News Round-Up

• “Islamist groups should not be dictating terms in this country” – Demands to Keir Starmer from extremists must be resisted – and if he won’t do it, we’ll have our opportunity at the ballot box, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “The British dream is crumbling, replaced by a nightmare of sectarian division” – The U.K. has been hugely successful at integration, but pro-mass immigration elites have abused our openness, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Western students can’t mask their vile antisemitism” – These student demonstrations are dogmatic mobs that have become overrun with bad-faith extremists, says Lauren Davidson in the Telegraph.
• “The pro-Palestine campus protests have gone too far” – Free speech does not include the right to harass, threaten or intimidate, writes Iain Mansfield in the Spectator.
• “The people setting America on fire” – In Tablet, Park MacDougald investigates the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists and leftists behind the campus protests.
• “NUS delegates call for expulsion of main Jewish group” – Delegates at a National Union of Students conference vote to stop recognising their Jewish members’ main representative body because of its support for Israel, reveals the Jewish Chronicle.
• “A message from Jewish students at Columbia University” – Hundreds of Jewish students at Columbia University have signed an open letter accusing anti-Israeli protesters on campus of “dehumanising” them.
• “National security fears as hundreds of defence companies debanked” – Lloyds and other high street lenders have begun debanking hundreds of defence companies as they become more strict on their internal ethics policies, sparking fears that the U.K.’s national security may be at risk, according to Proactive.
• “The debanking scandal is a national disgrace” – Systematic bank account closures put businesses – and Britain’s security – at risk, warns Harriett Baldwin in the Telegraph.
• “I was debanked like Nigel Farage, says ex-Bank of England economist Haldane” – Former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane was debanked like Nigel Farage because he was designated “politically connected”, according to Bloomberg.
• “Who is Kate Forbes? Scotland’s new Deputy First Minister” – John Swinney appoints Kate Forbes as the Deputy First Minister of Scotland after she agreed not to stand against him for the SNP leadership, reports the National.
• “Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour” – Tory MP Natalie Elphicke says she left the party because the country needed to “move on from the broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic Government”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elphicke’s defection is an utter farce” – Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Keir Starmer’s party is based on a fantasy, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
• “The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism” – How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation? asks Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
• “Labour’s VAT policy for private schools will hit every homeowner and bankrupt local councils” – Labour’s VAT policy for private schools may become Starmer’s political albatross, akin to Blair’s hunting ban, says Richard Taylor on his Media Taylor blog.
• “Ireland’s populist insurgency” – Dublin’s anti-immigration marchers are up against a silent majority of Irish voters, writes Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
• “Young AfD politician convicted for publishing gang rape statistics in connection with Afghan migration” – Alternative for Germany politician Marie-Thérèse Kaiser has been convicted for publishing gang rape statistics to warn that Afghan immigrants are disproportionately liable to commit sexual violence against females, reports Freddie Attenborough for the Free Speech Union’s blog.
• “Secrets of the Kent Kremlin: the gothic mansion ‘used by Putin’s spies’” – For almost 80 years, Seacox Heath has been a tiny slice of Moscow’s empire on the Kent/Sussex borders, write Robert Mendick and Neil Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Britain refuses to sign global vaccine treaty that would force it to give away fifth of jabs” – Britain is refusing to sign the WHO’s pandemic treaty while it insists the U.K. would have to give away a fifth of its jabs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Classified documents support lab leak theory” – New State Department documents suggest COVID-19 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan and that the CCP covered it up, reveals COVIDSelect on X.
• “What does it take to recall/withdraw a vaccine/injectable product?” – There has been enough of a death safety signal in VAERS since January 2021 to justify a recall of the Moderna, Pfizer and Janssen products, says Jessica Rose on her Substack.
• “The AZtec two-step” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan discuss the AstraZeneca global vaccine withdrawal.
• “Czech study challenges vax narratives in both directions” – In the Brownstone Institute, Cecilie Jilkova interviews mathematician Tomas Fürst about his recent paper on the ‘Healthy Vaccinee Effect’ and its implications for interpreting data about the effectiveness of the Covid mRNA vaccines.
• “Update on Covid mRNA vaccine harms” – The U.S. Government is finally starting to acknowledge that they have forced American citizens (including military personnel) to accept toxic injectable products wrongly described as “vaccines”, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
• “The pharmaceutical industry is out of control, safety standards have divebombed” – NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Hedley Rees, Managing Director of Pharmaflow, to discuss the parlous state of the pharmaceutical industry.
• “Ultra-low risk epidemiology” – A new meta-analysis highlights what junk science epidemiology is, writes Christopher Snowdon on his Substack.
• “One in three U.K. women are sad – worse than Saudi Arabia and Kosovo” – Research involving 80,000 women from 143 countries indicates a concerning increase in levels of despair among British women, with worry, stress and anger all on the rise, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Every household should be forced to have a smart meter, says British Gas boss” – The CEO of British Gas says every household should be forced to have a smart energy meter to help hit Net Zero targets, despite no one wanting them, according to BirminghamLive.
• “Scottish Greens ‘prioritising gender ideology over protecting children’” – The Scottish Greens are prioritising ideology over protecting children after the party again refused to endorse the Cass Review, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Tory ‘lavender mafia’” – The British Right should reflect on how it allowed its primary political party to become an annex of Grindr and ensure it never happens again, says the Pimlico Journal Substack.
• “Parliament hires diversity managers on £70,000 a year despite war on woke jobs” – The Lords and Commons are offering big salaries to EDI officers, reports the Telegraph.
• “Vandals have taken charge of the Church of England” – We have Gordon Brown to thank for the CofE managerial class that scraps choirs in the name of diversity, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
• “The Devil’s reason” – There is no future in modernity and secular government, writes David McGrogan on Substack.
• “It’s time to step up, folks” – We all need to get out and vote. However disillusioned and disenfranchised we may feel, says C.J. Strachan on his Substack.
• “Stakeholder Communism” – On his New Era Substack, Jeffrey Peel urges readers to watch Richard Jeffs’s new movie, Stakeholder Communism, about the dastardly activities of the World Economic Forum and its Bond villain leader, Klaus Schwab.
• “The unlikely relationship between Russell Brand, Bear Grylls and God” – Christian survival expert Bear Grylls played a key part in the recent baptism of comedian Russell Brand – but how did their ‘bromance’ start? asks Marianka Swain in the Telegraph.
• “New York Governor sorry for saying black children in the Bronx ‘don’t know what computers are’” – The Democrat Governor of New York has been forced to apologise after suggesting that black children in the most deprived parts of the city don’t know what a computer is, according to the NY Times.
• “Trump’s trial is a stupendous legal catastrophe” – Every American should be appalled at this selective prosecution. Today the target is Trump. Tomorrow it could be a Democrat, says Alan Dershowitz in the Telegraph.
• “Trump ‘plans to send kill teams to Mexico to take out drug lords’” – Donald Trump is considering sending special operations teams into Mexico to kill the heads of drug cartels if he retakes the White House in November, according to the Mail.
• “Social media sites could use facial ID to protect children” – New Ofcom guidance suggests social media giants use facial recognition to prevent children accessing violent content, reports the Mail. 
• “Watch the truth!” – On X, Canary Mission shows just how “welcoming and safe” President Minouche Shafik’s Columbia University is for Jewish students.

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