News Round-Up

• “Nigel Farage ready to sue NatWest after being ‘treated like war criminal’” – A furious Nigel Farage is ready to sue Coutts’ owner NatWest, claiming it treated him like a war criminal, according to the Sun.
• “Nigel Farage reveals ‘condescending’ Coutts letter” – Nigel Farage has revealed the moment he received a letter from Coutts telling him he was being cut off from the bank, reports the Mail.
• “BBC ex-employee blasts corporation as he calls for quick apology to Nigel Farage” – In an interview on GB News, Nicholas Owen has called on Simon Jack, one of the BBC’s journalists, to apologise over his coverage of the Nigel Farage banking row.
• “NatWest still has questions to answer” – There will be a review into the Coutts banking row, but what assurances do customers have in the meantime that they will not be similarly penalised for their opinions, asks the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Closing Nigel Farage’s bank accounts is an attack on free speech itself” – City Minister Andrew Griffith assures in the Telegraph that they are actively taking measures to prevent any recurrence of the Coutts banking row.
• “Posturing for profit: After Coutts, the backlash” – Moralising firms have long made hay from right-on ‘values’. Now the tide is turning against corporate hypocrisy, says Fred Sculthorp in the Sunday Times.
• “Rishi must take tough decisions after poll defeats” – The Conservative Party is facing a possible historic defeat at the next general election due to its disconnect with the voters and failure to deliver on promises, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Express.
• “Britain is Europe’s liberal outcast” – Britain is becoming the last holdout of liberal-Left political power in a continent swinging firmly to the Right, says Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
• “Britain needs a referendum on Net Zero” – The Telegraph is calling for a referendum on Net Zero, as the economic and societal consequences of the 2050 target have become apparent.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg presses Tories to scale back Net Zero plans” – Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Business Secretary, suggests Rishi Sunak should dilute his green agenda to galvanise Conservative supporters, reports the Telegraph.
• “Swedish energy giant Vattenfall halts U.K. wind farm project due to spiralling costs” – Swedish state energy giant Vattenfall has abandoned plans to build a multi-billion pound wind farm off Norfolk because of spiralling costs, reports This is Money.
• “Gary Lineker told to stick to football by MOTD predecessor in row over wading into politics” – Des Lynam has told Gary Lineker, the BBC’s highest-paid star, to “get on with the football”, reports the Express.
• “Man in a gimp suit roams through Shakespeare’s Globe” – A man has horrified families after attending a mid-afternoon performance at Shakespeare’s Globe dressed in a gimp suit, says the Mail.
• “Miss Italy pageant bans transgender competitors” – The Miss Italy beauty pageant has announced that it will not allow transgender competitors, and all entrants must be “a woman from birth”, says Fox News.
• “Trans surgery pitfalls revealed: 81% endure pain after operations” – Researchers from the University of Florida have found that more than half of trans surgery patients endured pain during sex, and nearly a third could not control their bladders after operations, reports the Mail.
• “Mother ‘shocked’ as autistic son is taught there are multiple genders” – A mother-of-two was left horrified after her autistic 10 year-old son was told to fill out an exercise about multiple genders and sex changes in class, says the Mail.
• “How David Bowie predicted the trans movement” – David Bowie’s 1995 album, Outside, gave us a chillingly accurate foretaste of the contemporary cult of gender, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “Woke propaganda fest: How U.S. Republicans went to war over the Barbie movie” –The gender themes in the blockbuster comedy Barbie are riling U.S. conservatives, with some calling for a boycott, says the Telegraph.
• “Barbie is Fight Club for women” – Kat Rosenfield, in UnHerd, explores Barbie’s timeless allure as she defies age and societal norms, reflecting the paradoxes of millennial women.
• “Investigating the pro-censorship U.K. group expanding across the U.S.” – America First Legal has announced that it is investigating a U.K.-based group known as the Centre for Countering Digital Hate for operating in the U.S. as a non-profit, says Reclaim the Net.
• “California expands travel ban list over gender ideology to half the country” – California has extended its travel ban to three states that have imposed restrictions on transgender students’ participation in school sports teams that do not align with their biological sex, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Biden nominates Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be first woman to lead U.S. Navy” – The nomination of Admiral Lisa Franchetti by President Biden to lead the Navy comes as a surprise, reports Reuters. Pentagon officials had widely expected the nod to go to Admiral Samuel Paparo, who leads the Navy in the Pacific and who has experience grappling with the growing challenge from China.
• “Elon Musk reveals plans to replace Twitter’s bird logo with an ‘X’” – Elon Musk has announced that the Twitter logo will be imminently changing from its famous bird to an X, reports the Mail.
• “‘This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal’” – Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, presents a chart published by Lancet that exhibits an unequal Y-Axis, downplaying the fact that cold weather causes 10 times more deaths than heat in Europe.

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