- “Liz Truss ‘refused bank account by Monzo’ for election campaign” – Liz Truss was turned down for a bank account with Monzo during the Tory Party leadership contest because she was judged to be a ‘politically exposed person’, reports the Express.
- “Khan faces backlash after website says white family ‘doesn’t represent real Londoners’” – Sadiq Khan is facing calls to apologise after his website said a photograph of a white family “doesn’t represent real Londoners”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The U.K. Covid Inquiry must address the harms to children” – Those who advocated for excessive policy responses hurt young people worldwide, writes Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
- “A true account of Covid in Israel” – Dr. Eyal Shahar in the Brownstone Institute criticises an Israeli study on COVID-19 deaths, suggesting it misclassifies causes, vaccine biases and potential booster side-effects.
- “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery” – Electric vehicles are resource-hungry, unreliable beasts. Even the EU has backed away from them, says Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
- “‘I spent my entire Italian holiday madly searching for EV charging points’” – The Telegraph’s Ben Rowell recalls how he became a laughing stock as he spent his entire summer holiday searching for charging stations.
- “The green energy future is arriving faster than you think – or not” – The New York Times says the green energy future is arriving “faster than you think”, while Bloomberg says “Net Zero is stalling out”. Both can’t be right, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian.
- “No, the Week, Antarctica is not a ‘bellwether’ for climate change” – The headline of a recent article in the Week reads: ‘How Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether.‘ The claim is false, says Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
- “‘We are not learning’: Bjorn Lomborg says politicians hide behind climate change to duck ‘responsibility’ for ‘failures’” – Bjorn Lomborg says that politicians are blaming climate change for disasters like the wildfires on Maui to duck “responsibility” for “failures” in addressing them, reports the Daily Caller.
- “Ireland’s bonkers plan to kill cows to save the planet” – The Spectator’s Ian O’Doherty on the Irish Government’s bizarre plan to slaughter Irish cattle to reduce methane emissions.
- “The tragedy of Jazz Jennings” – The reality TV star’s story is a terrible indictment of so-called gender-affirming care, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “William Gladstone’s family to apologise for historic links to slavery” – The family of Victorian-era Prime Minister William Gladstone is due to travel to the Caribbean to apologise for the historical part his father played in the slave trade, reports the Telegraph.
- “Councils have spent nearly £700,000 on internet bills for home staff” – Forty councils have spent nearly £700,000 on workers’ home internet expenses since 2019, Freedom of Information requests show, according to the Mail.
- “The new curtain twitchers” – The Scottish arts may be unsalvageable, thanks to woke capture. Can we build anew, asks Nina Welsch on Substack.
- “40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study” – Learn how to use AI or you’ll be replaced by someone who does, says ZDNet.
- “Am I allowed to make fun of women’s football?” – On GB News, Toby and Nick Dixon discuss the irritating virtue signalling surrounding the Women’s World Cup.
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