News Round-Up

• “U.K. parents group says PayPal is refusing to provide info on de-banking, demands probe by regulators” – U.K. parent group UsForThem has accused PayPal of not complying with its legal obligations and is still waiting for answers as to why it was de-banked by the finance giant, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “The work-from-home Civil Service is living off our backs” – With the Government too scared to brave charges of austerity, there is no-one prepared to keep its staff numbers and salaries under control, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Lee Anderson admits Tories have failed on immigration as he refuses to apologise for rant” – The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party says small boat Channel crossings are “out of control” and defended telling asylum seekers they should “f*** off back to France”, reports the Mirror.
• “Early puberty soared in girls during the pandemic” – Scientists are exploring why the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of precocious puberty in girls, says Time.
• “What they did to the children” – We have reset our expectations regarding truth, decency and the care of children, say Dr. David Bell and Hugh McCarthy in Brownstone Institute.
• “Everything you never wanted to know about Operation Lockstep” – Eugyppius decodes the pandemic scenario planning documents behind ‘Operation Lockstep’, so you don’t have to.
• “Hubris of a scientific giant” – The Critic’s Theodore Dalrymple delves into the complexities of Professor Didier Raoult.
• “The Wuhan Cover Up, by RFK Jr.” – The Wuhan Cover Up is the most comprehensive historic summary and indictment of the history of the United States’ biowarfare and biodefence program ever written, says Dr. Robert W. Malone.
• “Beyond Meat revenue plunges amid fall in demand for plant-based alternatives” – Vegan food company Beyond Meat said its revenue fell nearly 31% in the three months to the end of June compared with the year before, reports Sky News.
• “Climate activists are silent on polar bears because their doom-mongering blew up in their faces” – Thriving populations in the Chukchi Sea and elsewhere, amid low summer ice levels, have busted the myth that polar bears need ice year-round, according to Polar Bear science.
• “Get Rolls-Royce building SMRs – the sensible alternative to wind farms” – Roger J. Arthur in TCW makes the case for Rolls-Royce building small modular nuclear reactors.
• “The public still isn’t being told the full, horrifying truth about the Net Zero permanent revolution” – A restrictive architecture of carbon budgets and climate committees is killing democratic choice, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “The real crisis is global gaslighting” – Forget global boiling, it’s global panic-mongering we should be angry about, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The fake climate consensus” – John Stossel discusses the massive Government-funded climate alarmism complex in Taki’s Magazine.
• “Mary Rose museum curators under fire for claiming ship’s objects have LGBT meanings” – Curators of the Mary Rose Museum say items found on Henry VIII’s flagship, such as a mirror and nit combs, may be related to sexuality, reports GB News.
• “You don’t need to ‘queer’ the Mary Rose” – ‘Queering’ the poor crew of the Mary Rose is a terrible disservice, says Mary Wakefield in the Spectator.
• “Mhairi Black is the real reactionary here” – Comparing gender-critical feminists to racists is a new low even for SNP MP Mhairi Black, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Trans activists dislike Karens, because we’re women who refuse to shut up” – “SNP MP Mhairi Black suggested gender-critical commentators are ‘bad actors’ and ‘Karens’. If so, I am proud to be one,” says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “Eton headmaster accused of ‘aggressively woke’ cultural revolution” – Eton College’s Head Master, Simon ‘Trendy Hendy’ Henderson, has hit back at critics who say he has a progressive agenda at the elite private school, reports the Mail.
• “The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’” – ‘Detransitioner’ Chloe Cole’s testimony to the U.S. Congress was harrowing, but she is not alone in undergoing a procedure she regrets, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “The callous authoritarianism of the trans ideology” – Women have been blocked from accessing medical services for expressing gender-critical beliefs, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “How to protect yourself from Government propaganda” – Laura Dodsworth talks to Winston Marshall on Spectator TV about the Government propaganda machine.
• “From thugs to gammon: The smearing of the common people” – John King, the author of The Football Factory, discusses elite snobbery and his latest novella in an article for Spiked.
• “How to defeat Left-wing racialism” – City Journal features a constructive symposium on restoring the principle of colour blindness in America.
• “The West and China share the same fate” – China and the U.S. are both converging on the same not-yet-fully-realised system of technocratic-managerial governance, argues N.S. Lyons in UnHerd.
• “Does Ukraine have kompromat on Joe Biden?” – Unlike the pee tape and other fictional charges of Russian kompromat against Trump, the evidence that President Joe Biden abused his power is overwhelming, writes Max Abrahms in Newsweek.
• “Nancy Pelosi declares America will cease to exist if Trump becomes President again” – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says that if Donald Trump is elected as President again, it will mean the end of America, according to Summit News.
• “Woman hosted exclusive Barbie screening in rented theatre, required guests to wear N95 masks” – A woman ventured out of her house in Portland, Oregon, for the first time in three years to go see Barbie, right in the middle of a deadly pandemic! So brave…

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