News Round-Up

• “Starmer forced to axe candidate Azhar Ali” – Labour is forced to withdraw its support for a by-election candidate after the Mail uncovered more of his antisemitic comments.
• “Labour still has an antisemitism problem” – Azhar Ali’s October 7th conspiracy theories remind us that this was never just about the Corbynistas, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Militant Islam and antisemitism are on the march” – The idea that Azhar Ali’s vile, racist slur was a slip of the tongue is simply preposterous, writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
• “No BBC show seems to be safe from the scourge of antisemitism” – By airing its latest series of The Apprentice the BBC is sending a message: you can be racist towards Jews without consequence, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
• “Jewish man hounded out of gig by ‘pro-Palestine’ comedian speaks out” – ‘Absurdist’ comedian Paul Currie encouraged a 200-strong crowd to chant “Get the f*** out” and “Free Palestine” at a Jewish theatregoer in a Central London theatre, reports the Mail.
• “How Israeli commandos blasted their way into Rafah apartment to rescue hostages” – The daring raid to extricate Fernando Marman and Louis Har marks one of the few occasions Israeli ground forces have entered the city of Rafah, says the Telegraph.
• “Dutch court says fighter-jet parts for Israel ‘not allowed’” – A court in the Hague has ruled that the Netherlands must end exports of parts for U.S. fighter jets to Israel, due to “a clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law”, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Australians abandon failed mRNA Covid shots” – Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now “under-vaccinated”, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “Who put the bishops in charge of our borders?” – An unholy alliance of unelected elites wants to thwart the will of the elected House of Commons, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism” – The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair, writes Mark Littlewood in the Critic.
• “Britain needs eccentric thought” – Lewis Goodall is wrong about the ‘radicalisation’ of the Tory Right, says Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
• “The tide has turned in bosses’ battle against working from home” – Offices are becoming increasingly confident in their crackdown on home workers, reports Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
• “Former Dutch PM dies holding wife’s hand in ‘duo euthanasia’” – A former Dutch Prime Minister and his wife have died hand in hand in a rare double euthanasia, according to GB News.
• “Germany could be ungovernable with or without the AfD in power” – Keeping the AfD out of power could result in a return to weak, unstable Weimar Republic-style governments, East German academic Katja Hoyer tells Justin Stares in Brussels Signal.
• “After Trump says he ‘would not protect’ NATO allies that do not meet spending targets, German politicians, who for years have failed to meet these targets, have an entitled sad” – On Substack, Eugyppius provides insight into the German reaction to recent comments made by Trump regarding countries that fail to meet their NATO obligations.
• “Biden’s condition is simply a matter of record. Let the facts speak for themselves” – Mainstream journalists have not protested Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline because they are overwhelmingly Democratic in their partisanship, says Michael Lind in the Telegraph.
• “The real-life Day After Tomorrow: Gulf Stream could collapse by 2025” – Experts at Utrecht University say that an abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking more likely, reports the Mail.
• “Is CO² really a pollutant? A new study says the earth is actually greening” – A new study has shown that the greening of the earth is “an indisputable fact”, and is driven mainly by an increase of CO² in the atmosphere. Will this inconvenient truth lead to an honest revaluation of the claim that CO² is a pollutant? ponders Thade Andy in Gript.
• “Sir Brian May called a ‘hypocrite’ for flying on private jets” – Queen guitarist and environmentalist Brian May has been branded a ’hypocrite’ and forced to defend himself for travelling on a private jet while on tour, reports the Mail.
• “Unelected EU head blames plight of farmers on ‘effects of climate change’” – EU President Ursula von der Leyen blames the European farmer protests on… climate change, according to Wide Awake Media.
• “The sinister transformation of Greta Thunberg” – It’s time for the grown-ups to make a comeback. The age of glorifying Greta is over, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Armed Forces’ spending on diversity staff doubles to nearly £2 million” – The Armed Forces’ spending on diversity and inclusion personnel has doubled to nearly £2 million over the past five years, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Calling the countryside racist is ridiculous Left-wing militancy” – The desperation to see identity politics in every aspect of our lives is creating a divided society, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Ralph Fiennes is right to go to war with trigger warnings” – Audiences don’t need to be protected from challenging content, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
• “EU officials start crafting censorship guidelines for Big Tech companies ahead of 2024 elections” – The EU has announced what it calls “guidelines for election integrity”, but what critics will describe as censorship guidelines that Big Tech is supposed to follow, writes Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
• “EU-funded European Digital Media Observatory calls for a ‘whole-of-society’ approach to countering ‘disinformation’” – The EDMO has recommended that shareholders put pressure on companies to work against what is considered to be “disinformation”, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “Meta considers restricting the term ‘Zionist’” – Meta is considering a big change in the speech it allows on the platform, reports Reclaim The Net.
• “Instagram and Threads to restrict all political speech by default” – Meta has revealed a strategy that aims to diminish the circulation of political content on its apps, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “Crowd sets Waymo driverless car ablaze in lawless San Francisco” – The deliberate targeting and burning of a Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco reflects a growing hostility towards autonomous vehicles, says ZeroHedge.
• “BBC supports cyberbullying, just as long as it’s someone they hate” – The BBC has come out in support of a cyberbully because he routinely doxxes the man they hate – Elon Musk, says Philip James in Vision News.
• “How things stand” – Mark Steyn provides an update on how things stand following his recent devastating U.S. defamation trial loss.
• “The ‘Black National Anthem’ gets almost non-existent applause from Super Bowl audience” – After the ‘Black National Anthem’ was played during Super Bowl LVIII, very little applause could be heard in the stands, reports Michael Austin in the Western Journal.
• “Joe Biden’s classified docs provide more evidence Hunter’s pay-to-play was a family affair” – A special counsel report confirms an overlap in the timing and topics of Joe Biden’s vice presidency and Hunter’s ‘business’ enterprises, reports the Federalist.
• “‘What are you going to do to convince traditional Conservative voters that their vote is still better off with you?’” – On GB News’s People’s Forum, Rishi Sunak is asked why traditional Conservative voters are better off with him than Reform UK.

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