News Round-Up

• “Banks face ‘very large’ fines if they close customers’ accounts over political views” – The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has written to the Financial Conduct Authority to demand they ensure banks are following the law, reports Sky News.
• “Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed” – Nigel Farage has claimed NatWest is in “panic mode” after a fresh request for personal data was delayed, says the Express.
• “FCA executive was chairman of Stonewall while charity created diversity guidelines” – A senior executive of the FCA helped draw up guidelines on gender identity for major companies while he was the Chairman of Stonewall, according to the Telegraph.
• “Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says” – U.K. Finance has issued a guide on language which includes banning the term ‘black market’ and replacing it with ‘illegal market’, reports the Mail.
• “Why is the MHRA hiding critical safety data on the Covid vaccines?” – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is still withholding crucial pregnancy data, say Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil.
• “Long Covid report is short on sense” – In all likelihood, the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines against Long Covid is in people’s minds, says Roger Watson in TCW.
• “Was the Covid response a coup by the intelligence community?” – The Western intelligence community’s role in driving the illiberal response to Covid is now obvious, says author Michael P. Senger.
• “The cheerleader who demanded lifelong quarantine for the unvaccinated now admits nobody under 50 should have been vaccinated” – Dr. Kári Stefánsson, once skeptical of COVID-19 measures, now admits vaccines dangers while defending lockdowns. Thorsteinn Siglaugsson wonders why.
• “Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for his hated Ulez tax branded ‘a con’” – FairFuel U.K. campaigner Howard Cox has branded Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for replacing vehicles to avoid his new Ulez charge as “a con”, says the Express.
• “Greenpeace activists are arrested over protest at Rishi Sunak’s home” – Four Greenpeace activists were arrested after demonstrating for seven hours on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s £2 million home in North Yorkshire while he was away on a family holiday, reports the Mail.
• “Solar panels produce five times more CO₂ than previously thought” – A new report reveals that 80% of the world’s solar panels are manufactured in China, which uses coal in the process, says the Mail.
• “Robin Harper is right: the Scottish Greens have ‘lost the plot’” – Robin Harper, the first Green Parliamentarian elected in the U.K., has resigned from the Scottish Greens, saying they have “lost the plot”. Stephen Daisley in the Spectator agrees.
• “The eco-cultists’ war against the car is built on fantasy and delusion” – No, people don’t drive because public transport is poor, and cycling is a rich man’s faddish luxury, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Conservatives give their views on Net Zero, climate change, cars, bans and LTNs in new survey” – Conservative Home crunches the numbers with a new survey, finding an emphatic 83% of Conservative Party members are opposed to the ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030.
• “Public being ‘misinformed on a massive scale’” – A top climate scientist has rubbished claims July was the hottest month ever, according to Climate Depot.
• “The green agenda is fuelled by fear” – Climate alarmists want to terrify us into changing our behaviour, says Laura Dodsworth in Spiked.
• “Why they hate cars” – The green elites have no idea how most people live, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Unsold electric cars may be signalling a death spiral for the auto industry” – Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seems unable to allay the concerns of the average citizen, writes Ronald Stein for the Heartland Institute.
• “BBC apologises after presenter calls Dambusters raid ‘infamous’” – According to the Telegraph, viewers have lodged complaints after BBC presenter Sally Nugent referred to the Dambusters raid on Nazi Germany as “infamous” on BBC Breakfast.
• “National Risk Register reveals 89 biggest threats to life in Britain” – The Mail has got hold of the National Risk Register, listing the 89 greatest dangers posed to Britain, ranging from climate change to cyber attacks.
• “SNP by-election candidate wanted trans-sceptic MP booted out of party” – SNP Rutherglen by-election candidate, Katy Loudon, backed a grassroots campaign to have a senior MP kicked out of the party in a row over trans rights, reveals the Mail.
• “It isn’t racist to object to new traveller sites” – Welsh Secretary David T.C Davies is perfectly justified in raising his constituents’ concerns. That is the job of an MP, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Falkland Islands advertises for £43k a year equality guru” – An equalities guru is being sought for the Falklands to oversee a 3,662-strong population, outnumbered by 500,000 sheep, reports the Mail.
• “Why are feminists whitewashing Beanie Babies?” – According to The Beanie Bubble movie, every innovation that made Beanie Babies such a wild success was to some degree either inspired by or stolen from women by their monstrous creator, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
• “British Rowing bans transgender women from female events” – British Rowing has banned transgender women from competing in female races, while the men’s category will be ‘open’ for anyone to compete in, says the Mail.
• “Everyone should have the right to insult Islam” – No religion, idea, prophet or god should be protected from ridicule, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Lizzo and the problem with ‘fat activism’” – Simultaneously self-adoring and self-pitying, ‘fat activism’ appears to be the latest entry in the Victim Olympics, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
• “Costa’s woke mural leaves me no choice but to boycott them. Who’s with me?” – Judith Woods in the Telegraph calls for a boycott of the woke coffee chain.
• “The liberal metropolitan elite charged with governing us are completely at odds with the majority of the British people” – Speaking on GB News, Toby finds common cause with Allister Heath, Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, suggesting majority opinions are being ignored by an elite minority in the U.K.

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