News Round-Up

• “Hamas avoided detection by ‘going back to the Stone Age’” – Hamas fooled Israel into believing it was too war weary to fight, going “stone age” to escape high-tech surveillance and training on a mock Israeli settlement as it plotted its recent deadly attack, according to the Telegraph.
• “The mobs cheering Hamas on the streets of Britain have proved Suella right” – When the Home Secretary said multiculturalism had failed, she was not criticising immigrants who integrated into British society, but those who refuse to integrate and reject British values, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “The invasion of Israel has put the failure of multiculturalism on shameless display” – Civilisation stands at a crossroads; one way, there are deluded progressives cheering on mass murderer; the other, everything we hold dear, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell in row with newspaper over ‘anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu drawing” – The Guardian has become embroiled in a row with one of its cartoonists over an “anti-Semitic” drawing he produced in the wake of Hamas’s attacks against Israel, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fury as Black Lives Matter group posts image of paratrooper and says it ‘stands with Palestine’” – A Black Lives Matter chapter from Chicago said it “stands with Palestine” and posted an online graphic of a paratrooper in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why isn’t Antifa condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?” – Antifa, those self-styled anti-fascists who love to rage against anything reminiscent of the 1930s, have been weirdly quiet about events in Israel, observes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Murdering euphemism” – In City Journal, Eitan Fischberger explains how Hamas finally exposed the mainstream media’s apologia.
• “We must confront the new anti-Semitism” – The world’s oldest hatred has made a grotesque comeback, says Tom Slater in Spiked. If we look the other way now, we surrender the right to call ourselves a civilised nation.
• “Immoral equivalence” – The efforts of the mainstream media, government officials and elite universities to avoid outright condemnation of Hamas reveal a West at war with itself, argues Juliana Geran Pilon in City Journal.
• “Same people who attacked Israel are entering U.S., says Donald Trump” – Former President Trump has called for his ban on travel from predominantly Muslim countries to be reimposed, reports the Telegraph.
• “Civil Service held up Covid advice to avoid working weekends, claims Cummings” – Dominic Cummings has claimed civil servants wanted to delay making a stay-at-home announcement at the start of the pandemic because they did not want to work at the weekend, according to the Telegraph.
• “Over 80% of Americans refused the last Covid booster” – Despite U.S. health authorities’ continued push for people to stay up to date on boosters, public interest appears to be waning, says the Epoch Times.
• “Covid reinfections clear faster, including in unvaccinated people” – According to a new study, COVID-19 reinfections cleared faster than initial infections, including among among the unvaccianted, reports the Epoch Times.
• “COVID-19 mRNA vaccine contaminated by mystery DNAs and truncated mRNAs” – In the latest part of their ‘COVID-19 mRNA vaccine issues’ series, the Epoch Times explores how the introduction of mRNA technology lacked an adequate regulatory framework.
• “Where were all the anarchists during COVID-19?” – In OffGuardian, two anarchist pro-freedom campaigners sit down with Winter Oak’s Paul Cudenec to discuss why the organised anarchist movement worldwide slavishly complied with Covid restrictions.
• “We have not run away.” – On Substack, Prof. Carl Henneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson express concern about the quality and credibility of the UKHSA’s review of 100 models used to justify COVID-19 restrictions.
• “GP appointments crisis sparks 80% surge in A&E sore throat attendances” – Buckling A&E departments are seeing a rise in people attending with sore throats because of the GP appointment crisis, reports the Mail.
• “Grayson Perry’s wife warns ADHD is a ‘fashionable buzzword’” – Psychologist Philippa Perry has expressed concern over the increasing number of ADHD diganoses, says the Mail.
• “Prison governor chief warns jails could run out of space within days” – The head of Britain’s prison governors’ group has warned that prisons in England and Wales may soon run out of space, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Prof. Michael Mann tweets study claiming climate deniers are misogynist authoritarians” – WUWT’s Eric Worrall takes issue with Prof. Michael Mann for endorsing a study that suggests climate sceptics target female leaders like Greta Thunberg due to misogyny.
• “The offshore wind boondoggle” – Green advocates remain undaunted by wind energy’s surging costs and questionable efficiency, writes Jonathan A. Lesser in City Journal.
• “Renewable energy won’t save the planet if it costs the earth” – It is undeniable that current Net Zero plans are astronomically costly, technologically impossible and politically unstable, says Robert Onfray in WUWT.
• “Why is Sunak being pilloried for stating biological facts?” – Gender ideologues are so out of touch they make our multimillionaire PM look like a man of the people, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “U.K. ‘has plunged down academic freedom league’” – The U.K. has fallen significantly in an international league table of academic freedom, according to the Evening Standard.
• “Edinburgh academics demand Sex and Gender book launch is scrapped” – Academics at the University of Edinburgh have been accused of an “horrific” and “nonsensical attack” on free speech after calling for the launch of a book about gender politics to be cancelled, reports the Times.
• “Black female James Bond would ‘boost MI6 diversity’” – Spy chiefs are eager for a black female James Bond because it would drive diversity in the intelligence services, says the Telegraph.
• “Denying sex change is not a crime” – Sky’s Kay Burley, and everyone behind her, have mountains to climb in making their coverage of sex and gender coherent, writes Cath Walton in the Critic.
• “Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert: I was cancelled because of seven people – that can’t be right” – In the Evening Standard, the Director of Don’t Divide Us, Dr. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, reacts to her recent cancellation by an educational conference over concerns from some attendees that her presence would make them feel “unsafe”.
• “The elite capture of the Left” – Brendan O’Neill interviews non-woke leftie Freddie deBoer in Spiked.
• “Some call it conspiracy theory” – There are countless examples of the conspiracy theory or theorist label being used to hide evidence, obscure facts and deny legitimate concerns, says Iain Davis in OffGuardian.
• “EU invokes censorship law to threaten X, accuses it of allowing ‘disinformation’” – The EU is accusing X of allowing illegal content and disinformation, reports Reclaim The Net.
• “Uncancelled with Toby Young” – Toby joins Mark Dolan on GB News to discuss what impact a Labour Government could have on free speech after a report from the Institute of Economic Affairs suggests a Labour Government would be “a threat to gender critical free speech”.

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