News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
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by Joanna Gray
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Next month the 15-Minute-City guru himself is coming to Oxford to give a talk. Urban planner Carlos Moreno is the thinker behind the authoritarian anti-car idea enthusiastically embraced by the UN and other alarmists.
Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
Almost half of lockdown fines – totalling nearly £17 million – remain unpaid and are crippling those liable for them, it is reported, as lawyers call for an amnesty.
'Public health' has always been the handmaiden of tyranny, casting a veil of 'hygiene' over abhorrent practices like eugenics and genocide, says Dr David Bell. The public must take back control from the 'experts'.
Momentum is building against the WHO's Pandemic Treaty power grab – but as 'fact checkers' falsely claim WHO directions won't be legally binding, will enough people wake up to the threat in time, asks Ben Kingsley.
The fate of the rulers of Ancient Egypt and their utopian schemes holds lessons for our own unpopular elites and their luxury beliefs, says historian Guy de la Bédoyère.
The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.
If programmable CBDCs are introduced, your own digital financial footprint will be used to control you, as even democratic countries slip towards Chinese-style social credit systems, warns Laura Dodsworth.
The new Energy Bill "gives sweeping executive authority to Government ministers", says Dr David McGrogan. "As law-making, it is a travesty. As policy, it is inexcusable." But by merging law and technology it is the future.
Dr David McGrogan contrasts the 'teleocracy' of Left-progressive thought with that of the authentic conservative who eschews grand social designs for the preservation of a civil way of life.
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