News Round-Up

• “My open letter to UK Jews: all of us battling together, we will defeat this hatred” – Kemi Badenoch writes an open letter to the UK’s Jews in the Jewish Chronicle, urging them not to leave Britain.
• “Benefit claimants get 6.2% rise” – Benefit claimants have received a 6.2% rise this week while MPs pocket a £3,300 cost-of-living payment, sparking fresh accusations of a two-tier system, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer issues 48-hour ultimatum to striking doctors” – Keir Starmer has given striking junior doctors a 48-hour ultimatum, threatening to withdraw thousands of new training posts if they do not end their action, says the Telegraph.
• “Farage criticises family voting probe ‘whitewash’” – Nigel Farage has slammed the police investigation into family voting as a whitewash after it was closed with no further action, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fury as Green Party candidate claims fiery Jewish ambulance attack was an ‘inside job’” – A Green Party candidate has sparked fury by claiming a suspected antisemitic arson attack on Jewish ambulances was an ‘inside job’ carried out by a fellow Jew, reports the Mail.
• “Polanski talks up teacher pay rises” – Zack Polanski has promised to give teachers a big pay rise, scale back exams and get schools to combat the far-Right – using tax raised from the rich to pay for it all, according to the Mail. 
• “Britain should brace itself for a small boat surge” – Britain should prepare for a fresh surge in small boat crossings this spring as French cooperation wanes, warns Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “No Second Chances by Morgan Jones” – Morgan Jones’s new book shows that the People’s Vote campaign for a second Brexit referendum was doomed from the start, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “The £100 billion joke” – HS2 has become a £100 billion joke, with trains unable to run anywhere near their intended speeds, writes Rob Crossan in the Telegraph.
• “Dithering Labour is crippling Britain” – Labour’s dithering is crippling Britain’s emerging defence renaissance at a critical time, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Trump weighs highly-complex military plan” – President Trump is weighing a highly complex and potentially explosive military operation to send US special ops forces deep inside Iran to seize its stockpile of enriched uranium, according to the Mail. 
• “Russia supplied Iran with satellite images of American base” – Volodymyr Zelensky claims Russia supplied Iran with satellite images of a US base in Saudi Arabia just days before Iran destroyed a vital American AWACS spy plane, says the Mail.
• “Trump says Iran deal ‘could be soon’” – Donald Trump says a deal with Iran could come soon while revealing that 20 more oil tankers are set to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Mail.
• “Top Spanish court rules an unwanted kiss on the hand is sex assault” – Spain’s top court has ruled that kissing a woman’s hand without consent counts as sexual assault rather than street harassment, reports the Mail.
• “Four times as many patients with body dysmorphia since Covid” – NHS referrals for body dysmorphia treatment have quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, says the Telegraph.
• “One in 8 parents claims to have a child with disability” – In the Mail, Richard Littlejohn pours scorn on the claim that one in eight parents now says their child has a disability.
• “UK facing one of the biggest hits from energy shock, warns IMF” – Britain faces one of the biggest blows from the Middle Eastern energy crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned, according to the Telegraph.
• “Drivers ‘bleed cash’ as diesel shortages loom and Starmer admits Government can’t help ‘on its own’ amid warnings energy shock will be WORSE than 1970s” – Keir Starmer admitted last night that the Government can’t deal with the fallout from the Iran war “on its own” as he held emergency talks with industry chiefs in Downing Street, reports the Mail.
• “There is also no such thing as a global oil price” – On Substack, Catherine McBride reminds UK politicians that there is no single global oil price because crude varies hugely by quality, location and transport costs.
• “$2 trillion later, the green revolution collapsed” – After spending $2 trillion on renewable energy, the green revolution has collapsed, bankrupting grids and costing the world an estimated $40 trillion in lost growth, claims Tony Seruga on Watts Up With That?
• “New study finds warming saves lives” – A major new study has found that warming temperatures actually save lives because cold weather remains about 12 times more deadly than excess heat, writes Kenneth Richard on the No Tricks Zone.
• “Paul Ehrlich and his media fans” – Paul Ehrlich’s media admirers continue to overlook his long record of failed predictions, notes Tony Thomas on Cliscep.
• “The EV bubble is about to burst” – The electric vehicle bubble has started showing serious signs of strain as mandates clash with falling demand, writes Sydney Rodman in Townhall.
• “Why Gen-Z turned back to Christianity” – Gen-Z has started turning back to Christianity in noticeable numbers, much to the dismay of secular commentators, says Bijan Omrani in the Spectator.
• “Why modern ‘comedians’ like Romesh Ranganathan aren’t funny” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill slams modern comedians like Romesh Ranganathan for nattering on without ever saying anything funny.
• “Radio 2 star Scott Mills sacked by BBC” – BBC Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills has been sacked because of a police investigation several years ago into “serious sexual offences” against a teenage boy, reports the Mail.
• “Two-tier policing of speech on campus” – On GB News, Royal Holloway student Brodie Mitchell reveals how he was kicked off campus within 24 hours in a flagrant display of two-tier speech policing on campus.

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