- “Jury finds in favour of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg” – A Washington, D.C. jury has found that conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg defamed climate scientist Michael Mann, according to True North. Steyn has been ordered to pay Mann $1 million.
- “Diversity champion to replace Coutts chief who debanked Farage” – NatWest has hired a sustainability banker and diversity champion to run Coutts after its Chief Executive was ousted in the aftermath of the Nigel Farage debanking scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “How I confronted Gary Lineker about his shocking tweets over Israel” – “It started with a discussion about podcasts, it ended with me telling Gary Lineker he was acting like an antisemite and asking why he hadn’t said a thing about the Israeli hostages still in Gaza,” says Nicole Lampert in the Mail.
- “Anti-Zionism is not ‘worthy of respect’” – David Miller must have the right to speak freely, but there is still something unsettling about his tribunal victory, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Chinese experts publish paper citing development of ‘100% mortality’ virus in mice” – A Chinese research team has published a paper revealing a coronavirus with a 100% mortality rate in mice and a spillover risk into humans, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Covid vaccines are most dangerous in the first trimester of pregnancy, study suggests” – On Substack, Igor Chudov says a new study’s data suggests that Covid vaccines given to pregnant women may be dangerous to foetuses if the mothers were vaccinated during the first trimester.
- “New powers for police to arrest protesters wearing masks to hide their identity” – Masks and climbing on war memorials will be banned at protests under laws to be introduced in the wake of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Even hard-working, skilled migrants still push up welfare bills” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Lilico discusses the fact that immigrants into highly-developed countries tend to have less capital than those there prior to the immigrants’ arrival.
- “Mass migration is slowly bankrupting the U.K.” – One by one, the economic arguments for porous borders have collapsed. We can’t go on like this, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Asylum arrivals surge again in first five weeks of 2024 to record numbers” – The number of asylum applicants coming to Ireland has surged dramatically in the first five weeks of 2024, with January setting a new record for the past 20 years, reports Gript.
- “I’m embarrassed by modern Britain” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray isn’t sure he recognises Britain any more.
- “The Britain of Dad’s Army is fading from memory” – The notion of fighting for your country is totally alien to us today, remarks Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “Berlin police investigate possibly fascist inflatable snowman, band sings ‘Fuck the AfD’ on national TV and the President of Eintracht Frankfurt demands that people vomit in the faces of AfD voters” – On Substack, Eugyppius gives a brief tour of the hysterical meltdown among Germany’s elites in response to the AfD’s rising popularity.
- “Ukraine’s Army chief is axed and replaced by ground forces commander” – Ukraine’s Defence Minister has declared that ‘Iron General’ Valery Zaluzhny has been removed as the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, according to the Mail.
- “The West hasn’t grasped the scale of the disaster facing China” – Our treasured illusions about how Xi will react to his country sinking are about to unravel, says Matthew Henderson in the Telegraph.
- “Bombshell decision by watchdog rules that electric cars cannot be described as ‘zero emissions’” – The advertising watchdog has declared that electric cars cannot be advertised as ‘zero emission’ because of the carbon dioxide that is generated when they are made and charged, says Car Dealer Magazine.
- “EV owners reveal why they are pulling the plug on their green machines” – Electric car owners have revealed to the Mail that they’re pulling the plug on their green machines because incentives have been scrapped, insurance is rising and charging costs have soared.
- “The BBC’s latest climate coverage makes XR look moderate” – There can be little doubting the Today programme’s view on Labour’s decision to finally slay their proposed £28 billion green elephant, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph. It was furious!
- “Ford EV Crisis: ‘Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can profit’” – WUWT’s Eric Worrall reacts to Ford pulling the plug on its EV strategy as losses pile up.
- “The next big climate scare: counting climate change deaths” – The Washington Examiner’s Steve Goreham explains why counting deaths due to climate change is yet more errant nonsense.
- “Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban” – Although a proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’ was left out of the King’s Speech, the spirit motivating this stillborn legislation appears to live on, writes Freddie Attenborough in the Critic. Indeed, there is a debate in the House of Lords today about banning conversion therapy.
- “Parkrun removes all records to appease transgender runners despite ‘sex discrimination’ claims” – Parkrun has removed gender, course and age records from its websites after rejecting a campaign to compel transgender runners to record their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Genetic sex’ is a misnomer” – Gender ideologues mistake a convenient term of scientific shorthand for a biological reality, says Colin Wright in City Journal.
- “Football fans, farmers and failed pledges” – The Academy of Ideas team look at the gender wars and the Green backlash on the latest Podcast of Ideas.
- “Policing misinformation is futile. We have to trust that the truth will win” – Any attempt to censor or manipulate the views of a population only ends one way, says Lee Taylor in the Hub.
- “Piers Morgan leaves TalkTV, calling his low-rating daily show a ‘straitjacket’” – Piers Morgan is leaving TalkTV and heading to YouTube, saying his nightly how has been a “straitjacket”, according to the Telegraph. Does this mean TalkTV is about to go belly up?
- “Biden will not be charged with stashing classified documents in garage” – The Department of Justice has released its long-awaited investigation into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, delivering a damning assessment of the President’s “diminished faculties” and limited memory, reports the Mail.
- “The E. Jean Carroll circus” – The desire to ‘get Trump’ has drained journalists of their scepticism, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “The Vladimir Putin interview” – On X, Tucker Carlson sits down with Vladimir Putin for their much-anticipated interview.
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