Web’s warped values

WHEN a Google employee dared suggest men and women may have different attributes and aptitudes, the firm’s ‘ vice president of diversity, integrity and governance’ was quick to castigate him for ‘incorrect assumptions about gender’.

Yet when our police ask the internet giant to take down videos glamorising gangland crime, in six cases out of ten it refuses.

In other words, incitement to violence must be defended in the name of free expression – but political incorrectness is beyond the pale.

How chilling to reflect that Google, with its dominant search engine and YouTube subsidiary, is the planet’s most powerful controller of information. Welcome to this brave new world – and the warped values of the liberal Left. AFTER this paper’s exposure of a dramatic increase in the number of care homes failing to meet the regulator’s basic standards of decency, Downing Street describes the growing crisis as ‘unacceptable and worrying’. Never were truer words said. But words alone won’t spare our elderly and vulnerable from appalling neglect. We repeat: The case for a Royal Commission to find ways of putting the NHS and social care on a sustainable and civilised footing for the 21st century is surely unanswerable. JUST hours before they were born on the day their mother reached 24 weeks of pregnancy, Sapphire and Ruby Wirt could have been legally aborted. Doctors would have been under no obligation to try to keep them alive. The Mail urges readers to study the photograph on Page 31 of these now happy and healthy two-year-old twins. Could there be any more powerful argument for reviewing the 1967 Abortion Act – and bringing the time-limit down to reflect years of medical progress?