News Round-Up

• “Heathrow accused of ‘colossal failure’ over fire shutdown” – Airline chiefs have accused Heathrow of “clear failure” after Europe’s busiest airport was shut down by a fire in a single electricity substation, reports the Telegraph.
• “How Heathrow became reliant on a single electrical substation” – Questions are being asked about why Britain’s busiest airport was so vulnerable to a fire at a single substation and why back-up power was so woefully lacking, says the Telegraph.
• “Heathrow fire lays bare Britain’s alarming exposure to single points of failure” – We are woefully unprepared for the security threats coming from our enemies, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “‘Delighted’: School that dismissed Enoch Burke wins inclusivity award” – Wilson’s Hospital is among 44 schools and centres given an ‘inclusion’ award by an LGBTQ+ youth advocacy group, in spite of kicking out Enoch Burke for being a Christian, reports the Irish Times.
• “Enoch Burke’s says his bank account frozen as ‘drug barons’ ‘walk freely’” – “There are drug barons and murderers and thieves walking freely on our streets – but all of the stops can be pulled out for me,” Enoch Burke tells Gript. The Irish teacher dismissed from his school who discovered his bank account had been frozen yesterday.
• “Christian teacher who said ‘LGBT is a sin’ loses court battle” – The High Court has dismissed Glawdys Leger’s claim for unfair dismissal after she was sacked by a primary school for saying homosexuality is a sin and transgender people are confused, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police hunt 22 men after large-scale fight in Sheffield” – Police officers in Sheffield have released images of men they believe were fighting over Eritrean independence, says the BBC.
• “Multiculturalism hasn’t failed, says ex-MP chased by pro-Palestinian protesters” – Jonathan Ashworth, the ex-Labour MP who lost his seat in Leicester at the last election after a challenge by a Muslim candidate, says he still believes in multiculturalism, according to the Telegraph.
• “Nigerian dating conman won’t be deported because NHS is treating his family” – Immigration and Asylum Tribunal judges have ruled that Emmanuel Jack, who tricked women in ‘romance frauds’, can stay in the UK because it would be “unduly harsh” on his British wife and children to deport him, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mass migration and anti-white discrimination has broken British patriotism” – How can we feel as if we’re all in it together when we plainly aren’t? asks Neil O’Brien in the Telegraph.
• “The cancer of October 7th denial is spreading. Its antidote is this forensic account of Hamas’s crimes” – As denial that a massacre took place in Israel on October 7th multiplies on social media, a report led by the historian Andrew Roberts lays bare the terrible facts, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Disney ‘tried to rein in Snow White star after Free Palestine tweet’” – Rachel Zegler’s rift with Israeli co-star Gal Gadot forced producers to have “heart-to-heart” with the actress ahead of the troubled film’s opening, according to the Telegraph.
• “BBC apologises to Israeli embassy after asking for anti-Netanyahu speaker ” – The Corporation admitted it had made a “serious mistake” in requesting an anti-Netanyahu speaker on news programme, says the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Revealed: The BBC stars who earn the most moonlighting gigs” – Clive Myrie is the BBC’s highest earner in 2024, thanks for external work he did outside his role at the corporation, receiving an estimated £225,000 on top of his BBC salary, reports the Mail.
• “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero rush is dooming Britain’s economy” – A leaked report by the Economic and Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Business and Trade warns that Net Zero targets could provoke an economic shock on the scale of the 1973 oil crisis, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Forcing us to buy heat pumps, EVs and lentils is not economic growth. It’s breaking windows” – Work and money for glaziers doesn’t mean wealth for the rest of us, writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “Why Did This Man Mislead Us?” – The disturbing tale of how the scientific establishment tried to suppress the lab leak theory, as told by Andrew Sullivan on the Weekly Dish.
• “Covid five years on: Banging pans with the neighbours and other stuff you prefer not to think about now” – The pandemic was a time of fear, uncertainty, and weird shit you did which you’d rather forget five years later, says the Daily Mash.
• “Man comes out of Covid self-isolation after five years” – A writer has sheltered in his home, terrified of getting Covid, for five years because he is immuno-supressed, says the Mail. Is it David Aaronovitch?
• “Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever ousted its boss over political activism” – The ice cream maker has accused its parent company of trying to silence its activism, reports the BBC. We can but hope.
• “Trump agrees U.S. will become ‘associate member’ of the Commonwealth” – President Donald Trump on Friday indicated he would accept an offer from King Charles to join the British Commonwealth, according to the Mail.
• “The World Happiness Report is a sham” – The World Happiness Survey – a so-called scientific poll of different populations – is a fraud, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
• “Blow for Reeves as borrowing defies forecasts before Spring Statement” – The public sector borrowed £10.7billion last month – the fourth highest February figure on record and more than the £7 billion analysts had pencilled in, says the Mail.
• “Britons left £2 trillion worse off by ‘flawed’ accounting change” – The Office for National Statistics faces scathing criticism after it admits to overvaluing UK households by £2.2 trillion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rich cyclists are getting brand new bikes – courtesy of you, the taxpayer” – Middle-class men on six-figure salaries are shamelessly exploiting the tax break Gordon Brown put in place for cyclists, according to the Telegraph.
• “Half a million customers debanked to avoid ‘expensive’ payouts” – Lenders have been accused of debanking hundreds of thousands of “innocent consumers” to avoid money laundering checks, says the Telegraph.
• “Scientist forced out over gender beliefs wins two-year legal battle” – With the help of the Free Speech Union, Peter Wilkins, a scientist who’d worked at Porton Down for 15 years, has won a claim for constructive dismissal at the Employment Tribunal after repeatedly being told by colleagues that his gender-critical views were “unacceptable’. He is expected to be awarded substantial damages. The Times has the story.
• “‘Boob God’ plastic surgeon in legal battle with former patient” – Dr Riccardo Frati is suing Katy Morgan for breaching a confidentiality agreement which she claims she signed while heavily medicated, says the Times. Luckily, she has the FSU in her corner.
• “Tommy Robinson doesn’t know how lucky he is” – Tommy Robinson is actually rather lucky: in many ways, his treatment behind bars is far better than the typical inmate receives, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “BBC issues support email to LGBT staff over Trump” – The Corporation has issued an emotional support notice for colleagues affected by events across the Atlantic, after the election of US President Donald Trump – with the Beeb gushing that its “commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging remains unwavering”, according to the Spectator’s Steerpike.
• “Why are so many Oxford students being told they have ADHD?” – Ninety eight per cent of Oxford university students who took part in a test were told they had learning difficulties, reports Noor Qurashi in the Spectator.
• “Andrew and Tristan Tate ‘return to Romania to clear their name’” – The brothers have returned from the US to fight for justice, says the Times.
• “Why ethnic-minority boys are more drawn to Andrew Tate” – The discourse surrounding Adolescence misses some much deeper social issues, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Wetherspoon boss: Diversity policies have become weaponised” – Sir Tim Martin, the owner of Wetherspoon, says his pubs’ staff reflect their local communities, which is why they’re so white, according to the Telegraph.
• “From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector” – Data collected by public bodies has been “corrupted” as a result of conflating gender with sex, a new report by Professor Alice Sullivan says, posing risks to individuals, reports the Telegraph.
• “Covid five years on – according to the BBC” – As you’d expect, the person BBC London interviewed (for several minutes) to mark the fifth anniversary of the lockdown is a drag queen.

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