News Round-Up

• “How a cult captured the NHS” – Kathleen Stock in UnHerd tries to explain how the NHS ended up in thrall to the trans cult.
• “Top NHS adviser on trans health failed to cooperate with Cass Review” – Dr. Derek Glidden of the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health refused to share patient data with the Cass Review, reports the Telegraph.
• “Will Big Trans be held to account?” – The Cass Review has definitively destroyed the case for child sex-changes, argues Andrew Sullivan in the Weekly Dish. Will trans activists finally admit they got it wrong? Don’t hold your breath.
• “The Cass Review shows it’s a disaster for professionals to confuse opinion with expertise” – From trans to climate change, experts are too often allowing their own prejudices to taint their judgment, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Germany makes it easier for 14-year-olds to change gender” – Germany has drunk the trans Kool-Aid, reports the Telegraph.
• “SNP accused of allowing trans activists to infiltrate Scottish NHS” – Research by the Telegraph has identified more than 70 occasions on which LGBT campaigners have been given roles in NHS Scotland.
• “Pressure grows on Angela Rayner to quit as Labour deputy leader” – Greater Manchester Police yesterday reversed its decision not to look into where the Ashton-under-Lyme MP was registered to vote in 2015, after an appeal by the Conservatives, says the Mail.
• “Labour is planning a disastrous second Blairite revolution” – A vote for Keir Starmer is not a vote for change, but for technocratic failure and decline, argues Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “London mayor elections: Sadiq Khan launches climate ‘action plan’ for London” – Sadiq Khan visited a north London school to launch his climate ‘action plan’, with Shadow Energy Secretary Ed Miliband in tow, reports the BBC.
• “London mayoral hustings descends into mayhem as Sadiq Khan is heckled” – The London mayoral hustings was suspended for 20 minutes yesterday when Andreas Michli, an independent mayoral candidate, repeatedly shouted out the names of murdered teenagers, says the Mail.
• “Majority of London councils did not consider economic cost of 20mph speed limits” – Eight of the 11 boroughs in London that have imposed 20mph speed limits failed to carry out any sort of cost-benefit analysis before rolling out the policy, says the Telegraph.
• “Liz Truss: No10 was a prison infested with fleas” – The former PM spent several weeks scratching her flea bites and thinks Boris Johnson’s dog was to blame, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hezbollah fires dozens of missiles at Israel” – Hezbollah fired a barrage of 40 rockets from southern Lebanon at Israel last night as the country braced for a major attack by Iran, says the Telegraph.
• “Royal Marines preparing to lead ‘Dunkirk-style’ evacuation of Brits” – Commandos have already conducted reconnaissance along the Lebanese coastline ahead of a potential maritime rescue mission, according to the Mail, should war break out in the region.
• “A Message from Japan to the World” – Masayasu Inoue, Professor Emeritus of Osaka City University Medical School, delivers a warning about the mRNA vaccines.
• “Former CBS journalist: CBS News under daily pressure from Government officials on what they can report” – Award Winning Investigative Journalist Sharyl Attkisson testified at the Congressional Subcommittee on Press Freedom, revealing CBS was under constant pressure from U.S. Govt. officials during the pandemic, says Texas Lindsay on her Substack.
• “Deborah Birx gets her close-up” – A new documentary shows how Deborah Birx, a bureaucrat specialising in African ‘AIDS relief’, played the leading role in plunging the United States of America into lockdown, says Bill Rice on his Substack.
• “WHO official admits vaccine passports may have been a scam” – Testifying in a lawsuit, the WHO’s leading vaccine expert said she advised against Covid vaccine passports as the vaccines did not stop transmission and gave a false sense of security, according to Paul Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicle.
• “How Awesome is the Deep State, Really?” – Debbie Lerman in the Brownstone Institute argues that the Deep State isn’t actually that awesome.
• “Scots OAP ‘carted off in cop van’ after being wrongly accused of hate crime” – A pensioner was carted off by Scottish cops after being wrongly accused of a ‘hate crime’ by a neighbour, according to the Scottish Sun.
• “Diversity is not our strength” – In the Critic, Laurie Wastell gives his verdict on the Khan Review, the Government’s independent report into social cohesion.
• “National Theatre accused of censorship with ‘scolding’ sign warning staff may not agree with audience” – Freedom in the Arts says a new warning to audiences at the National Theatre “encourages everyone to habitually self-censor”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The RSPCA has gone bonkers” – Has the RSPCA gone nuts? asks Ross Clark. In its latest rebrand, it urges people not to swat flies or tread on snails.
• “Social media, not the economy, is harming teen mental health” – Jonathan Haidt summarises the argument of his forthcoming book about the harms of social media in Persuasion.
• “Offering a chair to older colleague could count as age discrimination” – Offering a seat to an older employee is a breach of the Equality Act, according to the latest Employment Tribunal decision, reports the Mail.
• “Trans rights activists give their considered response to the Cass Review” – A group of TRAs respond in their own inimitable style to the thoughtful, measured criticisms of Dr. Hillary Cass in her review of transgender health.

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