News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The West "provoked" the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nigel Farage has said. The expansion of NATO and the European Union gave Putin "an excuse" to go to war.
It's becoming clear to everyone except our rulers that Ukraine is losing and can now never win if winning means expelling all Russian troops, says David Craig. The longer it goes on, the worse it gets for Ukraine.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast – recorded live at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square – the talking points are Joe Biden's failing memory, Trump's radical NATO shake-up and Putin giving Tucker a history lesson.
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.
Once a tyrant, always a tyrant and those people who during Covid used power cruelly are starting to make a resurgence. The latest is a call to withhold child benefit from those who don't vaccinate their children.
Ian Rons made the mistake of reading an article by an American conservative arguing for an end to aid for Ukraine. The ignorance was almost bottomless.
All our mainstream media have claimed that the Wagner mutiny has weakened Putin. But the evidence suggests the opposite, writes David Craig, after the Russian leader swiftly faced down the threat.
Duncan Allan, a fellow of Chatham House, has written a report speculating about what might happen if Ukraine's counter-offensive is successful and Putin is deposed. He fears that may not end well.
If Russia loses the war in Ukraine, how likely is it that the Russian Federation will break up, potentially leading to more armed conflicts? Not all that likely, says Ian Rons in the Daily Sceptic.
It's been claimed that in a recent interview, Angela Merkel said the Minsk agreements were just a way to "give Ukraine time". Yet this statement has been taken out of context by her critics, including Vladimir Putin.
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