News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Foreign state control of British news organisations is to be outlawed, in a move by Rishi Sunak to block the attempted UAE-takeover of the Telegraph.
When the Spectator hosted a debate on Britain's cancer crisis at the last Tory conference, the sponsor gave Editor Fraser Nelson a shocking ultimatum: drop Professor Karol Sikora or lose £25,000 in sponsorship.
As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
Why is the Prime Minister thinking about publishing a bill banning conversion therapy when it’s already illegal in this country? This is precisely the sort of woke virtue-signalling that antagonises people who voted Conservative in 2019.
After the courts ruled that the content of controversial pro-trans and 'sex positive' sex education lessons may be kept secret from parents, MPs prepare to legislate to force disclosure.
Was the BBC guilty of breaching its own impartiality rules during the first lockdown, given how one-sided its coverage was? More and more evidence suggests the answer is 'yes'.
Those who dodged the electric car bullet are feeling pretty smug right now, as the value of second-hand EVs plummets, free chargers vanish and the price of electricity soars.
Is Mark Steyn a victim of censorship at the hands of GB News? Or is it perfectly reasonable to ask him to abide by Ofcom’s rules, given that it can be fined over £5 million for breaking them and lose its licence?
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
In his Spectator column this week, Toby looks at the "head-scratcher" of how progressives seek to both politicise science and appeal to it as an objective source of justification for measures like lockdown and Net Zero.
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