- “Banks are to be warned they must protect free speech” – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is “deeply concerned” about bank bans on customers who hold controversial views, according to the Mail. It looks like the Free Speech Union‘s lobbying efforts, which have been going on since PayPal closed its account as well as the account of the Daily Sceptic, are bearing fruit.
- “A new frontier in the fight for free speech” – A Telegraph editorial welcomes the Chancellor’s decision to order banks to protect free speech.
- “The totalitarian silence of the banks dumping their customers is an affront to free speech” – Sun columnist Trevor Kavanagh decries the last form of woke censorship.
- “The fertility crisis in mRNA countries is deepening” – The global baby bust is worsening, and the problem is deepest in countries that relied most heavily on mRNA Covid shots, writes Alex Berenson.
- “Zelensky warns of ‘serious threat’ at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant” – According to the Mail, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fears that Putin’s troops are preparing to blow up the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- “Furious London drivers blast new 20mph zones choking the capital” – Seething drivers have blasted the Government’s underhand move to turn England’s biggest cities into 20mph zones, says the Mail.
- “Biden backs plan to block the sun in bid to limit global warming” – The U.S. President has indicated he is open to a bizarre ‘geoengineering’ plan to block sunlight from the earth, which some scientists warn could have devastating side effects, reports the Mail.
- “Moment academic tears down anti-LTN petition poster in London shop” – The Mail has CCTV footage of Dr. Anna Goodman, who wrote reviews praising low-traffic neighbourhoods, tearing down an anti-LTN poster.
- “This rush to electric cars is a colossal mistake” – Only China and the rich will benefit from the hasty transition to an all-electric future, says Joel Catkin in Spiked.
- “The Depopulation Bomb” – Data scientist and demographer Stephen J. Shaw joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster to discuss the global decline in birth rates, in the latest episode of the Triggernometry podcast.
- “Sunak committed the sleight of hand – but Hunt is the real villain” – Liam Halligan argues in the Telegraph that, as ‘stealth taxes’ suffocate the economy, Sunak and Hunt could end up causing more damage than Truss and Kwarteng.
- “Farage fears MI5 helped shut down his bank accounts” – Sources close to Nigel Farage believe MI5 may have intervened to ‘debank’ him after Labour MP Chris Bryant wrongly alleged he received money from a pro-Kremlin broadcaster, says the Mail.
- “Hero soldier shot down by cancel culture” – Distinguished war veteran Colonel Dr. Kelvin Wright has sought the help of the Free Speech Union after being forced out of the military by LGBTQ+ activists for saying that men can’t be women on his personal Facebook account, reports the Mail.
- “Rapist Isla Bryson complains of transphobic abuse in male prison” – According to the Telegraph, police have confirmed that a 24 year-old man has been charged following a report of a hate crime against transgender rapist, Isla Bryson, at HMP Edinburgh.
- “Brits feel guilt about the Empire because they know nothing about it” – According to the Mail, FSU Chairman Nigel Biggar says that feelings of “general guilt” about the British Empire are driving universities to change their reading lists and museums to return colonial-period artefacts.
- “Ex-deputy PM vows to fight new Irish hate speech laws” – The controversial Irish Criminal Justice Bill has become a lightning rod in a transatlantic culture war, says the Telegraph.
- “The unsayable truth about immigration is we simply don’t have enough room” – Scarcity always raises prices and the U.K.’s housing shortage is overwhelmingly caused by high rates of immigration, says Lionel Shriver in the Mail.
- “New rules bring politics into the classroom by stealth” – Niall Gooch in UnHerd is certain that Mr. M, the charismatic right-wing teacher from his youth, would hate the new Scottish mandate that forces all teachers to champion “social justice, diversity, and sustainability”.
- “The Change Merchants” – The rise of the ‘laptop class’ and their constant push for change create instability and divide society. N.S. Lyons explains why rule by nerds leads to perpetual chaos.
- “What Justin Trudeau will always be remembered for” – Great Barrington Declaration hero Dr. Jay Bhattacharya post a chilling clip of the Canadian premier threatening the unvaccinated.
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