News Round-Up
12 March 2025
Mark Carney’s ‘Climate Tax Rollback’ is a Sleight of Hand
12 March 2025
by Ben Pile
The Bank of England has scrapped planned DEI rules that would have forced 42,000 UK businesses to report diversity data collected on their employees amid a global backlash over the 'progressive' corporate agenda.
Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of leaving a "toxic" political legacy that divided and damaged Scotland by pushing gender self-ID among other contentious agendas after announcing she will stand down as an MSP.
GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry has revealed she's cancelled her Virgin Active membership after "seeing a man in the changing female changing rooms" and being dissatisfied with the gym's response to her concerns.
Donald Trump has said he will double steel and aluminium tariffs against Canada to 50% and threatened to impose levies on its car industry as the US President escalated his trade war.
The 'banter ban' for pubs has been included in Labour's Employment Rights Bill, threatening to turbo-charge the Equality Act and bring the joyless, Stasi-like atmosphere of modern workplaces into leisure time.
Right-wing politicians are being shut out of Government across Europe, says Gavin Mortimer, as so-called 'progressive' elites in politics and the judiciary effectively rig what are supposed to be democratic elections.
The Reform civil war has further escalated after Ben Habib, who was ousted as Deputy Leader by Nigel Farage, is considering joining forces with suspended MP Rupert Lowe to form a new party in a challenge to Farage.
Anti-Elon Musk demonstrations have erupted across the US with Left-wing protesters attacking Tesla showrooms with guns and Molotov cocktails.
Foreigners are convicted of up to a quarter of UK sex crimes despite making up only around a tenth of the population, according to an analysis of official data from the Ministry of Justice.
The RAF has launched a desperate search for pilots after a secret unlawful bid to discriminate against white men backfired and left the air force with an acute shortage of combat-ready flyers.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
In America, Prof Jay Bhattacharya, the lockdown sceptic once derided by NIH chief Francis Collins as a "fringe epidemiologist", is about to take over as NIH head in truly sweet karma. But the UK is still mired in denial.
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