News Round-Up

• “Hospital taking ‘appropriate action’ over staffer who supported Hamas” – A hospital has said it is taking “appropriate action” after one of its staff celebrated the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in a series of disturbing social media posts, reports the Mail.
• “As mobs cheer on Hamas, Western civilisation is imploding around us” – Shocking anti-Semitism and widespread anti-Israel bias show how sick our societies have become, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Does the Met know what jihad means?” – In all the wars and exchanges involving Israel, the reaction at home grows worse each time, not least in our institutions, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “What Hamas promised to its electorate” – There is some evidence of opposition to Hamas in Gaza, but it seems small to the point of near invisibility, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “Free speech is our best weapon against Jew hatred” – We must confront antisemitism with more speech, not censorship, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Don’t get squishy on free speech” – Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty, says Harrison Griffiths in the Critic.
• “Why doesn’t the West know who to back in the Israel-Hamas war?” – In the Spectator, Yascha Mounk underscores the striking difference and moral disconnect in global responses to the September 11th attacks and Hamas’s recent terrorist atrocities.
• “The tyranny of pathological kindness” – The cruel streak in progressivism has become dominant, writes Dr. Peter Hughes in UnHerd.
• “Why is the UN making excuses for Hamas?” – António Guterres’s Israel-bashing is out of control, says Jeremy Havardi in Spiked.
• “The UN Secretary General must resign” – Weakness in the United Nations is enabling horrific violence by terrorist groups and states, writes Hamish De Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
• “Isolationist Republicans are wrong – we need to stand up for Israel and Ukraine” – To withdraw from helping Israel and Ukraine would solve none of our issues at home and create whole new problems abroad, argues Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “Scottish Covid Inquiry: Care home residents ‘left to starve’” – Care home residents may have been “neglected and left to starve” during the pandemic, Scotland’s Covid inquiry has been told, according to the BBC.
• “Has Humza misled Holyrood over his WhatsApps?” – Humza Yousaf and his Scottish Government are now facing criticism for not handing their key messages over to the Covid Inquiry. What comes around, goes around, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “The Covid Inquiry isn’t interested in the truth about lockdown” – Recent hearings in the Covid Inquiry suggest a striking lack of curiosity about whether shutting down was a good decision, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “FDA links Covid shot to slightly higher risk of strokes and seizures” – Two new analyses by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have flagged up possible health concerns about the Covid shots made by Pfizer and Moderna, reports the Mail.
• “Most Americans are not planning to get an updated Covid booster” – Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation in California found 52% of adults said they ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ weren’t getting the updated Covid booster this year, according to the Mail.
• “Alison Rose oversaw a toxic, anti-Right culture at NatWest. She should not be rewarded” – A dangerous ideology has taken root within the banking group Dame Alison Rose ran, almost 40% of which is still taxpayer-owned, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “No conservative should trust NatWest ever again” – NatWest has shown itself to be in the grip of cancel culture, says Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
• “‘Prominent’ Conservative MP reportedly arrested on suspicion of rape” – Gay Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has been arrested in connection with an allegation of rape and possession of a controlled substance, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves accused of lifting passages from Wikipedia for new book” – Rachel Reeves has owned up to copy-and-pasting sentences from Wikipedia in her new book, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain is quietly inching towards a fate worse than bankruptcy” – We only have to look to the 1970s to see where unsustainable spending and debt lead us, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Is BBC Radio Two’s exodus of older stars backfiring?” –Vernon Kay’s BBC Radio Two show has lost 1.3 million listeners since he took over from Ken Bruce, while the veteran DJ’s audience at his new station, Greatest Hits Radio, is booming, reports the Mail.
• “Why are so many adults in rich countries refusing to have kids?” – The sudden demographic collapse of advanced societies is the defining issue of our time, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
• “Moment Just Stop Oil eco-zealots spray orange powder on dinosaur display” – The Mail has video of the moment Just Stop Oil activists sprayed a dinosaur exhibit in the Natural History Museum with orange paint.
• “Electricity prices ‘must rise by 70% to pay for more wind farms’” – The head of the U.K.’s largest energy generator says new offshore wind farms won’t be developed unless the Government allows operators to earn more from the electricity they produce, reports the Telegraph.
• “Climate change is one of our biggest health threats – humanity faces a staggering toll unless we act” – As the planet warms, the world’s health systems could become overwhelmed by the consequences of extreme weather events, claim WHO and COP28 doctors in the Telegraph. Why is the Torygraph publishing this Left-wing balls?
• “Debate on liberalism” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ash Sarkar are due to debate the motion that “liberalism gets the big questions right” at the upcoming Munk Debate scheduled for November 3rd.
• “Geert Wilders sees his chance” – The Dutch far-Right is on manoeuvres, writes Senay Boztas in UnHerd.
• “World Rugby close investigation into ‘white ****’ slur at World Cup” – The RFU have reacted with fury after World Rugby announced that no charges will be made against Bongi Mbonambi for alleged racist abuse aimed at England flanker Tom Curry, reports the Mail.
• “Tory councillor suspended for saying ‘Pride is a sin’ is reinstated” – A Christian councillor who was suspended from the Conservative Party after tweeting “Pride is a sin” has been reinstated, says the Telegraph.
• “Stephen King’s shining plug of J.K. Rowling novel could signal end of trans row” – Stephen King has extended an olive branch to J.K. Rowling with a rave book review following a row between the pair over trans rights, reports the Telegraph.
• “Critics pan Penelope Skinner’s ‘weirdly inept’ play Lyonesse” – Lyonesse, which has opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, has been branded “inexcusably poor” by critics, says the Mail.
• “Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilisation surgery to officially change gender” – Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to officially change gender is unconstitutional, according to AP.
• “‘We got this video from Hamas, the most credible not-terrorist organisation in the world’” – On X, Chris Rose is one of many people who’ve shared a video clip from an Israeli satirical show demonstrating how much of a laughing stock the BBC has become.

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