News Round-Up

• “Hezbollah chief tipped to succeed Nasrallah ‘killed by Israel’” – According to Israel’s military, a Hezbollah chief, tipped as one of Hassan Nasrallah’s successors, has been killed in Lebanon, reports the NY Post.
• “Pockets of revelry at Nasrallah killing across Middle East, including in Syria, Iran” – While some Middle Eastern leaders condemned Israel’s killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, others in Syria and Iran took to the streets to celebrate, says the Times of Israel.
• “Is David Lammy prioritising arms sales over human rights? With the UAE, it sure looks that way” – The Foreign Secretary takes a high moral tone in his public utterances. But the reality of his policies is often rather different, says Ben Keith in the Telegraph.
• “David Lammy’s virtue-signalling is an embarrassment to Britain” – The Foreign Secretary’s priorities don’t seem to reflect our pressing strategic concerns, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Austrian hard-Right party wins election after pledging closed borders” – Austria‘s Freedom Party has topped the country‘s national elections, reports the Mail.
• “U.K. teams up with Bulgaria seizing hundreds of boats and engines destined for channel migrants” – A U.K.-led partnership has delivered a major blow to international people smuggling gangs, after hundreds of small boats and engines were seized on the Bulgarian border with Turkey, says GB News.
• “‘Hellhole’ village where refugees are ‘dumped’ by London councils” – Fed-up locals in County Durham say their village has become a “hellhole” after being used as a “dumping ground” for refugees from councils in London, reports the Mail.
• “Tory party will die if it doesn’t plan to leave ECHR, Jenrick to claim” – Robert Jenrick, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, is set to further harden his rhetoric on immigration in a speech at the Tory conference in Birmingham, says the Telegraph.
• “Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, suggests Kemi Badenoch” – The Shadow Housing Secretary says that women need to take more “personal responsibility” over their finances when they have children, reports the BBC. Cue Twitter storm.
• “Tories go to war as Robert Jenrick ally brands Badenoch ‘Kemi-Kaze’” – The Tory leadership has descended into outright war as Robert Jenrick’s allies lashed out at Kemi Badenoch for suggesting maternity pay is “excessive”, reports James Tapsfield in the Mail.
• “This Kemi ‘row’ is shameless opportunism from those who should know better” – Kemi Badenoch is right – excessive regulation hurts everyone, including mothers, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Time to end the squabbling and backbiting, says Sunak” – Rishi Sunak has urged the Conservative Party to end the “backbiting and the squabbling” in his final speech before he stands down as leader, says ITV News.
• “David Cameron ‘threatened to f— Boris up forever’ if he supported Brexit” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson recalls how David Cameron threatened to “f—” him up “forever” if he backed Leave in the 2016 referendum.
• “I believe Macron let migrants cross Channel in revenge for Brexit, says Boris Johnson” – Boris has accused the French President of being a “positive nuisance” during Brexit negotiations in his memoir, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Duffield has penned the best denunciation of Starmer you’ll ever read” – In a resignation letter for the ages, Rosie Duffield takes apart Labour’s incestuous clique and the Puritan hypocrite at the heart of it, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Lord Alli criticised ‘entitled’ MPs helping themselves to freebies in wake of expenses scandal” – The Labour peer at the centre of Sir Keir Starmer’s donations row previously criticised “entitled” MPs who took freebies following the Westminster expenses scandal, reports GB News.
• “Keir Starmer ally slams ‘theft’ of the Elgin Marbles from Greece” – A former Labour frontbencher has slammed the “theft” of the Elgin Marbles and insisted Keir Starmer will return them to Greece, says the Mail.
• “Is another pandemic really inevitable?” – So many people gained so much money, power or fame out of the pandemic that they will be all too willing to declare another one soon, writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
• “‘Life without our son is getting harder, not easier’” – In the Telegraph, the Baker family speak for the first time about the day their 20 year-old son died suddenly.
• “‘I have been fully vindicated by the world’s most objective epidemiologist. The Covid vaccines are not safe’” – On his Substack, Steve Kirsch gave ChatGPT hidden vaccine data, and it exposed Pfizer’s 10% higher mortality rate over Moderna.
• “Why the misinformation bill must be stopped” – The Australian Government’s new misinformation bill is a dangerous power grab that will crush free speech, stifle dissent and let bureaucrats decide what’s true, says Alison Bevege on the Dystopian Down Under Substack.
• “Top doctor at ‘Scotland’s Tavistock’ raised alarm about transgender surgery” – A doctor who oversaw Scotland’s gender clinic for young people for a decade repeatedly raised concerns about patients progressing towards reassignment treatment without sufficient caution, reports the Times.
• “Taxpayers should fund trans surgery for inmate who murdered baby, judge rules” – A U.S. federal judge has ruled that taxpayers must fund sex reassignment surgery for an inmate who murdered an 11 month-old baby, says Fox News.
• “The real reason you’re seeing more reality TV than ever” – TV audiences are too distracted by their phones to focus. Is this the end for complex, original storytelling? wonders Al Horner in the Telegraph.
• “John Kerry wants to abolish the First Amendment” – On Substack, John Leake reacts to former Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent disdain for the First Amendment.
• “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence” – John Kerry commits heresy on a World Economic Forum panel, as clipped by Colin Wright on X.

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