Censorship
A Dangerous Profession
Eliora Ms Bao Choy, a freelance journalist in Hong Kong, was arrested at her home on Tuesday 3 November 2020 for allegedly making a false declaration to access vehicle ownership records. She was trying to trace those present at the scene of the Yeun Long attacks for a documentary programme
Sunetra Gupta on Unprofessional Conduct of Pro-lockdown Scientists
covidplanb.co.nz Sunetra Gupta, a founding signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote for the Daily Mail. Here is an edited set of excerpts. I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not
Karens Complain That “Karen” Is “Hate Speech”
As I write this, polls are yet to close on the US election, but an interesting tidbit to emerge from, of all places, the New York Times, is that voters for Joe Biden are most likely to be women named “Karen”. You can’t make this up. But this raises
Crybaby of the Week
Today’s crybaby Sir Stevo Timothy ( A popular woke comedian) really does have something worth crying about. Crybaby Stevo didn’t care about censorship or freedom of speech until he was censored and his freedom of speech was taken away. In fact, he didn’t believe those who were warning
Dispatches from the Great Awokening
Michael Kirke mercatornet.com Michael Kirke was born in Ireland. In 1966 he graduated from University College Dublin (History and Politics). In that year he began working on the sub-editorial desk of The Evening… More by Michael Kirke Given our strange and uncertain current political and cultural landscape, it is
Be Careful What You Voted for – You Might Just Get It!
The cross-over voters who joined diehard Labour voters in giving Jacinda Ardern’s incoming Labour Government the first-ever single-party majority since we saddled ourselves with MMP in 1996 may live to regret their short-sighted impetuosity. They may well get more than they bargained for. The 9-year Labour Government under Helen
Cancel Culture Comes for BFD Columnist
Starting late Monday night and then continuing on all Tuesday morning I was sent a number of e-mails by members of a Twitter lynch mob. They disagreed with an opinion expressed on Twitter by one of our Insight: Politics columnists and expected me as The BFD editor to cancel them.
Someone, Please Tell Paul Hunt That Safety Is Not a Human Right.
Stephen Franks Free Speech Coalition The Human Rights Commission is gunning for hate speech laws with taxpayer funding and the support of the Government. The Human Rights Commission report released yesterday has called for a balance to be struck between “freedom of speech and the right to be safe.” It
CENSORED: Here Are the Crimes They Are Hiding from You | Rudy Giuliani
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Better Watch What You Say Over Your Neeps and Tatties
As Theodore Dalrymple has noted, the Scottish National Party are nationalists and socialists: they are National Socialists. In fact, the ties of the SNP to Nazism run all the way back to its founding. Founding member and second chairman, Andrew Dewar Gibb, frequently quoted Hitler in speeches, and although he
The Most Dangerous Disease in the World
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Glenn Greenwald on Resigning from His Own Publication Due to Censorship
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Maybe if We Don’t Talk About It, It Won’t Come for Us
In J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books, almost all the characters avoid saying the name of the series’ arch-villain, Voldemort. No matter whether they’re good or evil, all but a couple of characters refuse to name him out of fear. Voldemort’s own followers call him “the Dark
The Day the Truth Died
The journalist that risked everything to break the Edward Snowden story, Glenn Greenwald, has just resigned from the United States news outlet The Intercept. This is astonishing because he founded The Intercept after the challenges of getting Snowden’s message out into the public eye. The sole purpose of The