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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
3 August 2023 2:03 AM

  • “Hunts banned from taking card payments in latest example of de-banking” – Hunts have been banned from taking card payments by a major financial services firm in the latest example of de-banking, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Why I’m taking on the banks” – Nigel Farage returns to the Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his battle with Coutts and the terrifying scale of ‘de-banking’.
  • “Smug banking elitists lack the common touch” – Nigel Farage is right: it’s time for the rest of the politicians to wake up and stop woke views from being imposed on people, writes Virginia Blackburn in the Express.
  • “The naked persecution of Donald Trump” – American democracy is no stranger to thuggery, writes American playwright David Mamet in UnHerd.
  • “Will Trump turn his January 6th indictment into a triumph?” – Despite his indictment, Trump is continuing undaunted with his Presidential campaign and this latest setback can only play into his hands, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
  • “Biden scandal” – While Trump’s problems are widely reported, the scandal engulfing the current President in connection with his son Hunter are under-examined in Britain, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
  • “New evidence suggests mRNA COVID-19 vaccine transmission of aerosols by vaccinated to unvaccinated” – New evidence suggests vaccinated individuals can transmit antibodies generated through mRNA COVID-19 vaccination to unvaccinated individuals through aerosols, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Yet more fear mongering over Covid in children” – The usual Covid high priests, who have been wheeled out repeatedly in front of the television cameras to fear-monger about Covid, are at it again, says the team at HART.
  • “Covid cover-up front page news, but hardly anyone cares” – No one believes it unless it’s in the mainstream media, but fewer and fewer people are tuning in, says Rebekah Barnett.
  • “Now even the over-65s are ditching broadcast television” – Traditional TV channels suffered their steepest EVER decline in viewers in 2022 as older people turn to streaming rivals Netflix and Disney+ for their entertainment, reports the Mail.
  • “Le Tissier admits his family thought he had ‘mental health issues’” – Southampton legend Matt Le Tessier has claimed that his family and close friends thought he had “mental health issues” over his controversial views during the coronavirus pandemic, says the Mail.
  • “Biden administration announces doctor who offered COVID-19 misinformation as Fauci replacement” – An Alabama doctor and university researcher who offered misinformation about COVID-19 has been selected to succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to the Epoch Times.
  • “Just Stop Oil say their protests have shaped Labour policy” – The Mail has obtained a tape of Just Stop Oil activists claiming their stunt outside Parliament persuaded Labour to veto new North Sea oil and gas projects.
  • “Sadiq Khan facing furious council revolt as all but one bordering London refuse Ulez signs” – Sadiq Khan is facing a Home Counties revolt after all but one council bordering London refused to install signs for his hated Ulez scheme ahead of its expansion, reports the Express.
  • “Inside the low traffic neighbourhoods dividing communities in Britain” – While some residents and business owners believe LTNs make areas safer and less polluted, others brand them as an attack on motorists, says the Mail.
  • “Net Zero hardliners don’t know their history” – The smug assertion that critics of green radicalism are on the ‘wrong side of history’ is fuelling a backlash, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
  • “Minister faces police inquiry over ‘racist’ leaflet” – David Davies, the Welsh Secretary, is facing a police investigation over an allegedly ‘racist’ campaign leaflet about a proposed new traveller site in his constituency, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Meloni sues rock star who called her ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’” – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has taken legal action against Brian Molko from the British band Placebo after the singer insulted her during a concert near Turin, says Politico.
  • “Librarians told to hide books by gender-critical authors” – Libraries across the country are being advised to prevent LGBT people seeing ‘offensive’ gender-critical books, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “Smartphone addiction not so smart” – A UN report says smartphones should be banned in schools across the world to protect the mental health of children. Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine, who is still at school, agrees.
  • “Can Labour really be trusted on the trans issue?” – The same MPs who told us ‘transwomen are women’ now claim to be champions of single-sex spaces, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked. Do we believe them?
  • “Author Gillian Philip says women are ‘scared’ over ‘cancel culture’” – A bestselling children’s author, dropped by her agent and employer for supporting J.K. Rowling, says women fear activists may target them, reports the Mail.
  • “The least PC job ad ever? Company seeking ‘non-woke’ applicants” – Wallis Computer Solutions in Dalwallinu, Western Australia, is looking for a “non-woke” technician to join their crew, specifically one who values “diversity of thought”, says the Mail.
  • “Did David Foster Wallace predict the future?” – According to Sarah Ditum in UnHerd, our world is more dystopian than that of David Foster Wallace’s seminal book, Infinite Jest.
  • “What history teaches us about the importance of academic freedom” – James Huffman in UnHerd offers up a 1949 primer showing there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
  • “Disney’s governing body slashes EDI programs after DeSantis takeover” – Walt Disney World’s governing body has scrapped its equity, diversity and inclusion programmes, reports the Mail.
  • “Australia’s divisive race referendum” – The Aboriginal community in Australia is being robbed of its agency, argues Nick Cater in UnHerd.
  • “Rhodes Trust chief rejects calls for removal of Cecil Rhodes statue” – Nick Dixon on GB News reacts to the Rhodes Trust refusing to back calls to remove the statue of Rhodes in Oxford.

'When you said morals change over time were you suggesting slavery will be thought as good again in the future.'

'I absolutely wasn't.'@nickdixoncomic reacts to the Rhodes scholarship trust refusing to back calls to remove its Oxford statue. pic.twitter.com/gSlOgmB7mp

— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 2, 2023

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