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Peers vote to scrap non-crime hate incidents months after Met Police said it would stop investigating them

Lord Toby Young of Acton proposed the abolition as part of the Crime and Policing Bill

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US State Department official is overseeing a chilling plan to rebuild Europe in MAGA’s image

They are promising funding and support.

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The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

There is nothing wrong with questioning the mighty cost of the lockdowns, but we can’t let hardline libertarians rewrite Britain’s pandemic history, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Former Met chief calls for ministers to scrap non-crime hate incidents

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and Lord Toby Young launch effort to change the Crime and Policing Bill that would stop requiring police to record NCHIs

Evening Standard

OPINION - The real, sinister reason academics keep cancelling each other

Scarcely a week goes by without lecturers being cancelled, says Toby Young. Why?

Evening Standard

Burning Koran upsetting but not a crime, says judge in ‘victory for free speech’

Turkey-born Mr Coskun, who is half-Kurdish and half-Armenian, lives in England.

Evening Standard

Humiliation upon humiliation for the Melster in front of half-full Tory crowd

At conference where the stench of decay is overpowering, the shadow chancellor’s speech was an act of desperation

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Police apologise for arresting former special constable over Palestine march social media post

Kent Police said they have expunged the 71-year-old’s record following the incident

The Independent UK

Starmer warned children will be at risk if he agrees to US demands to get trade deal

Claims that vice-president JD Vance is still pushing for online safety and hate speech laws to be repealed have alarmed campaigners

The Independent UK

Funny feuds and sky-high budgets – Vanity Fair in the Nineties makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era

The Independent UK

Anti-harassment law could hasten ‘erasure’ of pubs, says Conservative peer

Ministers have proposed a ban in the Employment Rights Bill on harassment by third parties.

Evening Standard

Trump trumps himself with latest delusional fantasies

US president loses grip on reality, while delegates at a rightwing conference in London remain cocooned from real world

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Raven obituary

Editor of the Modern Review and Guardian columnist who later chronicled her experience of Huntington’s disease

The Guardian - UK

Six new Tory peers are ‘brave, true radicals’, Kemi Badenoch claims

Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, is among those who have been nominated as a Conservative life peer by the Tory leader.

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Who is Toby Young? The new peer who considers devolved nations 'ungrateful'

TOBY Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union and an associate editor of The Spectator has been made a life peer soon to…

The National (Scotland)

Sue Gray among 38 new peers announced by the UK Government

The UK Government has announced new peerages, including former Downing Street chief of staff Sue Gray.

The Independent UK

Man whose escape from Kansas prison was featured in book, TV movie dies behind bars

An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and TV movie has died behind bars

Evening Standard

JK Rowling for Oxford Chancellorship, says Free Speech Union founder

Toby Young says if Oxford University block the Harry Potter author, he’s ready to bring a legal case against the institution

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OPINION - An old poison is back in the world, but I am overwhelmed with sympathy for both sides

Last month I was asked to be one of the first “signatories” of the October Declaration, which has to date been signed by 130,000 others including Tom Stoppard, Liz Truss and Richard Dawkins. This open letter condemns all acts of terrorism against civilians in Israel on October 7.

The Independent UK

Why allegations like the ones against Russell Brand can take years to come to light

Social media is awash with conspiracy theories about a supposed ‘coordinated attack’ on Brand. But investigations into sexual assault allegations take months, if not years, of work in order to gather sufficient evidence

The Independent UK

Why allegations like the ones against Russell Brand can take years to come to light

The Guardian - UK

UK government did not carry out detailed surveys before it bought free schools sites

Freedom of information requests show such was haste to open new schools unsuitable buildings were purchased without checks for asbestos or concrete

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock — the freak show

Isabel Oakeshott leaked the former health secretary’s WhatsApp messages and has hit the stage to reveal more. Robbie Griffiths reports

The Independent UK

Jacob Rees-Mogg claims PayPal indulging in ‘cancel culture’ over blocked accounts

US giant should not ‘push political opinions’, says cabinet minister after Toby Young accounts blocked

The National (Scotland)

PayPal accused of 'gender-critical discrimination' after Toby Young accounts ban

PAYPAL has been accused of discriminating against gender-critical views after closing down a number of accounts, allegedly without providing a clear…

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