News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Labour faces accusations of intending to raise council tax on homes with larger gardens by using satellite surveillance to spy on property sizes, should the party come into power.
Wales's blanket 20mph speed limits will be dropped by September, the nation’s new Labour Transport Secretary has said, after it was conceded they should never have been brought in. Turns out, 20 isn't plenty.
Lockdowns in Wales were "for the sake of it", a former Government Minister has told the Covid Inquiry. The country just wanted to be seen to be different to England.
Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has told the Covid Inquiry that local Covid lockdowns were a "failed experiment". If they were an experiment, where was the consent, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Charlotte Church has come under fire for leading a 100-strong pro-Palestine choir featuring children in singing the antisemitic song From The River to Sea, which calls for the destruction of the world's only Jewish state.
More than 3,000 jobs are set to be lost at the U.K.'s biggest steelworks as the U.K.'s Net Zero deindustrialisation strategy sees it set to become the only country in the G20 unable to make its own steel from scratch.
Angela McLean, the Government's Chief Scientist, told the Covid Inquiry that the U.K.'s 'circuit breaker' lockdowns in 2020 cut Covid infections. That's not what the data show, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
The Welsh Government is to redefine women to include self-identifying transgender 'women' under planned new laws.
In a U.K. first, Wales has lowered its default speed limit on urban roads to 20 mph from 30 mph. Here's what you need to know.
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.
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