#culture-war

#culture-war

Conservatives need to recognise that elections are won on economics and public services rather than culture wars, Michael Gove has said in what will be seen as a rebuke to Suella Braverman.Addressing the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Westminster, a day after Braverman gave a highly partisan speech to the same event which condemned experts and elites and political correctness, Gove was at pains to make no direct criticism of the home secretary.

Over the past year, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer has been at the center of the culture war.The unassuming but wonderfully written and illustrated memoir is the American book facing the most attempts to remove or restrict access to it, with conservatives and bigots calling it "grooming" and "child pornography."

The writer Sathnam Sanghera has said he barely ever does public events in the UK because of a fear of being attacked amid a culture war-fuelled backlash over his views on Britain's imperial past, saying he feared a Florida-style push towards the banning of books.Sanghera, a journalist and author whose bestselling book Empireland assessed how the UK's colonial territories still infect contemporary politics and discourse, said he had begun to dread holding book events here.

A Florida principal has resigned after students at a Christian charter school in Tallahassee were shown the statue of the biblical figure David by Michelangelo, prompting at least one parent to complain that the children had been exposed to pornography.Hope Carrasquilla resigned Monday as principal of the Tallahassee Classical school after the campus's governing board told her to either step down or be fired over parental complaints that came in after sixth-grade students were shown the 16th-century sculpture, one of the Renaissance's most famous pieces of art.

The UK Government's decision to block Holyrood's gender Bill is a dangerous moment for devolution, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has told the Prime Minister.During Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Flynn also said Scotland's democracy is collateral damage in what he described as the Conservatives' attempt to stoke a culture war against some of the most marginalised people in society.

The government faces a legal challenge to its decision to cut investment in walking and cycling in England, over claims that the move bypassed legal processes and risks scuppering commitments over the climate emergency and air pollution.Lawyers acting for the Transport Action Network (TAN), a campaign group, have written to the Department for Transport (DfT) to formally seek a judicial review of the cuts announced in March by Mark Harper, the transport secretary.

SNP Westminster Leader Stephen Flynn said Scotland is returning to "direct rule" from Westminster, in a question on the UK government's decision to intervene, for the first time ever, on a Scottish law which would allow gender self-identification.Mr Flynn said the government was "seeking to stoke a culture war against some of the most marginalised people in society".

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Sunday he will decide in the next week or two if he wants to mount a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and enter an already crowded field of candidates.When I start doing something, I'm 120% in, the governor said on CNN's State of the Union in an interview with Jake Tapper.

Piers Morgan has said he has never told anybody to hack a phone amid an ongoing court case over alleged unlawful information gathering at the Daily Mirror.The Duke of Sussex and other high-profile figures have brought claims of phone hacking against the titles of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) in a seven-week trial which began on Wednesday.

A culture war has broken out in a small village in the Savoie region of the northern Alps where three large frogs are threatened with being silenced.In the latest example of a conflict of rights between town and country, nature and neighbour, 92-year-old Colette Ferry opened her door in the small village of Frontenex population about 1,800 to two gendarmes recently who said they would be taking away three amphibians that had taken up residence in her garden pond.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the pugnacious press secretary for former President Donald Trump who was elected governor of Arkansas last year, delivered the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech.The speech from Sanders hammered on themes close to the culture war right, bashing the radical left, woke fantasies, and the tech industry.

A leading business figure has quit the Conservative party after nearly 40 years, citing the party's alleged f*** business attitude.Iain Anderson, the founder of the public relations from Cicero, said he was switching to Labour also in part because of the Conservatives' plan to stoke a culture war against vulnerable groups.