News Round-Up

• “The world stands on the brink of all-out war” – Israel will have no choice other than to respond to the attack by Iran, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “IDF says it has approved plans for ‘offensive and defensive action’” – Israel has described Iran’s unprecedented 350-missile attack as a “declaration of war” and confirmed it has approved plans for “offensive and defensive action”, according to the Mail.
• “Biden tells Netanyahu U.S. will not support a strike on Iran” – Joe Biden reportedly warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks against Iran, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ex-spy chief: Iran attack against Israel is ‘face-saving’ exercise’” – An ex-British military intelligence chief says that Iran’s drone and missile attack against Israel is a “face-saving” exercise, says the Mail.
• “RAF shot down ‘a number’ of Iranian attack drones, Sunak confirms” – The Prime Minister has confirmed that Royal Air Force pilots shot down “a number” of Iran’s drones during the overnight attack on Israel, according to the Telegraph.
• “How RAF Typhoons and their pilots’ bionic helmets helped Israel repel Iran’s drone onslaught” – In the Telegraph, Sean Rayment and Sophia Yan detail how British jets took to the skies to defend Israel.
• “Israel urges U.K. to proscribe Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist group” – Israel has urged allies, including Britain, to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group following the drone and missile attacks on the country, reports the Telegraph.
• “Despite their failed attack, Iran should not be underestimated” – Iran’s military would have made certain that both Israel and more importantly, the U.S., knew what was coming, writes Sean Rayment in the Spectator.
• “Iran has just exposed how impotent it really is” – Tehran must now fear it lacks the military power needed to realise its malign intentions, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
• “All Iran’s mullahs have managed to do is to unite their enemies against them” – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his acolytes appear to have made an egregious strategic error, writes David Patrikarakos in the Mail.
• “Was Israel’s defence against Iranian barrage a success? Think again” – The fightback on Saturday night showed that Israel has only a limited self-sufficiency in security matters, says Roger Boyes in the Sunday Times, needing American, British, Jordanian and Saudi help to repel Iran’s attack.
• “What Iran’s failed attack says about Israel” – Iran’s attack on Israel exposed not just the strength of Israel’s alliance but Iran’s isolation, with worldwide condemnation, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “U.K. terror attack warning as Iran ‘could launch operations’ if conflict escalates” – Leading expert Dr. Alan Mendoza warns that the likelihood of terror attacks striking the U.K. could increase if the conflict in the Middle East continues to intensify, according to Christopher Sharp in the Express.
• “Do what you must, Israel, after this appalling attack” – If so many weapons of destruction had rained down on Britain, would we be listening to those urging caution? asks Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “Britain’s Jewish community put on high alert after Iran attack on Israel” – The Community Security Trust – a charity that exists to protect Jews from antisemitic attacks – says it has issued a notice to Jewish organisations to upgrade security measures in light of Iran’s attack on Israel.
• “‘Disgrace’ – Nigel Farage rages at ‘deeply disturbing’ university appointment” – Nigel Farage has ripped into the appointment of a pro-Palestine rector at Glasgow University, according to the Express.
• “Vile video of university rector at Palestine extremist’s memorial” – Glasgow University is under pressure to censure its new rector after a video emerged showing him weeping over the death of a Palestinian terrorist, reports the Mail.
• “Islamic extremists ‘planning to bomb Eurovision Song Contest’” – According to guards at the biggest mosque in Malmo, Islamic extremists are planning to bomb the Eurovision Song Contest in protest at Israel taking part, according to the Mail.
• “BBC Arabic presenter says guest should apologise over sympathy for Israel” – A BBC Arabic show suggested a guest should apologise for showing sympathy towards Israel, says the Telegraph.
• “BBC cuts council house row question from Rayner interview” – The BBC is under fire after cutting a question to Angela Rayner about whether she broke the electoral law aftter Labour staffers expressed “concerns”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is this the end of Angela Rayner?” – In politics, behaviour is often only incidental to the scale of the scandal, remarks John Oxley in UnHerd.
• “A quarter of people now want to work fully remotely, research finds” – Working from home has become one of the key battlegrounds in the culture wars, and now almost one in four people believe they should even be allowed to WFA (work from abroad), reports the Mail.
