News Round-Up

• “The six new types of office worker – which one do you sit next to?” – From AWOL Abi to Hazmat Harry, our colleagues have changed since the pandemic – and not necessarily for the better. The Telegraph engages in some office anthropology.
• “Monkeypox infection lasts after scabs and rashes disappear” – Analysis from NHS doctors shows the virus was detected in throat swabs and blood samples long after rashes had vanished, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bank of England told to ditch green obsession as prices surge” – Detractors hit out at Threadneedle Street after it warns City of £340 billion blow from climate change, says the Telegraph.
• “Ricky Gervais’s Netflix show SuperNature isn’t transphobic” – The comedian jokes about AIDS, famine, cancer, the Holocaust, rape and paedophilia, but there’s only one subject that has sparked outrage: transgenderism. But transwoman Debbie Hayton writing in the Spectator concludes the comedy special isn’t transphobic.
• “Ambulances will stop responding to 999 calls on August 17th, boss warns” – Nursing director fears that service will collapse when delays caused by hospitals not discharging patients reach ‘tipping point’, according to the Telegraph.
• “ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change” – Rupert Darwall says in the New York Post that Stuart Kirk should not have been cancelled for talking sense about big banks’ ludicrous obsession with climate change.
• “EU cracks widen over Ukraine as Italy, Hungary urge truce” – Italy and Hungary have urged the EU to call explicitly for a ceasefire in Ukraine and start peace talks with Russia, putting themselves at odds with other member states determined to take a hard line with Moscow ahead of a summit next week. Reuters has more.
• “Mass murder and censorship” – Noah Carl in his Substack newsletter says internet censorship is unlikely to put a stop to American mass shootings
• “‘Ridiculous’ University forced to issue whimpering U-turn after rejecting Russian student” – The University of West London is forced to perform a humiliating U-turn after initially rejecting a student applicant because she was Russian. Michael Curzon in the Express has more.
• “More money off energy bills for every household under Rishi Sunak rescue plan” – The Telegraph reports on the Government’s cunning plan to distract people from the Sue Gray report.
• “China must destroy Elon Musk’s satellites with ‘hard kill’ weapon, say academics” – Researchers from Beijing call Starlink a threat to China’s national security, says the Telegraph.
• “Tory Britain faces extinction at the hands of a radical hard-Left alliance” – If the Government fails to change course, it will lose the next election to parties that will devastate the U.K., warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Netflix is not anti-trans – it’s pro-freedom of speech” – The Twitter outrage over Ricky Gervais’s ‘transphobic’ new show is all too predictable – and entirely misplaced, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “Ricky Gervais hits back at critics of his new Netflix special” – Ricky Gervais’s jokes were described as “dangerous” by an American LGBT rights group, while Stonewall accused him of “making fun of trans people” in his new SuperNature special, reports MailOnline.
• “DAN WOOTTON: Sue Gray delivered a damp squib Partygate investigation” – The GB News presenter and MailOnline columnist says it will take more than Sue Gray’s report to topple BoJo.
• “Comical Ali gets the last laugh” – Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia on the decline of the mainstream media.
• “Alibaba President boasts about tech to monitor people’s travel, consumption, and more to create a ‘climate’ credit score” – Sinister development from the Chinese dystopia.
• “Princeton fires professor who opposed ‘anti-racist’ agenda” – Spectator World reports on the disgraceful firing of Joshua Katz by Princeton.
• “Karol Sikora joins Dan Wooton to discuss the media’s ‘hysterical coverage’ of monkeypox and says the ‘complete overreaction’ is a ‘sign of the times’ and ‘a reflection of the fear inspired by coronavirus.’” – Don’t panic, Mr Monkeypox, says leading oncologist.

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