News about Emily Davison

A group of French eco-activists descended on Paris for a banner referring to British suffragette Emily Davison, who was killed by King George V's horse. Both protesters, along with environmental group Riposte Alimentaire, scaled over barriers at the Saut Hermes 2024 and charged into the ring's center. They hurriedly removed a banner from their backpack and discovered it, which read: "1913 EPSOM – 2024 HERMES: VITAL" before it was snatched away. Emily Davison, an English suffragette who died after running out in front of King George V's horse in 1913, was in honor of him.

TOM UTLEY: Here's something our children will not be taught in school because political correctness has virtually trumped historical fact: there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the Suffragettes' antisocial antics in the early twentieth century actually pushed back the introduction of voting for women for a long time.

DAN WOOTTON: Is it going to take countless deaths on our roads to bring to an end the madness of Just Stop Oil? The deranged criminal eco-terrorist cult halted traffic on the M25 for the fourth day in a row this morning, deadly scaling gantries. Yesterday, the green militias' criminal activity - please note that I refuse to mention what they're doing as demonstrations - apparently caused a police officer to be knocked off his motorcycle and injured as two lorries crashed in the chaos. And that's before you get to the countless missed hospital visits, destroyed company opportunities in a cost of living crisis, widespread anxiety that has cost to hardworking ordinary Brits, and even a grieving man who has been reluctant to be a pallbearer at his own father's funeral. Stop trying to reason with the Just Stop Oil eco-terrorists and accept that they are now criminals with £10,000 fines and lengthy prison sentences.

Emily Maitlis' interview with The News Agents denied fellow BBC journalist Jon Sopel's assertion that Just Stop Oil was 'grandstanding' with 'extreme' demonstrations. "One person's grandstanding is another individual's civil rights lawsuit," she said. Rosa Parks certainly wasn't grandstanding when she refused to sit down on a bus in Alabama, but I don't think she was grandstanding. When she ran in front of a horse, I don't think anyone would call [suffragette] Emily Davison grandstanding. The only thing that made the difference was the time.'