News Round-Up

• “‘Ethical’ Co-op Bank let Rose West keep account but not feminist group” – The supposedly ‘ethical’ Co-operative Bank allowed the serial killer Rose West to keep her account but declined its services to a gender critical feminist group, reports the Times.
• “Nigel Farage: ‘If I’m the villain and Rose West is the good girl then something is very wrong here’” – Nigel Farage has publicly criticised a ‘woke’ bank that allowed Rose West to keep her account after his own account was controversially closed due to his political views, reports the Mail.
• “‘Mr Brexit’ warns ‘debanking’ trend is on the rise in the U.S.” – Nigel Farage has warned that the ‘debanking’ trend is on the rise in America, says the Mail.
• “Fundraiser is launched to appeal serial killer Lucy Letby’s conviction” – A fundraiser has been launched to appeal the conviction of Lucy Letby, with a campaigner claiming that the nurse’s trial “may represent one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever”, reports the Mail.
• “Secret letter to CDC: Top epidemiologist suggests agency misrepresented scientific data to support mask narrative” – Documents from the National Institutes of Health suggest officials used flawed data to back their policy that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission, despite contrary expert evidence, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Story of influenza antivirals: Part 36” – After 35 episodes, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan sum up what they have discovered so far about influenza antivirals.
• “German judge gets suspended sentence over Covid mask mandate rebellion” – A family judge who attempted to overturn a Covid mask mandate at two schools in Weimar has been given a two-year suspended sentence, according to the Local.
• “CDC now refusing new Covid vaccine adverse event reports in its V-safe programme” – In George Orwell’s 1984, characters are told by the Party to “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”. The Centres for Disease Control isn’t even allowing such evidence to be considered, says Dr. David Gortler in the Brownstone Institute.
• “J. Edgar Lysenko, aka Dr. Anthony Fauci” – During his reign as the U.S. Government’s health tsar, Dr. Anthony Fauci combined the power-corridor mastery of J. Edgar Hoover with Russian Trofim Lysenko’s contempt for the scientific method, writes Thomas Buckley on Substack.
• “U.S. alcohol guidelines could be slashed to just two drinks per week” – Americans could be urged by officials to drink no more than two beers a week as part of strict new alcohol guidelines, reports the Mail.
• “The road to totalitarianism” – American playwright C.J. Hopkins, writing in OffGuardian, details his current situation in Germany where he is being put on trial for ‘thought crimes’. Anyone interested in giving to C.J.’s legal defence fund can do so here.
• “Soros-funded NGOs demand crackdown on free speech as politicians spread hate misinformation” – George Soros-backed NGOs are pushing a censorship agenda in Ireland and Scotland that includes police searches of homes, phones and computers, writes Ben Scallan in Public, Michael Shellenberger’s Substack.
• “Elon Musk to sue Soros-funded NGOs to protect free speech from censorship agenda” – Elon Musk has announced that his platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, will be taking legal action against George Soros-funded NGOs for allegedly pushing freedom of speech restrictions, according to Blaze Media.
• “Elite crackdown on free speech worldwide intensifies” – From North America to Australia to Europe, elites seek censorship, privacy invasions and the prosecution of wrongthink as ‘pre-crime’, writes Michael Shellenberger on his Substack
• “Ukraine’s dreams of counter-offensive triumph have hit a hard reality” – Ukraine’s counter offensive was never going to be easy. And frustrations are now growing over its painfully slow progress, says the Telegraph.
• “Has Xi Jinping bankrupted China?” – With the sudden breakdown of China’s economic model, it is finally possible to imagine a post-Communist regime, asks Edward Luttwak in UnHerd.
• “Elections are bad for our democracy, WEF and Bill Gates’s senior adviser says” – The WEF is serious about abolishing voting, warns Igor Chudov on Substack.
• “‘Dark Winter’ is tedious bioterror fanfiction written to inspire public fear of the smallpox virus and plead for the continued relevancy of its eradicators” – With ‘Dark Winter’, we leave the nerfworld of communications majors and consultants, and enter the rather higher realm of government policy and defence strategy, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Sadiq Khan claims Ulez has been ‘weaponised’ by conspiracy theorists’” – The London Mayor has hit out at those campaigning against the Ulez expansion during an LBC call-in, doubling down on his claims that they are conspiracy theorists, reports the Mail.
• “The descent into climate madness (in five stages)” – Paul Collits on Substack explains the five stages of our descent into climate madness.
• “Calling trans woman a ‘w—-r’ is discrimination, tribunal suggests” – To insult a trans woman without being discriminatory, female-specific slurs should be used, a tribunal has suggested, according to the Telegraph.
• “Vogue sparks backlash by naming trans cyclist as only sportswoman” – Vogue has sparked a backlash after the only sportswoman named on its list of the top 25 ‘powerhouse’ women was transgender cyclist Emily Bridges, reports the Mail.
• “Dylan Mulvaney was invited to audition for Broadway revival of Cabaret” – Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney was invited to audition for the upcoming Broadway revival of Cabaret, in which Eddie Redmayne is expected to be cast in the male lead, says the Mail.
• “Alice Cooper’s rock’n’roll revolt against trans ideology” – American rock legend Alice Cooper has recently given some refreshingly commonsense takes on gender identity ideology, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “The boy who identified as a car” – The woke trend for ‘self-identification’, now spreading to schools via ‘on-message’ teachers, seems impervious to rational argument, writes Frank Palmer in TCW.
• “Why U.S. conservatives must not abandon universities: A four-point plan” – Conservatives must use the state to reform the leviathan that is U.S. higher education, writes Eric Kaufmann for Aporia magazine.
• “AI: Is the end nigh?” – The Critic’s Laura Dodsworth evaluates the threat to mankind from artificial intelligence.
• “Eric Clapton: ‘Their propaganda created the situation where I can be labelled a murderer and people would really believe that. That’s powerful.’” – Rock legend Eric Clapton talks to Oracle Films about the immorality of SAGE behavioural science through the Covid period and the Orwellian sadism of face mask policies.

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