News Round-Up

• “Israel prepares to evacuate one million Palestinians before Rafah offensive” – Israel is preparing to evacuate more than one million Palestinians from Rafah ahead of a planned ground invasion to uproot Hamas from the city, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestinian protesters say walk by Jewish campaigners should face restrictions” – Pro-Palestinian protesters demand that a walk organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism in London this weekend should be subject to strict police restrictions, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s Jews fear for their lives because Sir Mark Rowley is a weak coward” – While other nations show strength and resolve in the face of the Islamist menace, our police have shamed themselves, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage accuses NatWest lawyers of cover-up in debanking row” – Nigel Farage claims that “the cover-up continues” about his debanking scandal as he accused lawyers acting for NatWest of a lack of transparency, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation” – Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase Britain’s defence budget to 2.5% of GDP by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ukraine has only six months left” – It looks like, as in previous wars, Russia will have begun badly but finished well through sheer determination, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “French navy lets packed migrant boat reach England despite five deaths on board” – The French Navy allowed a dinghy packed with migrants to continue across the Channel despite the deaths of five people on board, including a seven year-old girl, according to the Telegraph.
• “A constitutional crisis over Rwanda may be Sunak’s last hope of avoiding wipeout” – The PM’s Rwanda Bill, which was passed on Monday night, could test parliamentary sovereignty to destruction, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Clashes at St. George’s Day rally in Central London” – Police in Central London dealt with disorder ahead of a St. George’s Day rally after a group of people forced their way through a cordon and shouted “England til’ I die”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The British State is using an old Stasi strategy against its own” – The acquittal of Tommy Robinson is the latest in a 25-year-long persecution by the state. Zersetzung, a strategy developed by the Stasi, is now part of our Government’s playbook, writes C.J. Strachan on Substack.
• “Boris Johnson told me he wished he was black, claims journalist” – Boris Johnson’s former wife says she “blocked out” awkward memories of her ex-husband after a journalist told her he once said he “wished he was black”, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC ‘sweeps report under carpet’ after Huw Edwards quits” – BBC insiders have voiced dismay at the corporation, which has been accused of sweeping its internal report about Huw Edwards’s conduct under the carpet after his resignation, according to the Times.
• “Does Channel Four think this counts as balanced?” – Channel Four’s General Election night line-up is a genuinely comical conception of what counts as a diverse range of views, says Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
• “Labour, ‘patriotic’? Pull the other one, Sir Keir” – Does anyone believe that Starmer and his colleagues “will celebrate St. George’s Day with enthusiasm”? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Fauci’s lab in Montana was part of DARPA Defuse” – Jim Haslam’s latest post on the multitude of claims and connections surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
• “Have people died from Long Covid?” – HART questions the Covid virus’s role in excess deaths, citing a CDC study that found few fatalities due to Long Covid.
• “The censorship never ends” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton rails against YouTube for removing his interviews critical of the WHO and Covid vaccines from a Rome conference that aired on Italian TV.
• “One million children to receive disability benefits amid surge in autism and ADHD” – Official figures show that taxpayers will face a £100 billion-a-year bill for health and disability claims in 2029, reports the Telegraph.
• “GP who attended Just Stop Oil protest suspended” – A doctor, arrested and jailed for her involvement in Just Stop Oil protests, has had her medical licence suspended for five months, reports the BBC.
• “The West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves” – As demand stalls, the EV revolution looks more like a battle for survival, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk plots new direction after Tesla’s electric car crisis” – The Telegraph’s James Titcomb on Elon Musk’s ambition to turn cars into self-driving robotaxis.
• “World’s biggest floating wind farm to be built off Scottish coast” – The world’s biggest floating offshore wind farm is to be built off the coast of Scotland to power North Sea oil and gas platforms, according to Energy Voice.
• “Potholes are now a conspiracy against drivers” – Councils that will happily spend a fortune on blocking the roads with bollards start pleading poverty when it comes to resurfacing roads, remarks Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Mad-dgalen College” – Why Magdalen College has changed its Saint George’s Day tradition for one that is neither Christian nor English is a question which really deserves a more honest answer, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Census data on number of trans people in Britain is ‘deeply flawed’” – Michael Biggs, an Oxford sociologist, claims that the first official data on the size of the transgender population in England and Wales is “seriously flawed”, reports the Times.
• “People are in denial following the Cass report – it’s like deprogramming cult members” – The reactions of gender zealots to their folly being exposed range from notably silent to dangerously delusional, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP ‘may have misled’ Parliament with response to Cass Review” – Labour MP Dawn Butler admits she “may have misled” the House of Commons by quoting a briefing issued by Stonewall in response to the Cass Review, according to the Telegraph.
• “The truth about Stonewall is finally being exposed” – Stonewall sought to shut down debate and pose as the real ‘experts’. Now its credibility has crumbled, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
• “Shadow Justice Secretary agrees with J.K. Rowling over gender critical views” – Shabana Mahmood says J.K. Rowling should not be stigmatised for standing up for what she rightly believes in, reports the Telegraph.
• “Will the trans activists who cancelled me ever apologise?” – Now that the Cass Review and has revealed the horrors of ‘gender-affirming care’, will the trans lobby now apologise for all the lives they’ve ruined? asks Gillian Philip in Spiked.
• “Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism” – Laws that should exist to protect women and children are used to cater to the marginalisation fantasies of volunteers, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
• “Using phrase ‘back in your day’ to older colleague could be considered age harassment” – An Employment Tribunal has ruled that using the phrase ‘back in your day’ to an older colleague at work could be considered age harassment, reports the Mail.
• “How Wikipedia became Wokepedia” – The world’s most popular encyclopaedia has become a fundraising tool for social-justice propaganda, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
• “Cheers! London Marathon runner completes wine tasting at every mile” – One runner took a very different approach to the London Marathon by blind tasting a different glass of wine after every mile, reports the Mail.
• “‘Stay out of news. You’re just trouble’” – Andrew Neil provides some blunt advice on what the Government should do with the media.

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