News Round-Up

• “Police arrest more than 400 people at pro-Palestine rallies” – The Met Police says it arrested more than 400 people at 100 pro-Palestine rallies across Britain, according to the Mail.
• “The Government must confront antisemitism” – It is clear that extremism has been allowed to fester in the U.K., spreading hatred and division, says the Telegraph in a leading article. It’s a problem that must be addressed.
• “Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell marched with pro-Hamas activist” – John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn were pictured marching alongside a pro-Hamas activist at the Palestine protest on Armistice Day, reports the Telegraph.
• “Exeter University professor ‘admires courage’ of Hamas ‘fighters’” – A professor at a Russell Group university stated, in response to the Hamas attacks on Israel, that the terror group “had to act, and quickly so”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The sinister rise of the Islamo-Left” – In Spiked, Tim Black explains how ‘progressives’ became the allies of Islamist terrorists.
• “The woke Left and extreme Islamism have joined forces” – The recent ugly expressions of antisemitism and support for Hamas represents the creeping and insidious spread of radical Islamism, writes Matt Goodwin in the Mail.
• “The West remains haunted by medieval, anti-Jewish blood libel” – The IDF does more than any other armed force on the planet to limit harm to civilians – but try telling that to the pro-Palestinian protestors, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Hate speech is free speech” – Spiked’s Tom Slater on why we cannot fight bigotry with censorship.
• “Yascha Mounk: The Left is rebranding free speech as Right-wing” – In his book The Identity Trap, Yascha Mounk, described as Obama’s “favourite thinker”, explains how a focus on group identity has fostered the hostilities seen in the marches for Palestine, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “The West is abandoning Israel” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill sits down with Melanie Phillips to discuss the moral assault on the Jewish State.
• “TikTok risks turning a whole generation into antisemites” – Appalling viral videos on TikTok – some even applauding Osama Bin Laden for 9/11 – are a stain on the internet, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “The return of the progressive atrocity” – It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves from programmes and regimes that are wedded to violence and repression, says Susie Linfield in Quillette.
• “Sunak’s Covid tech fund suffers higher rates of failure” – Companies backed by Rishi Sunak’s £1.1 billion Covid tech fund are raising less funding and going bankrupt at a faster rate than rival firms, reports the Telegraph.
• “Longer Covid school closures linked to youth suicidality, research finds, doctors echo” – New research suggests that Covid school closures were associated with a rise in suicide among schoolchildren, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Witnessing the media’s Covid coverage from the inside” – Covid media, like so much else in modern life, has become hopelessly fractured, says Gabrielle Bauer for the Brownstone Institute.
• “The bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence” – What specifically drove German politicians to contradict the advice of their own advisory body and campaign to vaccinate schoolchildren, asks Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Suella Braverman ‘warned PM six times’ his Rwanda plan could fail” – Suella Braverman apparently sent Rishi Sunak six letters warning his Rwanda migrant plan risked failing before she was sacked as Home Secretary, reports the Mail.
• “New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO₂ from human activities than previously expected” – New ecological modelling suggests the world’s plants may be able to take up more atmospheric CO₂ from human activities than previously predicted, according to Phys.org.
• “Climate activists acquitted in clothes donated by Stella McCartney” – A jury has cleared nine climate activists of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to HSBC’s London headquarters, reports the Times – and their court attire was designed by Stella McCartney.
• “London drivers paid nearly £2.7 billion in charges over last five years” – Telegraph analysis indicates a sharp rise in motorists’ spending on Ulez, congestion charge and Lez fines and fees.
• “Rise of ‘smashed burgers’ is driving appetite for beef” – The rise of trendy ‘smashed burgers’ could be fuelling the appetite for beef among Brits, as demand for plant-based meat substitutes plummets, says the Mail. Shock!
• “Student who egged King brags before going on ‘antisemitic’ rant” – The Mail profiles Patrick Thelwell, the eco-nut who threw eggs at the King and posted antisemitic tweets on social media.
• “The genealogy of nuclear fear” – The Critic’s Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski discusses how the world turned against nuclear energy.
• “Surely liberals should support white nationalism?” – If ethnic separatism is as horrible as white liberals say, why do so many of them choose to live separately from other races, asks Noah Carl in Aporia.
• “Oxbridge scholars accused of ‘white domination’ after defending Industrial Revolution hero’s legacy” – The editors of a prestigious academic journal have accused Oxbridge dons of “white domination” for pointing out the basic errors in an article debunking a hero of the Industrial Revolution, according to the Telegraph.
• “The truth about the murderous extremist Sadiq Khan wants to put on a pedestal” – The proposal to put a sculpture of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square should make even Black Lives Matter activists wince, says Calvin Robinson in the Mail.
• “The problem with trying to ‘fix’ men” – International Men’s Day is met with indifference by many, laments Geoff Norcott in the Spectator.
• “Lib Dems spark row over candidate chosen to represent Reading West” – The Liberal Democrats are embroiled in a dirty tricks row after a trans rights campaigner was picked to fight a Commons seat over the man who “actually won” the selection contest, says the Mail.
• “Beyond belief” – Few will read Hannah Barnes’s Time to Think without realising that something went badly wrong at the Tavistock clinic, says Prof. Roger Watson in the European Conservative.
• “‘What do you mean just stop oil? All your stuff is made out of oil you idiots’” – A video on X depicts a man throwing some truth bombs at a gathering of Just Stop Oil protesters obstructing a road.

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