News Round-Up

• “Nigel Farage accuses West of provoking Russia into war with Ukraine” – Nigel Farage has provoked fury by suggesting the West was partly to blame for Russia invading Ukraine, reports the Mail.
• “The Tories are morally bankrupt” – The Conservatives look like a dodgy tenant who, when he knows he’s being evicted, takes the lightbulbs and toilet seat with him, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “This betting scandal has exposed the rotten heart of our political class” – For the foreseeable future, the Conservatives will be synonymous with corruption and venality, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Ignore the centrist gloom. To win, the Conservatives must offer a Right-wing path to renewal” – No party has a divine right to exist if it can’t offer policy propositions that are distinct from others’ and respond to the wishes of a voting coalition that can win an election, writes David Frost in Conservative Home.
• “Labour manifesto raises ‘red flag’ free speech concerns: FSU” – According to the Free Speech Union, there are numerous “red flags” in Labour’s manifesto, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Labour has dismissed women like me. I’ll struggle to vote for it” – In the Times, J.K. Rowling says she’s far from convinced that Keir Starmer has changed his spots when it comes to defending women’s rights.
• “Keir Starmer’s moral vacuum” – Labour’s ethical limits remain unclear, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “The Downing St. Deprivation Index” – What does it say about a country and its leaders when political leaders must brag of their childhood deprivation? wonders Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “The BBC has given up any pretence of impartiality” – The BBC continues to employ staff who have shown support for October 7th. This needs to stop, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
• “All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded – and directed – by terrorists” – There were a lot of good reasons for the Israelis to stop Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, writes Douglas Murray in the NY Post.
• “Lockdown showed the horrors of what a Labour Government will be like in practice” – None of the major parties have said what they’d do in the event of anotehr pandemic, says Sarah Ingham in Conservative Home. Do we really trust Labour not to lock us all in our homes again?
• “String of Reform candidates said Britain’s Covid response was ‘like the Holocaust’” – A string of Reform candidates likened Britain to Nazi Germany during the pandemic, reveals the Mail.
• “Has the pandemic made us sicker?” – The pandemic had a profound impact on health ecosystems globally – but its legacy goes beyond a possible immunity debt, write Maeve Cullinan and Sarah Newey in the Telegraph.
• “Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth continues campaign to embarrass and humiliate herself” – Like many science writers, Laura Helmuth at Scientific American can’t see beyond her own bigotries and personal politics, says Paul D. Thacker on the DisInformation Chronicle Substack.
• “Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low” – A new study shows that birth rates in the world’s rich economies have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low, according to the FT.
• “Nobody is confronting the great Remainer lie about Brexit” – It’s now eight years since the referendum and Leave backers aren’t doing enough to counter pro-EU propaganda, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “A revolution in workers’ rights will hurt the worst-off” – Labour’s plans to increase the living Wage plans would see many, perhaps all, teenage jobs disappear, says Len Shackleton in CapX.
• “The tyrannical tendency” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan examines the preconditions for the extinction of freedom.
• “The French Left is sharpening the guillotine” – France, once again, is set to become an unpredictable, business-averse place, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “‘Is this a joke?’ Polish PM given democracy prize despite crackdowns” – Donald Tusk’s receipt of the Chatham House Prize for “restoring democracy” has sparked widespread derision, according to Thomas O’Reilly in the European Conservative.
• “The climate scaremongers – this turbulent professor” – Any area of research remotely connected to climate change is likely to be showered with grant funding, while other areas are starved of cash, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “BBC Sport head criticised for trans article pledges to ‘leave views at door’” – The new Head of BBC Sport has pledged to leave his personal views “at the door” after writing an article in which he seemed to compare women concerned about trans athletes to racists, reports the Mail.
• “Brontë sisters included in LGBT events because of their androgynous pen names” – The Bronte sisters have been included in LGBT Pride events because they wrote under androgynous pen names, says the Telegraph.
• “Death by red tape” – “Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of woke universities trying to shut down heretical speakers, writes Rhianwen Daniel in the Critic.
• “Taboo by Eric Kaufmann review – how woke conquered the world” – In the Times, Kathleen Stock reviews ‘cancelled’ academic Eric Kaufmann’s new book explaining the roots of wokeness.
• “Rob Winnett scraps move to Washington Post after staff revolt” – A Telegraph journalist who was hired to edit the Washington Post has decided not to take the job after a staff backlash, according to the Times.
• “‘We should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm’” – Katherine Birbalsingh argues against the idea of the West paying reparations for slavery, pointing out that while slavery existed everywhere, only Western civilisation came to see it as morally wrong.

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