News Round-Up

• “Palestine rally hits London with officers watching for hate speech” – Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters flooded the streets of Central London on Saturday shouting the controversial ‘From the river to the sea’ chant, reports the Mail.
• “Watchdog to crack down on charities hosting antisemitic extremists” – The Chair of the Charity Commission has pledged to crack down on mosques that host antisemitic extremists amid “serious concerns” about activities linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict, says the Telegraph.
• “The dangers of criminalising the anti-Israel bigots” – Expanding the offence of ‘glorifying terrorism’ would threaten all of our free speech, warns Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
• “Here in Israel, there’s no ‘crisis of confidence’. It’s stronger than ever” – Faltering faith in Israel? Bad news for the clever pundits of the West: Israelis have never been stronger, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “‘From the river to the sea’: The significance of a slogan” – Not all of those who advocate for a single state ‘from the river to the sea’ have genocidal intent, but their recommendation, if acted upon, would very likely to result in either the genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews, warns David Benatar in Quillette.
• “China discovers close virus to Covid in bats 1,000 miles from Wuhan” – The discovery of a new wild coronavirus that has the same freak mutation as COVID-19 is being hailed by some scientists as proof SARS-CoV-2 was not made in a lab, reports the Mail.
• “Females and young adults at higher risk of COVID-19 vaccine side effects” – A new study has found that females and young adults are at an increased risk of suffering from side effects after COVID-19 vaccinations, says the Epoch Times.
• “Chris Whitty is wrong about herd immunity” – In UnHerd, Kevin Bardosh looks at several common misconceptions which Prof. Chris Whitty and others continue to spread about herd immunity.
• “Unprecedented mass migration threatens to erode our national values” – It is almost impossible to effectively integrate such a large number of people at once, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “British liberals are sheltered from the devastating impact of mass migration” – Our first-past-the-post electoral system and the dominance of progressive thought have contained public anger about high migration numbers. But it cannot last, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
• “Ireland and the fury of the cancelled” – The recent chaos in Dublin was a morbid symptom of Europe’s decaying technocracy, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “This is just the beginning of Ireland’s riots” – The Irish Government still isn’t listening to voters’ immigration concerns, warns Conor Fitzgerald in UnHerd.
• “Diversity stabbing of the day” – Mark Steyn gives his take on the recent stabbings in France and Ireland.
• “‘Dutch Trump’ divides Holland” – The election victory of Geert Wilders and his eurosceptic supporters has left Holland deeply divided, reports the Mail.
• “The EU has only itself to blame for Geert Wilders” – The Dutch voters aren’t fascists; they’re fearful about what the future holds, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites” – On the latest episode of the Spiked podcast, Candice Holdsworth joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the political earthquakes in Argentina and the Netherlands, how the Israel-Hamas war has sent the West mad and the dangers of ‘trans inclusion’ in sport.
• “A historical victory, also for climate realism” – The triumph of Geert Wilders in the Dutch General Elections was mainly attributed to the immigration issue, yet it’s crucial to acknowledge the PVV’s longstanding climate scepticism, says Marcel Crok in Clintel.
• “Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke” – Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is growing, increasingly well-connected and willing to use violence to overthrow the state, writes Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
• “Labour denies Starmer pushing to water down £28 billion green plans” – Labour has strongly denied reports that Sir Keir Starmer is set to abandon the Party’s pledge to spend £28 billion-a-year on green initiatives, says the Mail.
• “We use Britain’s biggest EV hub – paying is a nightmare and expensive” – Britain’s vast new super hub for charging electric vehicles has a major shock in store for eco-punters: It’s more expensive than fuel, and paying is a nightmare, according to the Mail.
• “Government to pay £350 for EV chargers in flats” – On WUWT, Paul Homewood reacts to the news that the Government will pay you £350 towards a charging point in your… flat.
• “New Oxford political party wants ‘return to democracy’” – A new Oxford political party has been launched which says it is calling for “a return to real democracy” and councillors who “listen to residents’ views on LTNs”, reports the Oxford Mail.
• “The Tories have capitulated to the heat pump extremists” – The Green lobyy’s iron grip is squeezing the life out of our economy, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Climate, CO₂ and the Sun” – In WUWT, Andy May challenges the common belief that human-produced CO₂ alone causes global warming, suggesting that solar cycles might have a more substantial impact on temperature changes.
• “Major coal port remains blocked by climate protesters” – Protesters in Australia have blockaded the world’s largest coal port over what they say is the failure of the Government to act on climate change, reports the Mail.
• “An about-turn on tobacco” – Prohibitionists are changing course on cigarettes and Rishi now stands alone, says Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
• “Civil servants held meeting on Why I Don’t Talk to White People About Race book” – Civil servants held a diversity meeting to discuss the book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race and encouraged each other to keep the discussions private, reports the Telegraph.
• “Civil servants told to check up on colleagues who don’t list pronouns” – Civil servants were told to check their colleagues’ email signatures for their pronouns and not assume each other’s gender in an internal memo discussing victims of anti-transgender violence, according to the Telegraph.
• “U.K. ‘conversion therapy’ bill tabled by Lib Dem Peer” – A bill seeking to ban so-called conversion therapy across the U.K. has been introduced as a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Lords, says the Christian Institute.
• “Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture ‘radical feminists’ like me?” – Whatever Sandi Toksvig’s reason is for adding fuel to the misogynistic fire, it is cowardly, craven and deeply disrespectful towards those women who have fought for the rights she enjoys, writes Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
• “Trans scepticism makes its way home to the Netherlands” – Once a model for other Western countries, the Dutch are now backtracking on transgender medical research, says Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
• “Ontario museum scrubs female powerlifter from exhibit following her calls for fairness in women’s sports” – A museum in London, Ontario, has removed a female powerlifter from an exhibit on resilience in retaliation for her opposition to males participating in women’s sports, according to Reduxx.
• “Calls for AI tax overhaul amid concerns machines ‘cheaper to use’ than humans” – The creative industries have called for an overhaul of the U.K.’s tax regime for the AI era amid concerns it will be cheaper to use machines than hire humans, reports the Telegraph.
• “Greta Thunberg is more of a ‘genocide activist’ than ‘climate activist’” – On X, Dr. Eli David has shared a video of Greta Thunberg chanting “Crush Zionism”, i.e., calling for the genocide of Jews in Israel.

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