News Round-Up

• “Boris Johnson sensationally quits as an MP over Partygate probe” – In a furious letter resigning as an MP, the ex-Tory leader calls the Privileges Committee a ‘kangaroo court’ and blames its damning Partygate verdict on Remainers and political opponents trying to drive him out of office, says the Mail.
• “Boris Johnson resigns as MP over Partygate report” – The Telegraph’s report on Boris’s resignation.
• “Trump Is Charged in Classified Documents Inquiry” – The New York Times reports on the charges facing Donald Trump, which include conspiracy to obstruct, wilfull retention of documents and false statements.
• “Trump’s chances of White House return unlikely” – David Cay Johnston in the Mail says Trump’s attempt to become the Republican nominee in 2024 may have been derailed by the fact he’s been charged with federal crimes.
• “Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab?” – Ashley Rindsberg asks in UnHerd how U.S. taxpayers ended up financing the creation of deadly pathogens in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• “Hyping non-Covid waves in Japan: media finds other viruses to fearmonger about” – Guy Gin says that, contrary to the warnings, the lifting of all Covid restrictions in Japan hasn’t resulted in a surge in Covid patients.
• “Querying the existence of a covid ‘pandemic’” – HART expresses doubt about whether there really was a Covid pandemic.
• “I’ll never throw out my DVD player – the woke police can’t delete my box sets” – Michael Deacon in the Telegraph advises people not to throw away their DVD collections, given that streaming platforms are now censoring classic movies like The French Connection.
• “Oxfam has unwittingly exposed the folly of trans extremism” – The pitiful state of Oxfam stands as a dire warning of what can happen to organisations that are captured by Stonewall, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “How Auntie excludes” – Why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender critical feminists, asks Cath Walton in the Critic.
• “Women’s spa with compulsory nudity ordered to admit trans women” – A court in Washington has ordered a women’s-only spa to admit transwomen, even if they’ve got penises.
• “Universal basic income would put us on the road to authoritarianism” – Universal basic income is a terrible idea, writes Lord Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Net zero isn’t working – but Conservatives refuse to grasp the nettle” – A vast coalition is forming against excessive green regulations. The first party that taps into it will reap electoral rewards, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “‘A girl at our school has decided she identifies as a cat’” – From rainbow crossings to tampons in the gents, a selection of Telegraph readers detail how woke culture has infiltrated their daily lives.
• “Why the eye-watering cost of Labour’s green pledge didn’t add up” – Rachel Reeves has been forced to back away from Labour’s ‘green’ plan to spend £28 billion a year for five years on solar and wind power, leaving Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband furious, reports the Telegraph.
• “Borrowing costs are far from the only problem with Labour’s ‘Green Prosperity Plan’” – Ross Clark in CapX explains why Labour’s plan was completely bonkers.
• “Secret recording ‘proves dam explosion was Russian sabotage gone wrong’” – Intercepted call between soldiers proves Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam, according to the Telegraph.
• “Good riddance to Caroline Lucas” – The departing Green MP embodies everything that’s rotten about environmentalism, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Rishi Sunak indicates he will change the law to protect single-sex spaces for women” – The Prime Minister indicates he will reform the Equality Act 2010 to make it clear that biological sex is a protected characteristic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Most Princeton students say it’s OK to shout down campus speakers” – More than three-quarters of Princeton students say it is sometimes acceptable to stop a campus speaker by shouting over them, a recent survey has revealed, says the Mail.
• “Twitter Files: FBI asked Twitter to censor western journalists on behalf of Ukraine” – The FBI asked Twitter to censor accounts it accused of spreading ‘Russian disinformation’, including a number of American and Canadian journalists, according to new emails released via the Twitter Files.
• “Elon Musk’s free speech crusade against Left-wing censorship is winning” – Musk’s Twitter takeover was important, says Michael Shellenberger in an interview with Steve Edginton in the Telegraph. Now we have to demand our free speech rights.
• “Covid disinformation unit made ‘hourly contact’ with tech firms, its leader reveals” – Sarah Connolly is named by the Telegraph as the head of Counter-Disinformation Unit, the secretive government ‘cell’ that flagged critics of lockdown policy.
• “David Davis says secret unit that targeted lockdown dissent should be shut down” – The former Cabinet minister tells the Telegraph his tweets were monitored by the Counter-Disinformation Unit and calls for it to be shut down.
• “Mark Zuckerberg says he was asked by Covid experts to censor posts about the virus that turned out to be true” – Watch a clip from Zuckerberg’s podcast in which he expresses regret for complying with requests to remove Covid ‘misinformation’ in 2020 that was in fact true.

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