News Round-Up

• “Black Lives Matter protester admits fraud over missing donations” – One of the leaders of the Bristol Black Lives Matter group that helped to topple the statue of Edward Colston has been convicted of fraud, having absconded with £30,000.
• “Gatwick airport culls flights after Covid outbreak leads to more travel chaos” – Gatwick airport has culled flights after a Covid outbreak among air traffic controllers, leading to more travel chaos, reports the Express.
• “‘Wonder’ Covid drug can cause virus to mutate uncontrollably” – Scientists have warned that a new Covid drug, hailed as a game-changer, may cause the virus to mutate, says the Mail.
• “FDA rush to approve killer ‘vaccines’ but reject life-saving allergy treatment” – The FDA has rushed to approve killer ‘vaccines’ but rejected life-saving allergy treatment, writes Prof. Roger Watson on TCW.
• “Mayo Clinic website now says hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID-19 patients, previously claimed it was not effective” – The Mayo Clinic recently made an interesting U-turn on its website, stating that “Hydroxychloroquine may be used to treat coronavirus”, says the Gateway Pundit.
• “Myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines: How the CDC missed a safety signal and hid a warning” – Despite warnings of COVID-19 vaccine-related heart inflammation, U.S. authorities did not alert the public, finds an Epoch Times investigation.
• “Excess deaths in 2023 confirmed” – We now have confirmation that excess deaths have occurred in 2023 in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, N.Z., Netherlands and Denmark. However, deaths are lower than expected in Poland, Hungary and Sweden, says Dr. John Campbell in his latest YouTube video.
• “Australia’s Covid non-inquiry” – Instead of a Royal Commission into the lockdown policy, Australians have been given an ‘insider’s non-inquiry’ designed, deliberately and with some care, to achieve nothing, writes Paul Collits on Substack.
• “NHS strikes force doctors to cancel more than a million appointments” – New figures are expected to reveal that one million NHS appointments have been cancelled due to “damaging and demoralising” strikes, reports the Mail.
• “London police investigating sexual assault allegations against Russell brand” – The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into Russell Brand after multiple sexual offence allegations were made against the comedian, according to Forbes.
• “Rumble: Russell Brand’s ‘free speech’ platform may be forced offline” – Rumble, the website that hosts Russell Brand, could be forced out of the U.K. for refusing to comply with new online safety rules, reports the Times.
• “Contempt of court warning on Russell Brand coverage ‘worrying and unnecessary’” – A contempt of court warning issued by the Attorney General over the media’s coverage of the Russell Brand story has been described as “worrying” and “unnecessary” by the Society of Editors, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tech firms that fail to tackle child sexual abuse could lose bank accounts” – Companies and individuals that fail to remove online child abuse from their platforms could have their financial accounts shut down under a scheme being considered by Britain’s biggest banks, reports the Telegraph.
• “Army called in as Met firearms officers put down their guns” – Soldiers will be drafted in to replace armed police officers following a mass walkout by firearms teams to protest against the decision to charge one of their own with murder, says the Telegraph.
• “Tories slash Labour poll lead as voters still ‘wobbly’ on Starmer” – The Conservatives have slashed Labour’s poll lead by eight points in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s Net Zero overhaul, with voters still “wobbly” on Sir Keir Starmer, according to the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer the liar, Murdoch’s man and candidate for MI5” – “You’d be very unwise to believe a word Keir Starmer ever says,” warns Peter Oborne in a video for left-wing video news site Double Down News.
• “Prepare for a Lib Dem-Labour coalition of wokery” – In the last decade, Ed Davey’s party has gone from being a pragmatic vehicle for change into a dogmatic party of the Left, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “The Pope is wrong to criticise Europe over the migrant crisis” – The real propaganda comes from those like the Pope who would have us believe that there is no migrant crisis, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “The most impressive conservative leader in the world” – In the Washington Examiner, Dan Hannan extols the virtues of Canada’s Pierre Poilievre.
• “Nissan vows to go all-electric by 2030 despite Sunak delay on petrol ban” – Nissan has vowed to “press ahead” with plans to only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030, despite Rishi Sunak’s delay on banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, reports the Guardian.
• “The Left is losing the climate class war” – As long as the Left simply repeats the climate scare-mongering of the last 30 years, workers will continue to reject a platform that has nothing to offer them, argues Matt Huber in UnHerd.
• “How a growing ‘energy gap’ threatens Britain’s future” – Our continued dependence on unreliable energy risks a catastrophic societal breakdown, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Top facts on climate controversy, fully explained” – After a long period studying CO2 effects, Ivor Cummins has pulled together a group of experts in a video summary for his YouTube channel.
• “A meat tax is a horrendous idea” – Making meat unaffordable would be bad for our diets, the environment and our freedom of choice, argues Jason Reed in Spiked.
• “Macron rules out ban on gas boilers and attacks climate alarmism” – Emmanuel Macron has ruled out banning gas boilers, reports the Telegraph. The global retreat from Net Zero continues.
• “Scientists reveal the date Earth will face a mass extinction” – A new study from Bristol University suggests that humans will go extinct on Earth in 250 million years – even if we were to stop burning fossil fuels right now, reports the Mail.
• “The rewriting of history has taken a sinister turn” – The manipulation of our past for political purposes is now big business – with the West paying the price, says Prof. Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “Captive Catholics” – In Country Squire, Prof. Roger Watson laments the Catholic Church’s alignment with Left-wing environmental views, departing from its traditional teachings.
• “The trans debate is too important for the census to be wrong” – Any inaccurate data about the size of the trans population from the Office of National Statistics, accidental or not, will only make a controversial topic more divisive, argues Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “Trans: The new ideology of the ruling class” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explains how trans activists became the foot soldiers of the boss regime.
• “Pro-prostitution picture book offered to children by German Government officials” – The city of Berlin has prompted outrage from locals after offering a graphic picture book on prostitution to children via its official website, reports Reduxx.
• “Canada House speaker apologises for honouring Nazi-linked veteran during Zelensky’s visit” – The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has apologised to Jewish communities after a veteran who fought for a military unit under Nazi command during World War Two received a standing ovation from Canadian MPs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Blade Runner blocks an Ulez camera van” – A video has emerged of a ‘Blade Runner’ activist blocking the view of an Ulez enforcement van by pretending to break down behind it.

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