News Round-Up

• “What Palestine supporters could learn from the antisemitism march” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator says the pro-Palestinian protestors could learn a thing or two about how to stage a peaceful protest from those who attended yesterday’s march against antisemitism in London.
• “BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’” – BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has admitted his coverage of the bombing of a hospital in Gaza was “wrong” but still said he “doesn’t regret one thing” about his reporting, says the Telegraph.
• “‘I warned the BBC it was spreading dangerous Hamas propaganda. It refused to see reason’” – In the Telegraph, barrister Natasha Hausdorff recounts how she was due to be interviewed by the BBC on the evening it spread disinformation about the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, but it decided to ‘bump’ her.
• “Police watch while GP urges Gaza’s Arab neighbours to attack Israel” – An NHS family doctor, exposed as the leader of an extremist Islamic group, called on “Muslim armies” to invade Gaza and “liberate Palestine from the Zionists” at a rally in London, reports the Mail.
• “Rector at one of Britain’s top universities faces calls to resign” – The Rector of St. Andrew’s university is at the centre of a political storm after she sent an email to students accusing Israel of “genocide”, says the Herald.
• “Fury after Ireland PM says freed hostage Emily Hands was ‘lost’ and now ‘found’” – Ireland’s PM Leo Varadkar has been accused of “legitimising and normalising terror” after saying freed hostage Emily Hands was “lost” and “has now been found”, reports the Mail.
• “Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalised’ students riot’” – Hundreds of ‘radicalised’ teens rampaged through the halls of a New York high school after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally, according to the NY Post.
• “‘Israel spies’ executed and hung from pylon by cheering West Bank mob” – Two men accused of spying for Israel were killed in the West Bank, their bodies dragged through alleyways and then strung up from a pylon by a raging mob, reports Blaze Media.
• “‘Hyperprogressive’ cancers due to Covid vaccine-caused IGG4 antibodies” – On Substack, Igor Chudov discusses concerns about mRNA Covid vaccines potentially triggering IgG4 antibodies linked to aggressive cancers.
• “Gove and Hancock quizzed as part of fraud probe into a PPE firm” – Michael Gove and Matt Hancock have been interviewed by the National Crime Agency as part of its fraud probe into a PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone, according to the Mail.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: Eminence-based medicine Part One” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the first in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean.
• “Even the experts didn’t understand the Covid science” – No wonder Boris was bamboozled – even the experts didn’t understand the Covid science, writes Dan Hodges in the Mail.
• “Dr. Clare Craig: Expired: Covid the Untold Story” – Dr. Clare Craig joins Dr. John Campbell on his YouTube channel to discuss her new book Expired: Covid the Untold Story.
• “Free speech is important, says Rishi Sunak in first comments about Telegraph sale” – The Prime Minister said a “free press and a competitive media sector” are vitally important, commenting on the prospect of the Telegraph being sold to a group part-funded by the ruling family of the UAE, reports the Telegraph.
• “Key questions about free speech” – The proposed sale of the Telegraph raises philosophical and practical questions about what owning an asset actually means, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Barclays shuts man’s account without warning” – A retired accountant was left “incandescent” with rage after Barclays suddenly ‘de-banked’ his family business after 85 years, reports the Mail.
• “Sunak’s migrant deal with Braverman revealed” – Rishi Sunak agreed to raise the salary threshold for migrants to £40,000 as part of a deal he struck with Suella Braverman, according to a copy of the pact seen by the Telegraph.
• “The rage behind the Dublin riots” – The recent riots in Dublin were predictable and inevitable, after years in which the ruling class flung open the gates to migrants, says Angela Nagle in Compact.
• “Elon Musk says Ireland’s Leo Varadkar ‘hates Irish people’” – Elon Musk has tweeted that Leo Varadkar “hates the Irish people” after the Taoiseach revealed new legislation to crack down on ‘hate speech’ following anti-immigrant rioting Dublin, according to Euronews.
• “Politicians urge censorship of the disasters they create” – Unpopular elected leaders, from Ireland and France to California and Canada, invent fresh justifications for speech crackdowns while funding news media to promote their points of view, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “Sweden and the explosive consequences of multiculturalism” – On the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show, Swedish journalist Ivar Arpi explains why Sweden’s crisis of integration can no longer be ignored.
• “Top Border Force officials spent £2,300 on ‘truly bonkers’ away day” – The Border Force transformation team – set up to modernise case handling processes – spent over £2,300 on an away day which included working out what ‘colour’ personality they have, reports the Mail. 
• “Oxfam in ‘hypocrisy’ row after charity pays one worker £340,000” – Oxfam has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ after the anti-poverty charity paid one worker at least £340,000 in a year, says the Mail.
• “Surge in teens playing truant within school grounds” – Secondary schools are being plagued by a surge in teenagers hanging out in toilets or just wandering corridors instead of going to lessons, according to the Mail.
• “The Frank Report LXXI” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland casts a critical eye over the Government’s policies on tax cuts, immigration and human rights.
• “How councils have spent taxpayers’ money to foot staff fuel bills” – Councils are charging taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds for the fuel bills of staff who work from home, reveals the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil protestors spared as green man was showing during arrest” – Five eco-zealots from Just Stop Oil have dodged charges for obstructing a road because police arrested them while the green man was showing on a crossing, says the Mail.
• “Birmingham wasted £2.1 million on cars that don’t comply with clean air zone” – Labour-run Birmingham Council spent a staggering £2.1 million on hiring vehicles which did not comply with its own clean air zone just before declaring bankruptcy, reports the Mail.
• “Asos ditches diversity targets in bonus scheme” – Bosses at Asos will no longer need to hit diversity targets to get their bonuses, in the latest sign of ESG losing its grip on the corporate sector, says the Telegraph.
• “Parents of transgender teenager lose bid to stop mastectomy” – The parents of a non-binary 17 year-old have failed in their bid to prevent the teenager from having her breasts surgically removed, reports the Telegraph.
• “My son was indoctrinated by the trans cult from classroom to clinic” – In the Mail, the mother of a teenager in the process of transitioning from male to a female has revealed the anguish of her son telling her he wanted to be a girl.
• “KCL’s sinister diversity and inclusion policies” – King’s College London has nailed its political colours to its mast, insisting that internal candidates applying for promotion state what activity they’ve undertaken “to support the university’s equality, diversity and inclusion ambitions”, reports John Armstrong in the Spectator.
• “Moment David Tennant’s Doctor Who is scolded by transgender character” – The Mail has a clip of the moment David Tennant’s Doctor Who is scolded by a transgender character for daring to presume what an alien’s preferred pronouns are during the first 60th Anniversary special.
• “Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding President-elect is a libertarian’s dream” – Javier Milei’s agenda makes Thatcherite economics look Keynesian. It might just work, says Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
• “America’s skinniest state poised to ban fatphobia” – Colorado will attempt to ban ‘fatphobia’ amid fears its obese residents face discrimination at work and school, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘It was a very intimidating, I was shaking by the end of it… we’re filing a police report’” – GB News reporter Katherine Forster describes the “distressing” moment when pro-Palestine protesters surrounded and verbally abused her and her crew at Saturday’s protest march.

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