News Round-Up

• “Plot to drive out equality chief who’s standing up for women” – Woke employees at the Equality and Human Rights Commission have embarked on a witch-hunt against the Chair, Baroness Falkner, after she wrote to Kemi Badenoch urging her to reform the Equality Act to protect women’s spaces, according to an exclusive in the Daily Mail.
• “Heroine standing up to campaign of hatred by trans lobby” – Andrew Pierce sings the praises of Baroness Falkner, who, in addition to being the Chair of the EHRC, was the first Muslim to serve on a parliamentary frontbench.
• “Now the woke Blob is coming for Braverman” – The Home Secretary dared to articulate Right-wing views, so now she’s going to be made an example of, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Britain must take back control and kick its addiction to immigration” – The economy appears to be increasingly reliant on an unending stream of workers, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker to be given an award for his political remarks on migrant crisis” – The Match of the Day presenter is due to receive an Amnesty International award for comparing the Government’s migrant policy to 1930s Germany, reports GB News.
• “Muslim protest disrupts Bollywood film screening in Birmingham” – Muslim protesters disrupted the screening of a Bollywood film that depicts the enslavement of Hindu women by ISIS, reports the Times.
• “Uber diversity chief placed on leave for ‘tone deaf’ talk on white women” – Uber’s diversity chief has been suspended for daring to suggest that white people can be the victims of prejudice too, says the Telegraph.
• “Tate Britain’s rehang is a hectoring, history-obsessed slog” – Are the gallery’s bosses embarrassed by its art? Tate Britain’s latest rehang, which obsesses over context at the expense of aesthetics, makes it seem so, writes Alastair Sooke in the Telegraph.
• “A Dispatch from the Woke Wars” – My speech at last week’s National Conservatism conference.
• “Reflections on a revolution in Westminster” – Henry George in the Critic shares his thoughts on NatCon.
• “The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is a triumphant pushback against illiberalism” – Eric Kaufmann in Conservative Home on the coalition of anti-woke warriors behind the Government’s new free speech legislation.
• “Less academic freedom leads to less innovation” – A group of academics have show that in those countries where academic freedom has declined in the last 10 years or so, correspondingly fewer patent applications were made.
• “Dr. Scott Atlas Shouted Down at New College of Florida Commencement Speech” – Dr. Scott Atlas was hounded by a student mob when he gave the commencement speech at the New College of Florida, reports the Stanford Review.
• “Now the banks have joined the war on free speech” – The Triggernometry podcast is the latest victim of financial censorship, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked Online.
• “The Australian Government colluded with big tech to suppress speech on Covid” – Rebekah Barnett reports on the latest free speech abuse down under.
• “Manipulating mortality” – John Campbell updates his analysis of Canadian mortality data.
• “Huge new study shows mRNA Covid jabs sharply raise the risk of severe vaginal bleeds” – Alex Berenson reports on a new horrific vaccine harm.
• “Elon Musk is right about George Soros – and not antisemitic” – The Hungarian-born billionaire has done more than anyone to turn Americans against Israel, writes Alan Dershowitz in the Wall St Journal.
• “‘Ukraine blew up Nord Stream pipelines, Germany believes’” – German investigators think it was Ukraine, not Russia, that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, reports the Times.
• “Facebook owner Meta fined record €1.2 billion for transferring users’ data to U.S.” – Meta, the owner of Facebook, has been fined a record €1.2 billion for breaching European Union data privacy rules, says the Times.
• “Sadiq Khan admits LTNs ‘aren’t perfect’ and some may need removing” – The London mayor conceded local councils in the capital might need to ‘tweak’ LTNs or scrap them, reports the Mail. Is this the beginning of the end?
• “Natural England blamed for blocking new homes” – The green quango has been accused of blocking 160,000 new homes and helping to push housebuilding to its lowest level since the 1920s, reports the Times.
• “U.K. could meet net zero goals by halving private jet flights” – The carbon footprint of private jets in the U.K. is on a par with 200,000 people taking a return flight to Hong Kong, according to a Government-commissioned report.
• “San Francisco crime surge drives tech chief exodus to London” – Rising crime in the world’s tech capital has seen executives moving to London, according to the Telegraph.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Rishi Sunak to move on from the Suella Braverman row” – As the blob targets the Home Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg makes the case for her defence.

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