News Round-Up

• “Reconstruction: The truth about the chaotic decisions that led Britain into lockdown” – The pandemic inquiry has revealed the true scale of the turmoil behind the U.K.’s biggest political decisions since WWII, set out in detail by Gordon Ramsay and Janet Eastham in the Telegraph.
• “Britain will be condemned to another Covid-style lockdown. This pathetic inquiry proves it” – Even as the ineptitude of Whitehall is being revealed in its full horror, the focus remains on childish tittle-tattle, says Danial Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “What disdain for a brave scientist reveals about Covid” – “It is perfectly obvious the Covid Inquiry is not interested in any serious consideration the whole thing was a ghastly mistake, made in a condition of outright panic,” writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Johnson tells Covid Inquiry he had to balance competing needs of U.K.” – Boris Johnson has told the Covid Inquiry he had a “duty” to weigh up whether lockdowns would do more harm than good, according to the Mail. So why did he impose three?
• “Nadine Dorries’ book reveals assassins who wanted Boris out of No 10” – In The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries identifies Michael Gove , Dominic Cummings and a powerful adviser called Dougie Smith as members of ‘the movement’, according to the Mail.
• “You have to die of something!” – The HART team looks at why Sweden has fewer excess deaths.
• “The red pill and the bitter pill” – Read the talk given by Laura Dodsworth at the ‘Holding Covid Times to Account’ session at the Battle of Ideas last month.
• “Trends in Excess Deaths” – HART fact-checks the minister’s response to Andrew Bridgen’s recent Commons speech.
• “The Hallett Inquiry – reason over foul language, flip flops and narcissism” – The evidence vacuum is ignored by the inquiry, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
• “Hamas, not Israel, is perpetrating ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza” – Laying the blame for Hamas’ abuse of civilians at Israel’s door only rewards its inhuman tactics, says Danial Taub in the Telegraph.
• “Germany puts Britain to shame with its zero tolerance of anti-Semitism” – Informed by their history, the Germans have displayed remarkable moral clarity in supporting Jews, while Britain has simply failed, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “What People Think About The March” – Matt Goodwin polled Brits about the pro-Palestine march on Remembrance Day weekend.
• “How ‘hate speech’ laws appease the oldest hatred” – U.K. authorities cannot be trusted to police what we say, see or think, argues Spiked‘s Mick Hume.
• “Charity Commission ‘examines’ British mosques that hosted pro-Hamas hate preachers” – Sermons made since the terrorist group’s October 7th attack include calls to “destroy Israel”, “kill the Jews” and “wage your war for Allah”, according to the Telegraph. Delightful.
• “Guardian journalist who retweets pro-Hamas social media account” – The Guardian‘s pop culture columnist and podcast host Chanté Joseph shared posts casting doubt on the scale of Hamas’s October 7th atrocities and promoted conspiracies about Jewish power, reports Jewish News.
• “Met Police adviser led ‘from the river to the sea’ chant” – A hard-Left activist, Attiq Malik, who was filmed leading chants of “from the river to the sea” at a pro-Palestinian rally is an adviser to the police on their response to protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Telegraph reveals.
• “MoD to cut ties with Muslim Council of Britain after ‘shocking’ arrangement revealed” – Ministers have ordered the MoD to cut ties with the MCB after it was revealed it endorsed imams to become chaplains in the armed forces, the Telegraph reports.
• “Judge slams Just Stop Oil activist after she asked for delay in trial so she could jet off to India as protester, 28, is charged alongside four others for storming West End performance of Les Miserables” – A judge has hit out at a Just Stop Oil protester who asked for her trial on charges of disrupting a performance of Les Miserables to be delayed for a few weeks – so she could jet off to India, reports the Mail. You can’t make this stuff up.
• “In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London” – Read Jennifer Marohasy’s report from the ARC conference, where she defends the importance of saving science from the propagandists.
• “The baby bust: female perspectives” – After Alex Berenson’s article last week on falling birth rates, a lot of men blamed generational selfishness, he says. Here’s what the women had to say.
• “Jeff Bezos ditches Seattle for Miami after buying $79m mansion in ‘billionaire bunker’” – The virtue-signalling billionaire leaves high-tax Democrat Washington for low-tax Republican Florida, the Telegraph reports.
• “Ukraine has blown its best chance to defeat Putin” – Deprived of the weapons it needs to win, and with global attention shifting to Israel, the outlook is terrible, laments Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Body to fight cancel culture formed by 100 top academics” – London Universities’ new Council for Academic Freedom will defend free inquiry, intellectual diversity and civil discourse, the Telegraph reports.
• “Grooming our children, Part 2: ‘Smash heteronormativity’” – Belinda Brown’s latest dispatch from the sex ed wars in TCW.
• “Transgender activist who said ‘would not matter’ if the number of female murders increased if men were allowed to self-identify as women is devising ethics rules for therapists” – Philosophy professor Sophie Grace Chappell is on the core team revising the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s (BACP) national ethical framework, according to the Mail.

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