News Round-Up

• “YouTube is slammed for stripping Russell Brand of earning rights” – YouTube is under fire for revoking comedian Russell Brand’s ad monetisation on his channel amid public allegations of rape and sexual assault, reports the Mail.
• “The casual authoritarianism of Caroline Dinenage” – Why is the head of Parliament’s Culture Committee calling on tech firms to unperson Russell Brand, asks Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “Russell Brand and the presumption of innocence” – The presumption of innocence is the most important decision-making rule in the criminal procedure, says Prof. Peter Ramsay in UnHerd.
• “Big Tech must not be judge, jury and executioner” – YouTube’s clampdown on Russell Brand is an affront to due process, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Liz Kershaw: The BBC’s toxic culture enabled Russell Brand – I know, I was there” – In the Telegraph, DJ Liz Kershaw recounts, from firsthand knowledge, the favouritism and rule-breaking that allowed Russell Brand’s bullying to go unchecked.
• “Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp” – Rupert Murdoch has said his son will take over his media empire as he resigned as Chairman after almost 70 years, says Sky News.
• “MMR and threats to quarantine perfectly healthy children” – HART questions the legitimacy of recent measles outbreak warnings in London, citing theoretical calculations and the need to respect individual healthcare choices without punitive measures.
• “The print press and its politicisation of public health: The case of COVID-19” – In a Sage journal, Dr. Meron Wondemaghen examines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic was used to categorise and reconfigure sections of the British citizenry into conformists and deviants.
• “Sunak has just jump-started the Tories’ election campaign” – Rishi Sunak’s Net Zero rollback is one of his boldest moves yet and throws down the gauntlet to Keir Starmer, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “The EV jobs myth” – A transition to an all-electric car future will likely increase labour, but much of it will occur overseas, says Mark P. Mills in City Journal.
• “The Climate Change Committee’s extremism is hiding in plain sight” – The Climate Change Committee will continue to press for its arbitrary 2050 Net Zero target regardless of cost, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Whatever happened to the green industrial revolution?” – Rishi Sunak understands that voters love Net Zero until they have to pay over the odds for it, says Karl Williams in CapX.
• “Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority rejects Mayor’s transport plan” – The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s overarching transport strategy has been voted down by its board, reports the Cambridge Independent.
• “From The Really Wild Show to militant activist: Chris Packham’s eco-existential crisis” – Climate change warrior Chris Packham asks ‘Is It Time To Break The Law?’ in his new TV documentary, and his answer seems to be ‘yes’, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “No one wants an electric car. Labour couldn’t care less” – The Labour Party is planning to force voters to choose between expensive vehicles they may not be able to afford and going without, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Green smokescreen” – Daniel Kennelly sits down with City Journal’s James B. Meigs to discuss his new Manhattan Institute report, ‘The big squeeze: How Biden’s environmental justice agenda hurts the economy and the environment’.
• “Poland stops supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia” – Poland has announced it will no longer arm Ukraine in its war with Russia amid a bitter row over grain exports, in a move sure to delight Vladimir Putin, reports the Mail.
• “Europe is on the verge of surrendering Ukraine to Putin” – Poland has given Kiev all it can. With the war dragging on, doubt is beginning to creep in across European capitals, writes Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Politicians can’t win on illegal migration” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray highlights how politicians who try to stop illegal immigration face legal challenges and criticism, while those who allow it often escape consequences.
• “‘Inverted snobbery’ could mean rich fool themselves about being working class” – A survey has revealed that one in three of the U.K.’s richest people identify as working class, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Gender-affirming care’ is a menace to young women” – There has been a staggering rise in the number of women and girls having double-mastectomies, writes Angie Speaks in Spiked.
• “Emma Raducanu tells girls they don’t need men in ‘woke’ rewriting of fairy tales” – Emma Raducanu has backed a reimagining of a classic fairy tale that writes out Prince Charming as a lesson to girls that they do not need men to achieve financial success, reports the Telegraph.
• “Meet the ordinary women who are being cancelled by the trans lobby” – A would-be MP, an artist and a singer are among the ordinary women who have been cancelled by the trans lobby. Speaking to Jill Foster in the Mail, they explain how they have been bullied, harassed and punished.
• “California’s war on parents” – U.S. policymakers believe the state, not parents, holds authority over children when it comes to sex and gender issues – but families are pushing back, says Mark Schneider in City Journal.
• “Amid mass layoffs, Boston University’s Centre for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganisation” – Boston University’s Centre for Antiracist Research, led by Ibram X. Kendi, is facing criticism for alleged financial mismanagement and underwhelming research output, reports the Daily Free Press.
• “The man Amazon erased” – The Tablet reports on the case of a software engineer who had his Amazon account suspended after a false racism accusation by a delivery driver.
• “Thousands of Canadian parents and kids protest explicit sexual content in schools” –The True North Centre’s Cosmin Dzsurdzsa has posted a video on X showing scenes from Ottawa where thousands of parents and kids are protesting explicit sexual content in schools and radical gender ideology.

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