News Round-Up

• “Dire day for Tories as Labour wins in West Midlands and London” – Andy Street lost a knife-edge ballot to be Mayor of the West Midlands to Labour’s Richard Parker by 1,508 votes. Meanwhile, despite Ulez and being a general disaster, Sadiq Khan secured an historic third term, the Telegraph reports.
• “Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China” –Testifying to Congress, EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak changed his tune and admitted he didn’t know whether the controversial DEFUSE experiments were conducted in China, according to ZeroHedge.
• “U.S. shared ‘gobsmacking’ Covid lab leak file with U.K.” – Evidence supporting the lab leak theory was presented to Dominic Raab, then the Foreign Secretary, in January 2021, but “was ignored”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pharmaceutical giants knowingly sold HIV-infected treatment to NHS” – Pharmaceutical companies were aware they were selling a treatment infected with HIV to the NHS, the Telegraph reveals.
• “Campus radicals give us a horrible glimpse of the future” – “In those face-masked, neurotic features, we see a horrible glimpse of the future,” says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner. “A generation screen-addled, aggrieved, socially inept and, ultimately, lost.”
• “When Free Speech Turns Into Harassment” – Universities are navigating a minefield with Gaza protest, but there are right and wrong answers, says Cathy Young in Persuasion.
• “BBC Arabic forced to correct its output 80 times in five months of war” – The service made the equivalent of one revision every other day on average, including incorrect references to Jewish residents as ‘settlers’, the Telegraph reports.
• “The far-Left mob has seized control of Britain’s streets – and its borders” – Those who shout the loudest – from the most deranged Leftist standpoint – now have the whip hand to rule the rest of us, says the Telegraph‘s Zoe Strimpel.
• “Charity under review after imam compared Hamas attack to Jews escaping Nazi camps” – A charity which runs a Leeds mosque is being looked at by the Charity Commission after its imam compared the October 7th attack to Jews breaking out of Nazi concentration camps and criticised Jordan for intercepting Iranian missiles bound for Israel. The Telegraph has more.
• “The climate scaremongers: China leads the world over green power? Pull the other one!” – Lobbyists for Net Zero continue to gaslight the public into believing that China is leading the world in fighting climate change, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “Boris Johnson to co-chair ex-Tory MP’s Net Zero initiative” – The former Prime Minister has announced he will join ex-Net Zero tsar Chris Skidmore’s company, Better Earth, according to the Telegraph. Of course he will.
• “Household energy efficiency ratings ‘inaccurate and misleading’, report claims” – Which? is calling for an overhaul overhaul of the entire EPC system, reports the Telegraph.
• “North Sea oil drilling to continue for a decade after Net Zero deadline” – A raft of new licences extends operations for up to 20 years longer than expected, reports the Telegraph.
• “The outbreak of Chris Packham, Hugh Jackman and other Net Zero Celebrities…” – On Substack, Tom Ed looks at the celebrities climbing aboard the Net Zero bandwagon.
• “Labour plots new Net Zero crackdown on corporates” – Labour’s Ed Miliband is planning to legally oblige directors to publish their company’s carbon footprint, according to the Telegraph.
• “Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean” – The Biden Administration has recently produced a wave of plans and regulatory actions aimed at building a monstrous amount of destructive offshore wind, says David Wojick in WUWT.
• “A True Bipartisan Scandal” – How out of control is our surveillance state, asks Matt Taibbi in Racket News. “Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country’s most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret.”
• “Why unorthodox thinkers are embracing Christianity” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson’s wife have all recently become Christians, and even Richard Dawkins is warming to the old faith. Jane Stannus looks at what’s going on in the Spectator.
• “Ireland’s blind hatred of Brexit has destroyed its borders. Starmer may do the same to ours” – Sadly, Ireland’s leaders seem to have determined that collaboration with the EU, whatever its cost, is always preferable to working with the U.K., says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “FSU Head Toby Young visited Scotland this week and almost got his collar felt by the Hate Monster!” Watch the short video he made while there about the draconian new law.

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