News Round-Up

• “Switzerland’s Nemo triumphs at controversy-hit Eurovision” – The non-binary singer scored 365 points with the juries and 226 from the public for a total of 591. Israel’s Eden Golan failed to win over the juries, scoring just 52 points from the professional judges, but she scored a massive 323 from the public – including 12 (top points) from U.K. viewers.
• “This Eurovision protest with Greta Thunberg is an ugly new low for the anti-Israel Left” – Why is a young female Israeli pop singer being treated as if she’s somehow to blame for what’s happening in Gaza, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Biden’s sudden betrayal of Israel is a terrible miscalculation” – Washington fails to see that even if Netanyahu fell from power, his successors still want to destroy the terrorists, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “BBC Arabic repeatedly uses commentator jailed for role in murder of Israeli” – A Palestinian jailed for his part in murdering an Israeli man is used as a regular contributor by the BBC’s Arabic channel without his conviction being disclosed, the Telegraph reports.
• “How universities raised a generation of activists” – In the Spectator, Yascha Mounk says it was only a matter of time before America’s student protests spread to the U.K.
• “Why is Russia’s economy booming despite sanctions?” – Russians are spending more on restaurants, white goods, and even property – despite Western sanctions, they have never had it so good, says Alexander Kolyandr in the Spectator.
• “Dominic Cummings isn’t Britain’s saviour. He’s the reason we’re in this mess” – Let’s not forget that Boris Johnson’s former advisor-turned-nemesis championed draconian lockdown measures, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Congress’s Unscientific Spillover” – Virologist Alex Washburne’s take on the Congress lab leak grillings in Brownstone.
• “Some good news at last” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with the welcome news that the WHO Pandemic Treaty agreement has been ‘delayed’.
• “The Greens have lost their ‘nice’ tag for good” – The party that “once offered wholesome ideas and a safe protest vote is becoming home to the hard Left ejected by Labour”, says Janice Turner in the Times. I’m not sure how wholesome Green Party policy has ever been – it’s always seemed like a radical Left outfit to me.
• “Saboteurs opposed to ‘automobile capitalism’ fail to storm German Tesla factory, claim credit for stopping production on a scheduled holiday when nobody was at work in the first place” – Eugyppius’s essential take on the Tesla anti-capitalism protests.
• “Is U.K. Rainfall Becoming More Extreme? Not at Oxford” – Paul Homewood defies anybody to find a pattern or trend towards rainfall becoming more intense in Oxford on WUWT.
• “NOAA’s Latest Temperature Climate Data Establishes There is No Climate Emergency” – NOAA’s temperature data as addressed in detail in this essay do not support and clearly refute climate alarmist hype that we are experiencing a ‘climate emergency’, says Larry Hamlin in WUWT.
• “Civil Service diversity jobs will be scrapped” – A radical overhaul will forbid civil service managers from hiring any new staff dedicated to boosting equality and inclusion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Wasteful Whitehall diversity and inclusion spending will end” – Read Esther McVey’s Telegraph article announcing the measures.
• “The West’s multi-racial societies cannot survive woke doctrines being promoted on campuses” – Intolerant and illiberal, the identity politics that has taken root in our universities will ultimately have to be stamped out, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Has the SNP really turned its back on identity politics?” – The Spectator‘s Iain Macwhirter isn’t convinced.
• “Private school entrants drop as Labour’s VAT plan blamed” – New figures reveal a significant fall in enrollment numbers at independents, as strained parents reconsider their options, the Telegraph reports.
• “Welsh Labour using satellites to spy on homeowners and hike tax” – The Welsh Government is using satellites to spy on homeowners with big gardens as it seeks to overhaul council tax, according to the Telegraph.
• “This is what racism looks like in 2024. And to think people worry about ‘microaggressions’, what a joke” – Jake Wallis Simons on X castigates those booing Israel’s entry in the Eurovision crowd.

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