News Round-Up

• “Donald Trump says Hamas is gathering Israeli hostages ‘now’” – Donald Trump has said that Hamas is gathering the hostages held in Gaza “now” before handing them over to Israel as part of a historic peace deal, reports the Mail.
• “Hamas thanks Donald Trump for ceasefire deal but says Tony Blair is not welcome in Gaza because he ‘destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan’” – Hamas has thanked Donald Trump for his “personal efforts” in bringing forward a ceasefire agreement with Israel but voiced concerns over some aspects of the deal, says the Mail.
• “Counter-protesters arrested at pro-Palestinian march in London” – Police made 14 arrests on Saturday as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered to march in central London despite the ceasefire in the Middle East, reports the Times.
• “Pro-Palestine supporters chant ‘death, death to the IDF’ as they march through London while police arrest pro-Israel demonstrators” – Police officers arrested pro-Israeli demonstrators who managed to infiltrate a pro-Palestine protest attended by tens of thousands on Saturday, as marchers chanted ‘death to the IDF’, reports the Mail.
• “October 7th survivor who saw girlfriend murdered kills himself” – Roei Shalev’s body was found on Friday evening in his burned car north of Tel Aviv , hours after he had posted a message on social media expressing his intention to end his life, the Mail reports.
• “London council omits antisemitism from list of hate crimes” – Tower Hamlets council left antisemitism off a list of hate crimes – cropping the word from a website page that promotes National Hate Crime Awareness Week – while including many other forms of prejudice, including transphobia and Islamophobia, reports the Telegraph.
• “NHS doctor claims Manchester synagogue attack was ‘false flag operation’ to boost sympathy for Israel – while another medic says Hamas is ‘liberation army’” – Dr Asad Khan, a respiratory consultant from Manchester, posted on Instagram and Facebook casting doubt on the motive for the terror attack, according to the Mail.
• “Israel’s war for survival is only just beginning” – The Jewish State has never been so isolated and demonised, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “María Corina Machado: ‘Trump deserves the Nobel peace prize next’” – Venezuela’s opposition leader in hiding says her honour rewards long years of fighting for freedom but commends the US President’s “remarkable” Middle East plan, reports the Times.
• “One sixth of cash for key benefit handed to foreigners” – More than £10 billion of Universal Credit went to non-UK citizens last year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Stop Breathing, Asthmatics: CNN Rails Against ‘Climate Pollution from Inhalers’ – ‘Substantial contributors to planet-warming pollution’” – Tough noogies, asthmatics! CNN has officially pinned your breathing tool as the latest climate change threat to the environment, says Joseph Vazquez in Climate Depot.
• “‘Green’ Antoinettes Preaching Austerity From Private Jets” – Politicians, celebrities and billionaires who lecture the rest of us about carbon footprints operate by a separate set of rules, says Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
• “Claim: Climate Change is Giving Alzheimers to Florida’s Dolphins” – And you thought alarmists had reached the limits of absurdity, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty” – The World Bank describes its mission as “To create a world free of poverty — on a livable planet”. However, in reality, the World Bank promotes policies that increase energy poverty and thus overall poverty among the world’s poorest, especially in Africa, says Brenda Shaffer in WUWT.
• “Disney is set to hire a white actress to star in its latest reboot after dumping DEI amid woke fury” – Disney has suffered a string of flops in recent years after recasting previously white characters with non-white actors, so has decided to give white people another go, says the Mail.
• “Memo that Government officials tried to bury shows Jeffrey Epstein met Sir Tony Blair in Downing Street – and Lord Mandelson set it up” – A memo that Government officials tried to bury shows Jeffrey Epstein met with Sir Tony Blair while he was Prime Minister on the insistence of Lord Mandelson, reports the Mail.
• “Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs” – The UK Government is facing calls to support Chagos Islanders who need temporary housing after a surge of them arrived in the country to claim their right to British citizenship, reports the BBC.
• “Vance and Musk attack ‘shameful’ graffiti art at Canterbury Cathedral” – US Vice-President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk have led criticism of “shameful” graffiti art at Canterbury Cathedral, reports the Telegraph.
• “Taylor Swift has shattered feminism’s fragile lie” – Lefties have accused Taylor Swift of going ‘full MAGA’ for saying she wants to marry her boyfriend and have “babies that look like him” after years of being a good feminist and telling fans she was anti-marriage. The singer has shattered feminism’s fragile lie, says Lois McLatchie Miller in the Spectator.
• “Britain still doesn’t have a blasphemy law” – It seems that the CPS believes there are no lessons to be learned from its shameful persecution of Hamit Coskun, and we should expect more criminal persecutions for lawful speech, laments David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “The tyranny of ‘kindness’” – The guiding sentiment of the woke canon is that there’s no easier way to silence others than by making an appeal to ‘kindness’, observes Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching” – Labour is considering bringing the university tuition fee cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met, says the Times.
• “Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside” – The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Colleges must stand with MIT against Trump’s funding deal” – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the first university to reject the White House’s proposed ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’, and Michael Hurley in UnHerd says others need to follow suit to preserve free speech.
• “How the ‘hate speech’ conceit fuels political violence” – Charlie Kirk was killed by a Left that feels entitled to silence its enemies by any means necessary, writes Heather Mac Donald in Spiked.
• “‘Non-white’ is offensive term, civil servants told” – The phrase “non-white” is offensive and should be avoided, civil servants have been told, according to the Telegraph.
• “EU to use steel trade war to strong-arm Britain on youth mobility” – Brussels is poised to use negotiations over new EU steel tariffs to lobby Sir Keir Starmer for further concessions on work visas for young people, the Telegraph reports.
• “Russia may have been behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack” – Russia is suspected of being behind the cyber attack that forced JLR to stop production, reports the Telegraph.
• “Intelligence on China embassy threat left out of official review” – British intelligence agencies were prevented from directly submitting spying concerns about the proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, the Telegraph reports.
• “Powell under pressure over Chinese factory ‘that poses threat to Britain’” – No 10 is under pressure to reveal whether Jonathan Powell has been involved in talks to allow a Chinese company to build a wind turbine factory branded a “serious” threat to UK national security, reports the Telegraph.

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