News Round-Up

• “Galloway’s landslide means all bets are off for the next election” – Tom Harris in the Telegraph says George Galloway’s by-election victory poses a huge challenge for Keir Starmer.
• “The left’s deathly embrace of Islamic identitarianism” – The Rochdale by-election confirms that the working classes lose out when identity politics rules, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The new woke segregation is an insult to white and black people” – Writing in the Telegraph, Mutaz Ahmed says the producers of Slave Play have forgotten the lessons of the civil rights movement.
• “Six months on, Ulez is doing more harm than good” – With unfair fines, false advertising and a huge legal scandal, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme is a shambles, write Ed Wiseman in the Telegraph.
• “Sadiq Khan admits LTN is ‘causing huge problems’” – Even the Mayor is turning his back on the disastrous LTN introduced by Lambeth Council.
• “Motorway 60mph restrictions to be scrapped” – Air pollution will ‘ultimately be solved at the tailpipe’, National Highways admits as it ditches speed curbs on M1 and M6
• “AstraZeneca under fire after LGBT+ staff group issue training saying ‘sex is not binary’” – is this peak woke? Documents circulated by the LGBT+ affinity group within AstraZeneca claiming “biology has a spectrum” are condemned by Lord Winston and Richard Dawkins as “scientifically ignorant”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us” – Another Guardian article commits the naturalistic fallacy, arguing that because whales can be gay, being gay is therefore good.
• “Google’s brave new woke-AF world” – When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape, says Andrew Sullivan on the Weekly Dish.
• “Suella Braverman fears she could be criminalised if trans conversion therapy is banned” – The former Home Secretary expressed concern in a parliamentary debate about Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s private members’ bill banning conversion therapy, saying she could be sent to prison under the Brighton MP’s new law because she tells her children that “a boy cannot be a girl”, reports the Telegrpah.
• “‘Most dangerous’ conversion therapy Bill falls at the first hurdle in Westminster” – Russell-Moyle’s bill was talked out in the House of Commons yesterday, reports Let Us Pray. So Suella is safe for now.
• “I listen to money singing” – David McGrogan takes up the cudgels against programmable money in his News From Uncibal Substack.
• “Oompa-Loompas reveal: how the Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience went wrong” – Expectant parents paid £35 per ticket to access a sparsely decorated warehouse, says the Times in a piece about Glasgow’s Willy Wonka Experience.
• “Three people injured in Clapham shooting” – Emergency crews were called at around 5pm on Friday to an incident in Clapham, according to the Mail. Welcome to Khan’s London.
• “Fury as white working-class people excluded from the Guardian‘s ‘work experience scheme’ but rich people from minorities can apply” – Only black, Asian or minority ethnic people can apply to the Guardian’s work experience scheme, reports GB News.
• “It’s official: we can pretty much treat Covid like the flu now” – The Wall St Journal reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally dropped its advice telling people infected with Covid to isolate for five days. You should now follow the same precautions as you would take with the flu, says the CDC.
• “Epic skit from Michael Rappaport” – The American comic roasts Hollywood’s Jewish celebrities in an imaginary Oscar speech for failing to speak out against the Hamas attack on October 7th or stand up for the Israeli hostages. Savage but true.

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