News Round-Up

• “‘Not one girl could be shown to her parents’: The horrors of October 7th – as told by the survivors” – In a heartbreaking dispatch from the Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson to mark the anniversary, witnesses recall the heroism of victims and the true depravity of the attack.
• “Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, says Trump” – The Presidential hopeful says Netanyahu should strike those targets first and “worry about the rest later”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been silent for months – now some Israelis believe he has been killed” – The death of Hamas’s leader could open the door to a truce and hostage deal, reports the Telegraph.
• “An interview with Brendan O’Neill about how the West failed the ultimate moral test” – On the Free Mind, Brendan O’Neill tells Laura Dodsworth that the West failed the moral test of Hamas’s October 7th pogrom.
• “Hamas, Hezbollah and the Moral Corruption of the Left” – on Substack, Peter Baldwin takes a deep dive into why so many on the Left support murderous terrorists against Israel.
• “Protesters march through London with ‘I love Hezbollah’ banners” – Ahead of the October 7th anniversary, pro-Palestinian activists have defied the police crackdown on displays of support for the banned terror group, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ex-BBC World Service chief accused of appearing to defend Hezbollah” – The former boss of the BBC’s World Service Liliane Landor has been accused of appearing to defend Hezbollah by minimising the terror group’s presence in Beirut.
• “Keir Starmer still doesn’t get it. This is the new expenses scandal” – Like the Telegraph’s scoop from 2009, the freebies furore shows how out of touch our ruling class can be, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s Government of service is committing to national self-harm” – What is the unifying ethos of the first 90 days of Labour’s rule? It seems to be doing this country down, or worse, says the Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey.
• “Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands will have Xi Jinping rubbing his hands with glee” – Britain is unwilling to resolutely stand up for its interests and those of our allies – and the West’s enemies know it, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “U.S. Republicans fear UK Chagos Islands deal will boost China” – Senior U.S. Republicans attacked the British Government for its decision to cede control of the Chagos Islands, warning the move is a coup for Chinese interests, Politico reports.
• “I fear for the Falklands after Starmer’s surrender” – The great fraud unravels, says Boris Johnson in the Mail. “When Keir Starmer presented himself for election, we had the vague impression that he was dull but straight. Look at him today, so deep in the trough as to be almost invisible.”
• “Labour’s woke surrender of the Chagos Islands makes Britain look pathetic” – Moved by juvenile anti-colonialism, Starmer and Lammy have delighted our enemies and betrayed our interests, thunders Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer faces Commons vote on Chagos Islands handover” – Starmer will be forced to hold a vote on the Chagos Islands amid fury over his decision to hand them over to Mauritius, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain must surely be the most gullible nation in the West” – Labour’s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands belies a serious flaw in Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’, says Yuan Yi Zhu in the Telegraph.
• “Labour accused of ‘breaking rules’ by withholding winter fuel impact assessment” – Labour has been accused of breaching Cabinet Office guidance and the Ministerial Code by “deliberately withholding” the winter fuel impact assessment from MPs, reports the Telegraph.
• “How Labour’s flagship tax policy is fast unravelling” – From bidding wars to breaking laws, Starmer’s VAT raid is dividing his party – and country, says Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
• “Labour suffers a dozen by-election defeats in less than a month amid donations row” – Keir Starmer’s party has a net loss of 11 councillors in less than a month, while the Conservatives have taken four seats and Reform has gained two, reports the Telegraph.
• “Boris the menace” – On Trust the Evidence, Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan wonder why there is no apology in Boris Johnson’s new memoirs.
• “My electric car will be the death of me” – Why can’t an EV cope with cold weather, asks Dan Robinson in the Spectator.
• “McPhy abandons 24MW green hydrogen project seven days after announcing it” – The French manufacturer said last week it would supply, assemble and commission two of its electrolysers in Central Europe, but the planned facility has now been scrapped, reports Hydrogen Insight.
• “Chris Packham ‘forced to pay £200,000 to pensioner’ after libel case” – Chris Packham has been forced to pay £200,000 to a pensioner and country sportsman he was accused of pursuing “vindictively” through the courts – double the amount he won from suing Country Squire magazine.
• “Doctors and the trouble with the BBC” – The BBC’s obsession with ramming progressive storylines down viewers’ throats is plain to see in each episode of Doctors, and it’s been cancelled not a minute too soon, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Snow White ‘named for her resilience not pale complexion’ in Disney remake” – Colombian-American actress Rachel Zegler, whose media interventions have already landed the troubled Snow White remake in hot water, says the character received her name because of her “resilience” in surviving a snowstorm, according to the Telegraph.
• “Give the public sector a 30% pay rise – but take away their pensions” – Our leaders’ addiction to spending other generations’ money must be stopped, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
• “Labour rules out smartphone ban in schools” – Keir Starmer will leave the matter to headteachers despite parents’ fears over cyberbullying and other countries rolling out restrictions, the Telegraph reports.
• “Fish and chip shop told to put fruit and veg on the menu by NHS bosses” – A new fish and chip shop is on hold in Wales after a health board which provides NHS services warned the proposed takeaway that it would be “detrimental” to people’s health unless it offered a range of nutritious side dishes, reports the BBC.
• “Trigger warnings applied to museum photographs of English folk events” – Photographs of traditional English folk events have been given trigger warnings by the North Lincolnshire Museum over fears that images of people in blackface costumes could offend, reports the Telegraph.
• “For the anniversary of October 7th I sat down with the mighty Natasha Hausdorff” – On X, Winston Marshall speaks to lawyer Natasha Hausdorff about how Israel is turning tragedy into victory, the truth about the founding of state in 1948, how Biden-Harris and the international community turned their back on the Jews, and more.

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