- “De-banked NatWest customers left without answers in wake of Farage scandal” – NatWest customers have been left without answers as to why their accounts were shut down, as the firm struggles to process a mountain of data requests in the wake of the Coutts de-banking scandal, says the Telegraph.
- “Children offered £1,500 to take part in new Covid vaccine trial” – COVID-19 vaccine trials for healthy children are about to get underway in Bradford and several other parts of the U.K., writes Dr. Ros Jones in TCW.
- “The Covid Inquiry will never admit it but we had a strong plan” – In the Mail, Professor Robert Dingwall says Britain had a perfectly good pandemic plan, but abandoned it for something much worse.
- “The Covid Inquiry’s ‘listening’ exercise is biased” – Baroness Hallett’s hearing is treating some pandemic stories as more equal than others, writes Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
- “Governor Kawakatsu: Jabs for thee but not for me” – Heita Kawakatsu, the Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan, openly admits he hasn’t had the Covid vaccine, in spite of strongly recommending it to his constituents. At least he’s being honest, says Guy Gin.
- “The true cost of Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion for struggling families” – To avoid the £12.50 daily fee for driving in London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, diesel cars must have been registered after 2015, and most petrol cars after 2005, reports the Mail.
- “Cathedral-goers fume at 710% parking hike under eco policy” – Critics have accused Winchester City Council of carrying out a “raid on motorists’ pockets” by hiking prices to an “insane” level, says the Mail.
- “Greenpeace’s easy access to the Sunak home should be a serious wake-up call” – There will have been more nefarious actors closely observing the invasion of Rishi Sunak’s family home after Greenpeace’s stunt, according to Ian Acheson in CapX.
- “Rishi Sunak’s popularity surges as he toughens Net Zero stance” – The Prime Minister’s support among Conservative voters rises after he orders review into LTNs and declares he is on the side of motorists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero’s dam has burst, but the BBC is still papering over the cracks” – For decades, the Beeb’s climate coverage has been shamelessly one-sided, presenting highly politicised theory as irrefutable fact, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph. But it cannot continue.
- “The climate scaremongers: Wind farm operators start backing out as they get cold feet over costs” – It’s common knowledge that offshore wind is far from reliable. Now, hopes that it would at least be cheap are fading into the distance like a desert mirage, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “Is Sadiq Khan trying to make London’s schools more dangerous?” – Sadiq Khan’s decision to appoint Maureen McKenna to London’s Violence Reduction Unit is a ghastly goof, writes Tom Bennett in the Spectator.
- “DEI initiatives in academic publishing pave the way for differential treatment based on race” – Some major academic journals are requesting personal information about race and ethnicity when an author submits a paper or accepts an invitation to review a paper, says Dr. Amber Muhinyi.
- “America’s racial politics has no place in British schools” – Primary schools are teaching Critical Race Theory as fact, warns Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “Weed by weed, woke capitalism must be rooted out” – Fair-minded and reasonable people must resist the sinister takeover of the corporate sector by wokesters, says Rupert Lowe in the Telegraph.
- “Are the Greens more interested in trans rights than saving the planet?” – Those who fail to toe the line on gender risk being given the boot from the Green Party. But shouldn’t they be focusing on climate change instead, asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Transgender ideology has created the biggest medical scandal of our generation” – Vulnerable young people who transitioned before they were ready are paying a high price, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “How the Lia Thomas scandal could save women’s sports” – The sight of a hulking great man winning a women’s swimming trophy has exposed the insanity of trans ideology, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Conservative donors: Wake up!” – Right-leaning philanthropists need to think more strategically and stop bestowing massive gifts on Harvard, of all places, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “U.S. intelligence has been manipulating Wikipedia for over a decade” – According to ZeroHedge, the co-founder of Wikipedia has revealed his long-standing suspicion that U.S. intelligence agencies are interfering in the world’s most famous online encyclopaedia.
- “‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty to money laundering” – A husband and wife whose eccentricities and alleged crimes earned them the moniker ‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’, have pleaded guilty to a $4.5 billion money-laundering scheme linked to the crypto exchange Bitfinex, reports CNN.
- “Tate insists he did ‘nothing wrong’ following house arrest release” – Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have persuaded a judge to release them from house arrest, reports the Mail. But they must remain in Romania.
- “UFO whistleblower David Grusch tells BBC the U.S. has craft and bodies” – Intelligence officer David Grusch tells BBC Radio 4 that secret “extraterrestrial” technology has been shared by the U.S. with its allies, including the U.K., reports the Daily Star.
- “Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They’re not working so good” – A stone cold genius has taken some clips of Trump complaining about paper straws and turned them into the beginning of a Seinfeld episode.
Whoever made this is a genius.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 3, 2023
Trump talking about straws like the beginning of a Seinfeld episode… pic.twitter.com/qdLCI4Bw8W
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Football teams and their players are allowing themselves to be exploited for political purposes. Their popularity as players is a useful vehicle for political messaging, just like actors at the Oscars spouting liberal progressive dogma, football players are being used to spread social justice messaging and they are probably too stupid to realise that taking the knee all year and then going to play football in a place like that is total hypocrisy. That little stunt with the migrant workers was utterly pathetic.