News Round-Up

• “Gillian Keegan ‘gaslights’ families by claiming schools were not shut during lockdown” – Campaign group UsForThem has called on the Education Secretary to retract her false statement, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain is now a poor nation. This is the number one issue we face – yet our leaders ignore it” – Our average living standards are lower than those in the least affluent U.S. state but we’re in denial about the problems we face, says Danial Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker duped over ‘vile’ film’s lies about Boris’ Covid: BBC star forced to distance himself from documentary after we expose its smear that PM was never close to death” – The Mail is clearly delighted with catching out Lineker. But it’s worth recalling that Boris was never on a ventilator, never had pneumonia and said at the time he was in “good spirits”. This was all reported at the time, of course.
• “The revolving door of public private pharma spins on” – Former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Deborah Birx has become CEO of Armata Pharmaceuticals in the latest example of the all-to-cosy relationship between Government and Pharma, says El Gato Malo.
• “Michael Gove warns against Net Zero ‘religious crusade’” – The Levelling Up Secretary has called for a relaxation of green measures while the cost of living crisis puts pressure on family budgets, acording to the Telegraph.
• “Nuclear Energy’s Moment Has Come” – The grandson of the Manhattan Project’s J. Robert Oppenheimer explains in Time why we need to develop and scale nuclear energy to meet the global energy transition.
• “The climate witch trials” – Questioning the climate-change narrative is now the ultimate form of heresy, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “When super-fit cyclist Andrea Sechi collapsed and died from a heart attack in Sardinia last weekend, it was instantly blamed on global warming despite it being 8.30am and just 22°C” – David Jones in the Mail investigates the people fuelling this climate of hysteria.
• “BBC Climate Editor back home… from 1,800-mile Spain jaunt by plane – where he blamed heatwave on carbon emissions here” – The BBC was accused of hypocrisy after its Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt, jetted off to Spain to report on its heatwave – which he blamed on carbon emissions, the Mail reports.
• “Teachers need help against gender ideology” –  For too long schools, misinformed by activist groups, have inadvertently funnelled troubled children towards transition, says Janice Turner in the Times.
• “The Free Speech Scare” – At a House hearing on censorship, they were trying to censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even as he spoke, and it only made the point, says Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone.
• “Symptoms of mistrust” – Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay, writes Lola Salem in the Critic.
• “No. 10 drafts laws to ban children from changing gender in school” – Legislation is being prepared to ban gender transition in schools ahead of the King’s Speech in November as Rishi Sunak seeks policies supported by parents, the Telegraph reports.
• “Nigel Farage ups the stakes in battle with Coutts and BBC by complaining to Information Commissioner in row that could cost bank £17.5m for misusing his data” – The ex-UKIP leader has escalated his battle with Coutts and the BBC over the closure of his bank account by lodging a formal complaint with the Information Commissioner, the Mail reports.
• “Christian father removes his nine-year-old daughter from school after being horrified by what she was being taught in compulsory sex education lessons” – Michael Doherty from Suffolk was shocked that Thurston Primary School was teaching his nine year-old daughter about anal sex and showing her a video of a boy having a wet dream, the Mail reports. Yet it refused to allow him to withdraw her as it didn’t deem this ‘sex education’.
• “The scariest poll you’ll see this summer” – Alex Berenson on the shocking poll showing the collapse in support for free speech on the American Left in the last five years.
• “Lesbian couple win IVF ‘gay tax’ battle” – An NHS care board backs down and agrees to fund IVF for same-sex parents, reports the Telegraph – despite this not addressing a health problem and the health service surely having much more pressing priorities for spending.
• “NHS faces exodus of doctors and surgeons to foreign healthcare systems” – Rising numbers of consultants are opting for a new life abroad, where they can double their salaries, reports the Guardian.
• “Gay and trans students offered own halls in at least seven universities” – At least seven institutions have flats or accommodation blocks reserved only for LGBT undergraduates, the Mail reports.
• “America’s first elected trans lawmaker is charged with stomach-churning child porn offences ‘after daycare worker girlfriend sent naked photos of toddlers in her care’” – Stacie Marine Laughton could face up to 30 years in jail after being charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children, the Mail reports.
• “Ad firms could be ‘overrun by cancel culture’ after joining Left-wing campaign” – Five of Britain’s biggest advertising companies are members of a network set up by activists from Stop Funding Hate, reports the Telegraph.
• “Journalist Emma-Jo Morris, who broke the Hunter Biden laptop story for the NY Post but was immediately censored by the state on social media in an attempt to influence the 2020 election, just delivered a mind-boggling testimony on the extent of censorship in America” – Watch Morris’s testimony to the House judiciary hearing on Big Tech censorship.

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