News Round-Up

• “Sunak says emergency law will ensure legal action can’t delay Rwanda migrant flights” – Rishi Sunak has announced an ‘emergency’ law to overcome the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that his plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful, reports Reuters.
• “Rishi Sunak’s new Rwanda plan does not go far enough, say Tory rebels” – Tory rebels have warned that Rishi Sunak’s emergency law to declare Rwanda safe does not go far enough and could still be obstructed by the European Court of Human Rights, says the Telegraph.
• “Suella Braverman’s allies threaten ‘grid of sh**’ to topple Rishi” – A former minister has claimed that six more Tory MPs are joining her in submitting a letter of no confidence in Rishi Sunak amid the fallout from the Rwanda flight decision, reports the Mail. 
• “The Tories’ calamitous failure to control our borders has driven them to the verge of oblivion” – Sunak’s Rwanda fightback will fail unless he explicitly rejects anachronistic international conventions, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t blame ‘lefty lawyers’ for the Rwanda debacle” – Rishi Sunak promised to do “whatever it takes” to stop the boats and yet has failed to do so, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “We can’t let unelected judges dictate our border policy” – The Supreme Court’s Rwanda decision is an affront to democracy, writess Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “Starmer suffers biggest revolt of leadership over Gaza ceasefire” – Sir Keir Starmer suffered the largest rebellion of his leadership as nearly a third of his MPs, including Jess Phillips, defied him to back a ceasefire in Gaza, reports the Times.
• “Khamenei told Hamas chief Iran will not directly enter war” – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told Hamas that since Tehran was not given prior notice of the October 7th attacks it would not join the war against Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
• “Turkey’s President Erdogan declares Israel a terrorist state” – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel is a “terror state” committing war crimes and violating international law, reports the Mail.
• “On the ground inside Gaza, where Israel is trying to save civilians from Hamas” – In the NY Post, Douglas Murray reports from the frontline in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
• “Israel ‘concrete’ evidence Hamas used Gaza hospital as terrorist base” – Israel has claimed to have found “concrete” evidence that Gaza’s biggest hospital was being used as a terrorist base after hundreds of commandos raided it, reports the Mail.
• “Senior Walsall Labour councillor quits after investigation into ‘abhorrent’ Hitler post” – A senior Labour councillor has quit the party after he was suspended for an “abhorrent” social media post comparing Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler, according to GB News.
• “The struggle for black freedom has nothing to do with Israel” – The belief that Israel is analogous to apartheid South Africa or Jim Crow America has no basis in history, says Coleman Hughes in the Free Press.
• “Orthodox Jews aren’t safe in New York” – In UnHerd, Kelsey Osgood writes that Jews are walking around the city with targets on their backs.
• “Gargling with salt water really can ward off Covid, new study suggests” – In a recent study, researchers found Covid patients who gargled water mixed with saline had up to 40% lower hospitalisation rates, says the Mail.
• “How to make Covid vaccines appear to be ‘safe for pregnancy’” – A recent study on Covid vaccine safety for women aiming to conceive seems to deliberately omit those at a higher risk of miscarriage, specifically within the vaccinated group, writes Igor Chudov on Substack.
• “Mayo Clinic is sued for suspending doctor over online posts on Covid and transgenderism” – Dr. Michael Joyner is suing the Mayo Clinic over disciplinary actions related to his public comments on gender differences in athletic performance and COVID-19 treatment, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “Whatever happened to the AstraZeneca FOI?” – HART provides an update on its Freedom of Information request regarding AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
• “The return of moderniser Dave completes the Tory cycle of self-destruction” – David Cameron, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, was the leader who first set the Conservative party on the road to ruin, writes Gerald Warner in Reaction.
• “Charities ‘debanked’: Regulators blast banks for closing accounts” – The U.K.’s three charity regulators have criticised big banks for “suddenly closing or suspending” charities’ bank accounts, according to This is Money.
• “Why are so many young people single?” – In the Spectator, John Mac Ghlionn explores the reasons why an increasing number of young Brits are single.
• “Bill Gates is buying up land, threatening farms, new book claims” – A new book claims to reveal how billionaires like Gates, Jeff Bezos, George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg plan to control every aspect of daily life, says the Mail.
• “Glasgow City Council makes almost £500,000 from LEZ” – New figures have revealed that Glasgow City Council made £478,560 from the Low Emission Zone in the four months from June to the end of September, reports the BBC.
• “Activists shut down Edinburgh Castle smashing open the case holding the Stone of Destiny” – Edinburgh Castle was partially locked down after eco-activists smashed a glass case containing the Stone of Scone, says the Independent.
• “Scholz Government in crisis after budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the latest financial crisis in Germany after a court invalidated a 2021 budget redirecting pandemic funds to climate initiatives.
• “Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett clashes with transgender CEO” – The transgender CEO of an endometriosis charity had to be pressed into using the word ‘woman’ in a car crash BBC interview, reports the Mail.
• “Scotland’s ‘Read Woke’ scheme will have Shakespeare turning in his grave” – The Scottish Government is treating literature as a tool for political indoctrination, says Joanna Williams in CapX.
• “Female boxer withdraws from competition after being matched against male fighter” – A female boxer withdrew from a provincial championship in Quebec after learning that her opponent was biologically male, leading to him winning the competition by default, reports Reduxx.
• “Awful scenes – pro-Palestinian protestors climbing all over the Royal Artillery Memorial” – IncMonocle on X records the desecration of a military memorial in London by the protestors who were outside Parliament earlier in the day.

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