News Round-Up

• “Too many want to believe Hamas’s hospital lies” – Despite all the evidence, some in the West refuse to believe the IDF’s claims that Hamas uses hospitals and other civillian sites for terrorism, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Will Zarah Sultana quit Labour if it is ‘institutionally racist’?” – Corbynista Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused her party of being “institutionally Islamophobic”, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Why Osama bin Laden is taking TikTok by storm” – Western wokesters and Islamist terrorists have more in common than you might think, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “The ugly side of the European Left” – Many people on the Left long ago gave up protecting free speech and a growing number appear prepared to tolerate violence, warns Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?” – A disturbing number of women’s groups have downplayed the rape of Israeli women, writes Candice Holdsworth in Spiked.
• “‘The London I grew up in is slipping away’” – Bethnal Green school kids are chanting antisemitic slogans – and no one seems to care, laments Ike Ijeh in Spiked.
• “Following Covid science became millstone around our neck, says Whitty” – Boris Johnson’s insistence that the Government was “following the science” during the pandemic became a millstone around the necks of his advisers, the Chief Medical Officer has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “On Covid, scepticism of ‘the science’ was justified” – The question that the Covid Inquiry needs to answer is whether the lockdowns made a fundamental difference, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “‘The Covid generation is still suffering – we will see the effects for years to come’” – Experts warn that children’s social and emotional development remains hindered following Covid lockdowns, according to the Telegraph.
• “Secret warnings about Wuhan research predated the pandemic” – Unreported correspondence over U.S.-funded research in China highlights the tension between Government scientists favouring collaboration and those concerned about advanced technologies reaching the wrong hands, writes Katherine Eban in Vanity Fair.
• “The accountability deficit” – On Substack, UsForThem explains how ministers and officials evaded accountability, misled the public and breached democratic norms during the pandemic.
• “The plan to reduce birth rates by 81% in the next 70 years” – On Substack, Igor Chudov reacts to WEF and UN proposals to reduce the number of births in the next 70 years from 130 million a year to 24 million.
• “Where is the populist backlash over immigration in Britain?” – British voters are annoyed by small boats, high immigration and pro-Palestine marches, but most do not yet realise the transformative scale of today’s immigration levels, warns Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
• “Top Gear’s cancellation is not just the death of machismo – it’s a major headache for the BBC” – It may be lucrative and a global brand, but Top Gear’s demise is no surprise in today’s climate, writes Ben Lawrence in the Telegraph.
• “Oxford to ban gas hobs in new homes” – Fossil fuel appliances are to be forbidden from 2025 in Oxford City Council’s Net Zero push, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why is the UN speaking up for two jailed Just Stop Oil activists?” – The UN is becoming increasingly foolish, selective and, frankly, irrelevant when it comes to matters such as free speech, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Are the richest 1% really to blame for climate change?” – To combat climate change, Oxfam seems to be proposing wealth taxes to take away private jets, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Who’s afraid of Javier Milei?” – The success of Javier Milei and his upstart party, Liberty Advances, rests above all on the collapse of the Argentinian political establishment, argues Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Cricket chiefs ban transgender players born as men from international women’s cricket to ‘protect the safety’ of female players” – Biological males have been banned from international women’s cricket after the world governing body ruled to prioritise “integrity… and the safety of players” above “inclusivity”, reports the Mail.
• “Scotland doesn’t need a ‘non-binary action plan’” – Scotland’s non-binary equality action plan should be consigned to the bin, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “Women are fighting back against the trans takeover of sport” – From pool players to boxers, female athletes are refusing to compete against biological men, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Germany may ban buying sex as nation is dubbed ‘the brothel of Europe’” – German politicians are pushing to ban prostitution, more than two decades after it was legalised, reports the Mail.
• “The Georgetown effect” – Left-wing ideology at a university that produces American diplomats is having a deleterious effect on U.S. foreign policy, warns Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
• “‘Never embrace the ideals of socialism’” – On X, Argentinian President-elect Javier Milei explains the dangers of socialism to Tucker Carlson.

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