News Round-Up

• “Police ‘execution’ of teenager sparks riots in Paris as cars burned” – Rioting has broken out on the streets of a Paris suburb as a policeman is accused of executing a teenage driver in cold blood, reports the Mail.
• “Lockdown-induced phobias and anxieties fuelling long-term sickness crisis” – In the Telegraph, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has suggested that musculoskeletal problems have increased among home workers since the pandemic due to poor posture.
• “Fight this sinister power grab by the WHO: part three” – In the last in a three-part series, Dr. Elizabeth Evans argues that the proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty and changes to the International Health Regulations would be a dangerous assault on medical ethics and individual freedoms.
• “The disgrace of Australia’s pandemic betrayal” – John Stapleton’s new book, Australia Breaks Apart, is “the definitive account of Covid Australia” and a thundering reminder of the evil that men (and women) do, says Paul Collits.
• “The perils of Net Zero coercion” – Sweeping bans to cut greenhouse emissions in Europe are leading to widespread public backlash, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
• “Britain’s pothole crisis could be made worse by electric cars” – A study led by the University of Leeds has found that the excessive weight of electric vehicles could decimate roads that are already ill-equipped to handle the strain, reports the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil throw paint over energy firm’s Canary Wharf office” – Eco-zealots staged a sit-in outside the Total Energies HQ after using repurposed fire extinguishers to spray paint its exterior fluorescent orange, says the Mail.
• “If the ‘godfather of ESG’ is confused, then you know there’s a problem” – BlackRock CEO Larry Fink found himself tangled up in knots over the weekend facing questions about the lacklustre performance of ESG funds. It’s time for a refink, says Ben Wright.
• “NHS nursing strikes are over… for now” – NHS nursing strikes have temporarily halted as the Royal College of Nursing fell short of achieving a 50% participation rate in its latest ballot for industrial action, reports the Mail.
• “MP’s bid to ban ‘social gender transitioning’ in schools is defeated” – Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen failed to attract support for new gender and parental rights laws, says the Mail.
• “Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row” – An employment tribunal has ruled that Arts Council England employee Denise Fahmy faced a ‘hostile environment’ because of her view that people cannot change their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
• “Lifeboat crews are caught in sexism and racism storm” – RNLI lifeboatmen have accused the charity of being on a “woke crusade” amid a row over “alpha male” among volunteers behaviour, says the Mail.
• “The world’s wokest country is leaving Britain’s economy in the dust” – A dose of Canada’s ultra-liberal realism could solve the U.K.’s stagnant growth, says Matthew Lynn.
• “The witch trials of Davina McCall” – Brendan O’Neill explains why the trans set is so terrified of women with opinions, following the monstering of Davina McCall for tweeting her approval of Sharron Davies‘s new book.
• “The problem with ‘cis’” – “Language is being manipulated by trans activists,” warns James Esses in Spiked. “The sooner we leave it behind, the better.”
• “Who is controversial director Nicolas Winding Refn?” – The BBC has raised eyebrows by picking a controversial Danish film director to helm its re-interpretation of Enid Blyton’s children’s classic.
• “There’s nothing rebellious about Glastonbury” – Every politician, broadsheet hack and nepo baby now insists on being seen there, says Julie Burchill.
• “Meghan labelled talentless after Spotify podcast deal collapse” – According to the Telegraph, Hollywood agent Jeremy Zimmer says the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent”. Ouch.
• “Nigel Farage is named News Presenter of the Year at the TRIC Awards” – Nigel Farage last night called on his hecklers to “keep the abuse coming” as it “says a lot more about you than about me” after he was named the best news presenter in the country at a trendy awards ceremony, reports the Mail.
• “Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning” – Apple joins WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in condemning the Online Safety Bill for allowing a state regulator to view messages on end-to-end encryption apps, reports the BBC.
• “Exposed: secret Government effort to regulate your mind” – The U.S. Congress must defund and dismantle the corrupt Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and fire its director, says Michael Shellenberger.
• “Britons currently have the worst access to healthcare in Europe” – On the 75th birthday of the NHS, the New Statesman’s George Eaton says the NHS (and the Government) needs journalistic scrutiny, not quasi-religious indulgence.

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