- “Rishi Sunak warns banks over blacklisting customers over their views” – The Government will take action against woke banks accused of blacklisting customers because of their views, says the Mail.
- “Most high street banks are signed up to Stonewall diversity schemes” – Lenders are facing scrutiny over their links to a controversial charity amidst an uproar over account shutdowns related to gender-critical beliefs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Welcome to woke Britain: where murderers can keep bank accounts, but ‘cancelled’ characters can’t” – Virtue-signalling lenders are simply furthering their own profiteering agenda, says Katie Morley in the Telegraph.
- “Why Nigel Farage’s blocked bank account should bother us all” – Nigel Farage’s bank account closure is immoral and dangerous in an increasingly cashless society, argues Jordan Tyldesley at CapX.
- “The elites are using banks to take back control” – The Establishment has gone into no-platforming overdrive, but no one dares try to stop them, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “‘Ethical consumerism’ has turned against the consumer” – According to Mary Harrington in UnHerd, Nigel Farage won’t be the last customer deemed undesirable by a bank.
- “Policing speech isn’t the business of banks” – The experience of Nigel Farage with the closure of his accounts exemplifies how far the U.K. has departed from basic principles, says Julia Hartley-Brewer in the Telegraph.
- “Ministers were warned that suicide would kill more children than Covid” – The Government missed nine opportunities to avert the damage caused by school closures during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jim Ratcliffe blames Rishi Sunak’s furlough scheme for inflation” – According to the Times, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chemicals tycoon, has singled out the Prime Minister’s furlough system as a reason for high levels of inflation.
- “France under riot” – France is losing its capacity to control and suppress mayhem, warns Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
- “Andy Murray: I agree with Just Stop Oil’s cause – just not their tactics” – Wimbledon fears it will be the next sporting event to be targeted by Just Stop Oil activists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Climate models behind Net Zero policies are ‘thoroughly flawed’” – The world’s climate policies are based on computer simulations of the atmosphere that are deeply flawed, concludes a new paper published by Net Zero Watch.
- “2022 Nobel Prize winner says ‘there is no real climate crisis’” – The Naked Emperor turns a spotlight on distinguished physicist John Clauser, who rocked the stage at Quantum Korea 2023 calling out the IPCC for exaggerating climate change.
- “It’s time Rishi Sunak stood up for the silent majority driven to despair by eco-fanaticism” – The last thing our country needs is more VIPs swanning off to climate conferences – whatever Zac Goldsmith may think, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Why we should all be getting more vitamin D” – According to the Telegraph, an ever-increasing volume of medical research is suggesting ways in which vitamin D can help to protect against serious conditions.
- “Health watchdog probes private gender clinic” – The scandal-plagued Tavistock team is facing investigation for failing to register its Gender Plus Clinic with the Care Quality Commission, reports the Mail.
- “What I learned from debating the NHS” – “It may be tedious for those who are not signed up to the cult around the NHS,” says Kristin Niemietz at the IEA, “but I would not expect the quality of the debate to improve anytime soon.”
- “The empire of hurt feelings” – Islamic countries are trying to force the West to respect Muslims’ ‘feelings’. We must resist this therapeutic imperialism, says Brendan O’Neil in Spiked.
- “French riots – an ideal excuse for another lockdown” – Richard Ings in TCW: Defending Freedom documents the way in which Macron and his allies are using the civil unrest in France to ramp up surveillance and further restrict people’s freedoms.
- “HART has more to say on censorship, and they intend to say it” – In a leading article, HART fires a warning shot at the ‘censorship industrial complex’.
- “A battle for cultural survival” – In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms, argues Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Ben Wallace enters free speech row over colonel ‘forced out’ of Army for saying ‘men cannot be women’” – The Defence Secretary makes a pig’s ear of trying to defend the Army’s humiliating investigation of a now ex-Colonel for daring to challenge the trans agenda, reports the Telegraph. The comments!
- “Sex-change tribunal winner says illogical views widespread in arts” – A former official with Arts Council England, who was harassed over her views that people cannot change sex, has warned that the sector is “embedded” with illogical ideas, reports the Times.
- “How a new generation of drag artists is breaking limits and queering video games” – Apparently, drag performers are revolutionising gaming by making it gayer, according to Eurogamer.
- “That’s horrifying!” – Toby, wearing his hat as the Free Speech Union General Secretary, reacts on GB News to the announcement that Nigel Farage has been rejected by a ninth bank.
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