News Round-Up

• “Slovakian PM Robert Fico in serious condition after assassination attempt” – Slovakia’s pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after being shot several times in an assassination attempt, reports the Times.
• “The BBC’s reasons for not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ just don’t stack up” – The U.K. Government has labelled Hamas as ‘terrorists’, so why is the BBC still being so stubborn? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Biden can’t be trusted to take on antisemitism” – The same identitarian worldview that is driving campus antisemitism is rife within Joe Biden’s White House, says Heather Mac Donald in Spiked.
• “The pornographic awfulness of Eurovision” – In TCW, Dr. Tom Goodfellow remarks on the sheer awfulness on Eurovision 2024.
• “It’s taken the near-breakdown of Britain’s borders to properly debate mass migration” – The immigration trade-off is reaching a tipping point, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Reform has stalled while waiting for Nigel” – All is not well at Reform U.K. and its putative white knight, Nigel Farage, appears to have other priorities, writes Iain Martin in the Times.
• “Ending stop and search was a disaster for black kids” – “Every week I am contacted by grieving parents who have lost their child to knife crime. We must get weapons off our streets,” says Shaun Bailey in the Telegraph.
• “Stop pampering the Left’s attack dog” – Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism, writes a Tory insider in the Critic.
• “Sadiq Khan thinks knife crime is a joke” – The ‘right-on’ and well-off mock and dismiss those who are concerned about violence on London’s streets, says Ike Ijeh in Spiked.
• “NHS bosses destroy careers of whistleblowers who stood up to protect patients’ lives” – A group of medics warns that NHS managers are destroying the careers of whistleblowers who raise concerns about patient safety, according to the Telegraph.
• “Covid Inquiry costing £300,000 a day” – The Covid Inquiry may become the most expensive ever having spent almost £70 million in the last financial year, reports the Times.
• “‘Why the NHS cancelled my talk’” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton shares the NHS response he received to his subject access request about the cancellation of his talk at the NHS Health and Care Analytics Conference 2023.
• “Stanford’s censorship: rescind the disgraceful Atlas censure” – If Stanford is to remain a true academic institution, it must reverse its shameful Covid-era censure of Dr. Scott Atlas, says the Stanford Review.
• “Louisiana did it! SB133 passed the House. No WHO tentacles in Louisiana” – On Substack, Meryl Nass welcomes the fact that Louisiana has rejected the WHO having jurisdiction in the state.
• “Trust the science? 19 scientific journals shutting down simultaneously after being rocked by retractions and fraud” – Wiley, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, is being forced to shut down 19 journals thanks to the black market industry of “paper mills” submitting thousands of fake papers, says Allison Anton in the Western Journal.
• “Net Zero car targets will create vehicle shortage, MPs told” – MPs warn that Net Zero targets will cause shortages of cars on Britain’s roads as manufacturers “restrict the supply of vehicles” in the U.K. to avoid punitive fines, reports the Telegraph.
• “Debunking the cheap renewables myth” – We keep getting told that wind and solar renewables are cheap, yet our bills keep going up. So, what’s going on? asks David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Climate professor thinks we should ‘cull’ the human population to reach emissions targets” – In WUWT, Paul Homewood reacts to well-known volcanologist and climate scientist Prof. Bill McGuire’s idea to cull the human population to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
• “Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’” – In Axios, Dan Primack and Ben Geman reveal that an investment fund founded by Bill Gates is behind a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions.
• “Trump twirls the windmills of doom: the Guardian’s theatrical take” – In WUWT, Charles Rotter takes aim at the Guardian for their latest ‘eco-villain’ hatchet job on Donald Trump.
• “What the new sex education guidelines mean for schools and parents” – In new Government guidance, schools in England will be banned from teaching sex education to children under the age of nine, reports the BBC.
• “Stonewall ‘muddying waters’ on gender law, says former top judge” – Baroness Butler-Sloss, a retired senior family judge, accuses the campaign group Stonewall of “muddying the waters” of equality law to promote transgenderism, according to the Times.
• “The plot to erase the Anglo-Saxons” – The assault on the Anglo-Saxons has begun again, with Cambridge renaming its Anglo-Saxon England journal Early Medieval England, writes Ed West in the Spectator.
• “Oxford University drops plan to vet new chancellor after wokeism row” – Oxford University has dropped plans to vet candidates standing in the chancellorship election after being accused of trying to “stitch up” the process to prevent another white, male politician from getting the job, reports the Times.
• “Australians topple statue of colonial governor” – The statue of former Tasmanian Premier William Crowther has been sawn off at the ankles and dumped next to the plinth the day before a tribunal upheld a council’s decision to remove the monument, says the Mail.
• “‘Hypersensitive’ Japanese academic fails to sue boss for liking sushi” – An employment tribunal has ruled that telling a Japanese person that you like sushi is not racist, according to GB News.
• “Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson demand Kevin Spacey be allowed to resume Hollywood career” – Kevin Spacey must be allowed to resume his Hollywood acting career after being wrongly cancelled for seven years, Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson have told the Telegraph.
• “‘My tearful interview with Kevin Spacey proves he’s MeToo’s greatest casualty’” – After being cleared of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey is out to save his career – and Channel 4’s latest attack convinced him to fight back, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “YouTube removes 35,000 EU videos for ‘misinformation’, enhances content censorship ahead of 2024 elections” – YouTube amps up its election role in the EU with a robust crackdown on what it deems misinformation. What could possibly go wrong? asks Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
• “U.K. Government refuses to say whether Parliament will get a vote on the WHO’s Pandemic Accords” – In a Commons debate, parliamentarians were fed excuses, caveats and non-answers to their requests for assurance that Parliament will get a ratification vote on the WHO Pandemic Accords if the Government decides to sign up.

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