News Round-Up

“What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill gives his take on Father Ted creator Graham Linehan’s Edinburgh Fringe show being cancelled.
“Graham Linehan and the Fringe’s new puritanism” – No good will come from Graham Lineham’s cancellation at the Edinburgh Fringe, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
“How the King of Comedy became an untouchable” – The Mail breaks down how Graham Lineham went from hero to zero after his views on gender made him public enemy number one for trans activists.
“Graham Linehan and the idiocy of the cancellers” – In cancelling Graham Lineham, the comedy police have just proven their critics right, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
“U.K. banks shun companies trading with Ukraine” – Business chiefs warn that British companies are “afraid to trade with Ukraine” due to the threat of account closure from risk-averse banks, reports Politico.
“Big Short trader Michael Burry bets $1.6 billion on stock market crash” – Michael Burry, the man who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, is gambling on a new slump by the end of the year, according to the Times.
“Fury of the silent majority is driving a global Right-wing counter-revolution” – Across the Western world, anger at a woke ruling elite is benefiting the Right –except in Britain, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
“The Vax-Gene Files: Have the regulators approved a trojan horse?” – The alarming discovery of DNA contamination in vials of Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines raises serious questions, say the Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Julie Sladden and Julian Gillespie.
“The British public challenge ceding of sovereignty to World Health Organisation” – A U.K. Parliamentary hearing has taken place in response to a petition urging the Government to refrain from signing any WHO Pandemic Treaty, says PANDA.
“Drivers’ red ribbon protest in Wales against 20mph speed limit” – Motorists in Wales have been tying red ribbons to their cars to protest against plans to cut the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph, reports the Times.
“The real cause of the Maui wildfire disaster” – The Maui wildfire was not the result of climate change, Hurricane Dora or an extended drought, says Professor Cliff Mass in WUWT.
“NATO aide suggests Ukraine surrender land to secure membership” – Ukraine has angrily rejected the suggestion by a NATO official that it should surrender land to Russia in exchange for an invitation to join the Western military alliance, reports the Times.
“It’s time to abolish the university” – Let’s stop pretending academic study is worthwhile, writes Terry Eagleton in UnHerd.
“Sunak must hit pause on Online Safety Bill” – The Online Safety Bill is the product of too many ministers and not enough thought, says Iain Martin in the Times.
“An intellectually cowardly idea is spreading from Left to Right” – A desire to push awkward voices out of the public square is now springing up on the Right, reports Anne McElvoy in the Evening Standard.
“How pornography forged the trans movement” – Womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity, laments Genevieve Gluck in Spiked.
“How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?” – In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future, says Richard Dawkins in the Evening Standard.
“Oliver Anthony and the snobbery of American conservatives” – If metropolitan journalists dislike a country record, then, to conservatives, it’s a heartlands masterpiece, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
“The ‘free speech Twitter’ PSYOP” – Twitter (or X) is not the free speech platform everyone thinks it is, warns C.J. Hopkins in OffGuardian.
“‘A 71 year-old man is accused of inappropriately touching a 12 year-old girl…’” – Watch the moment an unfortunate error during a newscast implies that President Joe Biden “inappropriately touched a 12 year-old girl”. Put the sound on.

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