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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
1 August 2023 1:29 AM

  • “Nigel Farage in talks with Coutts to keep his bank account open” – Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Coutts has U-turned on its decision to close his account following two weeks of backlash, reports the Telegraph.
  • “10 ways the Remainer establishment took Brexit revenge” – From Nigel Farage’s bank to Boris, the Express identifies 10 examples of where Brexiteers have been singled out for punishment beatings.
  • “Let’s take our overdrafts elsewhere” – The New Conservative finds that Dr. Roger Watson and Jack Watson are doing their bit to fulfil the ‘go woke, go broke’ dictum by closing their Coutts bank accounts.
  • “Woke Left exposed themselves as the nasty bullies they are over Farage” – The woke Left has been exposed for its double standards and insults over Nigel Farage, says Alex Story in the Express.
  • “Rand Paul announces ‘official criminal referral’, says email shows Fauci Covid testimony ‘absolutely a lie’” – Senator Rand Paul says a newly un-redacted email “directly contradicts” Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony about COVID-19 gain-of-function research, reports Fox News.
  • “The more early childhood vaccines, the higher the infant death rate” – A study indicates the more shots people have in early childhood, the higher the infant mortality rate, says Steve Kirsch.
  • “CDC likely to recommend annual Covid shot in the fall, director says” – The new Director of the Centres for Disease Control says that her agency is likely to advise Americans to get an annual COVID-19 booster to protect against the coronavirus, reports Spectrum News NY1.
  • “Covid vaccines increase risk of serious cardiac events by 18 times” – Vaccinated kids are experiencing severe cardiac events at a rate 18 times higher than their unvaccinated peers, claims Steve Kirsch.
  • “Starmer is about to be humiliated by the global retreat from Net Zero” – The geopolitical ground is shifting beneath the eco fanatics’ feet, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
  • “Minister says unpopular low traffic neighbourhoods could be scrapped” – Energy Minister Andrew Bowie says that LTNs could be scrapped if they are making it harder for people to get to work at a time when the economy is struggling, reports the Mail.
  • “Don’t overstate 1.5°C threat, new IPCC head says” – The new head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it’s not helpful to claim that temperature rises of 1.5°C pose an existential threat to humanity, reports DW.
  • “Global boiling? Don’t be ridiculous” – It’s time to stand up to the eco-fear-mongering of our medieval elites, fumes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “Climate change obsession is a real mental disorder” – Alarmist stories about the weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the Left’s anxiety and dread, says Allysia Finley in the WSJ.
  • “How did the Scottish Greens end up with so much influence?” – From gender reforms to rent controls to highly protected marine areas, it is becoming impossible to know where the Green Party ends and the SNP begins, says Andy Maciver in the Spectator.
  • “First two phases of HS2 are unachievable, says watchdog” – According to officials at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, the HS2 railway, designed to connect London with the Midlands and the north of England, is “unachievable”, reports the Times.
  • “Chef Thomas Straker starts diversity row over his kitchen staff” – TikTok chef Thomas Straker has apologised after facing backlash for posting a photo of his all-white male kitchen staff, says the Evening Standard.
  • “Universities rebrand freshers’ week to be more ‘inclusive’” – Universities are rebranding freshers’ week as “welcome week” in an effort to become more “inclusive”, reports Ewan Somerville in the Telegraph.
  • “Selection process for Tory candidates includes diversity committee quotas” – Guido Fawkes has got his hands on the candidate selection rules for the Conservative Party and there are some interesting titbits amongst the procedural dullness.
  • “Gender-critical books hidden by ‘tinpot censor’ librarians” – Gender-critical books have been hidden from view at public libraries by “tinpot censors” working for a Labour council, the Telegraph reveals.
  • “Andrew Neil says he is pleased to be branded a ‘TERF’” – Andrew Neil says that if being a ‘TERF’ puts him in the same camp as J.K. Rowling he is more than happy, reports the Mail.
  • “Trans men apply for Miss Italy in protest at ‘born female’ rule” – About 100 trans men have applied to participate in the Miss Italy beauty pageant after its organiser said the competition was only open to people who were born female, says the Times.
  • “Why did Jacqueline Rose erase women?” – Birkbeck professor Jacqueline Rose’s attack on biological sex is patriarchy in drag, writes Suzanne Moore in UnHerd.
  • “Why do comedians keep siding with the establishment?” – From the Farage banking row to the London Mayor’s war on banter, comics are batting for the wrong team, writes Simon Evans in the Spiked.
  • “Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting” – Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to roll out controversial facial recognition technology into shops and supermarkets, reports the Guardian.
  • “YouTube censors James O’Keefe, scrubbing his crucial interview with presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr.” – YouTube continues to censor RFK Jr. under its misguided ‘misinformation’ policy, says Reclaim The Net.
  • “The Democrats no longer believe in free speech” – Without free speech, we don’t have freedom to think, much less a functioning democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt understood this truth. Why don’t modern Democrats, asks Alex Berenson.
  • “Hunter Biden’s former business partner to testify Joe Biden ‘joined calls with foreign clients’” – The then-Vice President, Joe Biden, was put on speakerphone at least 20 times by his son Hunter to “sell the brand” to potential business partners and investors, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘Cut him off! He’s comparing me to a Nazi’” – TalkTV host Andre Walker has a very entertaining, if not very constructive, clash with climate alarmist Donnachadh McCarthy.

Andre Walker clashes with climate columnist Donnachadh McCarthy.

"Cut him off! He's comparing me to a Nazi."
@andrejpwalker | @louddanielle | @CharlieSansom | @LoisMcLatch pic.twitter.com/22fBhnxUpL

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) July 31, 2023

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