News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Newcastle fan given a three-season ban for saying 'transphobic' things on X, e.g. "transwomen aren't women", is taking legal action against the club with the help of the Free Speech Union.
An Exeter University student was investigated, threatened with expulsion and placed on probation after his next door neighbour overheard him saying on the phone: "Veganism is wrong." Yes, you read that correctly.
English football teams are falling over one another to tick all the EDI boxes, even to the point of snooping on 'heretical' fans. But this sinister wokery distracts from their real problems, says Jack Watson.
Former City lawyer Adrian Brown says its time to use the common law tort of intentional interference to sue the woke busy bodies who try to get people 'de-banked'.
The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
A Lockdown Sceptics readers spotted a good comment on a neighbourhood forum about a snitch who called the police on the family opposite because they were breaking the Covid rules.
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