News Round-Up

• “NatWest profits soar to £3.6billion as Nigel Farage fallout continues” – Nigel Farage continued his war with Britain’s banks as he accused them of “making massive profits whilst treating the public badly”, reports the Mail.
• “Dame Alison Rose was a ‘great leader’ forced out by politics, says NatWest Chairman” – NatWest’s Chairman declared the bank’s scandal-hit former Chief Executive a “great leader” undone by politics, paving the way for her to receive a £2.4m pay-off, says the Telegraph.
• “NatWest can’t move on with Sir Howard Davies in charge” – NatWest Chairman, Sir Howard Davies’ naive ‘business as usual’ approach speaks to the problems at the heart of the organisation, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “The breathtaking arrogance of the NatWest Chairman” – Sir Howard Davies has had a long distinguished career – distinguished, that is, by an uncanny ability to put embarrassing failure behind him in one job, glide on to the next and then fail at that, too, says Stephen Pollard in the Mail.
• “We are playing a dangerous game by arguing NatWest is wrong to deny people services” – Kate Andrew points out in the Telegraph that it is long-standing common law that businesses can reject potential customers and clients.
• “‘Most mutated Covid variant ever’ found in patient after ‘chronic infection’” – Get ready for a newly-discovered strain of Covid, thought to be the most mutated version of the virus ever recorded, after it was detected in a swab from a patient in Indonesia. The Daily Star has the story.
• “Regulator or enabler? Germany’s Paul Ehrlich Institute and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine” – German chemistry professors have uncovered possible collusion between BioNTech and the regulator in vaccine approval, writes Robert Kogan for the Brownstone Institute.
• “The damage of Covid lockdowns is only now becoming apparent” – The pandemic has left us with virtually zero economic growth, much of which is blamed on high inflation and rising interest rates, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Population control and official U.S. Government policy” – Perhaps the most obvious result of Covid lockdowns and the interruption of commerce is the current record number of people at risk of starvation, says Dr. Robert W. Malone.
• “Japan Medical Association director admits Covid jabs aren’t necessary or safe for everyone” – Guy Gin celebrates Japan Medical Association Director, Dr. Satoshi Kamayachi’s apparent change of heart on future Covid vaccination campaigns.
• “Drivers hit by ‘price penalty’ to meet Ulez rules” – Auto Trader said some motorists are paying over £3,000 more for Ulez-compliant vehicles compared with identical models only a year older, reports the Shropshire Star.
• “There is still a way to block Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion” – There is no law against silly ideas, but there is the ballot box where Londoners must express their anger at this ridiculous tax, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “The culture war will be an election issue, and the Tories can’t allow the woke to win” – The Conservative Party is hamstrung by its own role in promoting an ideology that threatens the Western way of life, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer has 31 days to stop Sadiq Khan ripping off motorists with Ulez madness” – It is time for Sir Keir to get off the fence and order Mr. Khan to think again and scrap the Ulez extension, says Howard Cox in the Sun.
• “Just Stop Oil activist interrupts their graduation ceremony” – A Just Stop Oil activist was booed while interrupting their own university graduation ceremony, reports the Mail.
• “Council approves plans to build solar farm in Thomas Hardy country” – Locals have slammed officials for approving a huge solar farm on the landscape that inspired author Thomas Hardy, reports the Mail.
• “Why do windmills pour millions into Charles’s coffers?” – Britain has the biggest offshore wind complex of any country in the world, and it is built on the Crown Estates’ seabed, pouring millions into the royals’ coffers. Nice non-work if you can get it, says Norman Baker in the Mail.
• “The climate scaremongers: Heatwave hysteria” – The “worldwide heatwave” was, of course, nothing of the sort, simply the usual mix of hot and cold weather we see every year, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “More than 100 NYC public schoolkids have listed their gender as ‘X’” – More than 100 New York City public school children have listed their gender as ‘X’ instead of male or female after the district allowed the choice last year, reports the Mail.
• “School board president claims she and children faced death threats” – A U.S. school board president has received death threats from Antifa after her district adopted a new policy forcing teachers to notify parents if their child identifies as a different gender or changes their pronouns, reports the Mail.
• “Woke capitalism is a monster of the state’s own making” – Politicians believed they could use companies to enact social change. Now they’ve lost control, says Lord Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Talking back to Big Brother” – Trust is a two-way process and self-reliance is needed to counter government overreach, says Laura Dodsworth in Perspective.
• “Why the Hunter Biden scandal matters” – The collapse of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal has revealed the rottenness of the Biden administration, says Sean Collins in Spiked.
• “Over half the people who signed up for Threads have stopped using it already, prompting Mark Zuckerberg to push for ‘hooks’ to entice users, report says” – Threads took just five days to reach 100 million users when it launched earlier this month, but more than half of them have stopped using the app, says Insider.
• “‘Only the billionaires will be able to afford to buy food’” – Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, talks on the genocidal consequences of Net Zero.

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