News Round-Up

• “This could be the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures” – In the Telegraph, Jake Wallis Simons writes about Abraham Wyner’s statistical analysis purporting to show that Hamas is faking the 30,000 death toll claims that the Daily Sceptic published recently.
• “The ‘lawfare’ waged against arms sales to Israel reveals a dangerous Western delusion” – Anti-Israeli political activism politics is taking an expensive legal turn, to our enemies’ glee, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestinian activists target dozens of MPs in ‘litany of menace’” – Counter-extremism analysis shows elected representatives are experiencing unprecedented intimidation related to the Israel-Hamas conflict, reports the Telegraph.
• “The ECHR puts the rights of terrorists ahead of Britain’s security” – The latest report into the Troubles is based on a worrying premise, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Civil Service guidance directed officials to website that likened homosexuality to ‘a scourge’” – The civil services’s Muslim Network directed its members to a website also published an analysis describing Hamas’s Oct 7th terror attack as “good news”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The “climate disclosure” fraud” – In the name of “climate disclosure,” Biden’s SEC is coercing companies into spouting anti-fossil-fuel propaganda and committing to anti-fossil-fuel plans, says Alex Epstein on Substack.
• “Eco activists sent on retreats to ease ‘pain’ of bleak climate data” – The former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says campaigners need to “strengthen their inner core” to stop them getting too depressed about the impending climate catastrophe, reports the Times.
• “Dating agencies accused of bringing green dogma ‘into the bedroom’” – Single people are being questioned on their stance on environmental issues by dating sites with no option for dissent, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sign the Petition to Reinstate Martin Kulldorff at Harvard Medical School” – A supporter of Martin Kulldorff’s has started a petition on Change.org to get Harvard to reinstate the former Professor.
• “Vaughan Gething’s Covid failures” – Ross Clark gives Vaughan Gething, the new First Minister of Wales, an unfavourable report in the Spectator based on his terrible performance as the Welsh Health Minister during the pandemic.
• “How Covid made us more stupid: even mild infection ‘leads to fall in IQ’” – A large-scale study suggests the virus may have affected the intelligence of millions of people, according to the Times.
• “Almost 20,000 prostate cancer diagnoses missed because of Covid pandemic” – The U.K. saw the biggest fall in cancer operations in Western Europe in 2020, according to the Telegraph.
• “New Thailand randomised clinical trial shows early treatment with just two drugs was 100% effective in eliminating risk of hospitalisation from COVID” – Fluvoxamine in combination with one other drug was 100% successful in preventing hospitalisation for COVID in this multi-drug trial in Thailand, writes Steve Kirsch on Substack.
• “Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic” – Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of anti-vaxxers, writes Roger Bates in Quillette.
• “As the border collapses, a measles cluster is growing at a migrant shelter in Chicago” – But legal immigrants still have to take useless Covid jabs. And the media, which went nuts over a Florida school cluster last month, is ignoring the Chicago cases. Sometimes the hypocrisy is too much for Alex Berenson on Substack.
• “Tories plan to amend Equality Act to protect single-sex spaces” – The Government is considering a manifesto pledge to overhaul New Labour’s equality laws in effort to protect women-only spaces and female sports, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Transqueers take the mask off” – Andrew Sullivan takes a deep dive in the weird and wacky world of ultra-woke theorist Judith Butler and self-mutilating American journalist Andrea Long Chu in the Weekly Dish.
• “Staff who promoted puberty blockers get large payouts” – Clinicians at a disgraced gender clinic have been accused of “leaving ruin behind” for the children they prescribed puberty blockers to, reports the Times.
• “Church slavery fund is just for show” – Tony Sewell, the Conservative peer and former equality tsar, says life in Britain is much less racist than it was 40 years ago in the Times.
• “Is ‘The Hay Wain’ racist?” – Paintings of the English countryside, claims Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, can inflame ‘nationalist feeling’. Michael Deacon in the Telegraph asks whether, in light of this, it’s responsible for the Museum to display them?
• “Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness” – Yascha Mounk and Coleman Hughes discuss the difference between race blindness and racism blindness in the Persuasion podcast.
• “The rise of the woke bureaucracy” – Cash-strapped local councils are spending a fortune on ‘diversity and inclusion’ initiatives, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “Whether Britain faces an epidemic of bad mental health or of idleness, the solution is the same” – The tragedy of the benefit figures is that many are finding identity in their conditions, not in what they can do, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “No one wants to be The Man” – Ed West in the Wrong Side of History says the crisis in the West is down to a lack of parental authority figures in people’s lives.
• “Why does the V&A think Margaret Thatcher is a villain equivalent to Hitler?” – It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Robbie Gibb: does this Tory ‘agent’ really control the BBC?” – The former No 10 adviser, who has been accused of manipulating news coverage at the corporation, may not be quite as powerful as his critics claim, says Will Turvill in the Times.
• “How a 20-year-old from Peterborough became the oracle of U.S. politics” – Ringwiss, a mysterious Twitter account, explains the arcane rules of Congress to bemused American politicians and journalists. Turns out, the account belongs to a 20 year-old politics student at Durham, reports the Times.
• “‘Principled’ vandals must be made to pay” – Havoc and endless demonstrations are costing us too much. Enough already, says Dominic Lawson in the Times.
• “U.K. should consider conscription to deter Russia, says Nato ally” – The Latvian Foreign Minister says U.K. and other Nato members should follow his country in adopting a Finnish model of national service, according to the Telegraph.
• “Maybe climate change is just a hoax?” – Dominic Frisby has added a new verse for his famous ‘Maybe’ song.

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