News Round-Up

• “While Westminster bickers over Lee Anderson, thugs are sending death threats to Reform” – Our politicians are playing word games rather than dealing with the growing threat of Islamism, writes Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
• “No end in sight” – Lee Anderson’s remark was nothing more than an accurate description of the facts on the ground, says Alex Story in Country Squire Magazine
• “Lee Anderson put his foot in it, but Islamists pose a very real threat to our democracy” – The influence a thuggish, antisemitic element in the Muslim community appears to exert over Labour calls for urgent public debate, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “‘I’ve been smeared for trying to speak out about Islamist extremists’” – Political intimidation subverted our democratic process and the cancer of Islamist extremism is growing unchecked. The alarm bells should be ringing, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “‘Islamophobia’ is today’s blasphemy – wrongspeak may be criminalised” – Offending against religion was once a crime. It could become one again, albeit only if the belief is Islam, warns Philip Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “The BBC is ‘institutionally antisemitic’, former AG claims” – Former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis says the BBC is “institutionally antisemitic” and has inflamed community tensions due to its “biased” reporting of the Gaza conflict, according to the Mail.
• “Another parliamentary debate but still no straight answers published” – The team at HART are left disappointed (again) by the latest parliamentary debate on the rising rates of cardiovascular deaths.
• “On the Ohio State study showing vaccinated Covid patients had a higher risk of death than the unvaccinated” – On Substack, Alex Berenson presents findings indicating that COVID-19 mortality rates have risen among vaccinated patients.
• “Australian Senate finally acknowledges need for inquiry into excess deaths” – Senator Ralph Babet’s persistence has paid off as the Senate voted in favour of his fourth motion, calling for further inquiry into Australia’s excess deaths, reports Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “Lee Anderson met one-to-one with Richard Tice in major hint of imminent Reform defection” – Former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson has held private talks with Reform leader Richard Tice, fuelling speculation that the MP is about to defect to the rival party, says GB News.
• “Nigel Farage in new ‘debanking’ row over status of charity” – Nigel Farage questions whether the Battle of Britain Memorial charity has been “debanked” by ­Barclays, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain facing £100 billion tax jump as immigration surge stretches public finances, IFS warns” – The Institute of Fiscal Studies warns that Rishi Sunak’s tax increases, coupled with rising net migration, will add £100 billion to the country’s tax burden by the decade’s end, reports the Telegraph.
• “Defending Shamima Begum is the ultimate ‘luxury belief’” – Never has fashionable opinion been further out of touch with the real world, remarks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “National Trust adopting ‘North Korean approach’ to democracy, claims Lord Sumption” – Lord Sumption has accused the National Trust of adopting a “North Korean approach” to democracy through a controversial online voting system, reports the Telegraph.
• “Nato allies reject Emmanuel Macron idea of troops to Ukraine” – Britain has rejected a French plan to send Nato troops into Ukraine, warning that it would be a “major escalation” in the war, according to the BBC.
• “The truth about Ukraine starts to leak out” – The conspiracies about Ukraine are like all the rest – after a few years the conspiracy theorists are proven correct, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
• “A vape tax would make a mockery of Sunak’s smoke-free ambition” – The U.K.’s vaping policy was once seen as evidence-based and world-leading – no longer, sighs Christopher Snowdon in CapX.
• “They’re all Bono now” – It seems that every investment banker, every corporate lawyer, every project manager is now simultaneously an advocate of good causes, writes Jacob Phillips in Spiked.
• “How a generation forgot what it is to be resilient” – A new study finds that poor mental health among the young is damaging the economy. Does ‘generation sicknote’ just need to toughen up? asks Gwyneth Rees in the Telegraph.
• “J.K. Rowling says ‘I’m sick of this s—’ after transgender cat killer is called a woman” – J.K. Rowling has criticised a transgender killer being described as a woman as it emerged judges have been told to refer to defendants by the pronouns they want, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour pledge to fight ‘growing scourge’ of classroom misogyny” – Older schoolboys will teach their younger peers not to be misogynistic under Labour plans, says the Times.
• “Academics say ‘pledge of allegiance’ to gender ideology threatens academic freedom” – Academics for Academic Freedom say that Irish Universities’ adherence to “gender ideology” is a threat to academic free speech, according to Gript.
• “How the culture wars killed the critic” – Artistic criticism has become politicised and dismally predictable, says David James in CapX.
• “Equity’s dangerous echo” – It’s alarming that the Journal of the American Medical Association should embrace a way of thinking we associate with the Nazis, remarks Theodore Dalrymple in the Epoch Times.
• “How bad therapy hijacked America’s schools” – In the Free Press, Abigail Shrier discusses the rise of ‘trauma-informed’ education.
• “Google Gemini: a glimpse into our Orwellian future” – AI is rewriting history to make it fit a preferred narrative. Where have we heard that one before? asks Simon Evans in Spiked.
• “‘Dear BBC Verify…’” – On X, the BBC is called out to fact-check its own reporting after a BBC news story referred to a biological male murderer as a ‘woman’ throughout.

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