Right-wing elites have their own forms of "cancel culture" — ways of silencing those who disagree with them. Moreover, they are now actively cancelling Republicans that don't recognize the bully as their personal savior.

I think, however, that we should not get too distracted by comparing the respective levels of cancellation activity. It's bad on either side.

Reportedly the US is blocking the UN Security Council from publicly calling on Israel and HAMAS to make a truce.

(satire) *New Program Encourages Americans To Get Vaccine To Prevent It From Going To Foreigners.*

The Tories are considering a law to punish universities if they interfere with freedom of speech. Opponents say that the law would instead limit freedom of speech. But the arguments presented in the article seem very weak: "It's complicated, don't interfere" is not persuasive, and neither is "Only 53 people were deplatformed in a year."

Given that the law is being proposed by Tories, and Tories are not known for scrupulously respecting the rights of the non-rich, I will not rule out the possibility that the law would indeed do the opposite of its stated purpose.

However, I think it should not be hard to design the law so that it can't interfere with speaking. If the Tories don't want to do that, a constructive proposal could demonstrate what they are really aiming at.

EU citizens tried to establish a petition to demand an EU-wide referendum for rejecting trade with illegal colonies in occupied territories. The European Commission refused to register it, but now a court has ordered the commission to do that.