News Round-Up

• “Israeli singer Eden Golan receives a hero’s welcome as she flies home” – Eden Golan arrived in Israel to a hero’s welcome after leaving Malmo under armed guard just hours after the Eurovision competition finished, reports the Mail.
• “Hidden pro-Palestinian messages in Eurovision contestants’ outfits” – It’s meant to be a joyous celebration of European musical kitsch, but instead, this year’s Eurovision was packed with anti-Israel messaging, says Codie Bullen in the Mail.
• “Pro-Palestine Irish singer Bambie Thug row with Eurovision deepens” – Bambie Thug claims the Eurovision organisers did not support her after Israeli TV branded her semi-final performance “satanic”, reports the Mail.
• “The dignity of Eden Golan” – What qualifies a street mob to rule that Eden Golan should carry the blame for everything that has happened in Gaza? asks Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
• “I’m A Celeb star is slammed for comment about Eurovision performance” – In the Mail, former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik has upset all the usual suspects by highlighting the “vulgarity” of Olly Alexander’s Eurovision performance.
• “How anti-Israel bias claims rocked TikTok” – Israeli and Jewish TikTok employees have accused the company of anti-Israel bias and raised concerns about its response to a surge of online antisemitism, according to the Telegraph.
• “The UN has betrayed Israel again” – International institutions must stop giving succour to those seekig to destroy the West and all it stands for, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Biden’s sudden betrayal of Israel is a terrible miscalculation” – Washington fails to see that even if Netanyahu fell from power, his successor wil still want to destroy Hamas, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
• “Birmingham University threatens pro-Palestine students with arrest” – Birmingham has become the first British university to threaten students with legal action if they do not shut down their American-style, anti-Israel encampment, reports the Mail. 
• “Radical protest leader linked to the anti-Israel campus demonstrations traveled to communist Cuba for ‘resistance training’” – We are witnessing the unification of the radical Islamic and Marxist movement in America, says Jim Hoft in the Gateway Pundit.
• “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, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “The slow death of academia” – By cultivating an environment which deprives students of the best that the Enlightenment has to offer, our universities are rearing a generation of fanatical, myopic bullies, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
• “The truth about Covid’s origins is finally coming out” – Under questioning from Congress, two key figures have unwittingly strengthened the lab-leak theory, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
• “Welsh Labour using satellites to spy on homeowners and hike tax” – The Welsh Government is using satellites to identify homeowners with big gardens so it can increase their council tax, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s workers’ rights plans ‘could add £225 to council tax bills’” – Labour’s shake-up of workers’ rights could add £225 a year to council tax bills due to taxpayers having to pay billions more on social care, reports the Mail.
• “Lib Dems ‘broke equality laws’ over deselection of Christian candidate” – The Liberal Democrats have been accused of deselecting a candidate “based on his Christian faith” in a breach of equality law, says the Telegraph.
• “Wes Streeting ‘put me in danger’ with tweet, says Susan Hall” – Susan Hall says Labour’s Wes Streeting “put me in danger” by claiming that a victory for her in the London mayoral election would be a “win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The great devolution disaster – an upsurge in nationalism” – We were told that Scotland and Wales would be better governed under Devolution than they had been from Westminster. Has a political forecast even been so comprehensively debunked? asks Stephen Glover in the Mail.
• “Our shallow political elites have given up on democracy altogether” – Guiding principles and meaningful debate have been carelessly neglected. All that’s left is a dangerously hollow consensus, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Why the CofE cries out for direct democracy” – For the Anglican Church to thrive, it needs more input from the pews and less from the woke high-ups argues Andrew Cadman in TCW.
• “How the EU brought Poland to heel” – Brussels all but forced out a populist government in Poland under the guise of defending democracy, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “Meditations on the deeply stupid cultural pathologies that are ruining our society and subverting our politics” – In the absence of aristocratic appeal, the upper-middles have entered a self-cannibalising downward spiral, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Russia ‘captures nine villages in two days’ after attacking Kharkiv” – Putin’s forces have taken nine villages in two days as Ukraine warns of “around the clock” enemy fire, according to the Express.
• “Taxpayer-backed Net Zero group donates to Labour” – A government-funded organisation that raises cash for Net Zero projects has donated £100,000 of support to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
• “Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory” – Russia has found oil reserves totalling 511 billion barrels – about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output – in the British Antarctic, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Terrified residents blast plans for ‘huge’ Wiltshire solar farm” – Lower Wyke Solar Farm in Wiltshire is set to provide electricity for 7,252 family homes. But locals say the project will cover “productive” farmland with acres of panels and ruin biodiversity, reports the Mail.
• “Elderly priest and retired teacher charged over Magna Carta attack” – Two protesting pensioners have been charged with criminal damage after they attacked the glass encasing the Magna Carta at the British Library, says the Shropshire Star.
• “Psychology expert says trans darts athletes playing vs women is unfair” – Middlesex University’s Associate Professor of Sports Psychology Dr. Linda Duffy believes that there are scientific reasons why biological men should not be allowed to compete in female-only events, according to GB News.
• “J.K. Rowling doubles down on trans row over transgender football manager” – J.K. Rowling has doubled down in a new trans row by insisting a transgender football manager is a “straight, white, middle-aged bloke”, reports the Mail.
• “Dannii Minogue and the heterosexual ‘queers’” – Why do so many life-long straights want to identify as part of the ‘LGBTQ+’ community? asks Julie Burchill in Spiked.
• “#MeToo was wrong – women can be just as predatory as men” – While men certainly commit the vast majority of sex crimes, women aren’t all coy little maidens falling prey to masculine lust, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “U.K. adults look at their phones more than Americans, French and Germans” – A representative poll of 8,000 people suggests that 44% of adults in the U.K. look at their phone every hour, reports the Mail. 
• “‘I was interviewed for a job by a robot’” – In the Telegraph, Noah Eastwood highlights the growing trend of companies using AI to hire staff.
• “Millions funnelled into lobbying effort by TikTok’s biggest competitors” – Meta, Google and YouTube worked furiously behind the scenes to make sure nothing stood in the way of Congress passing legislation to force TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance – or face a U.S. ban, according to the Mail’s Congress Reporter, Morgan Phillips.
• “The vanguard behind Australia’s Misinformation Bill” – Australia has been out in front in shaping the bureaucratised internet, writes Andrew Lowenthal on his Network Affects Substack.
• “Legion of the sick” – In the New English Review, Theodore Dalrymple explores the lasting impact of totalitarian regimes.
• “‘Climate denial is dangerous!’” – On GB News’s Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle dismantles meteorologist and eco-loon Jim Dale’s batty proposal to make climate change ‘denial’ illegal.

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