News Round-Up

• “BBC’s own ex-exec demands inquiry over ‘bias’ in Israel-Hamas coverage” – Danny Cohen, the Director of BBC Television from 2013 to 2015, says the U.K. Jewish population has been “harmed” by the broadcaster’s “unbalanced reporting”, according to GB News.
• “New Nova festival footage shows Hamas chase down fleeing Israelis” – Horrifying new footage captured during the Nova festival massacre shows Hamas terrorists shooting down two women at point blank range as they tried to flee, reports the Mail.
• “Emily Hand’s father says she’s facing ‘sheer terror’ in Gaza tunnels” – The father of a nine year-old girl who has been held hostage by Hamas for six weeks says he’s terrified that his daughter is enduring “sheer terror” in the airless Gaza tunnels, reports the Mail.
• “Watch: IDF uncovers 55 metre-long ‘Hamas tunnel’ underneath al-Shifa Hospital” – Israel has published footage of a 55-metre tunnel used by Hamas terrorists under Gaza’s main hospital, says the Telegraph.
• “Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel” – From CNN to the radical Left, why won’t people accept the truth about Hamas’s horrors at al-Shifa, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The new antisemitism” – Jews are being attacked as the root of all Western evil, says Tomer Persico in Persuasion.
• “Hamas has unleashed the West’s monsters” – In the West, Hamas’s butchery has unleashed eruptions of antisemitism and massive, increasingly violent displays of support for the terrorists, writes Prof. Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
• “Bring the children home” – On World Children’s Day, we must remember the child hostages held by Hamas, says Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
• “10 clues the hospital you’re at is actually a Hamas base” – The Babylon Bee has assembled a list of 10 rather obvious clues to help you discern if the hospital you’re at is actually a Hamas base.
• “Care home nailed window shut to stop me holding mum’s hand” – A sports broadcaster has told how care home staff nailed a window shut and left her feeling “bullied and abused” by refusing to let her see her mother during the Covid pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “Patrick Vallance’s diaries: Eight extracts that lift the lid on No.10’s Covid chaos” – At the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, the former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, has lifted the lid on the chaos and dysfunction inside Downing Street, says the Telegraph.
• “‘There is no such thing as ‘the science’, Sir Patrick Vallance says” – Sir Patrick Vallance has said it was “completely wrong” for ministers to claim they were simply “following the science” during the pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “Patrick Vallance: Hancock had habit of saying things that weren’t true” – Sir Patrick Vallance says Matt Hancock had a “habit” of saying things which were not true, according to the Mail.
• “The mRNAs didn’t end Covid, Omicron did” – The Society of Actuaries has released a report on deaths during the pandemic that shows what really ended the pandemic – and it didn’t come from Pfizer or Moderna, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
• “Should Britain have adopted the Swedish approach to fighting Covid?” – Sweden avoided lockdowns and had one of the lowest number of excess deaths in Europe, says Tom Whipple in the Times. But the diehard lockdowner still finds reason to reject the Swedish approach.
• “Teachers ‘self-censoring lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils’” – A new study by Policy Echange has found that up to one in five teachers are self-censoring in lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils in the wake of the Batley Grammar School controversy, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s addiction to mass migration is becoming dangerous” – While less prominent than the small boats, legal net migration is a much bigger problem, writes Gavin Rice in the Telegraph.
• “Civil servants temporarily deleted clause barring teachers from pushing political views” – Civil servants deleted a clause banning teachers from pushing their political views from contracts with free schools and academies, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain must ‘acknowledge our past’ when providing foreign aid, says Government” – The Government has said that Britain must act with “humility” and “acknowledge our past” when providing foreign aid, says the Telegraph. In other words, we have to give money to developing countries and apologise to them at the same time.
• “A new Right-wing party will replace the Tories if they keep surrendering to the Establishment” – On tax and migration, half measures threaten to miss the scale of public anger, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Angry I’m A Celeb viewers slam ‘cheap’ Brexit jokes about Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage’s army of fans are irate after he was immediately the butt of a series of Brexit-related jokes on the first night of I’m A Celebrity, reports the Mail.
• “Javier Milei isn’t ‘hard Right’. He could be Argentina’s free market saviour” – Argentinian President-elect Javier Milei’s proposals are eminently sensible, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Javier Milei: Argentina has ‘non-negotiable’ sovereignty over Falklands” – Javier Milei believes the Falkland Islands belong to his country, but says the islanders must have a say in their future, reports the Telegraph.
• “Javier Milei vows to scrap Argentina’s version of BBC” – Argentina’s President-elect has vowed to privatise his country’s version of the BBC and stop all public construction projects as he outlined a programme of radical transformation, according to the Telegraph.
• “South Africa to withdraw from UN refugee treaties in order to restrict immigration” – South Africa is planning to temporarily withdraw from United Nations refugee conventions so it can restrict immigration, reports the Telegraph.
• “Richest 1% cause more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, study” – According to new research by Oxfam, the richest 1% emit as much carbon dioxide emissions as the poorest two-thirds of the world’s population, says the Mail. I wonder how many of them attend ‘climate summits’ in their private jets?
• “Italy bans lab-grown meat to protect farmers and culinary tradition” – Italy has become the first country to ban the sale of laboratory-produced meat to protect the farming sector, reports the Times.
• “Flawed census that recorded 260,000 trans people ‘must be investigated’” – Britain’s statistics quango faces an official investigation over a faulty census question which appears to have drastically overestimated the number of trans people in the country, says the Telegraph.
• “King’s College London tells academics to back Stonewall if they want to get ahead” – King’s College London has told academics that showing support for the LGBT charity Stonewall could help them achieve a promotion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t burn down the ivory towers” – The pursuit of knowledge and truth is more important than ever, which is why we must fight to save our universities, argues Joshua Katz in the Free Press.
• “Roman Emperor Elagabalus was transgender and must be referred to as ‘she’, museum says” – A British museum has sparked uproar among historians by claiming a Roman emperor was transgender, reports the Mail.
• “Transgender woman footballer, who broke knee of a player, quits team” – Francesca Needham, a biological male footballer whose physical power on the pitch left female opponents “terrified”, is considering taking legal action for discrimination after opposing teams refused to play against him, says the Mail.
• “The female pool player who won’t play against trans women” – Women’s pool is the latest sport plunged into disarray and division over the inclusion of transgender competitors, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
• “Of course a womb charity has appointed a trans woman as CEO” – On Substack, Ian Price gives his take on the appointment of a biological male to run Endometriosis South Coast.
• “Democrats’ need to censor and spread disinformation behind media war on Elon Musk’s X” – In the wake of allegations by Media Matters that X placed ads near pro-Nazi content, Public attempted to replicate their findings – and found no such ads.
• “Teachers ’self-censoring’” – Speaking to Martin Daubney on GB News, Toby reacts to reports of teachers ‘self-censoring’ for religious pupils.

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