News Round-Up

• “Voters rejected Ulez – and it could spell the end of Net Zero policies” – Starmer and Sunak will be asking themselves: are Britons willing to vote for short-term financial pain for long-term benefit to the climate, says Ben Riley-Smith in the Telegraph.
• “The numbers that show Ulez is an electoral nightmare” – The Uxbridge by-election proves the policy is Kryptonite at the ballot box, says the Telegraph.
• “This must be the end of Rishi Sunak’s green obsession” – If you threaten people’s livelihoods and what they regard as fundamental rights to mobility and self-reliance, they will get rid of you, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Sadiq Khan must ‘reflect’ on Ulez, Starmer says after Uxbridge loss” – Sir Keir Starmer has said Sadiq Khan needs to “reflect” on his plan to extend London’s ultra-low emission zone as senior shadow cabinet ministers blamed, reports the Times. (That’s Ed Miliband, btw.)
• “Keir Starmer vows to ‘reflect’ on Ulez after losing Boris Johnson’s former seat” – Labour leader says there is “no denying” the green traffic scheme was the reason his party lost in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, reports the Telegraph.
• “It’s Ulez now, but heat pumps are the next electoral disaster” – The Uxbridge revolt against Sadiq Khan’s green madness has set out a blueprint for a Conservative resurgence, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Why your electric car is nowhere near as green as you think” – An electric car is only as clean as the electricity used to charge it, says Ross Clark in the Times.
• “The heat is getting to everyone’s head” – Shoddy reporting and the sinister cherry-picking of data on climate change will not help us save the planet, writes Alex Starling in Reaction.
• “Texas is boiling – and booming. Where is the climate catastrophe?” – Global warming is a huge problem, but adaptation and tech give us the tools to handle extreme weather, according to Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “Just Stop Oil zealots are confronted by mothers” – Just Stop Oil yesterday morning shrugged off public hostilities to step out in London – for yet another motorist-baiting rush hour slow march, reports the Mail. But they met their match in a group of young mums.
• “I’m afraid NatWest boss may have to go” – Boris Johnson says in his column in the Mail that if NatWest boss Alison Rose really did tell the BBC’s Simon Jack that Nigel Farage had been de-banked because he was too poor to bank at Coutts she must resign.
• “BBC reporter fails to apologise for story about Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank account closure” – Simon Jack admitted the story “should have been clearer” that the information was passed on to him from a source and not an indisputable fact, reports the Telegraph. But he stops short of apologising.
• “Coutts’s ‘inclusive’ attack on Nigel Farage is both sinister and absurd” – According to its corporate bumf, Coutts claims to be “helping create a more inclusive culture”. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to include offering its services to individuals whose political views differ from those of its directors, writes Ross Clark in CapEx.
• “Ex-City trader ‘has waited 15 months to learn why Coutts account was shut’” – Nigel Farage claims the Financial Ombudsman Service has yet to respond to a friend who was turned away without explanation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Humiliation for Coutts as they grovel to Farage” – Gerald Ratner, eat your heart out. 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, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “Coutts updated its client rules after George Floyd murder” – A new anti-discrimination clause was added to Coutts’s terms and conditions in the wake of the BLM protests at the behest of Alison Rose, reports the Times.
• “‘Anti-discrimination’ culture is ushering in a new totalitarianism” – Equity, diversity and inclusion is the mantra of the new totalitarian managerial class, writes Melanie Phillips in the Times.
• “How Coutts destroyed capitalism” – Nigel Farage’s snub is a cautionary tale, according Peter Ormerod in UnHerd.
• “Coutts and the rise of private tyranny” – Farage’s de-banking proves that private tyranny is every bit as menacing as state tyranny, writes Sohrab Ahmari in UnHerd.
• “Spending Bill proposals include provisions to limit elements of the censorship-industrial complex” – According to Reclaim The Net, moves are afoot to defund the secretive agencies that spy on dissenters on social media and try to get their posts suppressed.
• “Zelensky sacks U.K. ambassador for rebuking him over ‘Amazon’ row” – Vadym Prystaiko, the Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.K., criticised Zelensky over his ‘sarcasm’ in response to Ben Wallace suggesting Kyiv should show more gratitude and has been fired as consequence, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ukraine’s counter-offensive is failing, with no easy fixes” – Kyiv complains that it doesn’t have air power, but that is not the real source of its recent struggles, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph. The problem is, the Russians are too well dug in.
• “Russell Brand to host Ron DeSantis for ‘deep dive’ interview” – Maverick podcaster to quiz the Florida governor as he attempts to revive his faltering presidential campaign, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elites love open borders, because lawless immigration doesn’t hit them” – In our day there are few luxury beliefs more glaring than encouraging, and being in favour of, mass illegal migration, writes Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “FBI told Twitter Hunter Biden laptop was real on day of Post scoop, official says” – “Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real. And one of the FBI folks who was on the call did confirm that, ‘yes, it was’,” reports the New York Post.
• “The New York Times has lost its mind. And by mind, I mean principles and understanding of the First Amendment” – Alex Berenson laments the decline of his former employer.
• “Gender-critical editor dropped by agency over ‘five o’clock shadow’ tweet” – Sibyl Ruth accuses Cornerstones, a literary agency, of pushing her out after she queried the idea that someone with stubble can be a woman, writes Craig Simpson in the Telegraph. Sybil is a member of the Free Speech Union, which is helping her fight her case. Donate to Sybil’s fundraiser here.
• “By stealth” – Ann Sinnott in the Critic explains how the trans lobby took over the British establishment.
• “Head of Stonewall squirms under pressure from Beth Rigby” – Watch the head of Stonewall struggle to respond to some gentle questioning from Beth Rigby on Sky News about why it’s unfair for transwomen to compete against biological women.

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