News Round-Up

• “Number of cancelled children’s operations soars amid NHS chaos” – The number of children’s operations cancelled has risen by 23% in a year, as nearly 15,000 youngsters were forced to wait for treatment amid ongoing NHS chaos, according to new figures reported in the Telegraph.
• “Hospitals ordered to empty as many beds as possible ahead of strike chaos” – Here we go again: hospitals have been ordered to empty as many beds as possible, amid fears that next week’s walkouts by junior doctors will plunge the NHS into chaos, the Telegraph reports.
• “The jab victims denied heart treatment, and the remedies the NHS won’t even consider” – For as long as medical professionals, politicians, journal editors and most of the mainstream media continue to insist the products are ‘safe and effective’, the tragedy continues, writes Neville Hodgkinson for TCW.
• “Did an AI Convince Someone to Sacrifice Himself for Climate Change?” – A grieving widow has accused EleutherAI’s GPT-J of convincing his husband that committing suicide would help save the planet from climate change, according to WUWT.
• “Electric cars being written off after minor bumps” – Doubts grow over the electric car revolution, with insurers reluctant to attempt repairs, the Telegraph reports.
• “Banalysis: Saying the Unsayable” – Dr. Roger Watson reviews Frank Haviland’s book for the European Conservative.
• “Keep child abusers off the rainbow flag” – ‘Minor Attraction’ is not a queer sexual identity, says Julie Bindel in UnHerd.
• “Keir Starmer still doesn’t appear to know what a woman is” – To protect sex based female rights, the Labour leader needs to be unequivocal in his answers, and there is no room for prevarication, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s successor struggles to define a woman” – Chris Hipkins seems to have skipped the same biology lessons as Starmer, according to the Spectator.
• “Ethnicity of grooming gangs cannot be ignored, police told” – Rishi Sunak is to launch a crackdown amid concerns perpetrators are evading justice because people fear being accused of racism or bigotry, the Telegraph reports.
• “The problem with holding Iftar in Manchester Cathedral” – The Muslim tradition involves saying prayers that deny the Christian faith, so why is it being hosted in a Cathedral, asks Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
• “SNP politician had innocent woman investigated for hate crime over bikini wax mix-up” – Karen Adam complained of being a victim of abuse after receiving an unsolicited booking for an intimate salon appointment, but it turned out to be a simple mix-up, the Telegraph reports.
• “There is no ‘epidemic’ of anti-trans violence” – The White House is using recklessly imprecise language, says Noah Carl in UnHerd.
• “Sanna Marin’s fall confirms that populism is back” – Peter Franklin looks at the significance of the defeat for UnHerd, arguing it is not a rejection of Western support for Ukraine.
• “How to Be Left Without Being Woke” – Susan Neiman in Persuasion offers “a better understanding of status and victimhood”.
• “The shameless dishonesty over grooming gangs” – The identitarian left is still trying to silence uncomfortable truths about this scandal, says Patrick O’Flynn in Spiked.
• “The cruel witch-hunting of Michael Vaughan” – The former England captain was presumed guilty of racism on the basis of a single, flimsy allegation, writes Tim Black for Spiked.

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