News Round-Up

• “Britain will lose the next world war. It’s too woke to fight” – Those who might be called upon to lay down their lives might wonder who, or what, they would be fighting for, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “‘Of course I jolly well would’: Boris Johnson pledges to join Army to fight Russia if needed” – The former PM says he supports General Sir Patrick Sanders’s call for a citizen military in the face of dwindling recruitment figures, reports the Telegraph.
• “Four of Britain’s Top Institutions Have Made Erroneous Estimates of the Cost of Net Zero” – Four national institutions have failed to model the 2050 energy system correctly, and all of them in ways that lead to understatement of the costs of Net Zero, explains Paul Homewood in Watts Up With That.
• “New study warns of soaring energy bills” – Official Net Zero models have grossly understated costs, says Andrew Montford in Net Zero Watch. No, really?
• “Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering” – Plans to build a fleet of hydrogen power plants to supplement wind turbines and solar panels have hit the buffers, according to Euractiv.
• “The electric vehicle fiasco has become dangerous” – Electric buses are bursting into flames. I’ll take my chances with diesel, thank you, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “The climate scaremongers: Another £40billion of your cash down the Net Zero drain” – The Government has given the go-ahead for Drax to fit carbon capture technology to their wood burning power plant in North Yorkshire, with an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £40 billion, reports Paul Homewood in TCW: Defending Freedom.
• “£10 billion in taxpayer cash wasted on overpriced, faulty or unused PPE” – Auditors trawled through the accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care, which was responsible for buying masks, gloves and gowns during the pandemic, and discovered the Government wrote off £9.9 billion’s worth as “unusable”, reports the Mail.
• “My response to Tracy Beth Hoeg’s criticisms of our ‘17M vaccine deaths’ calculation” – Denis Rancourt responds to Tracy Beth Hoeg’s critique of his vaccine study on Substack.
• “UN employees sacked for alleged involvement in Hamas attack on Israel” – Messages found on a Telegram group of UN employees reportedly called terrorist fighters “martyrs” and “heroes“, according to the Telegraph.
• “Admiral Nelson included in National Maritime Museum’s ‘Queer History Night’” – Cross-dressing Arctic explorers, 19th Century trans sailors and ‘Penguin Pride’ feature in LBGTQ+ History Month at a taxpayer-funded museum supposed to celebrate Britain’s maritime heritage, reports the Telegraph.
• “Andrew Neil: it would be absurd for the UAE to own the Spectator” – Watch Andrew Neil on Newsnight explain why selling the Telegraph and the Spectator to the UAE, where citizens aren’t allowed to vote, isn’t such a great idea.
• “British AI firm helped censor activists and journalists, poised to shape 2024 U.S. elections” – Logically AI, a British company, helped the U.K. Government censor critics of lockdowns and vaccine passports and now looks set to suppress dissenting voices in the U.S. Presidential election, reports Lee Fang on Substack.
• “Bring back asylums, and make Britain safe again” – The Nottingham murders must put an end to our insistence that everyone, no matter how incapable, should be left to try and live in society, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
• “BBC has no ‘God-given right’ to exist, says Tory Chairman” – Richard Holden says the corporation does not always understand Britain as he raises fresh questions about its impartiality, according to the Telegraph.
• “Graham Linehan starts legal action against pub over ban” – Linehan, 55, is suing a pub in Belfast along with 22 others, saying they were asked to leave over their gender critical views, says the Mail.
• “European voters are rebelling against the elites” – Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator reports on the growing support for Marine Le Pen in France.
• “Four year-old boy joins Church of England school as a girl” – A four year-old boy has been allowed to join a Church of England school masquerading as a girl, reports the Mail.
• “Four year-old boy allowed to join school as a girl is no Grimm fairytale but a real-life nightmare” – Our little ones’ innocence has been robbed and their mental well-being disregarded just so ideological idiocy can protect one ‘trans child’, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Trump has captured the new conservative zeitgeist” – It’s not enough to master policy or parrot the usual arguments. You have to give voters what they want, according to David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Donald Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll” – The former President says he will appeal against the defamation verdict ordering him to pay the plaintiff $83.3 million, reports the Times.
• “The tyrant who is also a joker” – Andrew Sullivan assesses the threat Trump poses to the republic on his Substack.
• “Sky News apologises after presenter compares Israel’s war with Hamas to Holocaust” – Israel’s ex-ambassador condemns the Sky News reporter’s comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany as a “shameful, anti-Semitic equation”, says the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak condemns ‘horrific irony’ of Israel genocide ruling” – No. 10 says legal case at International Court of Justice making accusations of war crimes is “completely unjustified”, according to the Telegraph.
• “US will keep nuclear weapons in UK for the first time in 15 years” – Warheads to be housed at RAF Lakenheath for the first time in 15 years, Pentagon documents reveal, as Moscow warns of ‘escalation’, reports the Mail.
• “Best anti-woke ad ever!“ – CryptoDeepBlue on X has posted a brilliant anti-woke ad by Redballoon.work (scroll down).

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