BANNED IN OXFORD: Rodney Hearth interviews Rebel Priest on Air TV
Dr Gomes explains to Rodney Hearth how his ban from Oxford City Council was the best publicity for his lecture that he could have received.
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Another heretic to be erased
by Rod Liddle, Spectator: […] Another heretic to be erased recently was a pastor from the Isle of Man, Jules Gomes. The Revd Gomes is an occasional contributor to the website Conservative Woman and…had been invited to deliver a talk at Oxford Town Hall, entitled ‘Feminism was women’s greatest enemy until transgenderism came along’ — so you get the picture of the man. He’s kinda right of centre on this sort of stuff. He had already been warned by organisers to expect to be...
read moreOxford bans brown-skinned speaker for diverse views in the name of “diversity”
By Will Jones, Rebel Priest: Oxford City Council has banned popular conservative writer Jules Gomes from delivering a public lecture at the Oxford Town Hall. Dr Gomes, who edits the Rebel Priest media website, was due to speak on Thursday on the subject of ‘Feminism was women’s great enemy—until transgenderism came along’. The lecture had been booked for months, the publicity had been done and video-filming arranged for the venue. Cancelling the booking at this short notice, two days before...
read moreMorphing from a ‘dead parrot to a canary in the mine’
by Gavin Ashenden: The victimhood of John Cleese, defender of the Holy Grail of free speech. When is a dead parrot not a dead parrot? Answer:- when it is a canary in a coal mine. John Cleese is one of the funniest men of our age. What makes him really funny is that his jokes tell the truth. It’s usually an uncomfortable truth that people need to hear. The ministry of silly walks was a parody of body language and right-wing power. “Don’t mention the war” wasn’t just about the comfort of...
read moreIsle of Man creates draconian no-go zones censoring pro-life free speech
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest: Europe’s most draconian anti-free speech law censoring pro-life freedom of expression will come into effect Friday on the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man’s parliament, Tynwald, passed a statutory instrument on Thursday, creating a no-go zones within 100 metres of the boundary of the land around the island’s Noble’s Hospital. The Access to Abortion Services (Noble’s Hospital Access Zone) Order 2019 is said to violate Article 10 of the European Convention on Human...
read moreWhy opinion polls keep getting it wrong
by Frank Furedi, spiked: The more we demonise certain opinions, the less likely people are to express them. In recent years, opinion polls have developed a reputation for failing to capture the views of the electorate. That is, for failing to do what they are meant to do. The failure of the polls to predict the outcome of the election in Australia is the latest in a series of bad missteps by polling organisations. If we had believed the figures published by pollsters, we would have expected a...
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