News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
U.K. TV executives, including a former Channel 4 commissioner, are facing backlash for criticising Stephen Fry’s Christmas speech against antisemitism.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has criticised the proposed £15 increase in the BBC licence fee as "excessive" amid a cost of living crisis and growing public discontent, with a rising demand for a pay-per-content model.
The German regulator has banned the country's 'GB News': dissenting conservative station AUF1, famed for its lockdown and vaccine mandate scepticism, has been taken off air after it was branded "hate" and "fake news".
Prince William has opened a BAFTA segment on climate change praising television writers for inserting green alarmist messages into their programmes. His words followed a video that claimed the "planet is on fire".
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