Pen America has organised an event to express solidarity with Salman Rushdie in which various well-known authors will read out passages from The Satanic Verses on the steps of the New York Public Library on Friday.
Salma al-Shebab, a student at Leeds University, has been sentenced to 34 years by a Saudi court for following and retweeting dissident activists on Twitter.
According to an RAF insider, the Air Chief Marshall is willing to compromise national security at a time of growing threats from Russia and China to pursue his ‘equity, diversity and inclusion’ agenda.
Thomas Fazi has written a pessimistic essay for UnHerd in which he predicts widespread civil unrest in the UK this winter, thanks to spiralling household energy bills and other self-imposed political disasters.
A new American study ranks food according to its nutritional content and puts bacon above couscous, crisps above multigrain crackers and chicken currie above veggie soup.
Ireland’s Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is like the Online Safety Bill on steroids. Among other things, it will create a new media commission to promote climate change hysteria.
President Xi’s refusal to abandon his insane zero Covid policy is wreaking havoc with the Chinese economy, depressing retail sales and choking off the nascent recovery.
In this week’s London Calling, the talking points are the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago and why it won't do Trump any harm, the disgraceful assault on Salman Rushdie and Jerry Sadowitz’s cancellation in Edinburgh.
Jordan Peterson has written a great essay for the Telegraph about the utopianism that underpins the net zero agenda of the global corporate and political elites. Like other utopian projects, it will immiserate us all.
Comedians and public figures from across the political spectrum have condemned the decision of the Plesance Theatre to cancel a performance by the comedian Jerry Sadowitz.
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