Big Brother Watch is holding a benefit tomorrow night at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green in partnership with Comedy Unleashed. Geoff Norcott is on the bill and tickets start at £20.
In this week's London Calling, the topics are Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s unwillingness to thank Liz Truss, Boris's comparison of the crisis in Ukraine to Brexit and how this year's Oscars could be much improved.
Disney has closed all its theme parks in Shanghai as China struggles to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak in yet another indictment of the country's disastrous 'zero-Covid' policy.
The Free Speech Union has written to the ECHR urging it to investigate Nottingham University for withdrawing its offer of an honorary degree to Dr. Tony Sewell. His sin? Saying the UK is *not* institutionally racist.
An undercover investigation by the Times has revealed that 6,200 staff at DVLA were sent home during the first lockdown and 3,400 were not asked to do any work at all. No wonder people are waiting months for driving tests.
The Online Safety Bill is a missed opportunity. It's not that it will make social media companies even more likely to ban dissenters. It's that it doesn’t do enough to check the already rampant censoriousness of Big Tech.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the Online Safety Bill, Putin's faltering invasion, the oikophobia of the Right, Hornblower and the Ipcress File.
Ed West has written a brilliant analysis of why some Right-wing populists have either sided with Putin or think Putin's Russia and Zelenzky's Ukraine are morally equivalent – they're suffering from oikophobia.
Allison Pearson has written a terrific piece suggesting various things that should be added to the Terms of Reference of the official Covid inquiry such as, 'What role did the teaching unions play in closing schools?'
Thirty million people are in lockdown in China following an outbreak of Omicron. Yet further evidence, if any were needed, that China's zero-Covid policy is a complete disaster.
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