- “Nigel Farage: NatWest is kicking my de-banking case into the long grass” – Nigel Farage says he is victim of an “establishment stitch-up”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The case for leaving the ECHR” – Legislative freedom will fix more than the Channel crisis, argues Richard Ekins in UnHerd.
- “Doctors can prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19: FDA lawyer” – According to the Epoch Times, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that doctors can now prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment.
- “Sir Keir Starmer junks pledge to role out clean air zones across U.K.” – Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned Labour’s pledge to role out clean air zones after a disastrous public response to Sadiq Khan’s hated Ulez scheme, says the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan blasted for ‘ignoring’ Londoners over Ulez changes” – Sadiq Khan has been slammed for introducing new Ulez car tax changes without the backing of the public, reports the Express.
- “How many perfectly good cars will be wasted by Ulez scrappage scheme?” – There are major concerns about the waste of scrappage schemes, which encourage owners to destroy perfectly good vehicles, says the Mail.
- “Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love” – Brighton and Hove is one of the few places in the country to have been run by a Green Council. The Spectator’s Julie Burchill explains how the Greens nearly destroyed the place.
- “How Net Zero risks intensifying the rental crisis” – Lumping ever more green energy costs on landlords is only going to make the rental crisis even more acute, warns Karl Williams in CapX.
- “Layabouts beware – the work from home counter-revolution has begun” – The office has been much-maligned of late, but working life, and indeed the wider economy, would be much poorer if everyone stayed at home, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “VAT on private school fees” – Changes to VAT and business rates for private schools won’t raise anything like as much money as Labour thinks, says Richard Taylor.
- “Police release autistic teenager as ‘no further action’ in ‘lesbian nana’ row” – West Yorkshire Police has said no further action will be taken against the 16year-old autistic girl who said a WPC looked like her “lesbian nana”, reports the Express.
- “Mum of girl who said cop looks ‘like lesbian nan’ to take legal action” – Mother of girl at centre of ‘lesbian nana’ story to take legal action against the West Yorkshire Police, reveals the Mail.
- “U.K. schools cut classic books in anti-racism drive” – Schools are removing classic novels and award-winning books from their reading lists in a push to “decolonise and diversify” curriculums, says the Times.
- “Lesbian speed-dating event demands only ‘adult human females’ attend” – A lesbian speed-dating event is at the centre of a transphobia row after the organiser insisted that only “adult human females” can attend, reports the Mail.
- “Woke Scouts are told, don’t call Guides girls” – Scout leaders have unleashed a woke storm by telling children not to use the term ‘Girl Guides’, according to the Express.
- “Fury as children are showered with tampons at drag queen event” – Parents left horrified as children are showered with tampons by a non-binary ‘alien’ during a Pride event in Norwich, reports the Mail.
- “Women-only loos rule will ‘protect dignity’” – Women will have their own toilets in all new non-residential buildings in a crackdown on ‘woke’ practices, says the Express.
- “Gender critical website blocked for promoting ‘hate and terrorism’” – Great Western Railways suggests that AI may have mistakenly blocked the Sex Matters website, a gender-critical organisation, thinking it contained adult content. But Dr. Frederick Attenborough from the Free Speech Union questions why passengers were told the site was “associated with terrorism and hate”.
- “The dangers of good intentions” – The performative compassion of the woke has blinded them to their tyranny, writes Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Anatomy of a bandwagon: How self-ID captured Britain’s political class” – Self-identification renders any law, policy or guideline that refers to a person’s sex essentially meaningless, says Ellen Pasternack in CapX.
- “Against the Eugenicons” – The Right-wingers who think the poor are genetically challenged, dubbed ‘eugenicons’, are no better than the woke Left, says Michael Lind in Compact.
- “Terrorists could use AI to carry out hacking raids on the U.K.” – Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has warned that artificial intelligence could be used to conduct extensive hacking operations or create hazardous materials, says the Mail.
- “Peter Hitchens: I must beg you to oppose Assange’s shameful handover” – The Mail’s Peter Hitchens begs you to join him in protesting against the fast-approaching extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S.
- “Every federal charge makes Trump stronger” – Republicans and many independents no longer trust the American legal system, says Lionel Shriver in the Times.
- “Disgraced ‘crypto king’ sent to jail in handcuffs after his bail is revoked” – Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been sent to prison after his $250m (£197m) bail was revoked over alleged witness tampering, reports Sky News.
- “‘The companies have to pay fealty to the woke cult!’” – On GB News, Toby discusses ‘Woke, Ltd.’, the Free Speech Union’s latest research briefing. It details the chilling effect on free speech posed by ‘B Corps’, a movement that counts nearly 2,000 British companies among its members.
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