News Round-Up

• “Israel-Palestine latest news: At least 250 dead in desert festival massacre” – According to a volunteer group for disaster victims, at least 250 people were killed by Hamas terrorists at a rave party in Israel’s Negev Desert, says the Telegraph.
• “Hamas is applauded by activists at Labour conference fringe event” – Hamas terrorists, who murdered hundreds of innocent civilians in an attack on Israel, were applauded at a Left-wing event on the sidelines of the Labour conference, reports the Mail.
• “Left-wing student groups accused of ‘glorifying’ Hamas attacks on Israel” – Palestinian societies at several British universities have expressed approval of Hamas’s attack on Israel, according to the Telegraph.
• “Israeli ex-Celtic player Bitton slams the club’s ‘brainwashed’ fans” – Former Celtic player and Israeli Nir Bitton has slammed the club’s fans after they held up banners in support of Palestine, reports the Mail.
• “Berlin expresses solidarity with Israel in the face of Hamas attacks, as pro-Palestinian riots erupt in the migrant neighbourhoods of the German capital” – In Berlin, the Brandenburger Tor was illuminated with the Israeli flag in solidarity, while nearby in the migrant-saturated Neukölln neighbourhood, Palestinians celebrated, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Cheerleaders for Hamas” – The woke Left’s response to the Islamist assault on Israel has exploded their phoney moral superiority for good, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “The shameful gloating at Israel” – If you celebrate what is happening in Israel, you are truly lost, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Time for action on ‘Palestine Action’” – It is time to take a tough line against aggressive sectarianism in Britain, argues Guy Dampier in the Critic.
• “BBC criticised for refusing to call Hamas fighters terrorists” – The BBC is facing pressure to tear up a style guide which advises staff not to call Hamas attackers “terrorists”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The return of the Covid Inquiry” – Module Two of the Covid Inquiry is now up and running. On Substack, Prof. Carl Henneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson cast a critical eye over Government decision-making, the use of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and the impact of lockdowns. 
• “Censorship costs lives” – Though the tide is turning with the ‘Missouri v Biden’ case, our scientific institutions must be reformed so what happened during the pandemic never happens again, writes Jay Bhattacharya in TCW.
• “Rand Paul’s exposé of Anthony Fauci reads like a bioweapon spy thriller” – Rand Paul’s book Deception presents persuasive evidence for two propositions: Covid was created with U.S. funding and Fauci covered up his responsibility, says Joy Pullman in the Federalist.
• “Socialist Starmer is racing towards victory, but he hasn’t escaped a Callaghan-style meltdown” – The Labour leader seeks to frame himself as the heir to Blair, but he lacks the stomach to arrest Britain’s decline, writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Buried roots of war” – We have not remembered all the relevant facts about the conflict in Ukraine, says Mihail Evans in the Critic.
• “India-Pakistan cricket is downstream of politics” – In a piece for Toda Peace Institute, Prof. Ramesh Thakur highlights the power of sports in fostering connections amidst conflicts.
• “Hundreds of canadians have been debanked in the last five years, report shows” – Canada has witnessed a sweeping de-banking wave since 2018, affecting over 800 citizens, including many who supported the Freedom Convoy, reports Reclaim The Net.
• “Failure to harness fracking is a scandal of epic proportions” – Britain could still reap the rewards of shale energy if it wanted to, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Octopus Energy boss reveals his extraordinary 20,000-mile school run” – Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of ‘green’ company Octopus Energy, has revealed the extraordinary amount of air travel he undertakes to ensure he can spend time with his sons, reports the Mail.
• “The dark side of solar panels: How crooks are exploiting Net Zero” – In the Telegraph, Mattie Brignal shines a light on the great solar power swindle.
• “Crime is being driven by an entitled generation” – According to one of Britain’s most senior police officers, crime is being driven by an entitled generation that has never been told “no”, reports the Mail.
• “Lady Violet Manners: The politicising of the National Trust has to stop” – Lady Violet Manners, a former Dolce & Gabbana model turned successful podcaster, explains in the Telegraph why she’s put her name forward as an anti-woke candidate for election to the National Trust’s Advisory Council – and what she hopes to change.
• “NHS is directing vulnerable teens to ‘transing factories’” – According to an ex-Tavistock Trust doctor, the NHS is directing vulnerable teenagers, confused about their gender, to “transing factories” that believe in controversial “affirmation” techniques, reports the Mail.
• “The pro-trans force bore down on Albert Dock” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts witnessed a heated altercation in Liverpool, outside the Labour conference, involving law-abiding feminist protestors and aggressive trans activists.
• “Labour will make it easier for people to change their gender” – Labour is facing a growing political row over plans to make it easier for people to change their legal gender, says the Mail.
• “Teacher sacked by CofE school after refusing to teach ‘extreme’ LGBT lessons” – A Christian teacher faces being struck off after refusing to teach “extreme LGBT ideology” at a Church of England secondary school, according to the Telegraph.
• “The hypocritical mindset of the woke elite” – We’re in a world in which social media hashtags or the use of pronouns show which side you are on in the culture wars, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Mail.
• “The pronoun ritual” – Ideological capture is now written into policies that rule court officials, says Jo Bartosch in the Critic.
• “Who ghostwrites reports for the Centre for Countering Digital Hate?” – Imran Ahmed’s dark money nonprofit pumps out reports with sparkly graphics and questionable conclusions that conceal the names of its ‘researchers’, writes Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
• “‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth’” – On X, Michael Shellenberger has shared a tweet of Jacinda Ardern speaking dialogue that would not be out of place for a woke villain in a Hollywood dystopian thriller.

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