News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the appalling responses of the Left to the attack on Israel, Nigel Farage saying he won't join the Tories and Laurence Fox getting arrested over Ulez.
Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras after uploading a video online of police appearing to search his home.
Vandals were out in force once again yesterday, with one camera being covered in expanding foam while elsewhere a man held an anti-Ulez sign on top of ladder trying to block a camera's view.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing accusations of hypocrisy for accumulating over 430,000 air miles since 2016 – enough to fly around the world 17 times – despite advocating for environmental causes.
Mark Drakeford's ULEZ-style war on motorists has been branded "stupid" by locals who warned that the plan to impose a blanket 20mph speed limit across Wales could inflict a major economic blow.
New data reveals a shocking 10% increase in traffic-related pollution levels in Glasgow despite the implementation of its Low Emission Zone.
Sadiq Khan's Ulez scheme could be 'all for nothing', according to experts who point to research showing that the environmental benefit of the initiative "would take more than a century to get to Net Zero this way".
Conservative MP and former party leader and Government minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said he backs the 'blade runners' who are disabling Ulez cameras because they have been "lied to".
More electric vehicles are being made by manufacturers than drivers want, one of Britain’s biggest car dealerships has said, as the Government tries to artificially force the market to move against consumer preferences.
A report from C40 Cities – the green globalist gang chaired by London Mayor Sadiq Khan – has suggested a daily 44g meat allowance and rations lower than in the Second World War.
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