News Round-Up

• “‘A chilling cover-up’ – nine key findings from the infected blood inquiry” – The Infected Blood Inquiry report lays bare how tens of thousands of lives were destroyed by the use of infected blood products in the NHS between 1970 and 1998. In the Times, Eleanor Hayward, Kaya Burgess and Lara Wildenberg list the nine key findings.
• “‘This is a day of shame’: Rishi Sunak gives ‘whole-hearted and unequivocal’ apology to victims of infected blood scandal” – The Prime Minister told the House of Commons yesterday that more than 30,000 people were “failed in the most harrowing way” by the British state, reports the Mail.
• “Ken Clarke must lose peerage over infected blood, say victims” – The Infected Blood Inquiry found that the former Health Secretary misled the public in an “indefensible” way, says the Telegraph.
• “U.S. and Israel strongly condemn ICC prosecutor’s request to arrest Israeli officials” – According to the Associated Press, Joe Biden has condemned the “outrageous” call for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest made by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
• “Labour backs ICC efforts to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes” – Labour has backed the ICC’s call for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested, reports the Mail.
• “Wickedly perverse move should sink the ICC” – The arrest warrant call by the ICC for Israel’s PM undermines justice and ultimately destroys the court’s reputation, argues Melanie Phillips in the Times.
• “A judicial pogrom” – The head of the ICC’s request for arrest warrants to be issued against Israel’s leaders is an affront to democracy and humanity, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Amal Clooney played key role in ICC bid to request arrest warrants for Israeli PM” – George Clooney’s wife played a key role in the ICC’s decision to call for arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar over alleged war crimes, according to the Mail.
• “Ofcom weighs up sanction for GB News after ‘serious and repeated’ impartiality breaches” – Ofcom is considering issuing a sanction against GB News for breaching impartiality rules in a programme featuring Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, reports the Press Gazette. 
• “Iran blames Western sanctions for fatal crash of U.S. helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi” – Iran’s former Foreign Minister blames U.S. sanctions on aviation parts for the helicopter crash that killed the Islamic Republic’s President, according to ABC News.
• “Victims of Iranian regime celebrate the death of President Raisi” – There are plenty of Iranians celebrating the unexpected death of the President, who earned a reputation as a brutal, hardline executor of Khamenei’s will, says David Averre in the Mail.
• “The West must strike now, and collapse the Iranian regime” – The Iranian people long for freedom and democracy. We should take this opportunity to liberate them, write Mark Wallace and Kasra Aarabi in the Telegraph.
• “Who runs Iran now? What happens when a president dies in office” – After the death of President Raisi in a helicopter crash, who will assume power as his replacement, and for how long? asks the Times’s Samer Al-Atrush.
• “Salman Rushdie has exposed the great lie of a ‘Free Palestine’” – Salman Rushdie has rebuked so-called progressives who have failed to distance themselves from the fascists of Hamas, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Team Apocalypse will not quit” – The fact that American public health bureaucrats keep pressing for more “pandemic preparedness” and risky and hyper-fast vaccine development is not merely maddening – it’s dangerous, writes Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
• “Fascinating interview with a Midwestern doctor” – On the Illusion of Consensus podcast, A Midwestern doctor joins Rav Arora to discuss the illusory consensus in medical science, integrative medicine, unresolved traumas, psychedelic therapy, EMF radiation risks and more.
• “U.S. lawmakers raise serious free speech concerns with WHO pandemic agreement, petition State Department for documentation” – ADF International commends U.S. Representatives Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie for drawing attention to the threat posed to free speech by the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty.
• “We now have proof that mass migration is making Brits poorer” – As demand for housing soars and rents grow ever more unaffordable, people may find our porous borders increasingly intolerable, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Far-Left groups trying to undermine U.K., says anti-extremism tsar” – The Government’s political violence tsar warns that far-Left groups are seeking to “undermine” Britain’s democratic principles by refusing to comply with the law, reports the Times.
• “Labour ‘risks overwhelming tribunals’ with new workers’ rights” – A senior employment lawyer has warned that Labour’s plan for workers’ rights risks overwhelming employment tribunals by granting day-one protections to millions of employees, says the Times.
• “Assange can appeal against extradition to U.S., High Court rules” – Julian Assange has won a High Court bid to appeal against his extradition to the United States, reports Sky News.
• “‘You believe in free speech for views you dislike, or you don’t believe in it at all’: message to Queen’s University Belfast” – Acclaimed academic Peter Boghossian has challenged Queen’s University Belfast to uphold its recent commitment to free speech after it recently adopted a policy compelling everyone on campus to accept transgender identities, according to the News Letter.
• “German Interior Minister places responsibility for political violence with the AfD in the latest attempt to characterise free expression as somehow criminal” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the continued persecution of the AfD by Germany’s domestic intelligence chief and Interior Minister.
• “France joins world war on free speech” – France’s block on TikTok in New Caledonia represents a dangerous new escalation of global censorship, writes Michael Shellenberger in his Public Substack.
• “The elites still don’t get it” – If you want a reminder for why elites in the West are still completely lost when it comes to making sense of populism then watch Nancy Pelosi’s recent speech at the Oxford Union, says Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
• “Immigration, Islam and the deliberate crashing of the welfare system” – In TCW, Niall McCrae examines the decline of capitalism through Marxist ideology and radical influences from Columbia University.
• “Nightmare ingredients of Bill Gates’s Impossible burger” – Research into the environmental impact of producing fake food suggests manufacturing is not as green as it is made out to be, says Sally Beck in TCW.
• “Tyranny of quangos” – A new clerisy imposing Net Zero upon us is creating a dangerous pressure cooker, warns David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “King Charles in crosshairs as African leaders fight hunting ban” – Six Commonwealth nations are threatening to lobby the King over a proposed ban on trophy hunting imports, as Britain is accused of dismissing the impact it would have on conservation efforts, reports the Times.
• “Urgent warning to Britons over an impending invasion of Asian hornets” – Britons have been warned to remain vigilant against an invasion of Asian hornets, as sightings of the pests reach record highs, says the Mail. 
• “Labour’s gender change shake-up will end in tears” – Labour reportedly wants to ‘simplify’ the gender recognition process – but this isn’t necessarily a good thing, warns Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “The brass neck of Nicola Sturgeon” – The former Scottish First Minister has finally admitted that the trans debate caused her downfall, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “If anyone should be paying slavery reparations, it’s West Africa” – The logic behind British reparations for slavery is deeply flawed, says Prof. Lawrence Goldman in the Telegraph. Responsibility for slavery cannot be reduced to a single country.
• “I’d like to make it clear that both GB News and I whole-heartedly reject this ruling” – Jacob Rees-Mogg hits out at Ofcom’s decision to consider a ‘statutory sanction’ against GB News.

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