News Round-Up

• “Israel’s National Security Minister: Israel must show it is ‘prepared to go berserk’ on Iran” – Israel’s hard-line Security Minister says that Israel must show it is “prepared to go berserk” on Iran in the wake of its missile onslaught, reports the Mail.
• “Iran has chosen self-destruction and is happy to take the world down with it” – Tehran can’t possibly win a war against Israel, but the danger is its leaders are just too irrational to realise it, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “The targets Israel should hit starting with Iran nuke lair” – In the Mail, General Jacob Nagel explains why Israel’s failure to strike back at Iran could lead to nuclear war – and the three targets the Jewish State should hit right now.
• “BBC’s Nick Robinson says he should have been clearer over ‘Israel has murdered Palestinians’ claim” – Nick Robinson says he “should have been clearer” after a row over the BBC presenter’s claim that Israel had “murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The ‘don’t’ doctrine” – Iran’s attack on Israel has laid bare the failure of the Biden administration’s strategy of pressure on allies and meekness toward Iran, writes Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
• “To deny the threat of fundamentalist Islam is an insult to Salman Rushdie’s bravery” – Free speech is deeply precious, but it is a democratic value that we haven’t passed on to the next generation, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “How woke leftists became cheerleaders for Iran” – We can now see the anti-Israel bigotry behind the woke Left’s phoney pacifism, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “American anti-war activists cheer for Iran’s war” – At a recent Left-wing conference in Chicago, activists believe Iran is “part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA” writes Olivia Reingold in the Free Press.
• “Liz Truss told Kwasi ‘I am being threatened with a market meltdown’” – In the Mail’s final instalment of her political memoir, Liz Truss reveals her utter relief at leaving Downing Street after 49 tumultuous days.
• “Quarter of voters who backed the Tories in 2019 now support Reform U.K.” – According to a Redfield & Wilton survey, 24% of those who supported the Tories in 2019 have since switched to Reform U.K. – a record high, reports the Mail.
• “Age-specific nasal epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection” – A new study published in Nature Microbiology highlights different responses to COVID-19 across age groups.
• “Stabbed Sydney priest is a viral lockdown and Covid vaccine sceptic” – The Christian Orthodox bishop who was stabbed in Sydney’s second knife attack in three days is a fire and brimstone preacher known for his scepticism over Covid vaccines, reports the Telegraph.
• “There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates” – A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump, says Alessandra Bocchi in the Critic.
• “French youth back compulsory military service amid war in Ukraine” – Some 62% of young French people are in favour of national service, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Britain shuns ‘patriotic’ heat pumps with subsidies worth £173 million left unclaimed” – Heat pumps are still getting a cool reception from homeowners with £173 million in potential grants remaining unclaimed as the scheme reaches its second anniversary, according to the Telegraph.
• “The heat pumps scandal has gone on for too long. End subsidies now” – How much longer are we prepared to sink public money into propping up an industry whose products struggle to appeal on their own merits? asks Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Trans ideologists cast themselves as heroes – history will remember them as cowards” – In the wake of the Cass review, the voices of those who neglected children’s safety have quickly fallen silent, observes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “How Ruth Hunt turned trans into a religious crusade” – Stonewall’s ex-CEO is trying to dodge responsibility for her role in the ‘trans kids’ scandal, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “Ban trans women from female sports, Lucy Frazer tells sporting chiefs” – The Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has told sporting chiefs that transgender athletes should be banned from competing against women, according to the Mail.
• “Cancel culture ‘forcing people into a corner’ of self-censorship, says Dawn French” – Dawn French says cancel culture has “forced people into a corner” and has made people cowardly because it has “wiped out any margin for error”, reports the Mail.
• “The Voice to Parliament is still dividing Aussies” – South Australia shows us that democracy and identity politics don’t mix, writes William J. Barker in Spiked.
• “‘Nearly all American universities have succumbed to politicisation’” – Historian Niall Ferguson talks to Zeit Online about the parlous state of American higher education and his new university in Austin, Texas.
• “What happened to Bitcoin?” – Roger Ver’s Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC is a tragic tale of subversion and betrayal and of a missed opportunity to change the world, writes the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey A. Tucker.
• “Jilted Italian stalks his former wife by disguising himself as a ghost” – A jilted Italian man allegedly stalked his ex-wife by disguising himself as a ghost to throw bricks at her house, reports the Mail.
• “‘Playing the race card’ accusation is racist, judge rules” – An Employment Tribunal has ruled that suggesting someone is ‘playing the race card’ if they complain about how they have been treated at work is racist, according to the Mail.
• “‘He was playing the race card basically!’” – On Headliners, Simon Evans, Leo Kearse and Nick Dixon discuss ‘playing the race card’.

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