News Round-Up

• “The dying days of Rishi Sunak’s black hole Government” – Rishi Sunak’s decision to sack his Home Secretary Suella Braverman and make David Cameron the Foreign Minister signals the death throes of the Government, writes Sam Leith in the Spectator.
• “Suella Braverman was sacked for being right” – Rishi Sunak is too effete to do anything about the issues Conservative voters care about, such as reducing immigration, says Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak is living dangerously by freezing out the Tory Right” – No. 10 has decided that the best electoral strategy is to pivot away from the Right… but it’s a moment of great jeopardy for the PM, warns Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “The perils of ‘Suella Derangement Syndrome’” – The liberal elites would rather make excuses for antisemites than admit Braverman had a point, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Without Suella, who will speak up for British values?” – Many British people are tired of being treated like doormats. Suella Braverman is one of the few senior politicians who understands this, writes Emma Webb in the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak is gambling with the Conservative Party’s very survival” – Is Rishi Sunak about to do something genuinely radical, ponders Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Voters deserve better than a return to a failed pre-Brexit past” – With the sacking of Suella Braverman, the Tory party has finally given up on the policies it was elected to enact in 2019, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Of course there’s a double-standard in policing” – Suella Braverman is right, says Lois McLatchie in the Critic. Silent prayer is treated more seriously by the police than outright disorder.
• “Tribalism is tearing Britain apart. It cannot go on” – The U.K. is approaching a tipping point. What unites us may soon be weaker than what we disagree about, warns Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t be fooled by the march for peace” – Middle-class Lefties are enabling Hamas, says Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
• “Pro-Palestinian protester waving swastika is ex-Labour activist” – Kate Varnfield, a pro-Palestinian protester seen waving a flag with a swastika on it at the recent pro-Palestinian rally in London, is a former Labour activist, reveals the Mail.
• “Is it racist to make fun of Hamas?” – The Washington Post’s deletion of an anti-Hamas cartoon has exposed the moral depravity of the liberal Left, says Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “U.K. money to stop migrant crisis spent by France on microwaves and vacuum cleaners” – British cash given to France to stop the small boats crossing the channel is being splurged on a vacuum cleaners, microwaves and mobile phone chargers by the French border guards, says the Express.
• “Why Israel was unprepared: It’s all about Iran, Russia, Ukraine” – In Forbes, Malik Kaylan suggests why Israel was unprepared on October 7th. It has to do with Netanyahu, Putin and Iran.
• “U.S. backs Israel attacking hospitals used as military bases” – America has backed Israeli claims that Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza as military bases, accusing the terror group of “a violation of the rules of war”, according to the Telegraph. The evidence is compelling.
• “A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal mandates” – The Justice Department has just advertised for eight new attorneys to defend the federal Government in vaccine injury cases, reports the New York Post. A reckoning is coming.
• “The law should keep out of private conversations” – Prof. Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked is horrified by the news that a retired judge has been prosecuted for accidentally broadcasting a politically incorrect conversation with a friend.
• “Schengen shattering: Eleven countries rebelling against free movement” – The face of Europe is dramatically changing as terrorist threats and out-of-control immigration destroy the EU’s idyll of passport-free travel, reports the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil boasts that it has ‘overwhelmed’ Met Police with London protest” – Just Stop Oil has boasted that it “overwhelmed” the Metropolitan Police after 100 activists joined a slow march in North London, according to the Telegraph.
• “The big bucks behind the U.K.’s anti-car policies and air pollution panics” – Ben Pile’s latest report for #Together reveals that green activism in the U.K. is funded by the world’s richest men.
• “SNP admits overstating green energy claims” – SNP ministers have revised their claim that Scotland can supply 25% of Europe’s demand for offshore wind. It’s only 7%, they’ve admitted, in a major blow to the economic case for independence, reports the Times.
• “The heat pump charade is unravelling faster than a pound shop cardigan” – Homeowners are being cajoled into becoming early-adopters of heat pumps, a product which just isn’t ready to be rolled out yet, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck’s green energy policy, causes up to three times more emissions than coal” – Liquid natural gas is not emissions-friendly. It is very much the opposite, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Outrage as charity for women’s condition appoints trans woman as CEO” – A health charity, focused on a womb condition causing prolonged agony in women, faces criticism for appointing a biological male as its new chief executive, reports the Mail.
• “I spent years investigating the Tavistock clinic – I have serious concerns about its replacement” – Hannah Barnes’s bestseller on the NHS’s dangerous gender identity service was almost not published. In the Telegraph, she says that voices raising the alarm are still being stifled.
• “The police are still witch-hunting gender-critical women” – Why has a woman in Newcastle been threatened with arrest for stating biological facts, asks Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Progressive dogma behind Portland’s self-destruction” – Portland used to be all about liveability. Today, it is anything but liveable, writes Stephen Eide for the Public Substack.
• “Jeremy Corbyn fails to answer a question and Piers Morgan doesn’t let it go for 10 minutes” – On TalkTV, Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn whether Hamas should be allowed to remain in power and (even easier) if he considers Hamas a terrorist group. He flatly refuses to answer either, but instead loses his rag.

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