News Round-Up
- “Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.
- “Jon Sopel issues grovelling apology to Nigel Farage over mocking tweet about bank row” – Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts, reports the Express.
- “BBC under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage over Coutts account report” – The BBC is under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage after admitting that it reported inaccurate information about the closure of his Coutts account, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bank account closure rules changed by Government” – The Treasury has announced that banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers’ accounts under changes designed to protect freedom of expression, reports the Mirror.
- “NatWest should have its banking licence removed” – Despite NatWest claiming to foster an inclusive culture, it banned Nigel Farage for his political views. The Government needs to take pre-emptive action and break up the business, writes Ross Clark in the Express.
- “How I was nearly ‘de-banked’ because of my friendship with Nigel Farage” – Financial institutions are targeting innocent individuals, such as Simon Heffer in the Telegraph, due to their ties with Nigel Farage.
- “NatWest faces wave of data requests after Nigel Farage scandal” – NatWest faces a wave of demands from ‘debanked’ customers to discover why they lost their accounts, says the Telegraph.
- “Humiliation for Coutts as they grovel to Farage” – The decision by Coutts to ‘de-bank’ Nigel Farage over reputational concerns, and then brief the BBC that it was due to financial requirements, will go down as one of the worst corporate own goals in recent history, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Mafia bosses, dictators and Russian oligarchs: The questionable Coutts clients” – Coutts, the private bank which closed Nigel Farage’s account, has had links to numerous controversial figures, including Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, reports the Telegraph.
- “COVID-19: Newly published research and CDC data” – Dr. Robert W. Malone casts an eye over new research, uncovering links between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and increased strokes, breast milk’s immunity advantages and waning Covid inoculations for children.
- “Peers call on Minister to shut ‘secret institution’ that monitored lockdown critics” – Britain’s Intellectual Property Minister has faced calls to shut down a “secret institution” accused of spying on lockdown critics, politicians, and journalists, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Top scientists misled Congress about Covid origins, newly released emails and messages show” – A top advisor to Anthony Fauci still thought a lab leak was possible in April 2020, one month after claiming publicly that it wasn’t, reports Public.
- “Covid origins scientist denounces reporting on his messages as a ‘conspiracy theory’” – Public releases the full cache of Slack messages and emails, which cover the discussions between Kristian Andersen and his co-authors as they wrote their influential Proximal Origin paper. This paper was used by Anthony Fauci and others in the U.S. Government to dismiss the lab leak hypothesis.
- “Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’” – A new study may have unpicked the secret of why some people who got Covid never got ill, and it could all be thanks to a quirk of their immune system, reports the Mail.
- “Above all else, it was a spectacle” – Toby Rogers, at the Brownstone Institute, delves into the unsettling truth behind Covid’s iconic imagery and propaganda tactics, covering everything from staged pandemic photos to media manipulation.
- “Europe’s ‘48°C horror that never was’… ESA, media sharply criticised for manipulative reporting” – The news was abuzz last week with reports of temperatures soaring to 48°C in southern Europe. However, none of it was true, says WUWT.
- “Political backing for EU Green Deal fizzles despite heat wave” – As the centre-Right changes tack on climate, the bloc’s climate coalition is crumbling, says Politico.
- “Now Sadiq Khan threatens to use hidden mobile cameras in Ulez areas” – Sadiq Khan could be set to ramp up efforts to enforce his Ulez scheme with the use of mobile cameras after at least 200 cameras have been vandalised by Londoners so far, says the Mail.
- “Road rage: The great motorist rebellion has begun” – Making life difficult for motorists may be a tactical prelude to pave the way for a car-free future, says Ross Clark in the Spectator. But drivers are not going to go quietly.
- “Why your electric car is nowhere near as green as you think” – Electric cars are not ‘zero-emission vehicles’. Not by a long way, says Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “So what’s the real point of Just Stop Oil protests?” – The ‘shocking viral videos’ of the Just Stop Oil protests may not be what they seem. Kit Knightly, in OffGuardian, unmasks the truth behind staged clashes and paid protesters.
- “SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms” – The Scottish Government confirmed that it had green-lit plans to chop down millions of trees since 2000 in order to build massive turbines for renewable energy, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “The BBC has co-opted bad weather to its alarmist climate crusade” – The climate alarmism in the recent heatwaves is shameless, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Schools told to ‘proceed with caution’ after transgender guidance promise broken” – Schools have been told to “proceed with extreme caution” after Rishi Sunak broke his promise to issue transgender guidance this term, says the Telegraph.
