner.
In a victory for free speech, ex-Royal Marine Jamie Michael has been cleared of racial hatred after posting a video calling for peaceful protest following the Southport attack. The jury took just 17 minutes to acquit him.
Questioning the deadliness of Covid and climate change is "seditious", according to Lord Richard Allan, the UK's new chief censor under the Online Safety Act. 1984 was supposed to be fiction, says Laurie Wastell.
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
Is Keir Starmer autistic? His public persona (or lack of), absence of interpersonal skills and obsessively technocratic outlook might lead us to conclude so. But that would be unfair on autistic people, says Steven Tucker.
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had declared the need for "white genocide". Is this why the authorities are so adamant that it wasn't a terrorist offence?
Reform UK has topped a national opinion poll for the first time in the wake of the sentencing of the Southport killer as Nigel Farage's party declares: "No pacts, no deals. Reform is headed for Government."
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