News Round-Up

• “Elon Musk pledges to fund legal bills of X users ‘unfairly treated’ by employers for their posts” – Elon Musk has offered to cover the legal costs of those treated unfairly by employers over posts on his platform, reports the Evening Standard.
• “Red Wall voters want legal right to pay in cash” – According to polling, Red Wall voters overwhelmingly believe that they should have a legal right to pay with cash in shops, reports the Telegraph.
• “Carol Vorderman and woke banks prove Brexit was just start of fight to save Britain” – From Carol Vorderman’s tweets to NatWest trying to cancel Nigel Farage’s bank account, the last month has proved that Brexit was just the beginning, writes David Maddox in the Express.
• “Employment levels still lower than before pandemic, analysis suggests” – Figures reveal worklessness is higher than before the pandemic in nine out of 12 U.K. regions and nations, according to the Express & Star.
• “Kids almost never transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows” – A study of 18,000 American school children found just 44 potential cases of in-school transmission, including no infections of staff members, says Alex Berenson.
• “Myocarditis caused by COVID-19 vaccine spike protein is not detected by typical cardiac tests” – Megan Redshaw in the Epoch Times investigates the alarming story of Joseph Keating, 26, who died from severe heart damage caused by myocarditis just days after his Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster.
• “The forgotten victims of Covid lockdowns” – The Class of COVID-19 suffered cancelled A-level examinations and are now being issued with blank degree certificates. They deserve better, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Just Stop Oil demands ‘contemptible’, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has said Labour would keep the 100 new drilling licences Rishi Sunak plans to grant, and described Just Stop Oil’s demands as “contemptible”, says the Mail.
• “End costly pursuit of these arbitrary Net Zero deadlines says, Sir Iain Duncan Smith” – Poll after poll tells us the majority of people are tired of being hit with extra charges in the pursuit of arbitrary Net Zero deadlines, says Sir Ian Duncan Smith in the Express.
• “No, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez is not going to ‘save lives’” – It is just not true that air pollution in London is leading to thousands of premature deaths, says Linda Payne in Spiked.
• “Eco-warriors glue themselves to road to disrupt elite cycling race” – The group that sprayed the Scottish Parliament building red has claimed responsibility for disrupting the Cycling World Championships by gluing themselves to the road, reports the Mail.
• “Farage accuses SNP of ‘hypocrisy’ over 16 million trees felled for wind” – Nigel Farage took to social media to condemn the SNP for cutting down millions of trees to make way for wind turbines, reports the Express.
• “The U.K.’s Net Zero zealotry is harming the world’s poor” – Much of our foreign aid is being used to stop the developing world industrialising, says Tom Ryan in Spiked.
• “Environmentalism: where democracy goes to die” – Britons have never been given a proper say over our draconian, punishing climate laws, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “U.K. security must not be sacrificed to Net Zero” – A new free trade philosophy is needed that mitigates the risks of those, like China, who exploit the trade rules while corrupting the system, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Appetite for distraction: The Government needs to be honest about Net Zero or people are going to hit the roof” – The transition to Net Zero is going to involve enormous upheaval and the public should be given a more realistic estimate of the costs, writes John Ashmore in CapX.
• “Mothers of ‘vulnerable’ teenage daughters take the NHS to court” – Two mothers of ‘vulnerable’ teenage daughters are taking the NHS to court, claiming their girls are being fast-tracked into “irreversible” gender reassignment, reports the Mail.
• “Hospital cancelled my surgery after I complained about transgender nurse” – A woman whose surgery was cancelled because she asked for the nurses providing intimate care to be the same sex as her says she could have been killed by the delay, according to the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak’s war on wokery is both morally right and electorally popular” – The culture war is no ‘concoction’; it’s a real danger to society and should be fought with all the Prime Minister’s power, writes Nigel Biggar in the Telegraph.
• “The BBC deserves its declining audience figures” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator writes about the BBC’s long, agonising death.
• “Fury as Porsche ‘airbrushes out’ statue of Jesus in 911 promo advert” – Porsche has come under fire for ‘airbrushing’ the famous statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro in a video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 911 sports car, reports the Mail.
• “New Atheists allowed the trans cult to begin. Christianity can now end it” – By discrediting religion, Richard Dawkins and his acolytes created a void that the woke religion filled, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk: The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide!” – According to John Eligon of the New York Times, the chanting of the South African song Kill the Boer at a political rally in Johannesburg should not be taken as a literal call for violence. Elon Musk, a white South African, disagrees.
• “James Bond’s job safe as GCHQ scientist says AI can only do ‘extremely junior’ spying” – GCHQ finds chatbots such as ChatGPT are not good enough to be intelligence analysts, says the Telegraph.
• “Why I used to suck, and (hopefully) no longer do” – Richard Hanania addresses the recent hit job carried out on him by the Huffington Post.
• “‘Potentially this is game-changing news!’” – Toby joins Andrew Doyle on GB News’s Free Speech Nation to discuss Elon Musk’s suggestion that X (formerly Twitter) will fund the legal bills for any user who has been treated unfairly by employers due to their posts or likes on the platform.

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