News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Zadie Smith looks back with glazed eyes on the good old days of Blair, and welcomes the likely dawn of a new Labour era. Prof James Alexander takes the writer to task for her simplistic view of the world.
Lurking behind the election, Paul Sutton spies Tony Blair and his technocratic heirs, similarly committed to putting the 'grown-ups' in charge and smearing and smothering all dissent.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Reform’s manifesto, Keir Starmer's real plans for Britain and Tony Blair's discovery of his inner TERF.
This is how we should respond to clearly crazy policy ideas, says Joanna Gray. Like a streetwise woman in a nightclub who spots a chancer coming and stops him in his tracks, we all just need to say "NO!"
The Human Rights Act 1998 was a judicialisation of politics, says Dr David McGrogan. "It transfers political decisions away from democratic processes and into the courts, where it will be unsullied by the electorate."
The BBC has deliberately destroyed the great British sitcom, says Steven Tucker. Making the unwashed masses laugh is no longer PC and comedy must be given a 'higher purpose'. No wonder nobody is watching anymore.
Former Government Chief Scientific Adviser and leading lockdown proponent Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, it has been announced.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
New Labour's Equality Act embedded identity politics into our public institutions and paved the way for the ideological capture of our schools, civil service and NHS, says Tory MP Miriam Cates. It needs an overhaul.
Dr David McGrogan considers the civil war erupting in the Conservative Party between national and liberal conservatism and says the former is bound to triumph because the latter is a contradiction in terms.
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