News Round-Up

• “Retired social worker, 73, is quizzed in her own home by hate-crime police for taking a photo of a sticker that said: ‘Keep males out of women-only spaces’” – A pensioner was interviewed by West Yorkshire Police for photographing a sticker on a poster promoting Happy Valley Pride and has had a non-crime hate incident recorded against her name.
• “Richard Tice: Bank forced my relative to show her mother’s will to deposit cash” – Reform U.K. leader Richard Tice has revealed how a close relative was ordered to produce her mother’s will to deposit cash because she’s related to him, says the Telegraph.
• “Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds scrubs her lockdown record” – Everyone is running from the lockdowns they once supported, and that includes former presidents and governors, and probably mayors too, writes Kathleen Sheridan for the Brownstone Institute.
• “The delights of the Pfizer/Moderna catfight” – Pfizer is now claiming that the Moderna patents, which Moderna sought to weaponise against Pfizer/BioNTech, are invalid, says Dr. Robert W. Malone for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Hundreds of council staff are ‘working from the beach’” – Figures show that town hall bosses have granted more than 1,350 requests from staff to work from overseas over the past three years, reports the Mail.
• “Another Remainer fantasy has been quashed” – Far from being a beacon of progressivism, Europe’s institutional bodies reflect a pervasive misogyny rampant in EU countries, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “The new age of agitprop” – The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Rush to stop £2 million grant to mosque with alleged extremist history” – Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque has been awarded a £2 million grant to build a youth centre, despite its imam being filmed giving sermons on how to stone an adultarous woman, reports the Mail.
• “Trump takes huge primary lead as 78% of Republicans back Capitol riot in new poll” – A new study suggests that a large majority of GOP voters believe the four criminal cases against Mr. Trump lack merit and approximately half indicate that these cases have fuelled their support for him, says the Telegraph.
• “The fall of China? Don’t bet on it” – Gloomy predictions of China’s imminent economic collapse say far more about the West than they do about China, argues Phil Mullan in Spiked.
• “More Ulez cameras are stolen by activists after expansion of scheme” – Ulez activists have reportedly stolen yet more cameras, as Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the hated scheme faces growing backlash, reports the Mail.
• “Andrew Pierce: Sadiq’s flights of fancy about climate change” – The expansion of London’s hated Ulez could be just the first of dozens of extreme green policies, warns Andrew Pierce in the Mail.
• “‘Clean air zone’ in the North is forcing lorries and vans into suburbs” – Residents claim Bradford’s ‘Clean Air Zone’ is forcing some of the worst-polluting lorries and vans into the suburbs and surrounding villages to avoid the daily charge, reports the Mail.
• “The clamour for oil and gas will drown out cries for green policies” – Calls to scale back various Net Zero commitments will continue to get louder in Britain, predicts Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “How the electric car revolution will change the face of Britain” – What future awaits the U.K. once electrical vehicles replace petrol and diesel cars? The Mail runs the rule over the big changes that could happen.
• “Electric vehicles catch fire after being exposed to saltwater from Hurricane Idalia” – Eric Worrall asks in WUWT whether salt spray from a windy day at the beach could trigger a deadly fire in an electric vehicle.
• “A Swedish breakaway from the Net Zero fantasy” – Sweden has shown the way to escape the diktats of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, write John McRobert and Prof. Gabriël Moens in the Epoch Times.
• “Body Shop removes men’s section in shops to make them gender-neutral” – The Body Shop’s U.K. boss has said that workers have complained about having a separate area for men’s products, according to the Mail.
• “Militant trans activists are doomed, but the battle is still far from over” – Lawsuits from vulnerable people will stop the radicals, but the far-Left’s methods of infiltration will endure unless action is taken, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “How Scotland hates women” – It is to the Scottish Government’s enormous shame that the country is at the vanguard of the regression to an age of barbarism, writes Rev. Stuart Campbell in Wings Over Scotland.
• “Meet Elon Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson” – Who exactly is Vivian Jenna Wilson? MailOnline takes a deep dive into her life to find out who she is and why she and her father have such a difficult relationship.
• “This pernicious Australian Bill aims to silence Christians” – The Australian ‘Communications Legislation Amendment Bill’ threatens to silence Christians, warns Harry Blanchard in TCW.
• “The terribleness of a progressive Bond” – The new Bond book has turned 007 into a centrist dad, laments Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
• “Why we need Oliver Anthony” – Britain needs a cultural rebellion and an authentic rock ’n’ roll her to lead it, says Tom McTague in UnHerd.
• “CNN airs shocking admission on limited efficacy of masks ” – Eli Klein posts a video on X in which Dr. Anthony Fauci admits on CNN that the data supporting the efficacy of masks “are less strong”.

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