News Round-Up

• “French Iranian accused of killing one and wounding two at Eiffel Tower” – A French-Iranian knifeman, who stabbed a tourist to death and wounded two others in Paris, including a British man, is a well-known convicted terrorist, according to the Mail.
• “The sickening horrors endured by Hamas’s terrified hostages” – Elderly women, young mothers and frightened children were taken and used as gambling chips to further the cause of Hamas, says Perkin Amalaraj in the Mail.
• “I saw 10 Hamas terrorists beat and gang-rape an Israeli woman” – A survivor of the October 7th massacre has recounted the atrocities he witnessed as Hamas terrorists raped, tortured and killed young, innocent women, reports the Mail.
• “First Hamas fighters raped her. Then they shot her in the head” – The terrorists were “on a mission” to carry out sexual attacks on October 7th, so where is the international condemnation from UN Women, asks Christina Lamb in the Sunday Times.
• “The failure of Western feminism when it’s most needed” – The UN, NGOs, human rights organisations, national women’s organisations… all have remained silent about the genocidal rape of Israeli women on October 7th, says Phyllis Chesler in RealClear.
• “U.K.’s woke Left in toxic alliance with Hamas, says British-born Israeli politician” – Woke Left-wing activists have formed a “toxic alliance” with Islamic fundamentalists to stoke antisemitism in the U.K., Israel’s most senior British-born politician tells the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson asked spies to plan raid on Dutch Covid vaccine factory” – According to the Mail, Boris asked the security services to draw up plans to raid a Dutch Covid vaccine factory after the EU “stole” millions of doses destined for Britain during the pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “Te Whatu Ora data breach: Man arrested for allegedly accessing Covid vaccination info” – New Zealand police have arrested a man in connection with a mass privacy breach of COVID-19 vaccination data, according to the New Zealand Herald.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: The kingdom of terror” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan document how fear appears to have been a driving force behind pandemic policies.
• “Moderna secretly polices Covid ‘vaccine misinformation’ to control narrative: Investigative report” – A new report shows Moderna is using former law enforcement, FBI, Secret Service analysts and pharma-funded NGOs to control the COVID-19 vaccine debate, reports the Epoch Times.
• “EU votes in favour of mandatory interconnected digital patient health records for all citizens” – The EU’s next big push to strip citizens of their privacy has now reached medical histories and associated data, says Reclaim The Net.
• “Starmer hit by Labour backlash after praising Thatcher” – Left-wing MPs have attacked Sir Keir Starmer over his “Mandelsonian” ploy to woo Tory voters by praising Margaret Thatcher, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher an ‘insult’” – Humza Yousaf has described Keir Starmer’s praise for Margaret Thatcher as an “insult” to the Scottish communities harmed by her policies, says the National.
• “Sunak set to block 9% BBC licence fee increase” – Rishi Sunak is due to block a 9% increase in the BBC licence fee, warning that the corporation has to be “realistic” about what people can afford, according to the Telegraph.
• “Farage would be welcome to rejoin ‘broad church’ Tories, says Sunak” – Rishi Sunak has said Nigel Farage would be welcome to rejoin the Conservatives, insisting the party is a “broad church”, says the Telegraph.
• “Civil servants ‘trying to block’ Sunak’s Rwanda legislation” – Civil servants are trying to block Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda legislation, according to the Telegraph.
• “London on the brink: A 1970s New York-style fate is just a step away” – Londoners live in fear that the city is spiralling out of control, writes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “The Confucius Institutes: China’s trojan horse” – Western countries have finally started taking action to limit the influence of Confucius Institutes, says Abigail Darwish in the European Conservative.
• “‘Barely-used’ cycle lane now set for £1 million extension” – Plans for a £1 million cycle path extension will force homeowners to take a half-mile detour to get to their homes and send up to 1,000 cars a day down a tiny residential street, reports the Mail.
• “Ireland to give €225 million plus annually to help other countries fight climate change” – Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that Ireland will honour its commitment of €255 million per year in taxpayers’ money to “help other countries invest in climate action”, according to Gript.
• “Climate elites should take easyJet flights like the rest of us, or be quiet” – Anyone who bleats on about the evils of flying should be prevented from travelling in a private jet, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Bavaria in the snow” – The weather, much like viruses, sooner or later makes fools of forecasters, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Climatism has gone from virtue-signalling to vice-signalling” – On his Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger questions how sincere world leaders are about tackling climate change, highlighting the slow shift from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.
• “Tory civil war looms over long-awaited gender guidance for schools” – Ministers anticipate clashes with the Tory Right as imminent trans guidance for schools stops short of a blanket ban on students changing names, pronouns and uniforms, reports the Mail.
• “Liz Truss to challenge Sunak with anti-woke bill in bid to unite the Tory Right” – Liz Truss will challenge Rishi Sunak again with a bill to protect women’s spaces from being invaded by men, according to the Express.
• “In defence of a ‘British culture’” – Britain is not full of boring white people with no real culture to speak of, writes Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
• “CDC erases ‘women’ from new vaccine guidance, now uses gender-neutral ‘pregnant people’” – The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have erased the term ‘women’ from their recent health guidance and replaced it with gender-exclusionary terminology, reports the Post Millennial.
• “Elon Musk is right. The critics of X can get lost” – Despite X’s recent decline, its controversial owner may yet have the last laugh, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “No, this is not an out-take from Four Lions…” – Jewish Chronicle Editor Jake Wallis Simons shares a video of a Muslim preacher concerned that Palestine protests will include people who “take it in the backside at night”.

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