• “Families to fight end-of-life gagging orders in Supreme Court” – Two families in end-of-life cases are set to battle in the Supreme Court against gagging orders which they say prevent them from holding doctors to account, says the Telegraph.
• “YouTuber makes a fortune filling out disability applications for £650” – Charlotte Anderson, from Bucknall in Staffordshire, uses insider know-how to fill out customers’ disability applications – at £650 a pop, reports the Mail.
• “Indulgent benefits encouraging a generation of idleness” – Dr. Max Pemberton challenges readers not to be horrified by the Mail on Sunday’s exposé of money drained from the benefits system by malingerers.
• “Comedians risk arrest under Scotland’s new hate crime law” – Pub Landlord comedian Al Murray says Scotland’s new hate crime law has put comedians at risk of being arrested for gags that are just meant as tongue-in-cheek, according to the Mail.
• “How the SNP became trapped by ‘woke groupthink’ – and why it matters” – The Cass review into gender treatment has highlighted how the SNP’s focus on independence has left it vulnerable to influence by ‘supportive’ organisations with their own agenda, says Mike Wade in the Sunday Times.
• “Cigar-chomping Winston Churchill would back smoking ban – Minister” – Health Secretary Victoria Atkins used Churchill to hit back at Conservative MPs who are critical of the plan for a rolling age limit on using tobacco, according to the Mail.
• “Who not to vote for?” – To vote or not to vote? That is the question, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Rishi Sunak blasts European court ‘over-reach’ on Net Zero” – Rishi Sunak has hit out at the “complete overreach” by the European Court of Human Rights which has imposed a legal obligation on governments to achieve Net Zero, reports the Mail.
• “Europe trails China and U.S. after ‘monumental’ energy mistakes, IEA chief says“ – The International Energy Agency chief slams Europe for making “two historic monumental mistakes” in energy policy by relying on Russian gas and turning away from nuclear power, according to the FT.
• “German companies deserve blame for deindustrialisation” – Germany’s industrial titans, once supportive of environmental policies, now criticise them, writes Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
• “How Scotland’s solar speed cameras have failed… due to a lack of sun!” – Scotland’s solar-powered speed cameras are useless due to budgetary constraints and the country’s cloudy skies, reports the Mail.
• “Richard Hammond makes feelings clear on electric vehicles and predicts most cars will be petrol by 2050” – Richard Hammond predicts that the majority of cars will be petrol by 2050, despite plans to massively expand EV sales, says GB News.
• “Why ‘the dam would break’ if Shell quit the FTSE” – Shell is considering quitting the FTSE amid negative sentiment towards oil and gas companies and an aggressive green agenda in Europe, reports the Telegraph.
• “Climate cooking” – On Substack, Roger Pielke Jr. explains how a few billionaires helped push climate science to the extremes.
• “Why academia failed to challenge trans ideology” – Any academic who dares to question gender identity ideology can expect obstacles at every stage of the research process, writes Frederick Attenborough for the FSU’s News Blog.
• “Ridicule over university’s ‘trans archeology’ course” – A taxpayer-funded course exploring “Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology’ at the University of York has been branded a “scam” by a Conservative MP, according to GB News.
• “Woke studies at uni have hit a new low – and your taxes are paying for it” – That there is money for three years of fully paid-up research on “subcultural homosexual enunciations” is as funny as it is depressing, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Are phones really frying kids’ brains?” – Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation has started a debate about the pros and cons of children owning smart phones, writes Matthew Feeney in CapX.
• “The 50 biggest freedom fighters in the world today” – In his new Outspoken countdown, Dan Wootton reveals his list of the world’s biggest freedom fighters. Toby comes in at no.18.
• “Shunned for being a non-woke comedian in Britain?” – On The State Of It podcast, Lewis Brackpool is joined by Nick Dixon to discuss identity politics in stand-up comedy, Ofcom and the two-party system.
• “Best post-fight interview of all time?” – Brazilian UFC star Renato Moicano capped his knockout performance at UFC 300 by urging anyone who loves their country to “read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!”

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