News Round-Up

• “What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill gives his take on Father Ted creator Graham Linehan’s Edinburgh Fringe show being cancelled.
• “Graham Linehan and the Fringe’s new puritanism” – No good will come from Graham Lineham’s cancellation at the Edinburgh Fringe, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
• “How the King of Comedy became an untouchable” – The Mail breaks down how Graham Lineham went from hero to zero after his views on gender made him public enemy number one for trans activists.
• “Graham Linehan and the idiocy of the cancellers” – In cancelling Graham Lineham, the comedy police have just proven their critics right, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “U.K. banks shun companies trading with Ukraine” – Business chiefs warn that British companies are “afraid to trade with Ukraine” due to the threat of account closure from risk-averse banks, reports Politico.
• “Big Short trader Michael Burry bets $1.6 billion on stock market crash” – Michael Burry, the man who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, is gambling on a new slump by the end of the year, according to the Times.
• “Fury of the silent majority is driving a global Right-wing counter-revolution” – Across the Western world, anger at a woke ruling elite is benefiting the Right –except in Britain, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “The Vax-Gene Files: Have the regulators approved a trojan horse?” – The alarming discovery of DNA contamination in vials of Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines raises serious questions, say the Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Julie Sladden and Julian Gillespie.
• “The British public challenge ceding of sovereignty to World Health Organisation” – A U.K. Parliamentary hearing has taken place in response to a petition urging the Government to refrain from signing any WHO Pandemic Treaty, says PANDA.
• “Drivers’ red ribbon protest in Wales against 20mph speed limit” – Motorists in Wales have been tying red ribbons to their cars to protest against plans to cut the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph, reports the Times.
• “The real cause of the Maui wildfire disaster” – The Maui wildfire was not the result of climate change, Hurricane Dora or an extended drought, says Professor Cliff Mass in WUWT.
• “NATO aide suggests Ukraine surrender land to secure membership” – Ukraine has angrily rejected the suggestion by a NATO official that it should surrender land to Russia in exchange for an invitation to join the Western military alliance, reports the Times.
• “It’s time to abolish the university” – Let’s stop pretending academic study is worthwhile, writes Terry Eagleton in UnHerd.
• “Sunak must hit pause on Online Safety Bill” – The Online Safety Bill is the product of too many ministers and not enough thought, says Iain Martin in the Times.
• “An intellectually cowardly idea is spreading from Left to Right” – A desire to push awkward voices out of the public square is now springing up on the Right, reports Anne McElvoy in the Evening Standard.
• “How pornography forged the trans movement” – Womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity, laments Genevieve Gluck in Spiked.
• “How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?” – In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future, says Richard Dawkins in the Evening Standard.
• “Oliver Anthony and the snobbery of American conservatives” – If metropolitan journalists dislike a country record, then, to conservatives, it’s a heartlands masterpiece, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “The ‘free speech Twitter’ PSYOP” – Twitter (or X) is not the free speech platform everyone thinks it is, warns C.J. Hopkins in OffGuardian.
• “‘A 71 year-old man is accused of inappropriately touching a 12 year-old girl…’” – Watch the moment an unfortunate error during a newscast implies that President Joe Biden “inappropriately touched a 12 year-old girl”. Put the sound on.

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