News Round-Up

• “Sunak battles to unite Tories as Rwanda crisis exposes cracks” – Efforts to push through immigration deal have alienated MPs on all sides, reports the Times.
• “A Labour win will be a disaster. Too many Tories don’t care” – It’s not good enough for the Tory Party to resign itself to defeat, says David Frost in the Telegraph. A Keir Starmer-led Labour Government will be a catastrophe. Time to change the leader?
• “Reform U.K.’s surging support could cost Tories up to 35 seats” – Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s party sees its share of vote more than double in the space of a year, which is bad news for Rishi Sunak, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sunak on Borrowed Time?” – Sunak may have just days to save his premiership, according to Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “Go for the Kill, Tory Right” – On Substack, J’Accuse urges the Tory Right to engage in another act of regicide before the election.
• “Brexit was a vote of confidence by Brits in our country and it’s working” – Did you know that we recently overtook France to become the eighth-largest manufacturing nation in the world? Or that our economy has recovered more strongly from Covid than Germany or France? Kemi Badenoch makes the case for Brexit in the Sun.
• “Kemi is right: trans ideology is a threat to gay kids” – So called gender-affirming care is merely a new form of gay conversion therapy, argues Dennis Kavanagh in Spiked.
• “Despite her flaws, Liz Truss was ahead of her time” – Liz Truss was right to highlight the problem of Britain’s flatlining growth, argues Ben Cope in CapX.
• “The day the Empresses’ clothes fell off” – Did the Congressional hearings in which three Ivy League presidents equivocated about condemning calls for the genocide of the Jews finally expose the rot at the heard of American higher education? Andrew Sullivan on Substack certainly hopes so.
• “Universities have let evil grow on campus. They do not deserve to survive” – If these university leaders had been asked the question about any other minority, their answers would have been different, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Retired professor who suggested ‘blowing up’ Jewish Labour conference stripped of honorary titles” – An Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol has been stripped of her honorary titles, reports the Telegraph.
• “There is nothing ‘anti-racist’ about identitarian activism” – Why has the perennially divisive Shola Mos-Shogbamimu been given an honorary doctorate, asks Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Is TikTok really making young Americans antisemitic?” – In UnHerd, Noah Carl takes issue with a claim made by a U.S. Congresswoman that merely being on TikTok for 30 minutes makes people 17% more antisemitic.
• “The NYT is wrong about Israeli intelligence” – The New York Times is wrong to criticise Netanyahu’s Government for not acting on intelligence revealing Hamas’s plans for Israeli massacre, argues Edward Luttwak in UnHerd.
• “Moment Jewish woman kicked in the head and left ‘unconscious’ on UK street” – CCTV footage captured a sickening incident in which a Jewish woman was beaten unconscious by two teenage girls, reports the Express.
• “Covid and Death: Part 1 – The Exponential Phase” – On Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson launch a new series in which they look at the early days of the pandemic.
• “‘RSV Wave Underway’ screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends” – On Substack, Eugyppius pours scorn on panic-mongering news reports in the German media about season respiratory viruses.
• “NHS hospitals have started banning visitors after a surge in norovirus” – Some 498 beds were occupied by norovirus patients or closed as part of infection control measures last week, up 19% compared to seven days earlier, NHS England data shows. Time to start panicking, asks the Mail?
• “Corruption, corruption everywhere – how the Covid debacle made the scales fall from my eyes” – Liz Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman describes how she was red-pilled by the pandemic.
• “AstraZeneca vaccine linked with ‘spike’ in cases of rare disease that can paralyse victims” – The Telegraph speaks to people who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome after receiving a Covid vaccination.
• “The mysterious case of the disappearing remote control” – Why is Dr Mike Yeadon’s testimony missing from Andrew Bridgen’s Parliamentary event, asks HART?
• “Abu Dhabi-backed Telegraph bidder rejects plan to ease press freedom fears” – Jeff Zucker, the head of the group seeking to purchase the Telegraph and the Spectator, rules out making any changes to the bid to appease regulators, says the Telegraph.
• “The UAE is not fit to own the Daily Telegraph” – It should not be normal for a member of a foreign government to buy a British media group, argues David Davis in the Telegraph.
• “Sir Paul Marshall eyes setting up rival to Telegraph” – Sir Paul Marshall is considering launching a rival publication to the Telegraph if his attempt to buy the paper is scuppered by an Abu-Dhabi backed takeover, reports the Times.
• “Major new speed limit changes could see further rollout of 20mph roads despite Wales backlash” – Scotland is due to follow Wales’s lead in enforcing a 20mph speed limit on numerous major roads, according to GB News.
• “The bus took 11 minutes before LTNs — now it takes 45” – Cycle lanes and low-traffic zones have been blamed for making bus travel in London a misery. Mutinous drivers are on the verge of strikes, says the Times.
• “Prince Harry loses latest legal challenge against Mail on Sunday” – Prince Harry’s efforts to have the Mail on Sunday’s defence against his lawsuit thrown out has been unsuccessful, reports the Telegraph.
• “Met police officers avoid jail after sharing racist WhatsApp jokes” – Six former Met police officers have been convicted of sharing offensive jokes and memes in a private WhatsApp group chat, reports the Mail.
• “Joey Barton says Alex Scott ‘shouldn’t comment on men’s football’” – The former Bristol Rovers boss has come under fire for his posts about female broadcasters and pundits this week, having tweeted that women “shouldn’t be talking with any authority in the men’s game”, says the Mail.
• “Justin Trudeau’s woke dystopia is a warning to the world” – From radical new euthanasia laws to attacks on Canada’s proud history, Trudeau has destroyed his country’s reputation, says Jason Kenney in an interview with Steve Edginton in the Telegraph.
• “British MPs ask FA to ban trans players from women’s game” – A group of MPs has urged the FA to ban biological men from competing against women in women’s football, reports Reuters.
• “Tory councillor arrested for ‘hate crime’ has case dropped” – Cllr Anthony Stevens was reported to the police by a Labour Party member for tweet in support of free speech, but the police have finally decided there’s no case to answer, according to the Telegraph.
• “We didn’t just close down our coal-fired power stations, we blew them up” – Peter Hitchens gives George Monbiot both barrels on Question Time, arguing that further reductions in the U.K.’s carbon emissions would be completely pointless.

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