- “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.
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