News Round-Up

• “Demands to sack Suella Braverman after No10 says it did not sign off her article slamming Met chief for ‘playing favourites’ by allowing pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day” – Rishi Sunak is facing calls to sack Suella Braverman after No.10 confirmed it did not sign off an article accusing police of “playing favourites” by allowing a pro-Gaza march on Armistice Day, reports the Mail.
• “Suella Braverman is openly thumbing her nose at Rishi Sunak” – The Home Secretary may be trying to provoke Rishi Sunak into sacking her to achieve political martyrdom, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
• “Sacking Suella could sink Sunak” – Suella Braverman is deemed to have gone to war with the leadership of the police. Yet she is only saying what is widely believed beyond Westminster, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Are we witnessing the break-up of the Conservative Party?” – The Braverman drama is indicative of a party that knows it faces a choice of defeat or annihilation, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Suella is right – the Met’s double standards are a disgrace” – Islamists and antisemites have been given far more licence than other groups of protesters, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “It’s not anti-free speech to restrict demonstrations” – We do need to protect freedom of expression, but these aggressive protests aren’t civilised dissent, argues David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Why are young women tearing down Israeli hostage posters?” – Female Zoomers have been radicalised on campus and online, says Freya India in UnHerd.
• “The new reality of remembrance” – Deciding whether to allow or ban the pro-Palestine protest on Armistice Day is not a choice a healthy liberal democracy should be making, writes Tom Jones in the Critic.
• “Students at pro-Palestine rally say they’ve ‘not seen’ Hamas invasion” – British students protesting at a pro-Palestine rally said they had “not seen anything that shows” Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th, admitting they were not “clued up” on the conflict, reports the Mail.
• “Jews are not safe on Britain’s campuses” – Students no longer conceal their antisemitism, says Etan Smallman in UnHerd.
• “Israel, Palestine and the Labour party history that has made Keir Starmer’s position so difficult” – There has long been a tendency for the Arab-Israeli conflict to map onto Labour’s own internal rivalries, writes James Vaughan in CapX.
• “‘Queers for Palestine’ must have a death wish” – The destruction of Israel and the emboldening of Hamas would make life unlivable for gay Palestinians, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “Israel agrees to four-hour daily pauses in fighting” – The White House has announced that Israel has agreed to begin daily four-hour pauses in its assault on Hamas to allow civilians to leave the area, according to Forbes.
• “The antisemites scream. And I stiffen my spine” – The worst thing that could come out of this moment would be for Jews to embrace the victimhood narrative, warns Batya Ungar-Sargon in the Free Press.
• “End DEI” – DEI is not about diversity, equity, or inclusion; it is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews but America itself, argues Bari Weiss in the Free Press.
• “German Vice-Chancellor speaks out on antisemitic incidents” – DW reports that antisemitic attacks in Germany have surged since the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel, with Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck warning of consequences for such hate crimes in a video posted online.
• “Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment” – The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it, argues Eugyppius.
• “£10,000 Covid fines were too high, admits Priti Patel” – On-the-spot fines of £10,000 for breaching Covid laws on large gatherings were too high, the Home Secretary during the pandemic has said, according to the BBC.
• “Covid Inquiry: Boris Johnson wanted ‘bigger fines’ for rule-breakers” – The Covid Inquiry has heard that Boris Johnson called for “bigger fines” for breaching coronavirus regulations during the pandemic, according to the Telegraph. Didn’t he realise he’d end up paying them himself?
• “Viruses reactivated after COVID-19 and its vaccine maybe linked to lymphopenia: Study” – After a Covid infection or inoculation with its vaccine, some people develop reactivated and recurrent infections, with some emerging studies linking this phenomenon to lymphopenia, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Vaccine compensation scheme must be reformed, former ministers urge” – The compensation scheme for people harmed by Covid vaccines must be reformed, the former vaccine minister and former Attorney General have said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Drunk on power, ministers lost the plot in the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine” – The Government was arrogant, sinister and undemocratic in its campaign to vaccinate the population, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “The real Covid jab scandal is finally emerging” – The young and healthy, who were at minimal risk from Covid, should not have been told they had to take the vaccine, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Baroness Hallett terminates the Covid Inquiry following the submission of damming evidence (a fictional aspiration)” – On Substack, Stephen Andrews, with tongue firmly in cheek, envisions Baroness Hallett bringing the Covid Inquiry to a close, revealing damning evidence that the pandemic measures were a debacle rooted in misinformation disseminated by elites.
• “Eye-opening video banned from social media” – The Epoch Times highlights a controversial video, censored by YouTube, that directly challenges the U.S. Government’s pandemic response.
• “NHS waiting list reaches record high – again” – In the Spectator, Lucy Dunn comments on new figures that the NHS waiting list has hit a record high of 7.8 million.
• “NatWest cuts most of Alison Rose’s £10 million payout after Farage fiasco” – The former boss of NatWest Group is expected to lose the majority of a £10 million-plus payout over the Nigel Farage account closure scandal, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mass formation and the totalitatian mindset” – On Substack, Thorsteinn Siglaugsson features a recent interview with Dr. Mattias Desmet, delving into his theories on mass-formation, the totalitarian mindset and their relevance to the COVID-19 situation and the rise of the lonely mass.
• “Will the Panama shooter become the next Kyle Rittenhouse?” – Kenneth Darlington’s deadly confrontation with eco-protesters will make him a star, says Oliver Bateman in UnHerd.
• “Academic freedom is under attack from Left and Right” – The University and College Union and the Tory Government are as censorious as each other, argues Jim Butcher in Spiked.
• “Our indulgence of trans extremism has gone too far” – We cannot continue with this wilful, sinister denial of biological reality, says James Esses in the Telegraph.
• “Medicine with a ‘transgender bias’” –In City Journal, Leor Sapir and Joseph Figliolia discuss a recent lawsuit in the U.S. that asks whether ‘gender-affirming care’ constitutes gay conversion therapy and violates the civil rights of a gay man.
• “Disciplinary ordeal continues for nurse who backed J.K. Rowling” – In Unherd, Eliza Mondegreen responds to the ongoing investigation of a Canadian nurse for alleged discriminatory statements tied to her support for an “I ♥ J.K. Rowling” billboard.
• “Canadian female powerlifter facing two-year ban for criticising trans-identified males in women’s sports” – A female Team Canada powerlifter, who raised concerns about competing against a male athlete who thinks he’s a woman, now faces a two-year suspension from her sport, according to Reduxx.
• “Never again is now” – On X, Christian Action Against Antisemitism has posted a video appeal, urging people to join them in a public prayer for Israel and the Jewish people on November 19th at 4pm in London.

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