- “School trans guidance must not become another Section 28” – Any guidance on how to help trans-identifying children must be driven by the principle of parental consent and clinical evidence, rather than emotion, says Albie Amankona in CapX.
- “Gender ideology has captured the state” – The Government’s attempts to ban social transitioning in schools are being thwarted at every turn, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Preserving an open future for kids” – Bans on transgender medical treatments for children are about protecting them from life-altering decisions that they cannot possibly comprehend, says Tom C. Rawlings in City Journal.
- “Windsor public school teacher rips Muslim students for skipping Pride day” – A teacher in Windsor, Ontario, chastised a group of Muslim students for not attending a Pride celebration day, describing the action as “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred”, says Rebel News.
- “Laurence Fox posts image of LGBTQ+ flag superglued outside home” – Laurence Fox has claimed his family home has been “marked by the child mutilation cult” after posting an image of a LGBTQ+ flag stuck to the pavement, says the Mail.
- “Open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation” – A CSA Academia open letter by scientists and researchers raises concerns about the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, citing flawed technology, privacy concerns and potential ineffectiveness in combating the crime.
- “Poland files legal complaints against ‘authoritarian’ EU climate policies” – The Polish Government has submitted four complaints against EU climate policies, calling them “authoritarian” and pledging that it “will not allow Brussels’ diktat”, reports Notes From Poland.
- “Meta’s Threads ‘bombs’ as daily active users halved” – Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest social network launch, has swiftly unravelled, with data revealing a halving of active users, reports Similarweb.
- “Just stop pissing everyone off” – Watch Just Stop Oil protestors being surrounded by ‘Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off’ protestors, preventing them from marching in the road.
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Let’s supposed everyone acted like Coutts and refused to provide service to those who don’t adhere to what is clearly a pre-established way of thinking.
Does that mean the supermarket should stop selling to Farange, so he couldn’t buy groceries anywhere? Should all the petrol stations stop serving him? The train companies and airlines would obviously have to stop selling him tickets. Restaurants should ban him.
If everyone took the same high and mighty stance that Coutts did (and the other banks who refused him an account subsequently), then he could effectively be cancelled from life.
And if they don’t, does that mean that they are socially irresponsible for not imposing the right belief system? I guess that is what proponents of ESG, DEI, CSR and all the bullshit actually must believe.
When the left’s ideas are taken to their logical end, you end up with grotesque totalitarianism. That’s if you get there and don’t get driven to insanity first, if you can survive the trans lunacy, the climate lunacy and all the other waypoints to their totalitarian hell.
This creates great opportunities for businesses who don’t discriminate in this way. In fact, new businesses such as Public Square (https://publicsq.com/in-the-news) and other unwoke companies in the US are expanding massively by taking advantage of this very opportunity.
It is a belief system without any conviction from its adherents. I doubt whether the individuals in those banks actually believe 100% in the righteousness of their stance but they do it because it looks good to everyone else doing the same thing.
Of course CBDCs are the ultimate wet dream since they absolve all the banks and businesses of any responsibility whatsoever in terms of transactions, since it’s out of their hands – and there is nowhere one can take one’s complaints. If this had happened – and I’m sure it has – to someone less high profile than Nigel Farage, then that person would still be languishing in the social doldrums, cancelled from society.
We heard about the Canadian truckers’ bank accounts being “frozen”. Does anyone know if they were ever “unfrozen”?
A spotlight needs to be shone on the creepy companies that trawl personal data, build profiles on us all and sell these profiles to the banks amongst others.
Swamp banks with subject access requests to find out.
They’ll just stop replying.
People have been given a legitimate reason to ask so they can’t be readily dismissed. Unlike FOI, it can’t be conveniently categorised as “malicious”.
Non-response requires the regulator to take action.
If the regulator doesn’t take action that poses its own questions.
Your last thought has a precedent. MHRA were swamped by COVID vaccine yellow cards, so they simply excluded them from analysis because they upset the pattern.
This is a different process. It requires data to be provided to the requestor. Yellow Cards is more of a black hole.
