News Round-Up

• “‘I will do whatever is necessary to vanquish terrorism. That’s why we are proscribing Hizb ut-Tahrir’” – The Government will not let extremist groups abuse our freedom of speech to radicalise Britain, writes James Cleverly in the Telegraph, announcing a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir.
• “Guess which leftie lawyer chose to defend terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir?” – The Labour Party says it supports adding Hizb ut-Tahrir to the list of proscribed terrorist organisations. But back in 2008, Keir Starker voluntarily defended the extremist group, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Striking the Houthis was Britain’s only option” – Britain has punished piracy prominently for 300 years. The Houthis should be no exception, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “The Left’s Houthi apologism” – The ‘pro-Palestine’ types supporting Yemen’s vicious Islamist movement have lost the plot, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Israel footballer leaves Turkey after hostage plea row” – Sagiv Jehezkel, an Israeli footballer who’s been sacked by his team and persecuted by the Turkish authorities after expressing solidarity with hostages in Gaza during a match yesterday, has returned to Israel, according to the BBC.
• “Lineker deletes retweet calling for Israel international football ban after ‘misunderstanding’” – Gary Lineker has removed a social media post calling for Israel to be banned from international football, having apparently believed he was merely sharing an article not expressing a point of view, reports the Telegraph.
• “Anti-western ideology is infecting public sector” – The King’s College counterterrorism course described in the Daily Sceptic last week dangerously downplays extremism, warns Melanie Phillips in the Times.
• “One insider’s damning verdict on ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells: ‘over-promoted’ and ‘dim’” – Paula Vennells has been described as “dim” by a former colleague who likened her to a “mosquito”, reports the Mail.
• “Justin Welby ‘should quit’ over claims he backed Paula Vennells to be Bishop of London” – Queen Elizabeth’s former chaplain is calling for the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over his support for the disgraced former Post Office boss, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Post Office scandal is proof we trust technology too much” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Orlowski explores our tendency to trust computers more than our own experiences.
• “‘We must act now’: Expert’s stark measles warning after outbreaks erupt in parts of England” – Health chiefs are warning that there is a risk measles will return across the country after low MMR uptake rates led to a large outbreak in the Midlands, reports the Independent. Proof, if proof were needed, that suppressing vaccine scepticism increases rather than reduces vaccine hesitancy.
• “‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’” – We all realise that surgical and cloth masks do nothing to prevent viral transmission, says the Naked Emperor on Substack. So why do surgeons wear them?
• “Smokescreens – Part 11” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan advocate for a cheaper and more effective point-of-care test for influenza and Covid.
• “Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith on Rwanda Bill: ‘This is not about us rebelling!’” – Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith have joined a growing number of Conservative MPs likely to rebel over the Government’s Rwanda bill, reports GB News.
• “Who paid £70,000 for the shock poll that predicts a Tory wipeout at the next election?” – Andrew Pierce in the Mail asks who paid for the YouGov poll predicting a Tory wipeout that dropped yesterday? Is the group behind it hoping to provoke another Tory leadership election?
• “Police left children at mercy of grooming gangs in Rochdale, review finds” – A damning new review has found that girls were left at the mercy of paedophile grooming gangs in Rochdale for years because of failings by senior police and council bosses, according to the BBC.
• “John Simpson admits affair with BBC director who turned out to be a communist spy” – John Simpson has revealed that he had a two-year love affair with a BBC executive recently unmasked as a communist spy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bridget Phillipson non-sequitur” – School absenteeism is a huge problem and it’s linked to policies that Labour vigorously supported, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
• “Parental license: the Left’s new child-snatchers” – In Taki’s Magazine, Steven Tucker discusses an academic article by a PhD student arguing that children should be removed from parents who hold politically incorrect opinions.
• “Revealed: the nine universities where gender-critical academics are labelled ‘transphobic’” – A new report has found that rigid policies make it nearly impossible for lecturers and students to hold open discussions about gender, reports the Telegraph.
• “The British court’s decision to uphold sanctions against journalist Graham Phillips is troubling” – The U.K. has de facto criminalised the creation of video content containing dissenting views about the Ukrainian conflict, says Andrew Korybko on Substack.
• “The Tories have failed on everything – fixing potholes is all they have left” – Forget Rwanda and sorting out the NHS, the Government needs to aim for a few small-scale successes, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Why renewable energy is rubbish” – In Spiked, Fraser Myers debunks the renewable energy myth in a pithy 10-minute video.
• “The fake alien twins that sparked an out-of-this-world search for truth” – How was Mexico’s Congress, and much of the scientific community, seemingly caught out by a pair of papier-mâché imposters? asks David Averre in the Mail.
• “U.K. Government workers told to ‘think’ trans people are women” – Civil servants have been instructed to “think” of transgender colleagues as women in new woke staff guidance, according to ZeroHedge.
• “New Statesman article which brands J.K. Rowling ‘Britain’s nastiest novelist’ is blasted as ‘misogynistic’” – J.K. Rowling has been called “Britain’s nastiest novelist” in a book review in the New Statesman condemned as ‘misogynistic’, reports the Mail.
• “Canada has revealed the horror of assisted dying” – Poor and disabled people in Canada are being encouraged to choose death instead of ‘burdening’ the state, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “‘You actually couldn’t make this up…’” – On X, broadcaster Niall Boylan has shared a video of electric buses, purchased to avoid using fossil fuels, being charged with diesel generators in a depot.

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