News Round-Up

• “A triumph of solidarity” – The March Against Antisemitism showed us what real anti-racism looks like, writes Tom Slater in Spiked. Needless to say, the so-called ‘anti-racist’ Left was nowhere to be seen.
• “Vanessa Feltz slams BBC ban on attending march against antisemitism” – Vanessa Feltz said that if she were still at the BBC, she would have “had to go” on the March Against Antisemitism, even if it meant being fired, reports the Mail.
• “Tommy Robinson charged after appearing at London march against antisemitism” – Tommy Robinson has been charged with an offence after refusing to disperse when ordered to do so by the police at the antisemitism march, according to LBC.
• “Palestine activist brands pro-Israel supporters ‘child-molesters’” – Footage posted on social media shows a row breaking out between two men on a London train, in which the Palestine activist threatens to “smack” the pro-Israel supporter “across the head”, according to the Mail.
• “Release of hostage orphaned by Hamas reminds world of their barbarism” – The release of a four year-old hostage orphaned by Hamas reminds the world of their barbarism, says Robert Hardman in the Mail.
• “Hamas ‘no longer has control’ of its youngest Israeli hostage” – Hamas has handed a 10 month-old baby it kidnapped in Israel to another terror group, according to the Telegraph.
• “The one group protecting Britain from anti-Jewish terror” – The Community Security Trust is surely the most professional community security operation in the world, working with the U.K. police and Government to protect Britain’s Jews, writes Ian Austin in the Telegraph.
• “Duplicitous Joe Biden is forcing an Israeli surrender” – Joe Biden’s double-dealing approach has been exposed: on the one hand appearing to back Israel while on the other working to undermine it, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “The shameful smearing of Rosie Duffield” – It is grotesque to tar Rosie Duffield as an antisemite, particularly at a time of rampant Jew hatred, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “China says flu to blame for mystery wave of pneumonia” – Alarming footage shows mask-wearing crowds threatening to overwhelm a Chinese hospital amid fears over a mystery pneumonia sweeping the country, reports the Mail.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: Eminence-based medicine Part Two” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the second in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean.
• “U.K. detects its first human case of swine flu strain” – According to health authorities, a rare strain of swine flu has infected a human in Britain for the first time, reports the Guardian.
• “WFH council workers caught with second jobs” – Council employees with second jobs are being investigated by a Government fraud squad after staff were caught ‘moonlighting’ while working from home, according to the Telegraph.
• “Slovakia PM confirms the Government will not ratify the WHO’s pandemic treaty” – A video posted on X shows that the Slovakian Prime Minister has no intention of granting the WHO “draconian decision-making powers” by signing up to its Pandemic Treaty.
• “The power of silence” – On Substack, Alison Bevege writes about the ‘Forest of the Fallen’, a memorial spread across Australia that acknowledges those harmed by Covid vaccines.
• “No.10 slaps down minister who backed sale of Telegraph to UAE fund” – Downing Street has slapped down a minister who publicly endorsed the sale of the Daily Telegraph to a fund based in the United Arab Emirates, reports the Mail.
• “Europe’s chaotic coalitions could happen here if Keir Starmer gets in” – Beware of electoral reform if Labour wins the next General Election, warns Dominic Lawson in the Mail. 
• “Britain’s captured justice system” – A recent ruling in the U.K. has expanded the scope of ‘hate speech’ laws to a grim new level, says Laurie Wastell in the European Conservative.
• “Sunak will never recover from this immigration betrayal” – We may be reaching the stage when habitual Tory voters yearn for the humiliating defeat of the Tory party, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
• “The liberal elite’s assumptions about mass migration are crumbling fast” – The Establishment’s quasi-religious orthodoxy on mass immigration has to change, or else Britain is heading for trouble, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Irish police investigate Conor McGregor over riot tweets” – The Garda is investigating Conor McGregor’s social media posts in the wake of recent riots in Dublin, reports the Telegraph.
• “If everyone can be ‘far Right’ then the term has lost all meaning” – Being angry about children being stabbed by migrants does not make someone ‘far Right’, says Joanna Williams in CapX.
• “Ireland can’t stop disgracing itself on the world stage” – Leo Varadkar tries to pose as an international peace-broker, but his words speak of somewhat lopsided sympathies, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Ireland’s new elite deludes itself with platitudes about mass migration” – Leo Varadkar epitomises how the Irish Establishment papers over the truth about mass migration with trivialities and bromides, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Not all migrants are good for Britain. We should only let in the ones who are” – Immigration is a numbers game, but, according to Nick Timothy in the Telegraph, certain groups contribute more to the country than others.
• “Laurence Fox claims he is being ‘debanked’’ like Nigel Farage” – Laurence Fox has told a libel court that his bank “regularly questions legitimate transactions” in the wake of a social media row, reports the Telegraph.
• “COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals” – The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned.
• “Swathes of Canary Wharf office space fail to meet green standards” – New figures show that nearly seven million square feet of office space in Canary Wharf does not meet environmental property standards, says the Telegraph.
• “Bank of England’s Net Zero focus ‘jeopardises’ inflation fight” – The Bank of England’s focus on Net Zero “jeopardises” its ability to fight inflation, an influential Lords committee has warned, according to the Telegraph.
• “Coming soon: Your travel will be restricted by personal carbon allowances” – A report on the future of travel and tourism envisages air travel being restricted to combat climate change, says ZeroHedge.
• “Britain faces UN blacklist after lobbying by trans rights groups” – Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission could be blacklisted by the UN over its defence of biological sex, reveals the Telegraph.
• “The war on language: Why is our vocabulary being policed?” – A new Staffordshire Police guide suggests staff use “inclusive language”, but some say it’s the latest woke restriction on freedom of speech, reports the Telegraph.
• “Minor, in a major key” – The movie Chevalier tells us little that is true about a second-rate, black composer. But it is a peerless example of hatred of Western civilisation, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
• “The progressive diversity cult is killing the West by a thousand cuts” – The West is being hollowed out by a set of toxic ideas that negate reality and common sense, writes Gad Saad in the National Post.
• “Sam Altman and the cult of effective altruism” – How did ‘effective altruism’ – a mad, apocalyptic ideology – gain so much influence, asks Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
• “New Zealand Government scraps world-first smoking ban” – New Zealand’s new Conservative Government has dismantled plans to ban future generations from smoking, reports ABC News, leaving Rishi Sunak the only Western leader pursuing this crackpot scheme.
• “Policing in 2023” – An Australian comedy sketch posted on X highlights the dire state of modern policing.

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