News Round-Up

• “The Church of England’s Road to Davos moment.” – “How disappointing that just as I have a Road to Damascus moment I find that the Church of England has had a Road to Davos moment,” writes Laura Dodsworth.
• “On yer bike!” – Cycling has chosen to ban transwomen like Emily Bridges from competing as females, writes Jack Watson. Whether this will spread to other sports remains to be seen.
• “The French academic paying a heavy price for probing the Muslim Brotherhood” – An interview in the Spectator with Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, a French academic living under police protection following the publication of her book about the Muslim Brotherhood.
• “The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra” – The Spectator’s Stephen Daisley is underwhelmed by the Netflex series that has become famous for casting a black actress as Cleopatra (who was white).
• “Prepare for pain: Britain is hurtling towards a new crisis” – Homeowners and businesses will pay the price for the Bank of England’s poor decision-making, write Szu Ping Chan and Melissa Lawford in the Telegraph.
• “Target gets bad news amid push for ‘Pride’ products” – Target’s stock has dropped by 12 percentage points since the company launched a ‘Pride’ range, including clothes designed for trans kids.
• “The Bud Light fiasco rocks the world of marketing” – The Epoch Times reports on the continuing fall-out from the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney brouhaha.
• “They want to use violence to silence” – Billboard Chris tells Spiked about the intolerance of the trans movement.
• “Blame Boris Johnson for low-traffic neighbourhoods, says Sadiq Khan” – The Mayor of London blames Boris for LTNs and urges Londoners to tell their local councils they don’t want them.
• “New study is extremely embarrassing for lab-grown meat” – Researchers have found that lab-grown meat’s environmental impact may be “orders of magnitude” higher than retail beef.
• “Major union attacks Labour plan to ban North Sea oil and gas licences” – Gary Smith, General Secretary of the GMB, has told Keir Starmer that there is a “national security imperative” to keep producing fossil fuels in Britain, reports the Mail.
• “Watch: Eco activist taken out by camera operator after storming TV dance show” – Protesters from Restore Wetlands, a Brazilian environmentalist group, try to disrupt a TV dance show and get a nasty shock.
• “Covid inquiry faces court battle over ministers’ WhatsApps” – Ex-Ministers accuse the inquiry of being on a “fishing expedition” as the row looks set to continue, reports the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson WhatsApps row sets up Covid inquiry legal battle” – Ministers are on course for a bitter legal battle over the release of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages to the COVID-19 inquiry, reports the Times.
• “Test Ecstasy’s effect on depression, says Patrick Vallance” – The former Chief Scientific Officer has told people not to give their grandmothers Ecstasy just yet, but said it’s worth testing to see if it could help people with depression, according to the Times.
• “Britain’s failed ruling class would rather destroy the country than fix its problems” – From food prices to mass immigration, both parties’ quick fixes are pushing the U.K. towards disaster, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “British households will have to cut energy use again, says National Grid” – Preparations for a second winter without Russian gas signal the energy crisis is not yet over, reports the Telegraph.
• “What are your links to slavery?” – An anonymous don in the Critic blasts the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for placing too much emphasis on its subjects’ links to the slave trade in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
• “The disruptive climate activists of Letzte Generation are thinly veiled agents of the state, who have received a broad license to disrupt and vandalise in furtherance of the Green agenda” – Eugyppius fires off another broadside against Germany’s corrupt Green establishment.
• “Confronting the cowardice of the far right on race” – Ron Unz admires Richard Hanania’s recent Substack post in which he imagines Unz confronting the new generation of white nationalists.
• “’I don’t trust them to make completely disinterested interventions when it comes things like the fair distribution of vaccines” – Watch me on GB News telling Jacob Rees-Mogg why MPs should oppose the WHO Pandemic Treaty.

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