The Halifax has urged its customers to publicly declare their gender pronouns – and told those unhappy with this woke virtue-signalling that they're welcome to close their accounts.
The Free Speech Union is hosting a fundraiser tonight at the Backyard Comedy Club. Click below to buy tickets. Prices start at £20.
In this week's London Calling, the topics are college reunions, Greta Thunberg, Paul McCartney, Roe v Wade and the steaming pile of horse manure that is Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Lord Frost is one of three ex-Cabinet ministers who've warned of the threat the Online Safety Bill poses to free speech. "A Conservative Government should not be putting this... in to law," he says.
A student has been given a grant of £60,000 to research whether puppets are racist. James Roberts of the Taxpayers' Alliance says taxpayers are fed up with funding this "postmodern piffle".
The IFR of COVID-19 is now 0.0333%, according to a new analysis by Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Jason Oke. About the same as seasonal flu, in other words. So no need for any more restrictions.
Gender ideology continues to spread within the BBC, with the Telegraph revealing staff are being taught there are 150 genders and they should declare their pronouns to reduce "suicide risks" for trans people.
The British Council has embraced the credo of 'decolonisation' and it won't breathe a word against China's brutal suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, that well known victim of colonial oppression.
Ian Leslie, author of How to Disagree, has written a great Substack post about the dishonest way the liberal left brands anyone who challenges the relentless leftward shift of our public institutions a 'culture warrior'.
According to a major investigation undertaken by the Mail, young children are paying a terrible price for school closures and other Covid restrictions. We must never lockdown again.
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