News Round-Up

• “Met Police asks pro-Palestinian protesters to postpone Armistice Day demonstration” – Scotland Yard has pleaded with the organisers of a ‘pro-Palestinian’ march planned for Armistice Day to call off the rally amid growing fears of violent disorder, reports the Telegraph.
• “Former Hamas chief ‘behind pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests’” – A former Hamas chief is behind one of the groups organising the pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests, according to the Telegraph.
• “Humza Yousaf says pro-Palestinian Armistice Day marches should ‘absolutely’ go ahead” – Humza Yousaf has expressed his support for a pro-Palestinian march in London on Armistice Day, criticising the Home Secretary’s response to the protests, says the Telegraph.
• “Poppy seller veteran, 78, is ‘punched by pro-Palestine protesters’ in Edinburgh Waverley station” – A poppy seller, caught up in a pro-Palestine rally, said he was punched and kicked by a mob of protesters, reports the Mail.
• “What did Hamas expect from October 7th?” – Hamas knew precisely the wrath they would provoke and provoked it anyway, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “Goodbye to all that” – As Remembrance Weekend approaches, Britain mourns the passing of more than its military heroes, says Melanie Phillips on Substack.
• “The Met’s strange approach to protest” – It seems as if being vigilant for potential Islamophobia has become more important than the job of policing demonstrations objectively, writes Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
• “Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas? ” – Gary Lineker is an example of the centrist dad who wrings his hands over ‘fascism’ yet falls strangely silent when actual fascism occurs, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Gen Z has an Israel problem” – For Gen Z, Palestinians are the only victims that matter, remarks Samuel Rubinstein in UnHerd.
• “How far is too far when it comes to protest?” – Charlie Bentley-Astor in the Critic asks if the right to protest outweighs the right to move freely without encountering harassment and confrontation.
• “Angelina Jolie’s dad Jon Voight blasts her posts condemning Israel” – Angelina Jolie’s father, actor Jon Voight, has criticised his daughter for her anti-Israel stance made in a series of postings to her 14 million Instagram followers, reports the Mail.
• “Anne Frank kindergarten will be renamed ‘to be more diverse’” – A German kindergarten has said it will drop ‘Anne Frank’ from its name in favour of a “more diverse” alternative, adding fuel to the national debate over antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war, says the Telegraph.
• “Covid lockdowns cost at least £118 billion in lost GDP, but what did it save?” – According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, Baroness Hallett’s Inquiry should investigate the necessity of the lockdowns and question relying solely on medical professionals for advice in future pandemics.
• “U.K.’s COVID-19 inquiry is already more revealing than was ever intended” – As the Covid Inquiry rumbles on, it not only confirms some awful truths we already suspected, but also reveals much about the nature of our governments they would prefer remained hidden, writes Brian Monteith in the Scotsman.
• “The unexpected battle between vaccines and the Covid virus” – Humans appear to be fighting a never-ending battle against COVID-19, using vaccines that have so far been ineffective against the constantly mutating variants, says the Epoch Times.
• “CDC expands infectious disease surveillance programme beyond Covid at four major U.S. airports” – The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s ‘Traveller-Based Genomic Surveillance’ programme will test volunteers for more than 30 known pathogens, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Nadine Dorries reveals why Sue Gray quit to join Labour” – It is a known fact, and the worst-kept secret in Westminster, that Sue Gray and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case cannot stand each other, writes Nadine Dorries in the Mail.
• “Give women the choice to have more babies” – If fertility rates don’t rise, the U.K. faces economic stagnation or vastly higher levels of immigration, warns Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “Critically ill baby can now be moved to hospital in Rome” – A critically ill British baby has been granted Italian citizenship so that she can be moved to a hospital in Rome to receive life-support treatment, following the High Court’s initial obstruction, reports the Mail.
• “Why panicked private-school parents are fighting each other for a place at the local comp” – Labour’s plan to charge VAT on private-school fees has sparked a scramble for the top state schools, and put the independent sector in peril, says Anna Tyzack in the Telegraph.
• “The King’s Speech: The key bills and how they will affect you” – The Telegraph unpacks what we can expect when Charles III delivers the first King’s Speech for 70 years.
• “Chris Packham slams Jeremy Clarkson in furious X rant” – Springwatch star Chris Packham has launched a furious tirade at Jeremy Clarkson after the presenter admitted he wasn’t impressed by Sir David Attenborough’s latest Planet Earth series, reports the Mail.
• “Sunak needs to do more than just ‘permit’ oil and gas” – Fixing licensing rounds won’t change the fundamental problem: The Government is making North Sea oil and gas a bad investment, say Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “No, Just Stop Oil is not the new Suffragettes” – The eco-zealots smashing up the National Gallery want to clobber humanity, not liberate it, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “U.S. offshore wind is holed and sinking” – Wind power is a costly solution to a non-existent problem, says David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
• “The madness of Bob Stewart’s ‘hate crime’ conviction” – When did trading insults become a police matter, asks Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Police called after teacher who wants to be called ‘Mx’ not ‘Miss’ hit by ‘threatening comms’” – A school in Scotland has called in the police over claims of “threatening communications” about a teacher who wishes to be addressed as ‘Mx’ instead of ‘Miss’, reports the Sun.
• “Therapists must be free to question trans patients” – Therapists who are willing to question patients’ gender identity have been pushed underground and even silenced through bullying, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “Woke censors won’t stop until every statue is pulled down” – The destruction of Robert E. Lee’s monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, opens the floodgates to further erasure, warns Roger Kimball in the Telegraph.
• “The Free Press wins a prize for excellence in investigative journalism” – The Free Press is celebrating its recognition in the inaugural ‘Dao Prize’ for its work on the Twitter Files, alongside Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger.
• “Trump derangement syndrome, snobbery and a sophomoric view of the truth behind demands for censorship” – On the Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger lauds Jeff Kosseff’s new book Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation.
• “Elon Musk reinstates Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson to Twitter” – Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated the accounts of right-wing influencers Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson, reversing lifetime bans on the pair imposed by the social network’s previous ownership, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk launches ‘sarcastic’ AI chatbot ‘Grok’ on Twitter” – Elon Musk has finally lifted the lid on his own ‘sarcastic’ AI chatbot, called ‘Grok’, available within X, according to the Mail.
• “‘For defenders of free speech, the last couple of weeks have posed some real problems – and some have failed the test’” – Toby joins Andrew Doyle on GB News to discuss the fallout from the recent pro-Palestinian protests taking place across the U.K.

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