News Round-Up

• “The real reason Coutts closed my accounts – and it has nothing to do with my finances” – Nigel Farage responds in the Telegraph to the Stasi-style surveillance report that Coutts used as a basis for closing his accounts.
• “The shameless fearmongering of the lockdown lobby” – During Covid, the authorities treated us as children to be scared into compliance, rather than citizens to be reasoned with, says Laura Dodsworth in Spiked.
• “Never mind the evidence, carry on masking” – The continued face mask propaganda is nothing less than a case of corporate gaslighting on a global scale, says Roger Watson in TCW.
• “Is the CDC totally blind to all the adverse events from the Covid vaccines?” – Steve Kirsch highlights several significant safety concerns related to Covid vaccines, which the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention appear to be deliberately ignoring.
• “New Covid documents reveal unparalleled media deception” – Newly released chats and emails between the authors of a crucial scientific paper leave no doubt: an unprecedented official disinformation campaign accompanied the arrival of COVID-19, says Racket News.
• “Fifteen illuminating passages in the proximal origin chats and emails” – Matt Taibbi examines the communication between officials and scientists behind the influential paper supporting a natural origin for COVID-19, revealing uncertainties, interference, politicised science and more.
• “First it was Covid – now we’re being scared into submission over the weather” – There’s no denying it’s hot in Europe, but it feels like sunshine is being weaponised in a bid to get us to adjust our ways to hit Net Zero, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “A heatwave isn’t the end of the world” – Apocalyptic fears around climate change are unfounded and reducing emissions will hurt the poor, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “Hydrogen heating revolution feared over before it has begun” – The Telegraph questions whether the disagreement between British Gas and Grant Shapps over hydrogen heating in Britain could lead to another Boris Johnson pipe dream.
• “Alan Titchmarsh speaks sense about the ‘rewilding’ craze” – Alan Titchmarsh told the Lords’ Horticultural Sector Committee inquiry that rewilded gardens are bad for wildlife, says Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
• “Are 15 minute cities smart?” – Is the ‘15 minute city’ a good idea, a new way to control the populace or a trendy blip in public planning, asks Thomas Buckley.
• “‘Green colonialism’ is real and must be stopped.” – ‘Green colonialism’ is forcing expensive green energy policies on developing nations, hindering their escape from poverty, says Dr. Robert Malone.
• “Roadblock outside luxury hotel where 240 asylum seekers are moving in” – Angry protesters have set up a roadblock on a private road to stop access to a luxury hotel where 240 asylum seekers are moving in, reports the Mail.
• “‘We will bring you down’: German MP vows to dismantle WHO’s grip on governments” – Zerohedge has a video of German MP Christine Anderson slamming the World Health Organisation as “globalitarian misanthropists” and vowing to dismantle it for supplanting democratically elected governments.
• “Future of Commonwealth Games in chaos as Victoria cancels 2026 event” – The future of the Commonwealth Games is in danger after the Left-wing Australian leader of Victoria pulled the plug on hosting the event in 2026, says the Mail.
• “What on earth is the ‘2SLGBTQQIA+’ movement?” – The ‘two-spirit’ identity (often shortened to ‘2S’) is based on a crackpot rewriting of Native American history, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “The perversion of anti-fascism” – Anti-fascists used to fight the likes of Franco. Now they threaten to punch women in the face, says Lisa McKenzie in Spiked.
• “Britain must do much more to tackle ‘anti-blasphemy’ Islamist zealots” – Is blasphemy a national security threat to the U.K.? According to the Henry Jackson Society, it is, says CapX.
• “The woke erasure of Tracy Chapman” – The success of Fast Car is being memory-holed to fit an identitarian narrative, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “Britain is no country for Christians” – The suspension of a Tory councillor hints at a growing intolerance for our official religion, says Emma Webb in the Telegraph.
• “The upside of empire” – A non-ideological debate is needed about the pros and cons of colonialism, and the ideal primer for it would be Biggar’s thought-provoking book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, says Andrew Roberts in National Review.
• “New home video doorbell has social media-powered facial recognition” – Irvinei’s Smart Door Bell, with AI and pattern recognition, raises concerns about data collection and surveillance, says Reclaim The Net.
• “House GOP considers holding Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress” – House Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan, is strongly considering holding Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress over the failure to disclose censorship documents, reports Fox Business.
• “Donald Trump ‘almost certainly’ faces arrest and federal charges” – Donald Trump said he will almost certainly face arrest and federal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, says the Telegraph.
• “‘They will stop at nothing to destroy us’” – Dan Wootton warns that GB News faces opposition from sinister elements determined to undermine its influence.

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