June 22, 2021

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Opinion pieces from NewsCymru. Our take on the latest news headlines.

Every news outlet has an agenda. Every news outlet has a perspective and their own opinion. The NewsCymru opinion pieces dismantle the “consensus” narrative to see if the narratives being put forward are an accurate description of the facts.

In a welcome woke pushback, France’s Muslim media star Sonia Mabrouk lifts the veil on its rank hypocrisy and daft contradictions
Eric Zemmour poses during a photo session in Paris on April 22, 2021.
In her latest book, TV and radio’s Sonia Mabrouk, the darling of the right, tears into the infectious woke ideology dividing French society and takes on the anti-racists, neo-feminists, and disciples of identity politics. [...]
Tue, Jun 22, 2021
Source Russia Today Op-Ed
The battle between the two Americas
In recent history, the United States has arguably never been so divided — but not in the way you might think. Yes, the country has been split by the culture wars, with their polarising focus on race and gender. But behind the scenes, another conflict has been brewing; shaped by [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Unherd
The Royal Academy’s woman problem
It took 250 years for the Royal Academy of Arts to embrace women as something close to equal members. It took eight complaints for the RA to trash a female artist’s reputation and pull her work from its shop last week. The problem was not with the work itself, unless [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Unherd
Why the English don’t like flag-waving
Unlike the Americans, we’re not much of a country for flag-flying. We don’t fly them from private households and, unlike our European neighbours, we are not in the habit of flying them from public buildings. The only time you’ll usually see the streets decked with England’s colours is when, like [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Unherd
Britain’s most offensive comedian
When I set out to write an account of England in the first decade or so of this century, I didn’t have comedian Roy Chubby Brown in my provisional cast list. But he forced his way in, demanding attention if only for being such an anomaly. He reached pensionable age [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Unherd
Documents reveal how Ben Affleck got into the CIA, promising to ‘do the Agency proud’
© NASA
The 2012 spy drama Argo, starring Ben Affleck and based on the real-life CIA operation to exfiltrate six embassy staff trapped in Tehran following the 1979 revolution, was a big publicity boost for the agency. [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Russia Today Op-Ed
The EU wants to turn off Brit TV, as they’re angry over Brexit. But they’ll be sorry when a Maltese gameshow replaces The Crown
Robert Schuman, 1952. © Getty Images / Ullstein Bild.
Post-Brexit, Brussels bureaucrats want to reclassify UK TV content as non-EU and promote homegrown shows in a move that you can bet is being driven by the French. More than 440 million viewers should prepare for a boring future. [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Russia Today Op-Ed
It’s an assault on freedom, this scandal of thousands of people wrongly prosecuted for Covid ‘offences’ like not wearing a mask
FILE PHOTO. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. © AFP / TOLGA AKMEN.
Justice delayed may be justice denied, but so, too, is justice rushed, as a slew of inappropriate Covid-linked prosecutions under a ‘special’ fast-track shows. British authorities are being over-zealous and dictatorial. [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Russia Today Op-Ed
Does the Current Rise in Infections Prove the Virus isn’t Seasonal?
We're publishing an original piece on Lockdown Sceptics by a retired Professor of Forensic Science and Biological Anthropology and an epidemiologist asking whether the recent case rises falsifies the seasonality hypotheses The post Does the Current Rise in Infections Prove the Virus isn’t Seasonal? appeared first on Lockdown Sceptics. [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Lockdown Skeptics
“Your Obedience Is Prolonging This Nightmare”: Protesters March in London against Delay to “Freedom Day”
Protesters have gathered in London today to demonstrate against the Government's delay to the lifting of lockdown restrictions, holding signs reading "no more lockdowns" and "your obedience is prolonging this nightmare". The post “Your Obedience Is Prolonging This Nightmare”: Protesters March in London against Delay to “Freedom Day” appeared first on [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Lockdown Skeptics
“You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some New Disease,” Says Boris Johnson as he Warns of “Rough Winter” Ahead
The Prime Minister has said there may be a "rough winter" ahead. But since by the Government's own admission lockdowns appear to be the cause of the pressures on the NHS, the cycle of lockdowns will never end. The post “You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Lockdown Skeptics
Plans for “Booster” Covid Vaccine Roll-Out Coming Within Weeks
Plans for a "booster" Covid vaccine roll-out in the autumn will be set out in the coming weeks following results from trials of different combinations of vaccines, according to the Health Secretary. The post Plans for “Booster” Covid Vaccine Roll-Out Coming Within Weeks appeared first on Lockdown Sceptics. [...]
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Source Lockdown Skeptics

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