News Round-Up

• “Police attempts to shut down conservative conference ‘extremely disturbing’, says No. 10” – Downing Street says attempts by police in Belgium to shut down a conservative conference featuring Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman are “extremely disturbing”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The sinister censorship of NatCon Brussels” – European public life is in real trouble if recent goings on in the Belgian capital are anything to go by, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Police state: cops in Brussels prevent conservatives from freely meeting” – No sooner had the totalitarian drama in Brazil started to calm down than a fresh new one erupted in Belgium, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “ADF International backs emergency legal challenge after Brussels police shut down NatCon conference” – Alliance Defending Freedom International is supporting an emergency legal challenge against the Brussels Mayor’s order to shut down NatCon, arguing it is contrary to the fundamental rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
• “Humza Yousaf faces Tory vote to repeal hate crime law” – Humza Yousaf is facing an embarrassing vote at Holyrood today to repeal his “disastrous” hate crime laws amid warnings that a deluge of complaints is placing an intolerable strain on Police Scotland, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trans women will be protected under misogyny law: Yousaf” – Scotland’s First Minister says transgender women will be protected under any new misogyny laws, according to the BBC. J.K. Rowling isn’t best pleased.
• “Liz Truss: ‘The people who claim I crashed the economy are either very stupid or very malevolent’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson sat down with Britain’s shortest-lived Prime Minister to find a defiant and logical woman who was her own worst enemy.
• “‘Liz Truss was right and I can prove it – the dark forces that destroyed the former PM have smashed democracy in the U.K. and we should all be worried’” – On his Outspoken Substack, Dan Wootton reveals the shocking antics of the economic Establishment and the MSM conspiracy against the woman who threatened their hegemony.
• “The deep state lies in wait for Trump” – In the WSJ, Liz Truss warns Trump that his second term will be much like her time in office if he doesn’t confront the entrenched bureaucracy.
• “British workforce growth driven entirely by migrant labour, says IMF” – Britain’s economic prospects have been downgraded again by the IMF, with a warning that the country has become dependent on foreign-born workers for growth, reports the Telegraph.
• “As the world continues to resist the office, whatever happened to doing as you were told?” – From City institutions to universities and even schools, the very notion of heirarchy is now off-message, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson, Channel Four, part two” – In the second part of a review of The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson, J’accuse slams Channel Four for perpetuating falsehoods and overlooking key aspects of Boris’s character.
• “A tragic legacy in Hull” – In Hull, it seems that even burying the dead can be turned into a scam, says Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine.
• “How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – part three” – In TCW’s final instalment of ‘How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown’ by Paula Jardine, the focus shifts to Cummings’ relentless pursuit of his Advanced Research Projects Agency.
• “New paper on Czech population-level vaccination data disproves claims vaccines are safe and effective” – On Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil react to a new Czech study that drills down into the fact that mortality rates are higher in the unvaccinated than the vaccinated, across numerous age groups and finds that this effect isn’t attributable to the Covid vaccines.
• “‘Massive cancer deaths study vindicates my warnings over Covid boosters’” – Anyone taking a spring booster Covid vaccine will be at risk of increasing their chances of dying of cancer, warns Prof. Angus Dalgleish in TCW.
• “mRNA pseudo-vaccines: current research” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone highlights a new study showing worse outcomes post-vaccination for Long Covid sufferers compared to the unvaccinated.
• “Whites twice as likely to die of Covid in California than non-whites” – On Substack, Igor Chudov flags the surprising statistic that, despite constituting only 37% of Californians, white people make up 60% of recent Covid deaths.
• “Ten years ago, microbiologist Ralph Baric told Tony Fauci and the world he would make coronaviruses more lethal. Then — with Fauci’s backing – he did” – On Substack, Alex Berenson gives his theory on why Fauci largely denied knowing Dr. Ralph S. Baric, the world’s top coronavirus researcher, when questioned under oath in 2022.
• “The vast scale of vaccine damage America tried (and failed) to hide” – In TCW, Sally Beck explores the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to withhold vital COVID-19 vaccine reaction data from its ‘v-safe’ app.
• “Long-term sickness surges to record high as labour crisis deepens” – The number of people out of work and not looking for a job has jumped to 9.4 million, reports the Telegraph.
• “Making a diagnosis of overdiagnosis” – Overdetection and over-definition of diseases are major causes of overdiagnoses, which ultimately cause more harm than good, say Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan.
• “Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death” – Overtreatment with drugs kills many people and the death rate is increasing, writes Dr. Peter Gøtzsche for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Doctors who prescribe puberty blockers to children could be struck off, says Health Secretary” – Victoria Atkins says “nothing is off the table” to ensure that “clinicians who subscribe to gender ideology” cannot “get around the rules”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why can’t Stonewall’s ex-boss come clean about its trans obsession?” – Stonewall’s former boss should come clean about what really unfolded on her watch, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Just Stop Oil activist admits it was wrong for protest to force driver to miss father’s funeral” – A Just Stop Oil protester has admitted it “doesn’t sit easy with me” that a motorway protest forced a driver to miss his father’s funeral, according to the Telegraph.
• “Is the global EV bubble bursting? As global demand falls by up to 40%” – In the first quarter of 2024, the two biggest manufacturers of electronic vehicles, Tesla and its Chinese rival BYD saw dramatic sales drops compared to last year, reports the Mail.
• “Elon Musk to cut 14,000 Tesla jobs amid electric car slowdown” – Tesla is axing more than 10% of its global workforce as it grapples with falling sales, says This is Money.
• “The BBC’s 1970s climate alarm – a new ice age” – In TCW, Paul Homewood reminds readers of the media’s ice age scares in 1970’s.
• “It’s time to talk about eco-anxiety” – It’s little wonder that people feel “grief, guilt, fear or hopelessness about the future of the planet due to climate change” if experts are competing to tell the most terrifying horror story about climate change, says Tom Ed on Substack.
• “Saying you are a ‘non-feminist’ at work could be act of discrimination, tribunal rules” – A judge has ruled that not agreeing with equality and diversity in the workplace is a “questionable” belief that conflicts with the rights of colleagues, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hilary Cass’s biggest gift is to resurrect free speech” – Dawn French spoke for many in saying she was tired of being lectured on the strictures of social justice vocabulary, writes Joanna Williams in the Times.
• “Aggers is right: this absurd new woke jargon is ruining sport” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon sympathises with Jonathan Agnew, the BBC’s Chief Cricket Correspondent, over his irritation with the sport’s recent switch to gender-neutral terminology – ‘batter’ instead of ‘batsman’, for instance..
• “Games Workshop engulfed in gender row with Warhammer squadron fans” – A ‘woke’ gender row has broken out among Games Workshop fantasy fans after women were added to an army squadron for the first time, reports the Mail.
• “New NPR chief Katherine Maher’s guide to the holidays” – What might America’s future national holiday calendar look like? A trip around the calendar with new National Public Radio chief Katherine Maher, current world champ of unintentional comedy, offers a clue, writes Matt Taibbi on his Racket News Substack.
• “‘What just happened in Brussels this afternoon was a disgrace’” – On X, Nigel Farage lets rip on the Brussels authorities after they ordered a conservative political conference taking place in the city to be shut down.

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