News Round-Up

• “In-N-Out Burger’s Alleged New Mask Policy Is Causing Controversy” – The West Coast burger chain appears to have instituted a new set of guidelines for its workers banning face masks, reports the Daily Meal. Let’s hope it catches on.
• “Just 34 staff took daily trip to £22m 409 desk Welsh Government HQ” – The £22 million Welsh Government HQ at Llandudno Junction, Wales, was built for 650 staff with 409 desks in 2010, but only 34 staff a day attended between January and May this year as WFH hits office use, the Mail reports.
• “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Triggers Overdue Debate About China’s Secretive Ethnically-Targeted Bioweapons Research” – Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger in Public say the Democrat Presidential candidate has highlighted a loophole in the Biological Weapons Convention treaty that allows nations to conduct bioweapons research under the cover of vaccine development.
• “Covid Vaccines Harm Newborns, Study Proves” – Igor Chudov finds a worrying dose dependence by comparing Moderna to Pfizer adverse events, implying the vaccine was the cause of the problems in newborns.
• “Breaking News: Prof. Dr. Bob Wachter, Deranged UCSF Dept. of Medicine Chair, Finally Caught Covid, Fainted in Shower, Is Now Recovering at Home” – Brilliant piece from Eugyppius skewering the nonsense from a prominent extreme Covidian who finally caught the virus.
• “The human cost of Net Zero” – The war on fossil fuels is far more dangerous than climate change, says Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked.
• “Hudson Bay sea ice loss has not accelerated since 2014: in fact, summer ice cover has improved” – It’s hardly the ever-worsening catastrophe of sea ice loss story being spun in the media for Western Hudson Bay polar bears, says Susan Crockford in WUWT.
• “New homes could be blocked unless Ulez-style schemes are agreed first” – A council has said it had been “advised by Natural England, as the responsible statutory body”, that it would be unable to approve new developments unless it simultaneously introduced measures to control air pollution in the area, the Telegraph reports.
• “Eco-protester who sabotaged George Osborne’s wedding is a hypocrite ex- librarian who jetted off to Thailand months after declaring a ‘climate emergency’ in Somerset” – The ex-Chancellor was targeted by yet another climate hypocrite, 62 year-old Shelagh Day, reports the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil says it will ‘paralyse London’ with slow-marches” – The climate activists are set to travel to London from all over the U.K. to disrupt the capital during rush-hour on Monday, reports the Mail.
• “Welsh town’s move to become a ’15 minute city’” – Council chiefs have endorsed the idea of Bridgend becoming a ’15 minute city’, according to the Daily Post.
• “Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine” – In normal circumstances, you might expect the announcement that two major global corporations will headquarter their new €7 billion joint venture in the U.K. to be greeted as a huge win for the country, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator. But not it seems when the venture involves petrol engines.
• “Musk Believes ‘ESG is the Devil’ And He’s Not the Only One” – The environmental, social, and governance agenda once had the staunch backing of billionaires, but now corporations are backtracking, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
• “The lie that men can be women leads to rapists being put in female prisons and male athletes stealing our prizes” – Gender-critical author Helen Joyce hits out at transgender ideology in the Mail.
• “The BBC has destroyed itself with this futile effort to ‘modernise’” – Its core audience has been treated with contempt, while the Corporation trashes its best shows and demeans high culture, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Anger as gendered pronouns stripped from all of arts body’s literature” – Taxpayer-funded Arts Council Wales is set to purge male and female pronouns like ‘he/him’ and ‘she/her’ from its official documentation, according to the Telegraph. It’s inclusive, apparently.
• “Joe Biden’s Ministry of Truth” – His administration’s censorship regime could be the greatest threat to free speech in American history, says Sean Collins in Spiked.
• “After years of controversy, many hoped trans-rights obsessed Stonewall’s creeping takeover of our institutions had been curbed – but a special Mail investigation has discovered how we’re still in the charity’s stranglehold” – The Mail finds Stonewall’s grip on the U.K. remains strong.
• “Over-feminised schools are failing Britain’s boys” – When there are so few male role-models around, it’s no wonder male pupils seem disengaged, says Simone Hanna in the Telegraph.
• “Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’” – Springer has decided to retract a paper that questioned the explosive growth in transgenderism – and copped activist blowback – on a technicality.
• “Department for Education officials criticise ‘transphobic’ civil service guidance” – The department’s LGBT Network has published a letter calling Whitehall policy “completely unacceptable as well as unlawful”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Thousands of British families are being left homeless as Government pays for rental homes for boat migrants” – Councils are being outbid as vast sums of taxpayers’ money are paid to private landlords to put up new arrivals from Calais in flats and houses, while homeless Britons are forced to live in hotels, reports the Mail.
• “Leading gender dysphoria expert says he has been censored” – J. Michael Bailey, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University in Illinois, has previously been lauded for his “groundbreaking” work on sexual orientation, but even he cannot get off-narrative findings published, reports the Mail.
• “Threads Unravels: So-Called ‘Twitter Killer’ App Sees Exodus Of Users, Plunge In Engagements” – Sensor Tower data shows a sizeable pullback in user engagement since Threads’ July 5th launch, reports ZeroHedge. “On Tuesday and Wednesday, the platform experienced a 20% plunge in daily active users from Saturday. User time on the platform crashed 50% from 20 minutes to just 10 minutes for the same period.”
• “Tucker: Are you concerned about Central Bank Digital Currencies?” – DeSantis: “They want to get rid of cash. They want no cryptocurrency. They want this to be the sole form of legal tender. It will allow them to prohibit undesirable purchases like fuel and ammunition. So, the minute you give them the power to do this, they will impose a social credit system on this country. CBDC is a massive threat to American liberty. On January 20th 2025, it goes to the ash heap of history in this country.”

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