News Round-Up

• “Peter Murrell’s re-arrest has plunged the SNP into crisis” – There is what can only be described as a mood of despair in SNP circles after the re-arrest of former party chief executive Peter Murrell, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
• “The SNP faces an electoral calamity” – According to polling guru John Curtice, the SNP may be wiped out at the next election, says the Telegraph.
• “BBC Scotland slammed for ‘sinister’ interview with father of transgender child” – Murdo Fraser MSP has condemned BBC Scotland for being too sympathetic towards the father of a trans child who was critical of the Cass Review, says the Express.
• “Radical LGBT charity encourages teachers not to tell parents their children are trans” – LGBT Youth Scotland, which receives nearly £1 million a year in public funding, has been advising schools not to tell parents if their children are trans, reports the Telegraph.
• “My daughter was ‘radicalised’ by Scottish LGBT club in school” – A Scottish mother was forced to pull her child out of school after uncovering ‘cult-like’ materials shared between members, according to the Telegraph.
• “Anxiety may not qualify for disability benefits in Rishi Sunak’s reforms” – The PM has set out his “moral mission” to end Britain’s “sick note culture”, says the Times.
• “Sunak: Everyday problems are no excuse not to find work” – The P.M. says people with mild mental health conditions should be given help to stay in employment, reports the Telegraph.
• “GPs dishing out sick notes to patients they haven‘t even seen” – GPs are routinely writing sick notes for patients they have not seen, according to the Mail. Doctors admit 95% of requests are waved through without assessing the patient first.
• “5.4 million Brits could be on health-related benefits by 2029” – As Rishi Sunak launches a “moral mission” to help more people into work, the IFS has released estimates underlining the mounting scale of the problem, says the Mail.
• “Fourteen years of Tory rule have left Britain a lazy, dangerous, Left-wing mess” – It hardly matters that Labour will be worse, when voters feel so betrayed by the Tories, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Campaigner says Met Police are ‘making no-go areas for Jews’” – Gideon Falter, the chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was pulled aside by an officer who said he was “breaching the peace” after he tried to cross the road in the middle of a pro-Palestinian protest march because he was “quite openly Jewish”, reports the Mail.
• “Met Police apologises again after apology over Jewish arrest threat” – London’s police service issued a statement on Friday afternoon apologising for its poorly-worded apology to Gideon Falter after he was stopped from walking through a pro-Palestine march on Saturday, reports the Mail.
• “Islamists and the woke Left are uniting to topple the West” – In his Telegraph column, David Frost says the same forces that tried to shut down NatCon4 are marching through our major city every Saturday – a toxic cocktail of Islamists, the far Left and the Woke.
• “How NatCon was saved” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough takes us through the story of how NatCon4 was saved from the Brussels mayors determined to shut it down.
• “How Israel launched a ‘birthday surprise’ attack against Iran’s nuclear defences” – Israel launched a surprise attack yesterday on an Iranian missile production complex, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP: U.K. should have followed Sweden on Covid” – Graham Stringer MP has praised Sweden’s pandemic response, saying Britain should have looked to the Nordic country as it “came out the best of the countries in Europe in terms of deaths”, according to UnHerd.
• “Italian study calculates Covid-19 vaccine reduces average life expectancy by four months” – In Where are the Numbers, Martin Neil and Norman Fenton write about a new Italian study that suggests the Covid vaccines reduce life expectancy
• “Kemi Badenoch: ‘U.K.’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’” – The Business Secretary tells TheCityUK’s international conference that that Glorious Revolution of 1688 is what paved the way for Britain’s economic success, not slavery and colonialism, reports the Guardian.
• “I’m a woman of colour. DEI is just woke indoctrination” – The pitfalls of diversity and inclusion drives are not theoretical to me, says Raquel Rosario Sanchez in the Telegraph.
• “J.P. Morgan Warns of Delay to Global Energy Transition” – According to a J.P. Morgan report, the global energy transition may be delayed quite a long time due to inflation, high interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty.
• “Climate: The Article” – Doomberg gives his thoughts on the new climate documentary you’re not supposed to watch.
• “An unaccountable Net Zero elite has seized control of Britain” – The zealous drive to net neutrality is making business less competitive, hitting taxpayers, and acting as a drag on economic growth, says Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
• “Hate speech bill needs ‘radical surgery’, warns Charlie Flanagan” – The Irish hate crime bill has become a “runaway train” that needs to be stopped, says the former minister who first instigated the proposed reforms, reports the Times.
• “Cambridge in free-speech row over researcher’s ‘race realism’ blog” – Emmanuel College has terminated Nathan Cofnas’s fellowship after he published a controversial, race realist blog post, but Peter Singer, Steven Pinker and the Free Speech Union have come to his defence, says the Times.
• “Quarter of parents would quit private schools if VAT added to fees” – A new survey indicates 26% of parents with kids at independent schools would send them to state schools instead if Labour slaps VAT on school fees, casting doubt on Labour’s claim that policy will raise £1.6 billion, according to the Times.
• “King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy” – King’s College London has breached equality law, a top barrister says, by insisting that a candidate for an internal promotion endorse its EDI policy, reports the Times.
• “Queen Charlotte was ‘person of colour’, museum claims in LGBT guide” – Royal Museums Greenwich tells visitors that despite what “insecure white boys” say, George III’s wife was from a non-white background (even though she wasn’t), says the Telegraph.
• “Birbalsingh tells Braverman to ‘take a hike’ for using her school as a ‘political football’” – The Headteacher of Michaela Community School has lashed out at the former Home Secretary after she claimed the school wouldn’t exist without the Conservative Party’s free schools policy, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Endless tech’ at schools has been a failure, says Sophie Winkleman” – The actress and campaigner wants the millions spent on education technology to be invested in teachers instead, reports the Telegraph.
• “Spies must stop displaying ‘alpha behaviours’ such as ‘strength’, according to leaked intelligence diversity plans” – Diversitycrats have told Britain’s spies to use gender neutral language, spend an hour a week on diversity and celebrate Black History Month, reports Steven Edgington for GB News.
• “More CO₂ is good for the planet” – Professor William Happer Tells Sky News Australia’s Outsiders that far from suffering from too much CO₂, the planet actually needs more.

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