🚨 NEW: Chinese brands drop Kylian Mbappé over Chairman Mao meme. • On the French talk show The Bridge, Mbappé said the meme “makes me laugh the most” and that he uses it with friends, while an image resembling Mao Zedong appeared on screen. • China’s foreign ministry said words and deeds that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people would be met with opposition. • State broadcaster CCTV is suspending Spanish La Liga matches, and its news apps have removed content related to the French striker. • Dairy producer Mengniu and drinks company Dongpeng both said they had a zero-tolerance policy towards anything that offends national sentiments. • Neither Mbappé nor the talk show has commented, and the original video is no longer available on the show’s YouTube channel.

Jolyon's Good Law Project now harassing the Mayor's office because the Oxford Street lights will be Harry Potter themed and therefore trans-exclusionary.

“Stand against their existence!?” Some of the most radical, intolerant, dehumanizing language I’ve seen yet coming from BC’s socialists and that says a lot.

Local Green Party Councillor attended a demostration/protest against "White Lives Matter" And yes, to proclaim "White Lives Matter" is fucking disgusting!!!

🔴 The Attorney General has described “almost every element” of the British Empire as racist and revealed he fought to get reparations telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02…

BBC calls France's radical-left riots 'mostly peaceful' while showing cities in flames trib.al/PP1nOuj

💥NEW: Jennifer Welch demands "PISTOLS FIRING" at JD Vance in *UNHINGED* rant💥 Welch crossed the line here. She called Vance an "Antichrist-style sociopath" who's unfit to be a father, husband, and vice president. The Left has refused to tone down their incendiary rhetoric despite all the Trump assassination attempts and the Charlie Kirk assassination. In fact, they're only ramping it up as the Midterms approach. Democrats are cocky now because the polls show them ahead. But pollsters and data gurus across the spectrum are warning that polls may be underestimating Republicans yet again. The Left's closing message of hate and retribution could backfire miserably.

“A society which values freedom must protect everyone’s right to live openly and safely as themselves.” My piece for @IndyVoices on delivering our manifesto commitment to ban conversion practices 👉🏻 independent.co.uk/voices/con…

No @rtenews, this is not a "protestor", this is a violent thug taking part in the destruction of a city. Thousands of Irish men and women took to the streets earlier this year to protest, it was peaceful, in fact, it made Dublin, especially O'Connell Street more peaceful than it generally is. Conflating what Irish people have done in recent years in various protests - all peaceful - and what this guy is doing is disingenuous at best. @independent_ire

This is the second time Varsity has written about CUFSS' launch, and they are not happy about it. It would be interesting to look back through previously published articles to see if they have ever referred to the "so-called" transphobia or the "supposed" racism at Cambridge and yet they talk here about the "alleged" free speech problem. The criticism from the Green Society amounts to the idea that it is hypocritical to suggest that there is a free speech problem at Cambridge, as the fact that CUFSS are able to exist proves that there is not. The obvious answer to this is to point out that the University finding its hands tied with regard to its ability to ban CUFSS is not the same as it actually welcoming free speech. It is only because of a long few years of various people campaigning long and hard for universities to uphold free speech that we are able to exist at all. The (albeit watered-down) Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act tied their hands; @ComAcFreedom and @AFAF_freespeech have worked hard in this area; the Forstater case was a huge win for freedom of belief; CUSW was set up last year, as were many other uni free speech socs and similarly frowned upon ones - all have combined to push against authoritarian inclinations to overtly ban lawful speech, and Cambridge itself is unlikely to want to invite criticism for further suppressing it. That being said, we'll see how long it takes to register with the Student Union. Even assuming good faith on the part of the university, there is a difference between speech being technically allowed, and that speech being de facto "banned." Until Cambridge is an institution where every student and academic of any political persuasion on any topic at all feels completely free not just to openly speak their mind but to do so without concern that every word will be leapt upon and without being actually fearful for their career, their exam marks, their peer group and sometimes entire college totally and completely ostracising them for holding any non-woke progressive views on anything at all - until everyone feels as comfortable as the Green Party Society feels, until everyone feels it's a "non-issue," there is a free speech problem. Cambridge Uni Left Society express their displeasure at the launch of a society they feel is "deeply partisan" 😂 They mention an investigation by the Byline Times... And go on to talk about the "checkered past" of... A think tank who had donated to mainstream think tanks such as the IEA having also donated to another think tank, some of whose contributors will be speaking at a CUFSS event later this month. They have no actual argument, just rhetoric about speech they don't like. Of course, they mention Nathan Cofnas, James Orr (and his wife?), other university free speech societies, and the Bruges Group in a long list of people and organisations who probably don't even know we exist, with the implication being that everyone involved with the Free Speech Union, including us, is morally dubious because we, like them, believe in freedom of speech. Thank you, Varsity, for proving all of our points for us.

This might be the first time I’ve ever watched an Apple ad that made me actively not want to buy the product