- “Nigel Farage playing victim in NatWest row, says Emily Maitlis” – Emily Matlis, a former BBC Newsnight anchor, says the former UKIP leader has somehow turned “utter entitlement into victimhood” over closure of Coutts account, reports the Telegraph.
- “Coutts CEO Peter Flavel resigns” – Coutts Chief Executive Peter Flavel has resigned, less than 48 hours after his boss Alison Rose also quit over the Coutts-Farage bank scandal, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “U.K. banks make free speech commitment after NatWest-Farage row” – The heads of Britain’s largest banks, in a meeting with the Financial Services Minister, have pledged their commitment to the principle of “non-discrimination based on lawful freedom of expression”, reports Reuters. So will they be offering Farage an account?
- “Rishi Sunak fails to back NatWest Group Chairman” – Rishi Sunak refused to endorse NatWest’s Chairman ahead of key meetings at which he will be confronted by investors for the first time since the debanking scandal broke, says the Telegraph.
- “The customers who had their bank accounts shut without any explanation” – This is Money has spoken to dozens of people whose bank accounts were shut abruptly without any explanation.
- “Dame Alison’s ousting lifts the lid on banking’s wider moral pickle” – Banks today operate within a vast, creaking construct of regulation designed to avoid reputational disasters. In the hands of over-zealous, ‘purpose-led’ middle-managers, it’s bound to go wrong, says Martin Vander Weyer in the Spectator.
- “Coutts has forgotten what the job of a bank is” – Dame Alison Rose’s departure is a major achievement, but the reluctance is a symptom of the problem, says Charles Moore in the Spectator.
- “It’s not just banks forcing views on people – it’s many of our institutions” – The Farage-Coutts scandal is just the tip of a very big, ugly iceberg, says Matthew Goodwin in the Sun.
- “Forget Nigel Farage and Coutts – banks have been locking ordinary people out of accounts for years” – Debt adviser, Amy Taylor, says banks have been quietly closing accounts without giving their customers any reasonable explanation for decades, reports the Guardian.
- “The Farage and Coutts case shows that low decouplers threaten liberal democracy” – Many liberals have been unable to separate dislike of Nigel Farage from his liberal-democratic rights, says Thomas Prosser.
- “Nigel Farage has landed a blow against woke capitalism” – The Coutts ‘debanking’ scandal has exposed the authoritarian instincts of our capitalist elites, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Farage clashes with Nick Robinson on Today Programme” – Nigel Farage has a heated clash with Nick Robinson on the Today Programme, after Robinson suggested that the NatWest saga might be a pretext for Farage to return to frontline politics, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Banks’ closure of racecourse bookmaker accounts described as a ‘scandal’” – Numerous racecourse bookmakers have revealed they have had accounts closed by banks without explanation, reports Racing Post.
- “Chase shuts down bank accounts of Mercola and key employees” – Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and owner of Mercola.com, warns of political targeting and the potential implications for social credit systems and digital currencies after his JP Morgan Chase bank accounts were closed with no explanation.
- “Covid’s lost pupils ‘will cause huge crimewave’” – Ministers’ failure to get children back to school after the pandemic could lead to the creation of thousands more violent offenders, according to an analysis reported in the Times.
- “Paper that killed Covid lab leak theory should be retracted, experts demand” – Over 30 scientists from around the world have called for the official retraction of Proximal Origin, the scientific paper credited with killing the idea Covid leaked from a lab, reports the Mail.
- “The Covid lab leak deception” – Scientists who signed a paper claiming a natural origin turn out not to have believed it themselves, say Matt Ridley and Alina Chan in the WSJ.
- “How minor lockdown-promoting academics with no relevant expertise came to shape German pandemic policy at the highest levels” – Eugyppius reveals Chinese pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan’s role in Western lockdowns through connections with influential advisors and containment efforts in Wuhan.
- “‘Ethical’ advertising activists rely on cash from controversial mining firms and Russian oligarchs” – GB News reveals that a significant advertising organisation, associated with activists who organise boycotts, is receiving funding from an investment firm that has profited from sanctioned Russian oligarchs and controversial South American mining operations.
- “‘Help! I have a heat pump – but still need a log burner when it’s cold’” – The Telegraph profiles Steven Oakley, who has embraced green improvements, but cavity wall insulation is impossible for his bungalow. Is his only option to pay £18,000 for an alternative?
- “The UN’s climate alarmism has gone too far” – If you are going to tell people they are effectively doomed, what, then, is the incentive to do anything about it, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Let the nightmare in Japan be a warning to childless millennials” – Last year, Japan’s population plummeted by almost a million, and the way things are going, Britain will soon be in the same boat, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Flip-flopping Starmer can’t be trusted to defend women’s rights” – U-turns are starting to look like a feature, not a bug, in Starmer’s leadership, says Nicole Lampert in CapX.
- “Why does the Beano want to cancel itself?” – ‘Diversity and inclusion’ introduces criteria to publishing other than that a story should be well and grippingly told, says Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
- “The doctrine of intersectionality is a dud” – The almost complete absence of anything remotely resembling an intersection in the progressive doctrine of intersectionality poses a problem for those on the Left who adhere to its idiotic credo, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “Meghan, Harry and the truth about sexist adverts” – Surely only social isolation can explain Meghan and Harry’s latest focus on pushing advertisers to “break the gender binary”, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “Female swimmers had to undress next to ‘six foot four biological male’ Lia Thomas ‘18 times a week’” – Female athletes at the University of Pennsylvania changed in the bathrooms to avoid drying off next to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, says the Mail.
- “U.S. women’s team branded ‘disrespectful’ in row over national anthem at Women’s World Cup” – The U.S. women’s football team has sparked a divisive row at the World Cup after six players elected not to sing the U.S. national anthem in a silent protest, reports the Mirror.
- “‘Nigel Farage has had the greatest political treble I have seen in my whole life’” – Kelvin McKenzie celebrates GB News and Nigel Farage for his victory against the establishment.
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