Commenting on the Boris Johnson trial, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson comments that "it’s not just right but important that politicians end up ensnared in the traps they set for others".
In this week’s episode of the Free Speech Union podcast 'That's Debatable!', Ben Jones and Tom Harris explore hot topics including the problems with police training and eBooks being censored after you've bought them.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Donald Trump's forthcoming arrest, the British police's preference for wokery over free speech and the glorious implosion of the SNP.
The Casey report on the Metropolitan Police has landed, and it is as damning as anticipated, finding the force to be institutionally racist and sexist. But is Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley right to reject the label?
Boris Johnson has today published his long-awaited ‘partygate’ defence, ahead of his appearance before the Privileges Committee tomorrow afternoon.
Joe Biden signed on Monday a new law requiring all U.S. intelligence agencies to release all documents relating to the origins of COVID-19 within 90 days – but redacted for 'national security'.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
Net Zero targets must be brought forward by a decade to stop the “climate time bomb", the UN has said at the launch of a major new report. "Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast." Good grief.
Police forces are failing to train officers on the importance of free speech while teaching them obscure pronouns, according to a report from the Free Speech Union into the "free speech crisis" in British policing.
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