- “Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.
- “Jon Sopel issues grovelling apology to Nigel Farage over mocking tweet about bank row” – Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts, reports the Express.
- “BBC under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage over Coutts account report” – The BBC is under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage after admitting that it reported inaccurate information about the closure of his Coutts account, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bank account closure rules changed by Government” – The Treasury has announced that banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers’ accounts under changes designed to protect freedom of expression, reports the Mirror.
- “NatWest should have its banking licence removed” – Despite NatWest claiming to foster an inclusive culture, it banned Nigel Farage for his political views. The Government needs to take pre-emptive action and break up the business, writes Ross Clark in the Express.
- “How I was nearly ‘de-banked’ because of my friendship with Nigel Farage” – Financial institutions are targeting innocent individuals, such as Simon Heffer in the Telegraph, due to their ties with Nigel Farage.
- “NatWest faces wave of data requests after Nigel Farage scandal” – NatWest faces a wave of demands from ‘debanked’ customers to discover why they lost their accounts, says the Telegraph.
- “Humiliation for Coutts as they grovel to Farage” – The decision by Coutts to ‘de-bank’ Nigel Farage over reputational concerns, and then brief the BBC that it was due to financial requirements, will go down as one of the worst corporate own goals in recent history, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Mafia bosses, dictators and Russian oligarchs: The questionable Coutts clients” – Coutts, the private bank which closed Nigel Farage’s account, has had links to numerous controversial figures, including Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, reports the Telegraph.
- “COVID-19: Newly published research and CDC data” – Dr. Robert W. Malone casts an eye over new research, uncovering links between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and increased strokes, breast milk’s immunity advantages and waning Covid inoculations for children.
- “Peers call on Minister to shut ‘secret institution’ that monitored lockdown critics” – Britain’s Intellectual Property Minister has faced calls to shut down a “secret institution” accused of spying on lockdown critics, politicians, and journalists, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Top scientists misled Congress about Covid origins, newly released emails and messages show” – A top advisor to Anthony Fauci still thought a lab leak was possible in April 2020, one month after claiming publicly that it wasn’t, reports Public.
- “Covid origins scientist denounces reporting on his messages as a ‘conspiracy theory’” – Public releases the full cache of Slack messages and emails, which cover the discussions between Kristian Andersen and his co-authors as they wrote their influential Proximal Origin paper. This paper was used by Anthony Fauci and others in the U.S. Government to dismiss the lab leak hypothesis.
- “Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’” – A new study may have unpicked the secret of why some people who got Covid never got ill, and it could all be thanks to a quirk of their immune system, reports the Mail.
- “Above all else, it was a spectacle” – Toby Rogers, at the Brownstone Institute, delves into the unsettling truth behind Covid’s iconic imagery and propaganda tactics, covering everything from staged pandemic photos to media manipulation.
- “Europe’s ‘48°C horror that never was’… ESA, media sharply criticised for manipulative reporting” – The news was abuzz last week with reports of temperatures soaring to 48°C in southern Europe. However, none of it was true, says WUWT.
- “Political backing for EU Green Deal fizzles despite heat wave” – As the centre-Right changes tack on climate, the bloc’s climate coalition is crumbling, says Politico.
- “Now Sadiq Khan threatens to use hidden mobile cameras in Ulez areas” – Sadiq Khan could be set to ramp up efforts to enforce his Ulez scheme with the use of mobile cameras after at least 200 cameras have been vandalised by Londoners so far, says the Mail.
- “Road rage: The great motorist rebellion has begun” – Making life difficult for motorists may be a tactical prelude to pave the way for a car-free future, says Ross Clark in the Spectator. But drivers are not going to go quietly.
- “Why your electric car is nowhere near as green as you think” – Electric cars are not ‘zero-emission vehicles’. Not by a long way, says Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “So what’s the real point of Just Stop Oil protests?” – The ‘shocking viral videos’ of the Just Stop Oil protests may not be what they seem. Kit Knightly, in OffGuardian, unmasks the truth behind staged clashes and paid protesters.
- “SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms” – The Scottish Government confirmed that it had green-lit plans to chop down millions of trees since 2000 in order to build massive turbines for renewable energy, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “The BBC has co-opted bad weather to its alarmist climate crusade” – The climate alarmism in the recent heatwaves is shameless, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Schools told to ‘proceed with caution’ after transgender guidance promise broken” – Schools have been told to “proceed with extreme caution” after Rishi Sunak broke his promise to issue transgender guidance this term, says the Telegraph.
- “School trans guidance must not become another Section 28” – Any guidance on how to help trans-identifying children must be driven by the principle of parental consent and clinical evidence, rather than emotion, says Albie Amankona in CapX.
- “Gender ideology has captured the state” – The Government’s attempts to ban social transitioning in schools are being thwarted at every turn, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Preserving an open future for kids” – Bans on transgender medical treatments for children are about protecting them from life-altering decisions that they cannot possibly comprehend, says Tom C. Rawlings in City Journal.
- “Windsor public school teacher rips Muslim students for skipping Pride day” – A teacher in Windsor, Ontario, chastised a group of Muslim students for not attending a Pride celebration day, describing the action as “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred”, says Rebel News.
- “Laurence Fox posts image of LGBTQ+ flag superglued outside home” – Laurence Fox has claimed his family home has been “marked by the child mutilation cult” after posting an image of a LGBTQ+ flag stuck to the pavement, says the Mail.
- “Open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation” – A CSA Academia open letter by scientists and researchers raises concerns about the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, citing flawed technology, privacy concerns and potential ineffectiveness in combating the crime.
- “Poland files legal complaints against ‘authoritarian’ EU climate policies” – The Polish Government has submitted four complaints against EU climate policies, calling them “authoritarian” and pledging that it “will not allow Brussels’ diktat”, reports Notes From Poland.
- “Meta’s Threads ‘bombs’ as daily active users halved” – Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest social network launch, has swiftly unravelled, with data revealing a halving of active users, reports Similarweb.
- “Just stop pissing everyone off” – Watch Just Stop Oil protestors being surrounded by ‘Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off’ protestors, preventing them from marching in the road.
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