I’m not suggesting that people would receive a response or that the regulator would take action. It’s what should happen and if it doesn’t it highlights yet more issues.
As soon as Poland’s GDP gets to the point where they would have to become a contributor to rather than recipient of EU largess, they will Pexit, if not before.
With most of Europe destroying itself through mass immigration of economic migrants from Islamic countries and the imposition of net zero madness, countries like Poland and Hungary stand out as beacons of common sense and hope.
Not when you see their foreign policy viz the war on their borders..
Please expand / explain…
Meant to reply to you and replied to myself instead…The fog of war and all that.
US Army stakes out permanent presence in Poland with ‘Camp K’ | Stars and Stripes
Russia-Ukraine war live: US-supplied cluster bombs ‘having an impact’ on Russian defences, Washington says (theguardian.com)
Poking the bear is not standing out as beacons of common sense and hope IMO.
Their right as a nation to do what they want.
Hungary too. They are constantly flipping the finger at the EU PTBs
Spent a month in Budapest last year, getting my teeth fixed. Fantastic job, cost maybe 1/3r of what I’d pay over here. Fell in love with Budapest, and were I 21 and 71 I’d be out there in a shot. This is the Great Market, down near the river. If you are a meat lover (my wife and I are Carnivores) it’s a place to go!
“Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts,”
I know he’s not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. How can it be a sincere apology?
““Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.”
Again she is not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. Of course the assessment reflects the views of the bank – the bank bloody produced it, no doubt following their own policies. How can it be a sincere apology?
In both cases, they’ve been caught red-handed, underestimated who they were dealing with and the public reaction.
The Sopel apology includes a dig at the BBC for producing mis-information.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1681970843675443200
Thanks – that is interesting. Perhaps his apology is sincere.
“Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’”
This article tries to indicate that this genetic immunity is rare by stating;
”Only about one in ten people within the general population are believed to have the genes offering them this form of protection. ”
But surely 1 in 10 = 10% ? which in the UK equates to 7 million people. If the article had in fact said ” 7 million people in the UK are believed to have this genetic immunity” it would have had a different ring to it but then that might be seen as playing down the significance of covid and TPTB’s over-reaction to it.
“people who got Covid never got ill…” Suggests that the Mail article is oxymoronic. How can one have a disease without being ill? However, if they were more accurate (I know it’s the Mail), they might have said that most of those that got Covid were not seriously ill. Wouldn’t sell very well, perhaps.
Yes. Covid is the disease, not the bug. A large bunch of people were exposed to the bug and never developed the disease; it happens all the time with other bugs.
One’s body can detox without any overt symptoms of detox & it is these products being excreted from cells that the PCR tests assess for the presence of. Very easy for a casedemic to be manufactured in this way.
Well, if microwave exposure causes the same set of symptoms labelled as covid in susceptible individuals prior to the bioweapon injection rollout, then it’s not going to be a transmissible disease.
If this is the case, then no virus exists so the lab leak theory is just a major diversion & no “vaccine” was ever going to be effective against microwave radiation.
There is a temporal association between every major influenza epidemic & an increase in the EMF exposure of the planet.
Beverly Rubik, whose work I have come across via MD4CE zoom meetings, gives an explanation in this Rumble video.
https://rumble.com/v30y8oi-adverse-health-effects-of-wireless-communication-radiation-by-berverly-rubi.html
The Comments section in the Daily Mail article about suggested genetic predisposition to immunity is encouraging.
I’ll take my chances with the risks from the disease rather than those of the jab!
That’s a sad indictment isn’t it?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Other Interests are frustrated that their JSO protestors had not yet achieved martyrdom due to an irate driver. Perhaps their view of human nature isn’t the same as that of the majority.
The JSO speaker in the video was correct on one key point though: “this government does not have our best interests at heart”.
In the above article we find
Er, no. Where’s the evidence of this?
Then we get:
OK so we’re not eviscerating kids yet (though we seem to be encouraging them to have their ‘bits’ mutilated (reminds me of FGM outrage)), but we are sacrificing their future well-being on the altar of Green alarmism.
“Just Stop Just Stop Oil” my response to these entitled dweebs. As a paid up member of the middle classes, they are a disgrace to said middle class!
ps. W no more choose our class than we do our parents…
Reminds me of the song:
I’ve danced with a man, who’s danced with a girl, who’s danced with the Prince of Wales.