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by Jonathan Barr
20 October 2023 12:41 AM

  • “Top officials say Gaza ground offensive ‘soon’, warn it will be ‘long and intense’” – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has told troops near Gaza that the order to enter Gaza would come “soon”, reports the Times of Israel.
  • “Political Islam now commands the Middle East” – The October 7th attacks and their aftermath “should serve as a belated alarm call”, writes Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator, about the “nature, dimensions and existential seriousness of the Iranian and Islamist project” that forms the new geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and beyond.
  • “Why do we allow protests that glorify slaughter?” – Douglas Murrays uses his latest column in the Spectator to list the inconsistencies in the pronouncements of the people taking part in the anti-Israel demonstrations last Saturday.
  • “Labour could tear itself in two over Israel and Palestine” – Ross Clark explains in the Telegraph how the Gaza war could reopen old wounds in the Labour Party, damaging its election prospects.
  • “The U.K. doesn’t have a duty to take in a single Gazan refugee” – “This is a crisis made in the Middle East,” argues Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph. “And it is for the countries in the region to come to the rescue of those fleeing the rockets and bombs.”
  • “Terror group’s spokesman smiles in Channel 4 interview about beheadings” – Channel 4 has been accused of “irresponsible journalism”, the Mail says, after it broadcast Hamas Spokesman Osama Hamden dismissing reports of beheadings and the burning of children as Israeli lies.
  •  “Israeli President slams BBC over Hamas coverage in talk with Sunak” –The Israeli President Isaac Herzog has told Rishi that “the way the BBC characterises Hamas is a distortion of the facts”, according to the Mail.
  • “How the educated elites became Hamas apologists” – “America’s top universities are consumed by Israel Derangement Syndrome,” writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
  • “Governments and media spread misinformation on Israel and Gaza while demanding censorship” – “Inaccurate reporting of the Gaza hospital bombing exposes the hypocrisy of those raising the alarm about ‘disinformation’,” say Michael Shellenberger, Leighton Woodhouse and Alex Gutentag in Public.
  • “Government scientists called Sunak ‘Dr Death’ in Covid crisis meeting” – Dame Angela McLean, now the Chief Scientific Advisor, described Rishi Sunak as ”Dr. Death” over the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme, and Professor Carl Heneghan as a “f—wit”, the Telegraph reports.  
  • “Ministers went against advice not to frighten public during pandemic, Covid Inquiry told” – Professor James Rubin, co-chairman of Spi-B, told the Covid inquiry that the Government was warned that frightening the public would not work, the Telegraph reports.
  • “With virus season looming and awareness campaign funding slashed, experts see a scattered COVID-19 vaccine rollout ahead” – CNN tries to work out why the American public appears not to be in a hurry to get the latest Covid jab.
  • “The war on motorists is not a myth” – Watch Spiked’s Tom Slater take apart the gaslighting carried out by the green elites to show that war on cars is very real.
  • “Inside Britain’s new trans clinics” – Kathleen Stock fills UnHerd readers in on what happened to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service after the announcement of its closure last July.
  • “MacHamas” – “The SNP is surely finished,” says Roger Watson in the New Conservative. “Like a landed fish, twitching and gasping its last.”
  • “The real reason for falling birth rates” – The trend is not driven by people remaining childless by choice, writes Stephen J. Shaw in the Spectator, but ”by people feeling economically vulnerable and deferring parenthood”.
  • “Maths teacher sacked after pupils ‘made up assault claims’” – Maths and Computer teacher Jonathan Hawker was sacked from his job at an all-girls grammar school over sex assault allegations which the kids made up for fun, the Mail reports. He has now been awarded nearly £45,000 in compensation.
  • “Rishi Sunak has caved on ‘conversion therapy’” – “Don’t let anyone tell you that British politics is no longer stonewalled,” says Joan Smith in UnHerd, bemoaning the news that the Government intends on a complete ban on ‘conversion therapy’.
  • “Australia has given us a masterclass in how to defeat identity politics” – “The country’s referendum on ‘the Voice’ saw division beaten by optimism,” says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “The Tories should take note.”
  • “Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’” – Christina Lamb offers the Spectator an account of her experience contributing to a literary festival in war-torn Ukraine.
  • “Victoria’s Secret brings sexy back after ‘inclusive’ rebrand brings sales slump” –  Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret is set to return to the sexiness it was once known for, the Post Millennial says, following a drop in revenue after its move towards inclusive marketing. 
  • “EU Commission to delay adoption of sustainability reporting standards by two years” – The European Commission has announced plans to delay the implementation of some corporate sustainability reporting rules, ESG today reports, including requirements for sustainability reporting from companies outside the EU.
  • “Chivalry is dead” – Writing in Spectator Life,  Laura Dodsworth mourns the decline and fall of chivalry and wonders if there are any modern knights out there brave enough to revive it.
  • “I’ve just had one of the most disturbing experiences in nine years at Campaign Against Antisemitism” – Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, tells of how police told him that he must turn off the lit-up posters of kidnapped Israeli children on his billboard vans or he would be arrested.

