The New York Times will use any excuse to bash Britain and the death of the Queen is no exception. The paper’s view of the U.K. is so jaundiced – racist, crippled by Brexit, a diet of boiled mutton – it’s almost comic.
Never known for letting a good opportunity go to waste, the woke Left has been busy attacking the Queen, or, rather, the “coloniser-in-chief”, in the New York Times, New York magazine and the Atlantic. Such charmers.
Yours truly is the guest on this week’s Planet Normal, the weekly podcast by Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson that has done almost as much as the Daily Sceptic to keep people sane over the past two-and-a-half years.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are Liz Truss (a new hope or Boris in a dress?), the Rings of Power (surprisingly good) and the Chris Rock/Dave Chappelle gig (good, but not anti-woke enough).
By an overwhelming majority, the people of Chile have rejected a new ‘woke’ constitution that would have prioritised tackling climate change and required women to hold at least 50% of jobs in official institutions.
Andrew Doyle, the host of Free Speech Nation on GB News, has written a book called The New Puritans in which he compares ‘woke’ outrage mobs to the witch hunters of 17th Century Salem. Read an excerpt.
Fire brigades have been told to “fight fires not culture wars” after it was revealed they spent over £17,000 painting fire engines in LGBTQ+ rainbow colours to promote equity, diversity and inclusion.
An energy expert has warned that Britons could be asked to stop using gas and electricity at peak times and turn off the lights when the wind isn’t blowing to avoid winter blackouts.
New figures reveal that GPs saw their earnings rise to £142,000 during the pandemic in a Covid pay book. Meanwhile, most GPs now work three days or fewer per week and public satisfaction with GPs is the lowest on record.
A hard-hitting report by Policy Exchange has found the public is rapidly losing confidence in the police, believing them to be more concerned with being ‘woke’ than solving crimes.
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