News Round-Up

• “IDF begins ground operation in southern Lebanon, attacks Hezbollah terror targets” – Read the Jerusalem Post’s front page story about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
• “Israel goes in: IDF confirms boots on the ground in southern Lebanon as bombs rain down from the sky after day of ratcheting tensions” – The Mail’s story about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
• “Israel launches ‘targeted’ ground invasion against Hezbollah in Lebanon” – Read the Telegraph’s rolling news blog about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Alternatively, read the New York Times’s live coverage here and the BBC’s here.
• “Israel shows when we resist terror, civilisation wins” – The killing of Nasrallah will stand in history as a perpetual warning to would-be terror chiefs, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Iran says it won’t send troops to fight Israel despite IDF crossing into Lebanon” – Iran says it will not deploy forces to Lebanon or Gaza amid escalated attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, reports the Mail.
• “Assassinated Hamas leader in Lebanon ‘working undercover as a teacher for UN’” – The new leader of Hamas in Lebanon – killed in an Israeli airstrike the day after taking over from Nasrallah – worked for the UNRWA, the ‘relief agency’ David Lammy restored funding to, reveals the Mail.
• “The New York Times’s Hezbollah terrorist worship exposes the Left’s moral collapse” – Hassan Nasrallah was a vicious, murderous terrorist, but you may not have known that had you read the New York Times’s hero-worshipping eulogy of the dead Hezbollah leader, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “The West’s true enemy is clear. We must strike now before it’s too late” – The Islamic Regime has declared itself an enemy of the West. It is high time we took them at their word, say Jordan Peterson and Gregg Hurwitz in the Telegraph.
• “‘Starmer’s weak political antennae is making him unpopular,’ says polling guru” – In the National, Prof. John Curtice gives his verdict on Keir Starmer’s performance so far.
• “More people now prefer Sunak Government to Starmer’s, poll finds” – A survey by the think tank More in Common shows the Labour Government is already less popular than the previous one, despite taking power less than three months ago, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tories should step aside in 100 seats where Reform can win” – In a bid to unite the Right, Jacob Rees-Mogg has called on the Tories to step aside in nearly 100 seats where Reform poses the biggest threat to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reform are not real conservatives or serious people, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has dismissed Reform’s leadership as not “real conservatives” or “serious people” during a Q&A at the Tory conference in Birmingham, says the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch quit her job instead of taking maternity leave” – Kemi Badenoch quit her job rather than go on maternity leave when she had her second child because she thought it would be “unfair” on her employer, reports the Mail.
• “Kemi Badenoch: outspoken, unpredictable… unstoppable?” – Leadership rivals at the Tory Party conference are gloating over Kemi’s ‘Kemi-kaze’ moments, but these supposed gaffes also explain her popularity, say Steven Swinford and Chris Smyth in the Times.
• “‘I would have won more seats than Rishi’: Liz Truss” – Despite losing her seat in July, the ‘Liz Truss show’ shows no sign of being wound up, notes James Heale in the Spectator.
• “Neither Tory Right nor Centre can revive this brain-dead slumber party” – In its moments of humility the Tory machine likes to pronounce that it has “no divine right to exist”. At the moment, it has no reason to exist at all, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick’s ‘Bobby J’ leadership nickname is slang for a sex act” – Robert Jenrick might perhaps have taken the ‘true blue’ effort too far with his new nickname, say David Willcock and James Tapfield in the Mail.
• “Migrant crime rate being covered up, says Robert Jenrick” – Robert Jenrick has blasted the Labour Government for hiding the truth about the number of crimes committed by migrants, accusing officials of an “institutional cover-up”, reports the Conservative Post.
• “Britons suffer slump in living standards as migration nears record high” – Britons have suffered a slump in living standards, official data shows, as a surge in net migration has wiped out any gains from economic growth, according to the Telegraph.
• “The mass immigration scam” – The great question regarding mass immigration is not whether it is deliberate, but why? says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
• “‘I don’t know exactly why Gove did me in’” – In the Mail, Boris opens up on the plot that drove him from office.
• “Winter fuel cuts to cost NHS £169 million a year” – A new study predicts that Labour’s winter fuel cut will result in 262,000 pensioners needing NHS treatment because they are living in cold, damp homes, reports the Express.
• “Ed Miliband’s decision to ignore nuclear power is a disaster for Britain” – The U.K. is a world leader in red tape and that is hurting the delivery of cheap, reliable energy, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Where’s the lid for my tub of hummus? This new eco-initiative is potty” – If supermarkets are so worried about plastic they should sell their dips in glass jars – and we should start making our own at home, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “How Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent €3.3 million for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn’t work and increased carbon emissions on top of it all” – On Substack, Eugyppius eases into the blogging week with a farcical fable about e-mobility and the wondrous solar-powered future that awaits us.
• “Can anything stop Germany’s decline?” – The decline of the German industrial economy is likely to be Europe’s big story over the next decade, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Marine Le Pen begins £5.6 million embezzlement trial” – French Presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has pleaded her innocence at the start of a £5.6 million embezzlement trial, reports the Mail.
• “Official documents obtained by the Insider confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison” –The Insider has obtained documents exposing the truth about Alexei Navalny’s death.
• “Guilty” – On his Substack, C.J. Hopkins reveals that the Berlin Appellate Court has overturned his acquittal and declared him a ‘hate-speech’ criminal for comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany and challenging the Covid narrative.
• “The Left is going to war on the First Amendment” – Two recent extraordinary videos on X reveal that the top of the American Left now explicitly rejects the First Amendment, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “‘My speech in Washington’” – On the Racket News Substack, Matt Taibbi has republished the speech he made defending free speech from the recent Rescue the Republic rally in Washington.
• “‘I support marijuana legalisation’” – Kamala Harris has called for the legalisation of marijuana on a recent appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, according to UnHerd.
• “Democrats nervous about ‘bad debater’ Walz ahead of Vance clash” – Democrats are reportedly nervous about how Tim Walz, a self-professed “bad debater”, will fare in his only televised head-to-head with Vice-Presidential rival J.D. Vance tonight, reports the Telegraph.
• “How to create a pandemic of vaccine hesitancy” – The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme has now ended, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of these vaccines without a safety net, warns Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
• “Ignoring the evidence” – On Substack, Andrew Barr gives a historical perspective on the germ versus terrain argument.
• “‘I wouldn’t want any parent to go through this,’ says sacked anti-LGBT Christian teacher” – Senior judges will hear a school worker’s appeal against her dismissal after she claimed she was sacked because of her Christian beliefs, says the BBC.
• “BBC releases bombshell report into Strictly bullying probe” – The verdict of the bombshell BBC probe into Strictly’s Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour during his time partnered with Sherlock star Amanda Abbington has been published, reports the Mail.
• “Alarming details of bone cancer said to have hit the late Queen” – Boris Johnson claims that Queen Elizabeth II suffered from a form of deadly bone cancer before her death, according to the Mail.
• “‘Boris is completely culpable’” – On TalkTV, our own Will Jones argues that, despite the fanatical lockdown advisors surrounding him, Boris had the evidence and facts to stand firm against shutting down the country.

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