News Round-Up

• “Woman who cut Israeli hostage ribbons is taxpayer-funded PhD researcher” – The woman captured cutting down yellow ribbons for Israeli hostages from a memorial in London is a PhD student who is married to a Palestinian actor, reveals the Daily Mail.
• “NHS doctor who ‘denied Holocaust’ celebrates October 7th attacks” – NHS Dr Rahmeh Aladwan marked the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel with social media posts including “glory to the breaking of the 17 year long illegal siege” and saying it was “officially 2 years of a holocaust”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Two years on, I have been proved right about the Palestine hate marches” – Britain, a country once defined by moral courage, now bows before the mob, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “The extraordinary anti-Israel propaganda machine set in motion on October 7th” – Britain’s rapid pro-Palestine mobilisation has exposed a network long primed to turn hostility towards Jews into a political cause, says Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
• “I don’t resent police for shooting me” – A “hero” father shot by police during the Manchester synagogue terrorist attack does not blame officers for his injuries, according to the Mail.
• “Islamists are the true cry bullies” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill says Islamists have turned “cry bullying” into an art form – playing victim while wielding power – and argues that their obsession with Jews stems from envy, not Gaza.
• “After Gaza” – A new report from Policy Exchange, called ‘After Gaza: Frantz Fanon and his Acolytes‘, warns of the dangers that come from “anti-colonial thinking” after the Manchester terror attack.
• “It is not bigoted to point out parts of Britain are not well-integrated. It’s the truth” – Robert Jenrick’s intervention about inner-city Birmingham may be controversial for some, but it points to an existing reality, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick steals the limelight at Tory conference” – It was a performance from Robert Jenrick that will have all the right people crying, writes James Heale in the Spectator.
• “Immigration isn’t working” – Instead of being taboo, the varying societal costs brought by different nationalities should inform the criteria for accepting migrants, argues Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “The Greens say they’ve got a plan to stop the boats. Unfortunately, it’s barking mad” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon says the Greens’ plan to “stop the boats” by letting everyone in legally is so bonkers it proves they don’t even grasp the problem.
• “I will never serve in a party with Farage” – James Cleverly has ruled out ever sharing a party with Nigel Farage, dismissing Reform as “to the Left of Corbyn”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Jim Ratcliffe’s chemical plant blames Net Zero for dozens of job cuts” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos has cut a fifth of jobs at its Hull chemical plant, blaming Net Zero and competition from coal-fuelled Chinese imports, reports City A.M.
• “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” – On Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson argues that Ed Miliband’s war on fossil fuels and push for renewables is driving UK energy costs up and wrecking jobs.
• “Claim: Politicians don’t know 2025 must be peak fossil fuel” – Most UK MPs haven’t a clue that 2025 is meant to be the peak for fossil fuels, meaning urgent climate action is widely misunderstood, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “The Guardian is wrong: cities are hotter because of the UHI effect, not increased CO₂” – The Guardian blames CO₂ for hotter cities, but on Climate Realism, Anthony Watts shows it is really the Urban Heat Island effect – concrete, asphalt and glass trapping heat – not fossil fuels – that is driving temperatures up.
• “All change at the Unite union” – Are we finally seeing the unions offering genuine and unequivocal support for workers in the oil and gas industry? wonders Romaron on Net Zero Watch.
• “We need a debate on climate science and policy” – Our governments have spent upwards of $200 billion combating climate change. Canadians are owed a review of the costs and benefits, say John Zacharias, H. Sterling Burnett and Tom Harris in the Financial Post.
• “National Academies’ climate report: another tale of climate change bias” – The US Government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity, writes Steven E. Koonin in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Japan’s green energy failures serve as a warning to the US: don’t fall for the climate agenda” – Japan’s offshore wind fiasco proves even giants like Mitsubishi can’t beat bad policy, says Yoshihiro Muronaka in the Western Journal.
• “Powell vowed to ‘enhance’ China relationship before spy case dropped” – Sir Keir Starmer’s national security adviser told China’s most senior diplomat that Britain wanted to “enhance” bilateral relations, weeks before the collapse of the case against two parliamentary aides accused of spying for Beijing, reports the Telegraph. 
• “CPS blames Labour for collapse of China spies trial” – Britain’s most senior prosecutor has blamed Labour for the collapse of the China spies trial after the Government repeatedly refused to describe Beijing as a national security threat, says the Sun.
• “EU threatens Britain with ‘devastating’ tariffs” – The EU is threatening Britain’s steel industry with tariffs of up to 50% in a dispute that could derail Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to reset relations with Brussels, reports the Express.
• “Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson” – Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain, says James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “Could Marine Le Pen save Macron’s presidency?” – France’s Fifth Republic, designed for strong presidents and obedient parliaments, has rarely looked so fragile, writes James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
• “Germans have had enough of Merz. Starmer should pay attention” – Despite Chancellor Merz taking swift action to resolve some of the thorniest issues in Germany’s post-war history, he is more unpopular than ever – while the AfD party keeps rising in the polls, notes James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “German mayor fights for life after being repeatedly stabbed at home” – A newly elected German mayor is fighting for her life after being repeatedly stabbed at her home – with police taking her teenage adopted son and daughter away for questioning, reports the Mail.
• “Greta and the flotilla fools have no self-awareness” – The lack of self-awareness of Greta Thunberg and the other flotilla fools who tried to sail to Gaza is astonishing, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a monster of October 7th’s making” – Horrifyingly, the terrorist attack on Israel two years ago has created a political movement that in New York City is sweeping all before it, writes David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
• “Judge received death threats before her house went up in flames” – A judge who defied Trump has seen her $1.5 million beach house go up in flames in a suspected arson attack, leaving her husband badly injured, reports the Mail.
• “Biden ordered CIA cover-up of his ‘corrupt’ business ties to Ukraine” – Joe Biden quashed the release of a CIA memo indicating concerns over his family’s allegedly corrupt business ties to Ukraine, says the Mail. 
• “Harvard students skip class and still get high grades, faculty say” – Harvard professors say that students are skipping class and barely doing any reading, yet rampant grade inflation allows them to coast through anyway, reports the NY Times.
• “The anti-woke superstar shaking up American journalism” – Nabbed to front CBS News, former NY Times journalist Bari Weiss is looking to change the US media landscape, writes James Warrington in the Telegraph.
• “The Church of England remains hell bent on baseless slavery reparations” – In the Telegraph, Nigel Biggar says it’s time for the Church of England to drop its £100 million slavery guilt trip, calling the whole thing baseless, unjustified and heading straight for a scandal if they don’t stop digging.
• “All black British people should be paid slavery reparations” – Sir Lenny Henry has co-written a book, entitled The Big Payback, which supports the case for the UK to hand over £18 trillion in compensatory payments for slavery, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Paddington producers sue Spitting Image over foul-mouthed parody” – The producers of Paddington Bear are suing Spitting Image over its foul-mouth parody of the iconic character, according to the Mail.
• “LGBT radio station ‘does not broadcast enough LGBT content’” – The head of a Belfast LGBT radio station has called an Ofcom ruling that it does not broadcast enough programmes for the LGBT community “truly baffling”, reports the BBC.
• “The real problem with Masterchef” – Masterchef’s mess isn’t just Wallace and Torode getting sacked – it’s that the show now feels more about ticking diversity boxes than who can actually cook, says Russell David on his Mad World Substack.

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