News Round-Up

• “BBC removes Laura Kuenssberg episode after Chris Packham comments cause complaint” – GB News reports on Toby’s complaint that the wildlife presenter had made “false and defamatory” allegations about him.
• “Tory MP defects to Labour in blow to Sunak” – Dr. Dan Poulter, a former Health Minister, has defected to Labour as he accuses the Tories of becoming a “nationalist party of the Right”. Surely some mistake?
• “Campaign Against Antisemitism cancels London march amid security concerns” – A counter event to the pro-Palestine demonstration today did not go ahead because of fears for participants’ safety, the Telegraph reports.
• “Met Police are so cowed by antisemites, they cover up the Holocaust” – Britain’s first public memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust was covered up and guarded by Met Police officers to stop pro-Palestinian protesters targeting the monument, reports the Mail.
• “Moment pro-Gaza students harass Jacob Rees-Mogg hurling vicious abuse” – Pro-Palestine students and activists harassed Jacob Rees-Mogg and hurled foul-mouthed abuse at him after speaking at Cardiff University, the Mail reports.
• “My generation of student radicals fought for liberty. Today’s are a delusional cult” – The Telegraph‘s Janet Daley says she was “there when Berkeley erupted in outrage at restrictions on free speech. It was nothing like the protests today”.
• “The working-from-home illusion fades” – It is not more productive than being in an office, after all, says the Economist. You don’t say.
• “China’s spies and Covid lies” – Spectator TV this week features Great Barrington legends Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gutpa talking about Covid propaganda.
• “Can anyone halt the mRNA juggernaut?” – David Craig is doubtful on TCW.
• “How Canada’s energy experiment backfired – and why smart meter Britain is next” – Between the hours of 11am and 5pm on any given weekday, energy prices in Ontario are more than double what they are overnight, says the Telegraph.  
• “L A Times Editorial Claim that ‘The planet is experiencing a horrifying streak of record-breaking heat’ is Unsupported by NOAA’s Climate Data” – Larry Hamlin on WUWT fact-checks an L A Times claim of a global “horrifying streak of record-breaking heat” using official data.
• “Rolls-Royce scales back plans to build nuclear factories in U.K.” – Rolls-Royce has scaled back plans to build two new factories for its small modular reactor programme in the U.K., following delays to a Government design competition, the Telegraph reports.
• “Leading German politician calls for the state to issue ‘revocable social media licences’ for the privilege of commenting online” – If only speech were not a right but a privilege granted selectively by the state, our democratic freedoms would be that much more secure, quips Eugyppius as he relays the latest illiberal proposals from a top German political figure.
• “If even GB News viewers plan to vote Labour, the Tories only have themselves to blame” – The Left may be looking forward to the Government’s annihilation, but no one will enjoy it more than conservatives, says Telegraph wit Michael Deacon.
• “It’s a dangerous myth that mass migration is good for the economy” – We need a cap on migrant numbers, to prove to British voters that they will never again be betrayed, argues Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph. That horse has bolted, I suspect.
• “Now Europe copies Rishi on Rwanda” – Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has backed a policy of deporting people to third countries for asylum processing, the Mail reports.
• “Sexual predators jailed after eight girls raped in West Yorkshire” – The 24 men were arrested as part of Operation Tourway’s discovery of their years-long campaign of abuse, which has been described as “abhorrent in the extreme”, says the Mail in a report that meticulously avoids mentioning anything about the perpetrators’ race or religion.
• “Putin did not order Alexei Navalny’s death, U.S. intelligence believes” – U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, according to the Mail.
• “Russell Brand’s Christian rebrand” – Russell Brand has become the latest dissident public figure to convert to Christianity, announcing this week that he has been baptised.
• “The Guardian publishes article defending Cass Report” – In a remarkable shift, the Guardian has published an opinion piece in defence of the Cass Report, written by David Bell, the psychiatrist who revealed malpractice at the Tavistock gender clinic, reports UnHerd.
• “Wales is becoming a safe haven for trans extremists” – Writing in the Telegraph, Robin Millar and Laura Jones warn that Wales is increasingly out of step with England in its dogged commitment to trans gobbledegook.
• “‘Chestfeeding’ to be banned in NHS crackdown” – The NHS is to crack down on transgender ideology in hospitals, with terms like “chestfeeding” banned under changes to the NHS constitution set to be announced by Health Secretary Victoria Atkins this week, the Telegraph reports.
• “U.S. birth rate falls to record low amid global decline” – The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low last year, hitting 1.62 births per woman, down from 3.65 in 1960, amid a global decline in the number of people having children, reports the Telegraph.
• “One in three BBC journalism scheme trainees are white Britons” – White Britons made up just a third of BBC trainee journalists taken on its flagship scheme between 2022 and 2024 while men were less than 30%, the Telegraph reveals.
• “How We’ve Taken the Bias Out of ‘Implicit Bias Training’” – In the WSJ, Stanley Goldfarb says his new course satisfies Michigan’s pernicious mandate by turning woke indoctrination on its head.
• “Three years after the Batley Grammar School furore, the teacher is still in hiding” – This should never have been allowed to happen, says Andrew Doyle on X.

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