“I’ve just had one of the most disturbing experiences in nine years at Campaign Against Antisemitism.”

Who are the police protecting here?

Those standing up to terrorists, or those who sympathise with them?

We are considering our legal options and a public protest. pic.twitter.com/2eTwhXZk19

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) October 19, 2023

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
5 months ago

I’m in two minds about trigger warnings, they’re fairly harmless and are certainly preferable to not putting on shows for reasons such as ‘political incorrectness’, and there are some shows you’d like to know about before bringing a prudish relative to.

Silly trigger warnings like this one create publicity which sells tickets.

Not that Oliver! needs much publicity nor would anyone ever dare try to ban it, one of the most enjoyable shows ever staged, with superb songs by the genius, Lionel Bart.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

I loved watching Chicago. I wonder what trigger warnings a wokey theatre would put on that…
Personally, why even bother to report on this sort of thing anymore? It’s here to stay, I reckon, and now it’s just so humdrum it’s not even newsworthy. This sort of article drops, we all have a moan, make the same comments we’ve all said a million times before, then another similar article drops, concerning a museum, art gallery, literature or what have you…same old same old, nothing changes. I think the best thing one can do with regards to trigger warnings is just carry on as normal and ignore them. The less the insanity that surrounds us in Clown World is acknowledged the better.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Far from harmless

It reinforces the notion that offence is given, not taken

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I didn’t say harmless, I said fairly harmless. There is a difference. I agree with Mogwai, they’re not something worth getting too worked up about. They can be useful in some cases, and when they’re silly, it’s best just to ignore them.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

I know you said “fairly harmless”. “Far from harmless” also means “Far from fairly harmless”. Never useful. Definitely something to get worked up about.

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David101
David101
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I think it’s entirely harmless, so long as it just sits in the corner of a website minding its own business. It’s only when the production’s editors start caving to the woke brigade and start altering the race of Dicken’s characters and watering down the depictions of poverty and criminality that alarm bells should begin to sound.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  David101

It harms me! I’m sick of the professionally, perpetually offended and equally sick of the people that pander to them.

And “trigger warnings” are the start of a slippery slop.

All part of the great pandemic of safetyism.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

So you’re triggered by trigger warnings. They’ll have to start issuing trigger warnings for trigger warnings.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Exactly

I avoid a lot of situations because of this stuff- just trying to live in my bubble

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago

Last November, ITV warned viewers that Sir David Lean’s celebrated 1948 film adaption of Oliver Twist contained “language from a bygone era”.

If were to borrow Dr Who’s TARDIS and travel back to the years prior to the 1990s, and show TV programmes and films from 21st Century, they would need a trigger warning: “Language and behaviour from a forlorn era”.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
5 months ago
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They would say that will never happen, and think you are joking.

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Alan M
Alan M
5 months ago

I saw the show in Chichester last year (brilliant) and I don’t remember anything so silly. Then again, I didn’t buy a programme or look on-line.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
5 months ago

“; depictions of violence towards men, women and children including gunshots; and themes of poverty, hunger and crime in Victorian society.”

How queer!

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David101
David101
5 months ago

I’m reminded of mountains and molehills. For goodness sake, if you’re so hung up about unnecessary trigger warnings, then can’t you just ignore them? To be offended by a trigger warning that you don’t even have to look at is just as “snowflake” as being offended by the content (which, by the way nobody will be).

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David101
David101
5 months ago

This all sounds a bit Twisted! 🙂

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  David101

I think trigger warnings trigger people.🤭

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
5 months ago

Better not tell them the man who takes Oliver under his wing is Jewish!

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DontPanic
DontPanic
5 months ago

To paraphrase Scrooge, It offends because there are no foodbanks no social housing. Also I believe from memory of the films no ethnic representation

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
5 months ago

Bill Sykes may have homosexual traits…who knew…🤔

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A. Contrarian
A. Contrarian
5 months ago

I don’t even think it’s the “snowflake” audiences that are bothered by this (on the whole, with a few exceptions) but rather the theatre/theatre companies themselves wanting to a) look caring and progressive and woke but perhaps mostly b) not wanting to get sued or even worse cancelled for somehow causing offence.

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