News Round-Up

• “I helped write the BBC social media guidelines that gave me more freedom, says Gary Lineker” – Gary Lineker has said he helped draw up the BBC social media guidelines that allow him “much more freedom”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Humza Yousaf’s Government offered to send NHS supplies to Gaza” – Humza Yousaf’s officials offered to send NHS medical supplies to Gaza to ease the humanitarian crisis in spite of record NHS waiting lists in Scotland, reveals the Times.
• “Academia’s double standard on rape” – Why aren’t the students and professors who demand trigger warnings for discussions of rape in literature at the forefront of those denouncing Hamas’s atrocities? asks Asya Sigelman in City Journal.
• “Take on hate-filled mobs, before it’s too late” – The Government has to go much further to stop the glorification of Islamist terror on British streets, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Britain can’t protect its own government ministers from Islamists” – Mike Freer is leaving Parliament because of threats to his life. He speaks to the Free Press.
• “Four years later: lockdown ‘deaths of despair’” – The Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Toby Rogers takes aim at the authors of a study on ‘deaths of despair’, who publicly disavowed their own research to align with the mainstream narrative supporting lockdowns.
• “My medical school dismissed me over dissent” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Kevin Bass shines a light on the dark, repressive forces driving ideological groupthink, cancel culture and Covid extremism. 
• “WHO head: ‘Fake news, lies and conspiracy theories’ threaten Pandemic Agreement” – WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus labels concerns over the Pandemic Agreement “fake news, lies and conspiracy theories”, according to Wide Awake Media.
• “Alan Bates Britain” – The Critic’s Fred Skulthorp makes the case for dramatising every national scandal.
• “I worried Saudi money would corrupt Newcastle United – but this is worse” – It turns out that British football doesn’t need any prompting from oil sheikhs to practise autocracy. It’s quite capable of doing that on its own, says Mark Wallace in the Independent
• “Britain is on the brink of a new Brexit-style revolt, and no party has yet seen it” – Even Reform U.K. seems to be underestimating the scale of public fury with a broken political system, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “The Church of England needs to wise up to fake conversions” – The Anglican church has become an unwitting cog in the illegal-migration industry, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane entitled to benefits because he is not in prison” – Triple killer Valdo Calocane is entitled to claim thousands of pounds in state benefits a year despite being detained in a secure hospital for his violent crimes, reveals the Telegraph.
• “When will we stop men from barbaric cultures acting out their evil ideologies on British soil?” – No civilised nation should accept the importing of patriarchal, misogynistic attitudes that put our citizens at risk, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Who will oppose Labour’s racial dystopia?” – In the Spectator, Niall Gooch writes that the progressive goal involves implicit and explicit racial quotas, along with highly intrusive monitoring, across both the public and private sectors.
• “Ex-Neighbours star Holly Valance backs Jacob Rees-Mogg to be PM” – Ex-Neighbours star Holly Valance revealed herself as a fervent supporter of the Tory Right in a surprise appearance at the launch of a new Conservative faction, reports the Mail.
• “The Irish will not be silenced” – The Dublin riots and their aftermath revealed a nation roiled by mass migration, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
• “Tucker Carlson confirms ‘unedited’ interview with Putin” – Tucker Carlson has confirmed he is in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin, following days of speculation, according to the Telegraph.
• “Farmers are holding the EU hostage – and they are winning” – Eurosceptic parties have adopted the agricultural fight, robbing establishment forces of a constituency they have long considered their own, says James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “Electric van maker once valued at £10 billion collapses into administration” – A British electric van maker, once valued at $13 billion, has gone into administration after burning through $1.5 billion without having sold a single vehicle, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rowan Atkinson blamed for poor electric car sales” – Rowan Atkinson has been blamed for poor sales of electric cars in a report by the House of Lords, according to the Telegraph. It was Mr. Bean Wot Done It!
• “The cost of dissent” – Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs, writes Shonagh Dillon in the Critic.
• “‘I have evidence gay young people are being told they are transgender’” – Kemi Badenoch has told MPs she has strong evidence that young gay people are being convinced they are transgender instead, reports the Telegraph.
• “There were no trans Anglo-Saxons” – Gender-identity fanatics are relentlessly rewriting history, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Why the ‘be kind’ era is bad for women” – Trans activists are weaponising ‘kindness’ to strip us of our rights, warns Julie Burchill in Spiked.
• “Trans TikTok star pleads guilty to child abuse offences” – A TikTok star claiming to be a “proud trans woman” was really a paedophile using her new identity as a “mask”, his victims have told a court, according to the Mail.
• “An interview with Emma Webb” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth sits down with writer and broadcaster Emma Webb, a champion of common sense with cockney roots who wants to sack the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• “French Culture Minister attacks ‘woke’ media’s Left-wing bias” – Rachida Dati, France’s new Culture Minister, has vowed to confront “wokeism” as she hits out at Left-wing bias in state media, according to the Telegraph.
• “Actress Gina Carano sues Disney after being fired for social media posts” – The Mandalorian’s Gina Carano is mounting a legal challenge against Disney and Lucasfilm with the help of Elon Musk for alleged discrimination after she was fired from the company over her social media posts, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “How the DHS and old Twitter silenced a NYT reporter’s accurate election report” – Twitter Files emails show that even legacy media outlets weren’t immune to erroneous censorship, says Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
• “Everyone loses in America’s misinformation war” – There are insidious alliances between Big Tech and government, warns Lee Fang in UnHerd.
• “‘It was terrifying… to have two men turn up at my door, threatening to arrest me. It was mortifying’” – Linzi Smith, the Newcastle United fan banned from attending games for her gender critical views, talks to Nigel Farage on GB News.

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