News Round-Up

• “David Lammy booed at vigil for Manchester terror attack victims” – The Deputy Prime Minister was greeted with cries of “shame!” when he joined the mourners gathered on Middleton Road in Crumpsall, reports the Mail.
• “Israel blames Starmer after synagogue terror attack” – Israel has accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to curb a “toxic wave of anti-Semitism” in Britain after a suspected Islamist terror attack on a Manchester synagogue, says the Telegraph.
• “Police who shot synagogue terror victims could face criminal charges” – The armed police officer who accidentally shot and killed a Jewish man inside the synagogue that was under attack in Manchester may face criminal charges, according to the Mail.
• “Synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape at time of attack” – The terrorist responsible for the Manchester synagogue attack was reportedly out on bail for alleged rape when he carried out the massacre, reports the Mail.
• “Police investigate if synagogue attacker Jihad al-Shamie threatened MP” – John Howell, then MP for Henley, received death threats via emails from someone with the same name as the Manchester killer after he’d expressed his support for Israel, says the Times.
• “Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police near Downing Street after synagogue attack” – Violent clashes broke out between pro-Palestinian protesters and police outside the gates of Downing Street last night just hours after a terror attack at a Manchester synagogue, according to the Telegraph.
• “Home Secretary urges pro-Palestine protesters to step back” – Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has called on pro-Palestinian protestors to give it a rest this weekend, reports the Mail.
• “The Free Palestine mob’s shameful response to the Manchester attack” – Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis hit the nail on the head over the attack in Manchester. It was, he said, the result of “a tidal wave of Jew hatred”, writes Stephen Pollard in the Spectator.
• “Who is Defend Our Juries plotting ‘mass action’ to overwhelm police?” – Defend Our Juries, a campaign group led by an Oxford graduate and former government lawyer, is organising a day of ‘mass action’ today in defiance of widespread requests to cancel, says the Mail.
• “Labour indulges the Islamist grievance politics that forces Jews to live in fear in Britain” – Successive British governments have appeased Islamic extremists for too long, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph. The result is that Britain’s Jewish population now lives in fear.
• “The plague of anti-Jewish hatred” – After the Manchester synagogue attack, no one can deny that this ancient prejudice has surged back into public life, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Starmer chose Islam over Britain and now we see the consequences” – The bodies of the slain are not even cold, and yet the pro-Palestine brigade are on the streets of Britain, celebrating their deaths, writes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “Middle Class Holes 35 – Keir Starmer” – I met a man who wasn’t there, says Gareth Roberts about the latest entry in his long-running series about Britain’s biggest ****holes on Substack.
• “Israeli minister invites Tommy Robinson to visit after Manchester attack” – Israel’s Anti-Semitism tsar says Tommy Robinson is a “courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam” and invites him to visit the Jewish state, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trauma surgeon father of Manchester terrorist condemns ‘heinous act’” – The father of Jihad Al-Shamie, the terrorist who attacked the synagogue in Manchester, says the attack is a “profound shock”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Father of synagogue attacker praised Hamas for Israel attacks” – Faraj al-Shamie, whose son, Jihad, was killed after the attack at Heaton Park in Manchester, was an enthusiastic celebrant of the October 7th attack, says the Times.
• “Hamas agrees to hand over all hostages under Trump peace plan for Gaza” – Hamas says it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages and return the remains of the deceased under Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, Reuters has reported.
• “‘Break my ribs again, just give me food’: Hamas hostage on his desperate plea to captors” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson interviews one of the Israeli hostages, who discovered his wife and daughters had been murdered by Hamas on his release.
• “Keir Starmer is a liar, says woman mentioned in his conference speech” – Joyce Todd, 79, disputed the Prime Minister’s recollection of meeting the “ordinary working-class woman from Oldham” in his conference speech, claiming he called her a ‘racist’ and she’ll never vote Labour again, reports the Telegraph.
• “The worst speech in modern British political history” – In the Conservative Woman, Sean Walsh says Sir Keir Starmer’s conference speech was one of the worst in history.
• “Badenoch vows to take UK out of European Convention on Human Rights” – In what she admits is a “big change” in party policy, the Tory leader says she would take the UK out of the ECHR to regain control of our borders and make Parliament sovereign again, according to the Mail.
• “My email to Jack Lemming, Editor at Nature” – On his Substack, Steve Kirsch, a Covid vaccine sceptic, takes issue with a recent article by the Editor of Nature, branding him and other sceptics “misinformation superspreaders”.
• “The Murray Test for TV drama” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray laments the woke rules that shape every television drama, including Slow Horses, such as the baddies always having to be white British types from the upper or lower classes.
• “Transgenderism proves people will believe anything” – The fad for transgenderism is unbelievable and should stay that way. This movement gleefully defies biological reality, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “Digital ID cards will be an extortionate boondoggle in search of a problem” – Public support for digital ID cards may have plummeted since the Prime Minister announced his plan to introduce them, but it remains firmly on the Government’s agenda, says Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “China trains robot dogs for lunar missions” – Animal-inspired machines are the latest addition to Beijing’s rapidly expanding space programme, according to the Telegraph.
• “How American conservatives defeated the ‘woke’ school Blob” – The Left-wing establishment is crushing British efforts to drive up educational standards. US parents have found an answer to that, writes Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
• “Keeping Reform honest: that is a worthy future for the Conservatives” – Reinventing Thatcherism for the 21st Century should be the overarching goal of Badenoch’s party, says Sherrelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Labour secretly sabotaged China spy trial” – Labour secretly sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing to brand China an “enemy”, the Telegraph reveals.
• “Police go after ‘heroes’ who kicked man flashing children off Tube” – The Metropolitan Police has been urged to focus on fighting “real crime” after investigating passengers who removed a naked man from a train carriage, reports the Telegraph.
• “BrewDog sells forest where 250,000 trees died as it stages fightback” – The ‘punk’ brewery bought Kinrara Estate, claiming it would be funded by sales of its Lost Forest beer, as it looked to reinvent itself as a ‘carbon negative’ beer producer. But the dream has turned sour, says the Mail.
• “Badenoch must be ruthless in dismantling Britain’s net zero rules” – The UK will remain trapped in decline if ministers can’t control the apparatus of the state, writes Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
• “Global banking climate group to stop operations after member exodus” – The banking sector’s global alliance for setting climate targets has ceased operations after an exodus of its members over the last year, reports Yahoo Finance.
• “Climate deniers are increasingly hiding in plain sight” – According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump isn’t the only ‘climate denier’ who makes no bones about his scepticism.
• “‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics” – Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at people who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” as he embraced Pope Francis’s environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments on the subject to date, reports the Guardian.
• “How utterly lost Is the Left?” – From UK’s Labour to the response to Charlie Kirk in the US, the modern Left is paralyzed, says Andrew Sullivan on the Weekly Dish.
• “Michelle Mone has ‘no wish to return to the Lords as a Tory peer’” – There have been calls for Baroness Mone to be stripped of her peerage for her role in a Covid contract scandal, but she has written to Kemi Badenoch saying she no longer wants to take the Conservative whip, according to the Mail.
• “Incredible exchange – you can literally watch the Liberal Left malfunction in real time as they realise they’ve lost control of the narrative” – Layla Cunningham, the Reform councillor, clashes with a Labour apparatchik on GB News.

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