News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Clothing that promotes "cultural appropriation" has been banned by a leading music festival, the Wireless Festival. Down with cultural cross-pollination! But will it include a ban on non-Westerners donning Western clothes?
Sick of woke censorship? You ain't seen nothing yet. With Labour coming to power in a landslide, the Free Speech Union is bracing for an all-out assault on our precious freedom of expression.
Nigel Farage has said Sadiq Khan "hates England" after London cabbies were banned from flying England flags during the European Championships in Germany.
Companies will have to foot the bill for 'woke' trade union equality reps under proposals laid out in Labour's New Deal for Working People.
The West used to know why we should obey the law – our Christian faith gave us the answer. But as the sea of faith continues to withdraw, the void is being filled by sinister ideologies, says Prof James Alexander.
The Lib Dems' deselection of David Campanale shows that Christians are now the most despised minority in Britain, with the Left in particular unwilling to tolerate Christians who actually believe in their faith.
With the rise of woke authoritarianism it's not that we are not becoming more like China, argues Dr David McGrogan, but that we are becoming more like ourselves as the dark inner logic of secular modernity pushes through.
The Crown Prosecution Service has come under fire for its guidelines, which could result in parents facing domestic abuse charges for not using their child's preferred pronoun.
A teacher has been sacked from a Church of England school after she refused to teach "extreme" LGBT lessons as part of religious education.
Ramesh Thakur laments the rise of corporate fascism that fuses the power of the state, corporations and social media and technology giants to impose a reality-denying religion of 'social justice' on the populace.
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