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Sir Keir Starmer has already proved to be the most authoritarian British leader since Oliver Cromwell, and he's only been in power for four weeks.
How much worse is it going to get?
The
"Passed by the Tories, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act has been shelved by Labour. But it would have protected Jewish students and sceptics of gender ideology." Ditching this free act is a green light to bullies, writes
@HJoyceGender
.
Team GB's fifty-plus medals are an impressive haul, but they wouldn't come close to filling an Olympic swimming pool
The national debt would have no problem...
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"Someone has to challenge the Government. If we don't put a marker down, they'll just have a free hand to ride roughshod over people's right to free speech." WATCH FSU Director Toby Young discuss our threat of legal action against the Labour Government.
Economic growth also benefits countries that don’t experience it.
Thanks to the innovation that occurred in wealthy and free societies, life expectancy in the DRC increased by nearly 20 years between 1960 and 2022, even as its income per capita fell substantially.
This press release/comment is so badly written!
It’s NOT offence to post inaccurate info due to not checking.
It IS an offence to a) *intentionally* stir racial hatred; b) *knowingly* publish false information *intending* to cause non-trivial harm. That’s what she’s accused of.
The full press release from
@cheshirepolice
: 🥴
I assume the intention is to scare people & prompt more caution in social posting.
But these are serious allegations and shouldnt be trivialised, nor the law misrepresented, for short term political goals.
The ‘British dream’ for immigrants is thriving - it’s the working-class whites who are falling behind.
My column on why importing US racial politics won’t work
I’m deeply uncomfortable about the lack of parliamentary investigation and public discussion about the fitness for purpose and proper scope of these opaque censorship units.
As one of the ‘dissenters’ tracked by the CDU during the pandemic, however defensible the tracking of
🚨 Government has rebooted the Counter Disinformation Unit to monitor lawful online speech.
Isn’t it curious how almost every problem this country faces seems to have a ready-made solution rooted in digital authoritarianism?
I’m ✍️ in
@Telegraph
today: