News Round-Up

• “British-Syrian man, 35, named as Manchester Islamist terrorist” – Police have named the Islamic terrorist who killed two at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester as Syrian immigrant Jihad Al-Shamie, reports the Mail.
• “I don’t give a f*** about the Jewish community right now” – A woman attending a pro-Palestine protest on the day of a horrific knife attack outside a synagogue has said she “doesn’t give a f*** about the Jewish community”, according to the Mail. 
• “Antisemitism ‘rising once again’ after synagogue attack” – Keir Starmer has warned that antisemitism is “a hatred rising once again” in the wake of the bloody terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue, reports the Mail. 
• “The Manchester synagogue attack is where antisemitism inevitably leads” – Politicians will now solemnly proclaim their solidarity with Britain’s Jewish community, writes Danny Cohen in the Telegraph, but that alone is no longer enough.
• “After months of anti-Israel marches, we Jews knew this was coming…” – As horrifying as this incident may be, I doubt that any of Britain’s 287,000 Jews will be surprised that such an event has come to pass, says Stephen Pollard in the Mail.
• “Are we safe in this country? For Jews, increasingly the answer is no” – Our leaders shouldn’t be surprised by the terrorist attack in Manchester during Yom Kippur – it has been coming for months, writes Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
• “Israel has just laid bare Greta Thunberg’s self-serving hypocrisy” – It is a twisted irony that these keffiyeh-adorned activists will be given more food than the hungry people of Gaza, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s hysterical demonisation of Farage will only help propel Reform to power” – So long as the Reform leader continues to stand up to genuine racists and extremists, his advance to No 10 appears unstoppable, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Labour supporter touted by PM says she will never vote for party again” – A former Labour voter, who Sir Keir Starmer said made him realise the party had it “wrong on immigration”, says she “doesn’t believe a word the Prime Minister says”, according to the Mail.
• “Biased beyond belief – Panorama’s take on asylum hotel protests” – Panorama’s take on asylum hotel protests is all cherry-picked interviews and racist conservatives, says Bruce Newsome in TCW.
• “Twisted monster part of grooming gang abused 100 girls could be free in months” – The leader of a grooming gang that abused girls as young as 13 faces possible parole, reports the Express.
• “Syrian asylum seeker staying at taxpayer-funded Epping migrant hotel when he assaulted four people ‘wants to go home’” – A migrant who admitted assaulting four people at an asylum hotel where he was a resident wants to return to Syria, says the Mail.
• “The sorry record – and uncertain future – of the Human Rights Act” – The HRA’s record over the last quarter century exposes the constitutional and practical problems that arise from open-ended rights litigation, says Richard Ekins in the Spectator.
• “‘Enough is enough’ on tax rises” – The boss of Tesco has warned the Government against adding extra costs to UK retailers in the upcoming Budget, reports the BBC.
• “Public sector pensions are unsustainable, says union chief” – National Association of Head Teachers chief Paul Whiteman warns public sector pensions are “unsustainable” and that gold-plated perks “had to be brought back under control”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain will be forced into a cashless society – and Labour stupidity is to blame” – With the PM struggling to stop illegal immigrants being paid off the books, it’s only a matter of time before he abolishes cash, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s free speech shame” – The UK’s status as global number-one free-speech laughing stock does not rest solely, or even mainly, on the volume of arrests, writes Adam King in UnHerd.
• “Kemi Badenoch’s climate pledge is ‘catastrophic mistake’” – Baroness May of Maidenhead has called Kemi Badenoch’s pledge to scrap the Climate Change Act a “catastrophic mistake”, reports the Express.
• “The case against Net Zero – a 12th update” – Britain’s Net Zero push is a costly, risky and utterly pointless gamble, argues Robin Guenier in Climate Scepticism.
• “Wind and solar energy make electricity expensive” – On the Freedom Research podcast, energy expert Dr Lars Schernikau tells Hannes Sarv that grid-scale batteries are not the solution – they are expensive, do not last long and are harmful to the environment.
• “No, Reuters, climate change is not threatening Europe’s resources” – Reuters is panicking over Europe’s resources, blaming climate change, but in WUWT?, Anthony Watts points out that it’s poor management, not CO₂, causing droughts, pollution and habitat decline.
• “Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning” – Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to kill them, writes David Wojick in CFACT.
• “The Amazon’s ‘CO₂ problem’? Turns out the trees love it – so does the media” – Next time someone calls CO₂ “pollution”, remind them: without it, plants – and by extension, we – wouldn’t exist, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “New study attributes Arctic sea ice decline – and ‘slowdown’ since 2012 –to internal variability” – New research shows Arctic sea ice decline since 2012 has been basically flat, driven more by natural swings than CO₂, reports Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
• “After NHS extols ‘first cousin marriage’, this is what’s coming next…” – The NHS is now championing first-cousin marriages and exploring Juju, human sacrifice and scapegoat rituals to tackle everything from family support to climate anxiety, writes John Ellwood in TCW.
• “The Government’s answer to the inevitable winter crisis” – The Government is pushing year-round flu antivirals to “ease winter pressures,” but on the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson show the drugs barely work and are a colossal waste of money.
• “The Czech Republic dataset provides amazing insights into Covid vaccine safety and efficacy. Here are the key charts showing it was all risk and no benefit” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch says the Czech data makes it crystal clear – the vaccines never saved lives, the benefit was a mirage and each extra shot only pushed the risk higher.
• “The Murray Test for TV drama” – Is every TV villain a white Brit and every Muslim an angel? In the Spectator, Douglas Murray uses Slow Horses to launch his “Murray Test”.
• “We don’t want a generation of shamed men” – Comedian Tim Minchin sits down with Helen Brown in the Telegraph, to discuss Gen-Z gender politics and censorship.
• “‘Wannabe Like Lammy’” – On X, Crewkerene Gazette give David Lammy the AI treatment after he told outrageous lies about Nigel Farage.

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