News Round-Up

• “Lithium battery fires will cause a tragedy” – Lithium batteries in electric vehicles are going to cause a major disaster, says Flat White in Spectator Australia.
• “Britain is now a nation of shoplifters” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator recalls her own career as a shoplifter, aged 14.
• “How ITN used NDAs to silence staff” – One of the aims of journalism is to identify injustice and hold the powerful to account, so it’s odd that ITN – which makes news for Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV – remains so unwilling to examine its own wrongdoing, says Daisy Ayliffe in the Spectator.
• “Can a Frasier reboot survive in a new politically correct world?” – Noel Yaxley is pessimistic about the Frasier reboot in Spectator Australia.
• “California Lawmakers Set to Repeal Covid ‘Misinformation’ Law” – A bill to repeal California’s COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ law targeting doctors refusing to comply with the government’s pandemic directives is quietly advancing, according to the Epoch Times.
• “British TV ‘allowed monarchy to censor coverage of king’s coronation’” – Royal spin doctors imposed ‘extraordinary restrictions’ on covering King Charles III’s accession, says the ex-head of Sky News.
• “How do we halt the march of health and climate fascism?” – Gary Sidley wrestles with the big problem of our era for HART.
• “BBC staff ‘absolutely outraged’ as broadcaster ‘cancels’ Roisin Murphy” – ​The Irish singer’s comments on puberty blockers sparked outrage among BBC’s staff, according to GB News.
• “Volkswagen cuts jobs as demand for EVs plunges” – EV sales are plummeting in Germany, with VW retrenching having gone all in on the useless carbuncles.
• “The Centrist Dads won’t save Britain” – Do we really need more “intelligent” leaders? No, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “Man Convicted of Abusing Two Women Requests Pardon After Declaring Transgender Identity” – A man in Spain convicted of violent crimes against two women has changed his gender in a bid to seek clemency, reports Reduxx.
• “The real data behind the new Covid vaccines the White House is pushing” – Public-health leaders cannot afford to squander any more credibility and money on interventions with no scientific support, argue Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Høeg in the New York Post.
• “Luis Rubiales ordered not to go within 200m of Jenni Hermoso as Spain players confirm boycott” – Former president of Spanish football may face jail term if found guilty of sexual assault, says the Telegraph.
• “Theresa May says she is ‘woke and proud’” – Former PM is not sound on trans issues, she reveals to Times Radio.
• “Sadiq Khan’s ‘war on motorists’ continues with biggest ever 20mph rollout” – London transport authority announces expansion of lower speed zones across seven boroughs, covering further 40 miles, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain is in a state of distress more profound than our leaders are capable of addressing” – A new book by Danny Kruger MP diagnoses the problems of modern Britain quite persuasively, according to Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “No meat, no dairy and three outfits a year: Welcome to Sadiq Khan’s plan for London” – C40, a global group of city mayors chaired by Sadiq Khan, has a radical vision of Net Zero that critics say will restrict personal choice, says Tim Sigsworth in the Telegraph.
• “Gender is a ‘spectrum’ says top girls’ school formerly attended by Princess Royal” – Benenden, a private boarding establishment in Kent, has drunk the gender Kool-Aid, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Guy Adams investigates the Lord who killed Civil Service neutrality” – Simon McDonald, properly known as Lord McDonald of Salford, is a 62-year-old former diplomat who spent almost four decades climbing greasy poles, says Guy Adams in the Mail. Revealing he voted Remain was a betrayal of his public obligations.
• “Lucy Letby appeals against baby murder convictions” – The former nurse was given a whole-life term for seven murders and six attempted murders of newborn babies less than a month ago. Yet the Court of Appeal has said she can appeal.
• “Roisin Murphy shunned but BBC plays song with ‘kick terfs’ lyric” – 6 Music defends airing a song in which Dream Nails urges people to assault TERFS yet banning Roisin Murphy for criticising puberty blockers.
• “This is happening” – Russell Brand defends himself ahead of a Dispatches/Sunday Times ‘expose’ due tomorrow.

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