News Round-Up

• “Time to take a stand against the new Jew hatred” – Join the March Against Anti-Semitism in London this Sunday, urges Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “BBC bans Jewish staff from marching against anti-Semitism” – BBC Journalists seeking permission to attend Sunday’s march against antisemitism in London have been told to consult corporation’s impartiality guidelines, reports the Telegraph.
• “Met unveils unusual plan to hand out leaflets” – The Met’s ‘Hate Crime Protest Leaflet’ is supposed to provide “absolute clarity” on what will be deemed an offence and officers will be banding the leaflets out to pro-Palestinian protestors tomorrow, says the Mail.
• “What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis” – Andrew Roberts remembers the late publisher George Weidenfield telling him Hamas are worse than the Nazis because they make no attempt to conceal their crimes against Jews.
• “Leftist and Islamic anti-Semitism – Norman Fenton discusses the threat it poses to West with Harry Markham” – Norman Fenton discusses the threat antisemitism poses to West with Harry Markham in the Conservative Woman.
• “St Andrews University rector urged to apologise or quit after accusing Israel of ‘genocide’” – Stella Maris, who was elected to her role as Rector of St Andrew’s last month, accused Israel of committing genocide in an email to students, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mass migration is changing the nature of Britain forever – we must act now” – The Conservative Party’s failure to deliver on migration promises is more serious than not cutting taxes or taking too long to build hospitals, argues Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “Mass migration is covering up the scandal of out-of-control welfare” – Few politicians will dare to address worklessness when it is far easier just to import more migrants, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Tories have ‘utterly betrayed’ the British people on immigration, says Richard Tice” – The Reform U.K. leader accuses the Government of failing to keep to its Brexit promise of bringing migration under control in the Telegraph.
• “The humiliation of the Dutch establishment” – The victory of Geert Wilders shows voters are desperate to hit back against the elites, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Small boats are like unlocked window when door is open” – Matt Goodwin writes for the Mail about how shocked he is by the scale of inward migration to Britain.
• “Will Ireland’s populist unrest come to Britain?” – In UnHerd, Aris Roussinos argues that the unprecedented levels of migration in the past few years will lead to a Dutch-style backlash in Britain in due course.
• “Pfizer is suing Poland over vaccines. This is how we got here” – The court case is the latest fallout from Ursula von der Leyen’s massive COVID-19 vaccine contract, reports Politico.
• “People who stuck by U.K. Covid rules have worst mental health, says survey” – Those who complied with the lockdown rules most conscientiously are now suffering the most in terms of mental illness, reports the Guardian.
• “Scientists conduct study to prove HEPA filters reduce rates of Covid infection, accidentally find the opposite” – Eugyppius discovers Yet another example of how incredibly stupid the Science has become.
• “Oxford University executive died of stroke caused by AstraZeneca jab” – Nicola Weideling, 45, a senior manager at Oxford University, died in Southampton General Hospital on May 15, 2021, after suffering blood clots caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine, reports the Mail.
• “A grotesque circus” – The bloated Covid inquiry is on course to be the most expensive held in Britain, exceeding the 12-year, £200 million Bloody Sunday inquiry, says Quentin Letts in the Mail.
• “One-metre rule for heat pumps to be scrapped” – Low take up of heat pump grants has led the Chancellor to remove some of the rules around their installation, reports the Telegraph.
• “‎Hedge Fund Boss’s ‘Moral Case’ for Fossil Fuel Investing” – ‎On her Bloomberg podcast, Merryn Somerset Webb talks to Barry Norris about why investing in fossil fuels is sometimes the right thing to do.
• “The NHS is not underfunded” – in the Critic, Kristian Niemietz argues that the NHS is not underfunded, just very inefficiently run.
• “The EU’s disinformation machine” – Brussels has been spreading outrageous falsehoods to justify its surveillance of European citizens, says Norman Lewis in Spiked.
• “Huw Edwards ‘to leave BBC’ after inquiry into alleged behaviour” – Huw Edwards is set to leave the BBC after being shown the findings into his behaviour after allegations emerged he had paid a young man for sexual images, according to the Mail.
• “How on earth can the Black Death prove Britain was racist in the 14th Century?” – Is it really possible to deduce from a tiny sample that black people were more susceptible to the Black Death, asks Inaya Folarin Iman in the Mail.
• “It would be unforgivable to allow Abu Dhabi to nationalise the Telegraph and Spectator” – Rishi Sunak might fear upsetting Arab friends, but the Telegraph and the Spectator are great British institutions whose future is now in doubt, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Comic Relief in crisis as chairman quits over Gaza ceasefire call” – Eric Salama, the Chairman of Comic Relief, says he thought charity’s approach was “profoundly wrong” after the senior staff signed a petition calling for a ceasefire in Gaza without consulting him, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ken Macdonald KC says ‘River to the sea’ chant not unlawful” – At a Free Speech Union panel discussion on Thursday night, Lord Macdonald KC, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, said he didn’t think it would be possible to prosecute any pro-Palestinian protestors chanting ‘From the river to the sea’, however odious it is.

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