News Round-Up

• “Jewish student centre graffitied after professor ‘suggested protest there’” – A Leeds University professor suggested pro-Palestinian activists should demonstrate outside a Jewish student centre before it was sprayed with graffiti in “a hate crime”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Plot to oust MPs who did not call for Gaza ceasefire” – Muslim Vote, a new Islamic lobby group, is plotting to unseat at least 55 Labour and Tory MPs who voted against or abstained on the Gaza ceasefire vote in Parliament last December, says the Mail.
• “David Cameron put ‘knife in Israel’s back’, says ex-U.S. national security adviser” – According to former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, David Cameron put a “knife in Israel’s back” by floating possible U.K. recognition of a Palestinian state in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7th attack, reports the Telegraph.
• “Western appeasement of anti-Israel fanatics threatens to hand victory to axis of evil” – As Israel tackles the enemy at the gates, the West is in a state of deep sleep, warns Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t forget the hostages kidnapped by Hamas: Dame Maureen Lipman urges the public to remember the Israelis held captive after October 7th at North London demo” – About 100 celebrities placed padlocks on the Lovelock Hostage Bridge at a Jewish community centre in North London to make sure the Israeli hostages in Gaza are not forgotten, reports the Mail.
• “Greta Thunberg wears Palestinian headdress at climate change protest” – Greta Thunberg wore a Palestinian headdress at a banned anti-motorway protest in France, according to the Mail.
• “I disapprove of your march. But I will defend to the death, or thereabouts, your right to mask up” – The Government is behaving with increasing authoritarianism and idiocy when faced with public protests, says Rod Liddle in the Times.
• “Families’ outrage as SNP buys Sturgeon flowers after inquiry ‘trauma’” – Families of Covid victims spoke of their outrage after the SNP sent Nicola Sturgeon flowers because of her “difficult time” giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry, reveals the Mail.
• “NHS ‘putting patients at risk’ by letting 335 staff work abroad” – A Mail investigation has discovered that NHS staff at every level are working remotely in places as far flung as Australia and Japan.
• “Horizon scandal ‘ongoing’ as sub-postmasters pursued for thousands of pounds” – Postmasters are still being traumatised by wrongful demands for thousands of pounds due to continuing faults with the Horizon IT system, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Masked shoplifters brazenly steal booze from Belsize Park Tesco” – A pair of masked shoplifters ran into a London Tesco and brazenly helped themselves to bottles of booze before running out and grabbing an onlooker’s phone – all as security guards and staff looked on, reports the Mail.
• “Nigel Farage: ‘The Tories are desperate. They want to know what I’ll do’” – He survived a plane crash, got Brexit done and conquered the jungle. Could Nigel Farage be the next Tory leader? asks Decca Aitkenhead in the Times.
• “Young people may ‘abandon democracy’ if they can’t afford homes” – Housing Secretary Michael Gove warns that young people could turn their backs on democracy and capitalism if the housing market is not fixed, reports the Mail.
• “What a Middle Eastern owner does for a newspaper” – The Independent’s Arabic version has set alarm bells ringing over the prospect of a UAE-owned Telegraph, writes Robert Mendick in the Telegraph.
• “The death of British customer service” – According to research byWhich? – a magazine founded by the father of the Daily Sceptic’s founder – standards of customer service in telecoms, banking, retail and energy have “plumbed new depths”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why cash is king at London’s best pub” – One boozer has found a novel way to look out for its older customers, writes Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
• “Smart motorway ‘cash cow’ rakes in millions in fines with 60mph limit to ‘lower pollution’” – A smart motorway, which had a 60mph speed limit imposed to “lower pollution”, has netted millions of pounds in fines for the Treasury, according to the Telegraph.
• “Anti-Ulez campaigners block ‘every camera’ in London borough” – Anti-Ulez activists have blocked “every camera” in Sutton to protest against Sadiq Khan’s controversial scheme, reports the Telegraph.
• “How Toyota accelerated past the electric car slowdown” – Toyota is blazing its own trail as rivals miss out on the hybrid gold rush, says Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Labour donor urges party to borrow billions for green revolution” – Millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince is urging Keir Starmer to borrow billions of pounds to boost Net Zero, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ministry of Defence has 93 diversity networks including 10 for gender issues” – The Ministry of Defence has 93 different ‘affinity groups’ for employees to discuss race, gender and mental health, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Grant Shapps orders review into army’s inclusion policy” – Grant Shapps is ordering a review of the British Army’s “woke nonsense“ following reports it wants to relax security checks for overseas recruits to help it meet its diversity quotas, according to the Mail.
• “Woke ideology must not take over defence” – The U.K. should be doing everything in its power to ensure it has a credible fighting force that our opponents will fear, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Labour’s plan to foist DEI on Britain” – Keir Starmer’s Race Equality Act embodies all that is wrong with woke identity politics, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Ralph Fiennes calls for end to trigger warnings at theatres” – Actor Ralph Fiennes has called to end trigger warnings at theatres suggesting that audiences have “gone too soft”, according to the Mail. 
• “Wealthy British families ‘should pay’ reparations for proceeds of slavery” – Grenada has called on wealthy British families with historic links to slavery to follow the example of Laura Trevelyan, the former BBC journalist, and pay reparations, reports the Telegraph.
• “City law firms’ gay rights principles tested in Saudi gold rush” – U.K. law firm Simmons & Simmons has been battling internal backlash over whether it should operate in Saudi Arabia, a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, according to the Telegraph.
• “The man with a very lucrative career in… victimhood” – Christian Mallon applied for thousands of jobs he didn’t believe he could do… then sued firms for allegedly ignoring his ADHD and autism, reports the Mail.
• “The BBC’s ‘dumbing down’ problem revealed” – The BBC has been criticised for “dumbing down” Question Time after Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness appeared on the flagship debate show, says the Mail.
• “London club for high-flying women shuts due to lack of interest” – The women-only club Chief, founded in New York, is closing its doors in London for good, reports the Times.
• “Why the world stopped having sex” – If even France is losing interest in sex, what hope do the rest of us have? asks Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
• “Why it’s not worth getting married any more (unless you’re about to die)” – For the first time, fewer than half of adults in the U.K. have tied the knot. How did the once-venerated state of marriage become so humbled? asks Polly Dunbar in the Telegraph.
• “A polymath discusses polygenic scores, pleiotropy and our future gene pool” – On the Aporia podcast, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, Steve Hsu, discusses professorship, parenthood, polygenic scores and public discourse.
• “When the populist meets the Pope” – Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life, remarks David Smith in the Critic.
• “Joe Biden: Hoarder of classified documents, dementia patient, President of the United States of America” – Among the evidence for Joe Biden’s mental disabilities is now the report of Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, who recommended against charging Biden for mishandling classified documents, in part because Biden can’t remember anything, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “The Weekly Sceptic Live” – On GB News’s Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle, Toby Young invites viewers to come and see him and Nick Dixon record their podcast in person at the Hippodrome this evening. Where else can you see a West End show for £25?

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