News Round-Up

• “Netanyahu rejects Biden’s plans for post-war Gaza until Hamas defeat” – Benjamin Netanyahu has vehemently rejected Biden’s plans for a post-war peace settlement in Gaza, reiterating “there is no alternative to military victory” until Hamas is thoroughly defeated, reports the Mail.
• “Oxford students who raised concerns about anti-Semitism ‘told to leave’” – A group of Jewish students at Oxford have written to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford detailing the abuses they’ve suffered since October 7th and the lack of sympathy from dons, according to the Telegraph.
• “Suspect in Robert Fico assassination attempt was a poet who led anti-violence campaign” – The would-be assassin of Robert Fico opposed Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Prime Minister’s weakening of Slovakian anti-corruption laws, says the Telegraph.
• “The troubling reaction to the shooting of Robert Fico” – There is something troubling about the reaction to the attempted assassination of the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “The victim-blaming of Robert Fico” – Slovakia’s populist PM has been condemned by Western media – even as he fights for his life, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “Covid face masks did nothing to stop spread of Omicron variant, study finds” – A new study has found that face masks did not stop the spread of the Covid variant Omicron, reports GB News.
• “Older man who had COVID-19 for 613 days developed new variant” – An older man with weakened immunity was infected with a COVID-19 virus that persisted in his body for 613 days – the longest case of COVID-19 on record – leading to the development of a highly mutated new strain, says the Epoch Times.
• “Francis Collins’s House testimony released” – Dr. Francis Collins’s testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is all the evidence required to conclusively demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services needs a complete overhaul, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
• “Ex-CDC director warns gain-of-function research on bird flu could spark ‘great pandemic’” – The former Director of the CDC has issued a grim warning about the dangers of gain-of-function research, predicting that scientists tinkering with making the bird flu virus more infectious is what will trigger the next “great pandemic”, according to the Epoch Times.
• “The replication conundrum” – Rebuilding the scientific establishment’s credibility is a noble goal, but the obstacles are formidable, says Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty.
• “Suella Braverman issues scathing verdict after confronting pro-Gaza protest camps: ’Britain has a problem with mass extremism’” – Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman claims that Britain “has a problem with mass extremism”, after confronting pro-Gaza protesters at a camp in Cambridge, reports GB News.
• “Rent controls never, never work” – Rent controls have never solved the problem they were designed to tackle, says Kristian Niemietz in CapX.
• “The vicious circle of higher education funding” – Underperforming international students are propping up underperforming British universities, writes Luca Watson in the Critic.
• “Democracy in decay: say ‘No’ to the lot of them” – In TCW, William Sutherland makes the case for direct democracy.
• “The Church of England’s volunteering crisis” – In smaller churches, filling voluntary vacancies is a headache, not helped by ever-increasing bureaucracy, says Patrick Kidd in the Spectator.
• “Why is it so hard to be a Christian in public life?” – Is it any longer acceptable to be a Christian? asks Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Moment mother visits Swiss clinic where son ended his life in secret” – Chemistry teacher Alastair Hamilton, 47, paid more than £10,000 to die at a Swiss suicide clinic in secret, despite not having a terminal illness, reports the Mail.
• “New Dutch Government set to bring in ‘strictest-ever’ asylum policy” – The Netherlands says it will opt out of EU rules and bring in its “strictest-ever” asylum policy following Geert Wilders’s shock election victory, according to the Mail.
• “France is spiralling out of control” – France is not yet a failed state, but with its surging debts, soaring violence and crumbling infrastructure it feels increasingly like that day might not be far off, warns Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “The 10-point plan” – On Substack, Paul Sutton has compiled a satirical 10-point plan to deal with the ‘Lebonisation’ of France.
• “Why is the U.K. funding Cuban authoritarianism?” – The Paris Club, which includes the U.K., has given the Cuban regime billions of dollars in loans, reports Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat in CapX.
• “Putin could now defeat Ukraine within months” – A Russian victory in Ukraine is no longer a threat that the West can ignore. We must act now to prevent the outbreak of another world war, says Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
• “Wrong, mainstream media, tree rings aren’t reliable indicators of past temperatures” – Researchers are falsely assuming tree rings are reliable temperature indicators when in fact tree rings can indicate a multitude of different conditions, writes Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
• “Cabinet minister backtracks and says some trans women can be women” – Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says men who undergo gender reassignment are women, according to the Telegraph.
• “Stonewall’s list of top employers to be reviewed amid backlash over trans lobbying” – Stonewall is to review how it compiles its ranking of top LGBT employers amid a fierce backlash over the organisation’s trans lobbying, reports the Telegraph.
• “Parents blast FA transgender policy that allows boys to play ‘girls-only’ football tournaments” – Organisers of “girls only” football tournaments have adopted a Football Association transgender policy that allows boys who identify as female to play against girls, says the Telegraph.
• “Why sex education needed reining in” – Finally, after nearly a decade of campaigning, trans ideology is being booted out of the classroom, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “CNN suggests trans athletes don’t have an advantage competing against women” – In Modernity, Steve Watson takes aim at a recent CNN documentary that suggests trans athletes competing in women’s sports do not have any advantages.
• “J.K. Rowling does it again” – Why does J.K. Rowling’s opinion cause so much outrage? asks Nicky Clark in the Critic.
• “The Garrick Club row is the height of elitist feminism” – Working-class women gain nothing from rich women being allowed to join a rich men’s club, says Lisa McKenzie in Spiked.
• “Why are so many young people ‘asexual’?” – Who could have foreseen that half a century after the sexual revolution we’d be facing its exact opposite: an asexual revolution? wonders Mary Wakefield in the Spectator.
• “Gen Z’s gender stalemate” – In City Journal, Kay S. Hymowitz discusses the widening divide between young men and women.
• “Jeremy Clarkson is crowned U.K.’s sexiest man for second year running” – Jeremy Clarkson has officially been crowned the U.K.’s sexiest man for the second year running, beating the likes of Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland and Idris Elba, reports the Mail.
• “Trump and the trial without a crime” – In TCW, Paul Homewood is unimpressed by the charges levelled at former President Donald Trump.
• “‘Everything you were taught as a kid is wrong’” – In June, NBC is releasing a new documentary called Queer Planet, focussing on “LGBTQI+ tolerance” among the animal kingdom. No, this is not satire.

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