- “Defiant FA stands by multicoloured St George’s Cross despite Rishi Sunak’s intervention” – Former players have criticised tweaks to the England kit, reports the Telegraph, with one asking: “Will they change Three Lions to three cats?”
- “England shirt fiasco two years in making – and Nike ‘originally proposed rainbow colours’” – Inside story in the Telegraph of how Nike’s “playful update” to the England kit backfired in spectacular fashion.
- “England and the English are treated with contempt by our Anglophobic elite” – No other country in the world would be expected to see its flag messed with, and just put up with it, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Glasgow Greens bid to ditch Union flag in favour of Palestinian and transgender ones” – Tories criticise “loony Left” plan to replace the Union flag with woke alternatives, according to the Telegraph.
- “Humza’s Hate Bill” – Daily Sceptic contributor C.J. Strachan has launched a Substack – and one of his first articles is about Scotland’s crazy new hate crime law.
- “Trans-hating ‘parody of J.K. Rowling’ was created by Police Scotland officers” – Doubts have been raised over Police Scotland’s ability to enforce the new hate crime law after its revealed that the training exercise that created a caricature of J.K. Rowling and claimed she wanted to send trans people to the gas chambers was created by Scottish police officers, reports the Telegraph.
- “TfL bans Tube advert claiming social media is ‘killing Muslims’” – TfL has been accused of censorship after blocking a provocative ad campaign for a new Muslim social media network, says the Telegraph.
- “Watch: Justin Welby takes a pop at CofE ‘whiteness officer’ job” – The Archbishop of Canterbury is not happy about the Diocese of Birmingham advertising for a ‘whiteness officer’, according to the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer is right to ignore Doreen Lawrence” – Lady Lawrence, a Labour peer who was made the party’s race relations adviser, claims she’s being ignored by the Labour leader. Quite right too, opines Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “How activism swept the civil service” – The Scottish parliament’s decision to ban its staff wearing campaigning lanyards is an important step, writes Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “It is time to stop worrying about allegedly right-wing ‘political extremism’ and to start worrying about our overtly extremist and truly crazy political establishment” – Eugyppius responds to Jeremy Stern’s Tablet article, ‘Can Germany’s Far Right be Stopped?’
- “Countryfile’s John Craven says there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of racism in rural areas” – The presenter of the BBC show cites a survey produced by Leicester University that he claims proves Britain has a problem with rural racism, according to the Telegraph.
- “Police investigate Tory donor alleged race comments” – West Yorkshire Police are looking at whether comments about Diane Abbott by Frank Hester were a hate crime, says the BBC.
- “The ‘nuclear option’ stalking GB News” – Ofcom is under growing pressure to act after repeated clashes over impartiality, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surely Ofcom has bigger fish to fry than sanctimoniously lecturing GB News?” – The media regulator’s latest report is just plain silly, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Lawfare against Donald Trump is approaching a new and dangerous phase” – Will New York state Attorney General Letitia James really try to seize a half-billion dollars in Trump’s assets as punishment for a non-existent crime? asks Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Trump says he has $500 million cash as bond deadline looms” – The former President says money meant for his campaign will now have to be used in his legal case, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Offshore Wind: Follow the Money” – U.K. energy bill payers are subsidising overseas investors and getting expensive, unreliable energy in return, writes David Turner on his Substack.
- “Texas Schools Pull $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG” – More problems for BlackRock and its ESG crusade, reports WhatsUpWithThat.
- “‘Trust science,’ Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics” – There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at the Paris Olympics, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games, according to WhatsUpWithThat.
- “SNP told ‘you can’t negotiate with reality’ over 2030 Net Zero target” – The Scottish Government has said it may loosen the legally-binding targets it has set itself, which is good news says Andrew Montford on Net Zero Watch.
- “Farage more popular with 2019 Tory voters than Sunak” – Nigel Farage is now more popular among 2019 Conservative voters than the Prime Minister, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Bank of England’s sinister role in pushing Britain into effective bankruptcy” – The losses from unwinding the Bank of England’s QE programme are eye-wateringly vast, says Philip Pilkington in the Telegraph. Yet Threadneedle Street remains above reproach.
- “I don’t have much sympathy for the Waspis, and neither should you” – If compensation is offered, perhaps I’ll sue the state for sex discrimination on the grounds that women were given an earlier retirement age, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Assessing the evidence for excess cardiovascular deaths” – Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, in Trust the Evidence, say they’re keeping an open mind about the cause of the uptick in cardiovascular deaths.
- “The FDA settled with us because they knew they were going to lose” – Pierre Kory MD recounts the tale of his battle with the FDA over Ivermectin on Substack.
- “After earnings plunge, BioNTech pins hopes on cancer drug launches” – BioNTech has seen its profits decline 90% year-on-year now no one is taking the Covid vaccines and is pinning its hopes on a new cancer drug, reports Reuters.
- “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism” – Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanised suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetisation for breaching various speech codes, writes Matt Taibbi on Racket News.
- “Ketanji Brown Jackson Defenestrates the First Amendment” – The Supreme Court Judge claimed she lacked the expertise to define a ‘woman’, says Brownstone. But she’s perfectly happy to redefine the First Amendment in Murthy v. Missouri.
- “Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?” – In the Free Press, Geoffrey Cain and Walter Kirn debate the pros and cons of banning TikTok.
- “Will the nurse who supported J.K. Rowling see justice?” – Amy Hamm is a Canadian nurse being disciplined for supporting J.K. Rowling and we’re about to learn how far the Canadian authorities are prepared to go to enforce woke dogma, according to UnHerd.
- “Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire cuts ties with Candace Owens following Israel-Hamas comments” – The conservative commentators clashed over the conflict in Gaza, reports the Independent, and now Candace Owens has left to set up her own thing.
- “How MeToo became too cringe for America” – Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd says the MeToo movement has run out of steam in the U.S.
- “Sexist skyscrapers. Non-binary pigeons. Winston Churchill the Nazi” – On X, Andrew Doyles documents all the occasions on which something Titania McGrath made up to satirise the wokesters came true a few months later.
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