News Round-Up

• “Fears that far-Right hooligans will clash with pro-Palestine march” – Fears are growing that members of the far-Right will clash with protesters during a pro-Palestinian march planned to take place on Armistice Day, reports the Mail.
• “Pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day should be banned as Colonel Kemp warns of ‘violence’” – A pro-Palestine march planned for London on Armistice Day should be banned, according to a retired army officer on GB News.
• “When poppy sellers cannot honour the dead, we must take a stand” – Allison Pearson announces in the Telegraph she’s heading to Parliament Square on Armistice Day to protect Winston Churchill’s statue.
• “Liberals have forgotten what free speech means” – The Armistice protest should not be banned, says Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
• “Don’t ban the armistice day demo” – We must defend the right to protest, even for those whose views we find abhorrent, argues Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?” – The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes, writes Steven Barrett in the Spectator.
• “The police have not been enforcing the law at the marches” – If the police don’t uphold the law, how can they expect the respect and praise which all decent citizens would like to offer to them, asks Alex Carlile in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “What I’ve learned since the attacks on Israel: People don’t deem Jews worthy of solidarity and empathy” – Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement or Ukraine’s war against Russia appear not to care about the October 7th massacres, observes Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
• “The poppy seller ‘punched and attacked’ by pro-Palestine mob” – The Mail profiles Army veteran Jim Henderson, who was set upon by pro-Palestinian protestors while manning a poppy stall at Edinburgh’s Waverley Station.
• “Netanyahu says Israel will take control of ‘overall security’ of Gaza” – Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will assume “overall security responsibility” for Gaza once the war ends, in the clearest indication yet of his Government’s post-war strategy, reports the Mail.
• “BBC won’t call Hamas terrorists because it fears losing access, Kirsty Young suggests” – Broadcaster Kirsty Young has suggested that the reason the BBC refuses to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ is because it fears angering the group and losing access, says the Telegraph.
• “The Crown Prosecution Service must not succumb to wokery” – The new Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, needs to prove that the law will be prosecuted with robust impartiality, writes the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “The U.S. is frustrated with Netanyahu – but he’s been backed into a corner” – Mr. Netanyahu is facing the very thing he has always tried to avoid – structured talks on a Palestinian state of which Gaza would be “an integral part”, says Paul Nuki in the Telegraph.
• “Is campus rage fuelled by Middle Eastern money?” – According to a new report, at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes, writes Bari Weiss in the Free Press.
• “DNA contamination in Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines” – Is the newly discovered DNA contamination in Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines a global pharmaceutical scandal or much ado about nothing, asks the Swiss Policy Research group.
• “The Covid Inquiry is exposing lockdown’s dodgy models” – As more and more evidence from the Covid Inquiry comes out, it’s clear how influential the models were, writes Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Stalker case took deadly turn after police redeployed to monitor lockdown breaches” – An inquest has heard that an investigation into a stalker, who is believed to have gone on to murder a 23 year-old woman, was dropped after police officers were redeployed to monitor lockdown breaches, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tory members want me to save their party, but I’m afraid it’s too late” – Perhaps after the next election, when there are fewer Tory MPs, the chance to realign the centre of British politics will come, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Nadine Dorries: Iain Duncan Smith told me he was forced out like Boris” – In the Mail, Nadine Dorries reveals how Iain Duncan Smith was brought down by a confected scandal about his wife’s salary.
• “Germany explores Rwanda-inspired migrant deal amid Right-wing pressure” – Germany is to examine a ‘Rwanda-lite’ deal with non-EU countries that would see asylum claims processed offshore, as it abandons Angela Merkel’s open door migration policy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pakistan carries out a mass expulsion” – Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees are being forced to leave Pakistan as its interim Government expels undocumented individuals, reports the Washington Post.
• “‘A letter to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph’” – In his Argonautica blog, Barry Norris criticises the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s article on offshore wind energy, highlighting selective quoting, cost considerations and the need for reevaluating the U.K.’s energy policies.
• “Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?” – Motorists appear to be hanging onto their vehicles for longer, not least because of the rising cost of car finance, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Study: EV’s are cars for people who don’t need to drive (as much)” – One of the largest U.S. studies to date finds the current generation of EV owners drive far fewer miles than owners of gas vehicles, translating to lower emissions savings from EVs, reports WUWT.
• “Why are libraries hiding gender-critical books?” – Libraries are pandering to the demands of the LGBT lobby, says Carrie Clark in Spiked.
• “She/her/or/else” – No one should be forced to use preferred pronouns, writes Victoria Smith in the Critic.
• “How ‘equality’ laws became the enemy of academic freedom” – Funding for research and innovation in the U.K. has become tied up with EDI ‘experts’ who are aligned on ‘woke’ political issues and seek to impose diversity on their own terms, says Madeleine Armstrong in CapX.
• “The weaponisation of ‘disinformation’ psuedo-experts and bureaucrats” – Read in full the U.S. Interim Staff Report on how the federal Government partnered with universities and NGOs to censor Americans’ political speech.
• “DHS officials created a ‘disinformation group’ at Stanford University to censor Americans’ speech on social media ahead of the 2020 election” – New emails have revealed that the Department of Homeland Security partnered with Stanford University and other colleges to create a “disinformation group” to censor speech leading up to the 2020 election, reports the Mail.
• “Is Trump on his way back to the White House?” – Working-class voters have had enough of Joe Biden, says Batya Ungar-Sargon in Spiked.
• “If you haven’t seen this yet, you must” – On X, Hillel Fuld has shared a compelling animation illustrating the thankless task Israel sees itself performing in protecting Europe from Islamic extremism.

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