Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
Graham Dockery rt.com Graham Dockery is an Irish journalist, commentator, and writer at RT. Previously based in Amsterdam, he wrote for DutchNews and a scatter of local and national newspapers. A prestigious science journal is seeking an intern, but only those of a certain race may apply. This isn’
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union One of the reasons so many of us are fearful of hate speech legislation is because of what is happening in the UK. In the latest example of speech police going overboard, a school chaplain has been referred to anti-terror police for
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union The UK government has introduced a draft “Online Safety Bill” which would force websites to clamp down on legal speech, and even block them if they don’t comply. Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, said that the bill would “protect children on the
One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered George Orwell, “1984” Boris Johnson’s “conservative” government has almost uniformly been about as
righttolife.org.uk Labour MP Rupa Huq has today introduced an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would introduce censorship zones around abortion clinics nationwide. Potential jail sentences of up to two years will be introduced for people who attempt to advise, persuade, or otherwise express
Rob Lyons rt.com Rob Lyons is a UK journalist specialising in science, environmental and health issues. He is the author of ‘Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder’. If you think the witch hunts against the likes of JK Rowling for daring to utter something deemed
In 2019 Jacinda Ardern and flaky French President Emmanuel Macron co-founded the Christchurch Call following a one day killing spree by a crazed and ideologically confused lone wolf. France’s decades of obscene organised terrorism, murders and anti-Semitic persecution appear to have escaped Macron’s attention, indicating that
righttolife.org.uk The Queen’s Speech has set out the Government’s intentions to introduce laws designed to protect freedom of speech at universities. In her speech this Tuesday as part of the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen outlined the Government’s intention to push ahead with the
rt.com The BBC has exposed itself to a wave of internet scorn after lecturing Britons on how to correctly embrace one another, in response to reports that the government would soon “allow” hugging. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to push forward with plans to ease lockdown restrictions, including
Being threatened with war by France seems somewhat akin to being bailed up at the point of a limp baguette, and protests are something of a national pastime. So, on the one hand, France’s fit of pique in the Channel seems almost comical. On the other hand, it’s
The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George
