- “BBC removes Laura Kuenssberg episode after complaint over Chris Packham comments” – The BBC has removed the most recent episode of Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg and deleted tweets promoting a clip in which Chris Packham defamed the Daily Sceptic, following my complaint, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is blinded by its bias against GB News” – The Today programme hosts can’t stop taking shots at GB News, forgetting that this kind of prejudice is why it was created, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “You need a TV licence to watch Netflix — and you risk fines of £1,000 for not having one” – By offering live broadcasts, Netflix will add an extra £169.50 to subscribers’ costs, reports GB News.
- “The Great Covid Panic Book” – Author, publisher and academic Dr Tom Christie interviews Dr Colin M. Barron about his recent book The Great Covid Panic on YouTube.
- “John Cleese: Basil Fawlty would be bewildered by the country England has become – and so am I” – As Fawlty Towers comes to the stage, its creator considers what has changed – from trans athletes to trigger warnings – and how BBC comedy lost its way, reports the Telegraph.
- “Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless and depressed” – Petronella Wyatt says in the Telegraph that she was taught to prioritise her career over marriage – and now she‘s paying for it.
- “Cleverly: Khan talks more about Gaza ‘than black kids getting murdered in London’” – The Home Secretary has accused the Mayor of London of being ‘asleep at the wheel’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk vs the globalist censors” – Australia’s demand that X take down a violent video clip in every country, not just Australia, is absurdly authoritarian, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Sadiq Khan apologies over swipe at Chief Rabbi in interview” – Sadiq Khan reveals he has apologised to the Chief Rabbi after venting his frustration during an interview about the backlash he faced, reports the Mail.
- “The burden of HR red tape is becoming untenable for small businesses.” – EDI/DEI is the last straw from British businesses straining under the burden of bureaucracy, says CJ Strachan on Substack.
- “Bird flu virus found in one-fifth of U.S. milk samples, testing shows” – Early results from a sampling study suggest bird flu could be widespread in America’s commercial supplies, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ireland can’t blame the Rwanda plan for its immigration woes” – “When in doubt, blame Britain” has, since Brexit, become something of an iron law of Irish politics. So it came as no surprise yesterday to see Michael Martin, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, attribute Ireland’s mounting migration crisis to Britain’s Rwanda scheme, says Michael Murphy in the Spectator.
- “Christian parents lose bid to send disabled son to Italian hospital” – The boy, who was born with serious disabilities and cannot see or hear, has been kept alive by life support machines at London ‘s King’s College Hospital since 2023, reports the Mail.
- “NatWest rushes out debanking rules after Nigel Farage scandal” – NatWest has announced it will give customers three months’ notice if it intends to close their accounts ahead of legislation making a three-month notice period compulsory, says the Telegraph.
- “Sunak is right to put Britain on a war footing. Its meaning goes beyond defence” – The PM’s Warsaw speech was welcome because it recognised just how serious the danger now is, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Britain must brace itself for a wave of nationalisation” – Labour’s plan to control swathes of the economy is hiding in plain sight, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Blair’s great devolution experiment has been an unmitigated disaster” – Instead of resulting in better governance, Labour’s devolution settlement has elevated to high office a series of inadequates like Humza Yousaf, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “What is the ‘Woke Right’?” – Nick Dixon discusses the ‘Woke Right’ on his Substack.
- “ONS civil servants refuse to return to the office for two days a week” – Civil servants working at the Office for National Statistics aren’t even willing to come into the office for two days a week, reports the Times.
- “Hundreds of UK’s brightest students denied chance to train as doctors” – More than 1,550 Britons with at least three A*s have been refused a spot at medical school over the past five years, according to the Mail.
- “The collapse of Gender Woo will undermine other forms of woke dogma” – A clip from the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic. To watch the whole thing, go to basedmedia.org and subscribe for as little as £5 a month.
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