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- “Nigel Farage hits back at Coutts over claims his bank account had insufficient funds” – According to the Telegraph, Nigel Farage has accused Coutts of talking “absolute cobblers” after reports surfaced that the bank had shut his account because he had insufficient funds in his account.
- “Equalities chief has bank account shut with no explanation” – An equalities chief, a fathers’ rights charity and a UKIP councillor claim their bank accounts were shut with little warning, while a Santander insider reveals LGBTQ+ activists apply pressure to bosses to de-bank ‘anti-woke’ customers, reports the Mail.
- “Alexandra Tolstoy: ‘NatWest closed my accounts, but never told me why’” – The Anglo-Russian aristocrat Alexandra Tolstoy accuses NatWest of acting like Stalin’s USSR after the bank terminated its services to her last month, reports the Telegraph.
- “High street bank ‘prevents gender-critical parents group from opening account’” – Metro Bank has refused a new business account for Our Duty, a group of more than 2,000 parents who believe that it is harmful for transgender children to undergo a medical transition, says the Telegraph.
- “Why are high street banks teaming up with Stonewall?” – From HSBC to Barclays, banks are clinging to Stonewall’s questionable guidance, alienating customers and stifling free speech. It’s time to depoliticise and provide alternatives, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “NatWest allows staff to identify as men and women on different days” – According to the Telegraph, NatWest is offering double-sided name tags to its non-binary employees, which allow them to alternate between personas as they please.
- “Why does the Bank of England think men can get pregnant?” – The Bank of England has declared that men can get pregnant. Yes, you read that right. The technocratic classes have completely lost their minds, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Civil servant made head of Whitehall’s LGBT+ Network” – Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, who has likened women’s rights groups to the far-Right, has been elected Co-Chair of Whitehall’s LGBT+ Network, reports the Mail.
- “‘A man having a baby suck his nipple is not breastfeeding’” – Gender critical campaigners have slammed a trans activist after he posted an image of himself breastfeeding on a bus, reports the Mail.
- “Judge blocks U.S. officials from tech contacts in First Amendment case” – In a blow to the censorship-industrial complex, a Louisiana judge has limited the Biden administration’s communication with social media platforms, claiming it’s attempting to silence its critics, reports the Washington Post.
- “White House accused of ‘massive’ attempt to censor Covid jab dissent” – A court has granted an injunction against Biden’s officials, pending a ruling, over claims they urged social media firms to curb ‘vaccine hesitance’, says the Telegraph.
- “The events that led to the death of French teen Nahel Merzouk at the hands of police” – The Telegraph looks at the circumstances around the fatal police shooting, including the boy’s track record of seriously dangerous driving and non-cooperation with the police.
- “Wheelchair tennis boss sacked for refusing Covid jab wins £27,000 payout” – Sarah Synan, a wheelchair tennis executive, has won an unlawful dismissal claim against the International Tennis Federation over its ‘hard line’ vaccine policy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Science magazine acknowledges Covid vaccine damage, only to gaslight the victims” – According to Igor Chudov, a new article in Science acknowledges that Covid vaccines can cause neurological and cardiovascular damage but downplays their severity by labelling such instances as ‘rare’.
- “Freedom of Information requests shine a light on the dark” – Plausible deniability can provide protection for those in authority who acted in harmful ways. Yet this refuge crumbles when the floodgates of Freedom of Information requests reveal the true extent of their knowledge, says HART.
- “The Jeremy Clarkson ruling is an outrageous attack on press freedom” – The IPSO ruling against Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun column will empower the easily offended to meddle in our media, warns Mick Hume in Spiked.
- “Young conservative group says members attacked in violent ‘Antifa campaign’” – Turning Point U.K. has called on authorities to take action after a teenager was kicked in the head at a Marxist event, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The worst excesses of the Saintly Reading Cult ” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts explains why it’s wrong to think there must be something wrong with Virginia Woolf.
- “Trouble at the paper mill” – The ill-fated acquisition of Hindawi by the academic publishing house Wiley has resulted in questionable peer review practices, mass retractions and a $9 million revenue loss. “I told you so,” says Roger Watson of the Higher Education Policy Institute.
- “Stanley Tucci thinks straight actors should be able to play gay roles” – “You’re supposed to play different people,” says Stanley Tucci, commenting on whether or not straight actors should be allowed to portray gay characters – in the Mail.
- “Musk’s tweet-limiting move is to prevent the completion of the ‘AI Censorship Death Star’” – According to Zerohedge, the reason Elon Musk is limiting how many tweets users can read is due to the “extreme” levels of system manipulation and data scraping on the platform by the censorship-industrial complex.
- “The end of affirmative action” – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy, says Andrew Hammel in Quillette.
- “RFK Jr insists he’s not a conspiracy theorist and says he’s never been wrong about Covid vaccines, HIV, or opioids but was brought up being told to question politicians by his father” – RFK Jr. was interviewed by Reason TV this week about his presidential campaign, his plans if he’s elected and some of his more controversial beliefs, reports the Mail.
- “Professor utterly demolishes the ‘climate emergency’ fairy tale” – Watch geologist Professor Ian Plimer debunk the ‘climate emergency’ myth in a pithy three-and-a-half minute video from Wide Awake Media.
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