News Round-Up

• “Sadiq Khan played down machete concerns week before Hainault sword attack” – Sadiq Khan played down fears over “gangs running around with machetes” just a week before a deadly sword attack in Hainault, North-East London, reports the Telegraph.
• “Columbia student protesters barricade themselves inside university building” – In New York, pro-Palestinian students have taken over a Columbia University building in the latest escalation of pro-Palestinian protests on campus, according to Sky News.
• “Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark shift against gender ideology” – The Government has announced proposals to ban transgender women from single-sex female NHS wards, reports GB News.
• “Rosie Duffield right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer” – The Spectator’s Steerpike marvels at Starmer’s remarkable U-turn over Rosie Duffield.
• “Atkins says term ‘woman’ won’t be eradicated to be inclusive” – Health Secretary Victoria Atkins says the NHS must not “eradicate women” and should avoid using “artificial language” in the name of inclusivity, according to the Mail.
• “The terrible cost of the school shutdowns” – Lockdown has pushed absenteeism, suspensions and exclusions to record highs, writes Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
• “Britain is about to surrender its sovereignty to the WHO” – Handing control to a secretive international body that got most of the Covid calls wrong is not sensible, says John Redwood in the Telegraph.
• “Nine questions for Peter Daszak” – On Substack, Jim Haslam has nine questions for EcoHealth President Peter Daszak that Congress won’t dare ask at an upcoming public hearing on the pandemic.
• “Britain must fight ‘chilling effect’ of cancel culture, Sunak says” – Rishi Sunak warns that the erosion of free speech risks damaging democracy, reports the Telegraph.
• “The old progressive politics is dead – Humza’s resignation proves it” – While the old Third Way progressivism is dying, make no mistake – a new centrist fudge is forming across the West, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Humza Yousaf: a hoplite without a phalanx” – Even before becoming First Minister, Yousaf had a poor track record, writes Henry Hill in CapX.
• “How the SNP broke Scotland” – Telegraph Money reveals four ways the SNP’s firebrand nationalism has failed.
• “Taxpayers must refuse to fund this migrant scandal” – Do taxpayers realise how much they are being ripped off by the Government to accommodate illegal migrants? asks Janice Davis in TCW.
• “RedBird IMI formally abandons Telegraph takeover” – The Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund RedBird IMI has abandoned its attempts to buy the Telegraph Media Group and confirmed it will seek an onward sale via an open auction, reports the Telegraph.
• “How regulators are drowning Britain’s most valuable industry in red tape” – Tory ministers fear the City is being hamstrung by an overzealous watchdog, reports Michael Bow in the Telegraph.
• “Who gets to ask the questions on Question Time?” – Obviously biased Left-wing studio audiences shame the BBC, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “No level of terrorism should be inevitable” – A sclerotic pipework of multi-agency failure is enabling terrorism, writes Ian Acheson in CapX.
• “London’s nightlife is on the rocks” – Have you tried to get a drink after 11pm in Central London recently? asks Mimi Yates in CapX.
• “Sadiq Khan has made London an international laughing stock” – The London Mayor’s woeful reign has seen pub after pub and bar after bar close down, writes Sam Bidwell in the Telegraph.
• “European politicians declare war on text message privacy” – The same EU politicians who are trying to censor the internet now want to read all of your personal messages, say Cecílie Jílková and Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
• “Electric grid wars are a direct assault on the Western middle class” – If we want prosperity for all, electricity must be cheap and plentiful. The energy transition cannot leave ordinary people behind, writes Joel Kotkin in the Telegraph.
• “Parkrun to delete runners’ statistics as it prepares to double down in records row” – Amateur running organisation Parkrun may delete further statistics from its event websites, according to the Telegraph.
• “Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up in law” – Groupthink and negligence let a bullying culture thrive in the workplace, but now the tide is finally starting to turn, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Visit Britain, if you’re man enough” – VisitBritain’s language guide is yet another example of creeping authoritarianism in our country, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Germany’s disastrous embrace of gender self-ID” – Germany’s new ‘Self-Determination Law’ is a threat to women and children, says Spiked’s Sabine Beppler-Spahl.
• “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part two” – In the second part of TCW’s investigation by Karen Harradine into the activist charity Hope Not Hate, she delves into its funding sources and the agendas of its funders.
• “The Last Night of the Pompous” – In TCW, Weaver Sheridan updates the words of Rule Britannia! for Guardian readers.
• “The rise and eventual fall of cults” – The Cass review has delivered the transgender cult a significant blow, but that still leaves the anthropogenic climate catastrophists and the Covid/WHO fanatics, writes Paul Sutton on Substack.
• “When Silicon Valley stopped trying to save the world” – Four years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was treated as a heretic when he insisted on leaving politics out of work. Now he looks prophetic, says Michal Lev-Ram in the Free Press.
• “Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy” – Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause, says Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
• “Do you owe her an apology?” – Susanna Reid asks Keir Starmer on Good Morning Britain whether he owes Rosie Duffield an apology, given that he now acknowledges that women do, in fact, have cervixes.

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