News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson has become a shill for the Green Blob. But his claim that 'misinformation' is suppressing sales of EVs, rather than poor word-of-mouth, doesn't hold water, says Ben Pile.
Together Declaration, a prominent anti-lockdown and pro-free-speech pressure group, has announced its intention to support candidates who align with its principles in elections this year.
Adverts for the expansion of London's Ulez scheme were misleading because they relied on modelling estimates and not actual data, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
£150 million is being pumped by Sadiq Khan into 'Project Detroit', a secret project aiming to enhance road-user charging technology, fuelling fears that a stealthy introduction of a pay-per-mile road tax is underway.
In the first legal dispute of its kind, Dutch lorry drivers are taking Transport for London to court, challenging £6.5 million in fines that they claim were unfairly imposed.
Tory MP Gareth Johnson is opposing London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion, slamming it as an "unfair stealth tax", as the scheme raised £5.3 million in its first week.
With waiting lists at an all-time high, the NHS has been forced to spend nearly £65 million to make hundreds of ambulances compliant with London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme.
Sadiq Khan misled the public about the “benefits” of Ulez in radio and newspaper advertisements, a draft report from the advertising watchdog leaked to the Telegraph reveals.
Sir Christopher Hohn, a major funder of Extinction Rebellion, has reportedly donated £46 million to C40 cities, a climate network chaired by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, advocating for low-emission zones.
In the King's Speech the Government confirmed plans for mandatory annual oil and gas licensing rounds, but measures to stop anti-car schemes like Ulez were missing.
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