News Round-Up

• “‘Graduates demanding 100% WFH and won’t come to office for interview’” – According to bosses, new university graduates are so accustomed to working from home they won’t even come to an office for an interview, reports the Mail.
• “Michelle Mone admits she stands to benefit from £200 million of PPE contracts” – The Conservative peer and Ultimo bra tycoon Michelle Mone has apologised for trying to conceal her family’s links to Medpro after it won a multi-million pound contract to supply personal protective equipment during the pandemic, says the Mail.
• “Experts ‘duped’ into starring in Michelle Mone’s PPE documentary” – Two experts who appear in Baroness Mone’s new documentary have said they would not have done if they’d known it was being funded by Medpro, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Inside the biggest Hamas tunnel ever found beneath war-torn Gaza” – Israel has revealed the biggest tunnel its troops have ever discovered, part of Hamas’s 300 mile tunnel network, according to the Mail.
• “We need a ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza, says David Cameron” – The Foreign Secretary says Israel has a right to eliminate the threat posed by Hamas, but that too many civilians have been killed, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Israel has not ‘gone too far’, insists Oliver Dowden” – Deputy PM Oliver Dowden says the U.K. continues to support Israel’s “right to self-defence” as it deals with a “very difficult situation”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Inferno tears through historic venue set to house 70 asylum seekers” – An inferno has ripped through a Galway hotel just hours after protesters gathered outside amid concerns about migrants in the area, according to the Mail.
• “Dozens of jihadi brides like Shamima Begum could return to the U.K.” – Ministers are facing growing international pressure to accept the return of ‘jihadi brides’ who fled Britain to join Islamic State, reports the Mail.
• “Eddie Izzard loses bid to be Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion” – Eddie Izzard has failed in his bid to become Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next General Election, marking the second time the 61 year-old has failed to be selected, says the Mail.
• “Britain will be ‘Venezuela for 20 years’ if Starmer wins the next election” – The Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has told the Telegraph that a Labour government would be “catastrophic” for Britain.
• “Milei is doing what Britain should have done a long time ago” – Argentina’s new direction could provide a blueprint for Britain and other countries, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Javier Milei’s radical reforms could start to heal Argentina’s economy” – Javier Milei’s government is wasting little time carrying out what it calls “shock therapy”, says Phoebe Hennell in the Spectator.
• “Still say Rwanda isn’t safe Sir Keir?” – Labour has been accused of hypocrisy for selecting a candidate who runs a business organising children’s holidays to Rwanda – while the party opposes Sunak’s policy of sending illegal migrants there on the grounds it is unsafe, reports the Mail.
• “Islamism is rampant in French schools” – A rigid incarnation of Islam has taken root in many classrooms, threatening the liberal values of France. It serves as a warning to Britain, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “There are two routes to growth: Migrants or fairer tax” – In the Sunday Times, Lionel Shriver explains how we can restore Britain‘s birthrate to above replacement levels and reduce immigration via a fairer tax system.
• “World governments now face a bigger predicament than the economy, stupid” – There are no easy solutions in the war between globalisation and nativism, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “The middle-class army waging war on LTNs” – An army of middle-class volunteers are waging war on Lambeth Council in a bid to stop it making thousands of pounds from hefty LTN fines, reports the Mail.
• “Just Stop Oil print series of £25 calendars featuring smug snaps” – Just Stop Oil has announced it‘s bringing out a calendar for 2024, giving everyone the chance to relive all the best bits from the last two years of disruption, says the Mail.
• “From now to 2100 emission reduction policy costs greatly exceed any net benefit from averted warming” – The benefits of not meeting the Paris Accord emissions targets outweigh the costs, even in the worst-case-scenario, says Kenneth Richard in the NoTricksZone.
• “The absurdity of measuring breath for climate change” – In a worrying trend in the climate debate, even the most basic human functions are being scrutinised for their environmental impact, writes Charles Rotter in WUWT.
• “U.K.’s Eurovision entrant vows to fly the flag in the ‘gayest way possible’” – Olly Alexander, the U.K.’s Eurovision entrant for 2024, has vowed to fly the flag for the country “in the gayest way possible”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Leading doctors ‘consistently ignored’ by HSE over ‘trans health’ dangers” – Leading clinicians Dr. Donal O’Shea and Dr. Paul Moran have spoken about how their concerns regarding ‘gender affirming care’ were “consistently ignored” by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive, according to Gript.
• “No, St. Hadrian of Canterbury was not black” – Educational institutions are warping our history to make political points in the present, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert in Spiked.
• “Southern Poverty Law Centre condemns feminists as white supremacists” – The SPLC’s report on the gender critical feminists and their opposition to trans dogma is a textbook example of misinformation, writes Eliza Mondegreen in UnHerd.
• “Discriminating against white blokes is wrong – even insurance men” – “The list of companies I am boycotting because of their stupid, adolescent grandstanding on fashionable political issues grows by the week,” says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
• “Inside the free speech meltdown at the New York Times” – In his first interview since the publication of his Economist article, ‘When the New York Times lost its way’, James Bennet tells the Sunday Times that America needs a “counter-revolution” to root out “illiberal liberalism”.
• “It’s too late to ban under-16s from social media – they are smarter than we think” – When it comes to teenagers using TikTok and Instagram, the genie is already out of the bottle, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “‘We will fight back in the streets, in the toilets, in the single-sex spaces. We will not let this nonsense win’” – On Lee Anderson’s GB News show, author and podcast host Paola Diana pulls no punches in her debate with Peter Tatchell over trans issues.

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