In Episode 86 of the Sceptic: Molly Kingsley on the Government's most sinister censorship initiative yet, and Kathryn Porter on whether Britain’s electricity grid is being pushed towards breaking point.
"Britain's social media ban isn't about protecting kids. It's about mandatory digital ID checks, restrictions on VPNs and the state taking more control over how parents raise their children."
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As revenge movies go, Citizen Vigilante is not a fine example. But the idea that it's going to inspire a spate of copycat killings misunderstands the nature of film and art, says James Pyman.
Rachel Reeves has been sacked as Chancellor and David Lammy as justice secretary and deputy prime minister as Andy Burnham wields the axe ahead of making his new Cabinet appointments.
Britain is in such a mess that Andy Burnham should appoint a National Government to sort out the country's intractable problems, says Professor James Alexander. But he seems set instead on taking us back to the 1970s.
Anti-transgender views and content that links "minority communities with crime or cultural threat" have been classed as "misinformation" in a Government-commissioned report.
With Andy Burnham set to take Britain back to the 1970s, Guy de la Bédoyère looks back at a golden and not-so-golden age where he spent some of his most formative years. What was it really like?
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Steven Tucker on the Left's ever-expanding definition of 'violence'; the Guardian publishes misinformation about the Free Speech Union; and Bridget Phillipson blew £500,000 trying to scrap university free speech laws. dailysceptic.org/todays-update
Want air conditioning? Tough, open a window. Europe's climate cartel would rather you sweltered than switched on the A/C, says Tilak Doshi, while America is scrapping the rules and letting people choose.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The populist surge has become an existential threat to the establishment – and its answer is ever-more authoritarian measures to control what we can read, see and say, argues Jacob Reynolds.
Bridget Phillipson blew £500,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to kill university free speech laws, was then legally challenged by the Free Speech Union – and lost. The High Court has ordered the Government to pay up.
So England lost to Argentina. Tuchel gets the blame. But is it really his fault? James Alexander argues that the beautiful game is a magical art, governed by capricious gods – not tactics.
The Guardian has published a story claiming the Trump administration is about to award $12 million to the Free Speech Union and a think tank co-founded by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. Trouble is, it’s not true.