News Round-Up

• “Police investigating claims Jewish children have been prevented from getting on buses” – Police are investigating claims Jewish children have been prevented from getting on buses in London, reports the Independent.
• “Hamas’s associates accused of making $900 million by shorting shares” – Analysts say that Hamas-linked financiers made hundreds of millions of dollars of profits by shorting Israeli stocks before the October 7th massacre, says the Mail.
• “Israel weighs plan to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater” – Israel is planning to force Hamas to abandon the tunnels beneath Gaza by flooding them with seawater, reports the WSJ.
• “Hamas shot female soldiers ‘in crotch, intimate parts and breasts’” – The IDF has claimed that Hamas terrorists shot female Israeli soldiers “in the crotch, intimate parts and breasts” as part of a “systematic genital mutilation”, according to the Mail.
• “Hamas ‘forced hostages to take tranquillisers before release’” – Hostages captured by Hamas were forced to take tranquillisers before being handed back to Israeli authorities so they would “appear content” for the cameras, reports the Mail.
• “Europe faces a ‘huge risk of terrorist attacks’ over Christmas’” – European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson says the EU is making £26 million available for additional security over Christmas, according to the Mail.
• “Owen Jones isn’t a journalist – he’s a propagandist” – Since leaving the Guardian last year, Hadley Freeman has thought a lot about how it became so ‘right-on’ for people on the Left to denigrate women and Jews, she writes in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Victoria Police finds its inner Ghandi” – Should Australian politicians and their police forces ‘man-up’ a little and stop allowing marauding hordes of terror supporters to dominate Australia’s cities, asks Paul Collits on Substack.
• “Saving Gaza with a queer intifada” – In the Critic, Titania McGrath has a simple solution for the Middle East conflict: Intersectional slam poetry.
• “Johnson believes Covid Inquiry should examine lockdown harms” – Boris Johnson believes the Covid inquiry should urgently examine the harms caused by the lockdowns, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Covid Inquiry has already made up its mind on who to blame: Boris” – The guilt for the disaster of lockdown is collective. Too few asked whether we got the balance right, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson was a loner on Covid. Facing the Inquiry, he has the chance to go his own way once more” – Will Boris take the easy way out, or be true to himself and admit he was railroaded into following a course of action he did not believe in, ponders Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Pfizer sues Hungary as pandemic court cases mount” – The list of legal disputes around the EU’s COVID-19 vaccine purchases is growing, says Politico.
• “Testimony in U.K. Parliament: Show us the data!” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone shares a transcript of the expert testimony he provided during his invitation by MP Andrew Bridgen to give evidence to a Parliamentary committee.
• “A systematic literature review of child mask mandates finds no evidence they do anything to stop Covid” – On Substack, Eugyppius explains why masking children is a particularly idiotic ‘public health’ policy.
• “The need for randomised controlled trials” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan navigate conflicting findings on prone positioning for respiratory distress, emphasising the pivotal role of randomised trials in gauging the efficacy of different medical interventions.
• “Lockdown trashed Britain’s economy – not Brexit” – Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to pin the blame for poor growth on Brexit rather than lockdown is a disgraceful evasion, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “‘I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: It isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream’” – Many still hanker for EU membership, but looking across the Channel, it’s completely illogical to do so, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott.
• “Home Secretary James Cleverly signs new Rwanda migrant flight deal” – The Home Secretary has signed off a new agreement to offshore small boat arrivals amid a deafening clamour from Tory backbenches at the scale of legal and illegal immigration, reports the Mail.
• “Sunak has got days to save his premiership – and one MP will decide his fate” – Tory MPs are warning that Rishi Sunak has just days to save his premiership and prevent a leadership vote of confidence, writes David Maddox in the Express. The key man is Robert Jenrick. If he resigns, others will follow.
• “The Tories are preparing another immigration betrayal” – Nobody should believe the Tories seriously intend to cut the numbers arriving, says Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
• “Britain has opened up its welfare state to the world” – Sustained mass immigration is tearing our fragile social contract apart, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “‘I would not be doing my job if I keep quiet about any Abu Dhabi-backed takeover of the Telegraph’” – The proposed takeover of the Telegraph is not a matter of patriotism or foreign ownership – it is a more fundamental question of trust and editorial independence, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Our maths reforms have proved the critics of academic rigour wrong” – The Programme for International Student Assessment results show that yesterday’s controversies have led to today’s success, says Nick Gibb in the Telegraph.
• “Sunak suffers major Tory rebellion in vote on Net Zero plans” – Rishi Sunak has suffered one of the biggest rebellions of his premiership as dozens of Tory MPs, including Suella Braverman and Priti Patel, voted against his Net Zero plans, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak warned of 50-strong Tory MP rebellion over new anti-smoking policy” – Rishi Sunak is facing a second major Tory rebellion with as many as 50 MPs set to vote against his flagship smoking ban, says the Express.
• “The SNP’s heat pumps farce has reached a catastrophic new low” – The SNP would do well to ditch their Green coalition partner if they are to have any hope of electoral revival, remarks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Green investors were crushed. Now it’s time to make money” – The trials and tribulations of ‘sustainable’ investing underscore fundamental investment truths, writes James Mackintosh in the WSJ.
• “The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets – and thinks you should, too” – The University of California has uncovered systemic problems with carbon offset markets, according to the MIT Technology Review.
• “COP28 and biofuels scam” – Paul Burgess joins Nana Akua on GB News to discuss biofuels for plane travel and how temperature records are fiddled.
• “European city cancels ‘woke’ Santa draped in Palestinian colours” – A black female Santa Claus, calling for Belgium to be liberated from “colonial ideology”, has been cancelled by the city of Ghent, according to the Express.
• “Transgender council worker asked if she went by ‘Andy’ or ‘Mandie’ loses discrimination claim” – A transgender council worker, who sued her employer for ‘discrimination’ after being asked if she wanted to be referred to as Andy or Mandie, has lost, reports the Mail.
• “American democracy is exhausted – and U.S. media elites are digging its grave” – The incompetent, second-rate U.S. media circus has abandoned its duty as the guardian of a crumbling political system, laments Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
• “Attacks on Elon and X prove they don’t hate antisemitism – they just hate the First Amendment” – If the woke Left really hated antisemitism they would ban TikTok, just like Trump tried to do when he was in office, says Chaya Raichik in Human Events. In fact, their attacks on X reveal they just hate free speech.
• “‘A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither’” – On X, Elon Musk has shared a video of Argentina’s President-elect quoting Milton Friedman and John Stuart Mill in an impassioned defence of liberty.
• “Kim cries as he calls on North Korean women to have more children” – North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un cried as he called on women to have more children, saying that it was their duty to halt the country’s declining birth rate, reports the Mail.
• “‘The question is not whether Nigel Farage will join the Tory party, but whether Keir Starmer is planning to defect and launch a Tory leadership bid!’” – On GB News, Jacob Rees-Mogg reacts to Keir Starmer’s latest article which he mistook for being written by a Tory.

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