- “Hospital taking ‘appropriate action’ over staffer who supported Hamas” – A hospital has said it is taking “appropriate action” after one of its staff celebrated the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in a series of disturbing social media posts, reports the Mail.
- “As mobs cheer on Hamas, Western civilisation is imploding around us” – Shocking anti-Semitism and widespread anti-Israel bias show how sick our societies have become, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Does the Met know what jihad means?” – In all the wars and exchanges involving Israel, the reaction at home grows worse each time, not least in our institutions, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “What Hamas promised to its electorate” – There is some evidence of opposition to Hamas in Gaza, but it seems small to the point of near invisibility, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “Free speech is our best weapon against Jew hatred” – We must confront antisemitism with more speech, not censorship, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Don’t get squishy on free speech” – Centrists and conservatives are being hypocritical on liberty, says Harrison Griffiths in the Critic.
- “Why doesn’t the West know who to back in the Israel-Hamas war?” – In the Spectator, Yascha Mounk underscores the striking difference and moral disconnect in global responses to the September 11th attacks and Hamas’s recent terrorist atrocities.
- “The tyranny of pathological kindness” – The cruel streak in progressivism has become dominant, writes Dr. Peter Hughes in UnHerd.
- “Why is the UN making excuses for Hamas?” – António Guterres’s Israel-bashing is out of control, says Jeremy Havardi in Spiked.
- “The UN Secretary General must resign” – Weakness in the United Nations is enabling horrific violence by terrorist groups and states, writes Hamish De Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Isolationist Republicans are wrong – we need to stand up for Israel and Ukraine” – To withdraw from helping Israel and Ukraine would solve none of our issues at home and create whole new problems abroad, argues Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
- “Scottish Covid Inquiry: Care home residents ‘left to starve’” – Care home residents may have been “neglected and left to starve” during the pandemic, Scotland’s Covid inquiry has been told, according to the BBC.
- “Has Humza misled Holyrood over his WhatsApps?” – Humza Yousaf and his Scottish Government are now facing criticism for not handing their key messages over to the Covid Inquiry. What comes around, goes around, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The Covid Inquiry isn’t interested in the truth about lockdown” – Recent hearings in the Covid Inquiry suggest a striking lack of curiosity about whether shutting down was a good decision, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “FDA links Covid shot to slightly higher risk of strokes and seizures” – Two new analyses by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have flagged up possible health concerns about the Covid shots made by Pfizer and Moderna, reports the Mail.
- “Most Americans are not planning to get an updated Covid booster” – Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation in California found 52% of adults said they ‘definitely’ or ‘probably’ weren’t getting the updated Covid booster this year, according to the Mail.
- “Alison Rose oversaw a toxic, anti-Right culture at NatWest. She should not be rewarded” – A dangerous ideology has taken root within the banking group Dame Alison Rose ran, almost 40% of which is still taxpayer-owned, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “No conservative should trust NatWest ever again” – NatWest has shown itself to be in the grip of cancel culture, says Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
- “‘Prominent’ Conservative MP reportedly arrested on suspicion of rape” – Gay Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has been arrested in connection with an allegation of rape and possession of a controlled substance, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves accused of lifting passages from Wikipedia for new book” – Rachel Reeves has owned up to copy-and-pasting sentences from Wikipedia in her new book, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain is quietly inching towards a fate worse than bankruptcy” – We only have to look to the 1970s to see where unsustainable spending and debt lead us, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Is BBC Radio Two’s exodus of older stars backfiring?” –Vernon Kay’s BBC Radio Two show has lost 1.3 million listeners since he took over from Ken Bruce, while the veteran DJ’s audience at his new station, Greatest Hits Radio, is booming, reports the Mail.
- “Why are so many adults in rich countries refusing to have kids?” – The sudden demographic collapse of advanced societies is the defining issue of our time, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Moment Just Stop Oil eco-zealots spray orange powder on dinosaur display” – The Mail has video of the moment Just Stop Oil activists sprayed a dinosaur exhibit in the Natural History Museum with orange paint.
- “Electricity prices ‘must rise by 70% to pay for more wind farms’” – The head of the U.K.’s largest energy generator says new offshore wind farms won’t be developed unless the Government allows operators to earn more from the electricity they produce, reports the Telegraph.
- “Climate change is one of our biggest health threats – humanity faces a staggering toll unless we act” – As the planet warms, the world’s health systems could become overwhelmed by the consequences of extreme weather events, claim WHO and COP28 doctors in the Telegraph. Why is the Torygraph publishing this Left-wing balls?
- “Debate on liberalism” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ash Sarkar are due to debate the motion that “liberalism gets the big questions right” at the upcoming Munk Debate scheduled for November 3rd.
- “Geert Wilders sees his chance” – The Dutch far-Right is on manoeuvres, writes Senay Boztas in UnHerd.
- “World Rugby close investigation into ‘white ****’ slur at World Cup” – The RFU have reacted with fury after World Rugby announced that no charges will be made against Bongi Mbonambi for alleged racist abuse aimed at England flanker Tom Curry, reports the Mail.
- “Tory councillor suspended for saying ‘Pride is a sin’ is reinstated” – A Christian councillor who was suspended from the Conservative Party after tweeting “Pride is a sin” has been reinstated, says the Telegraph.
- “Stephen King’s shining plug of J.K. Rowling novel could signal end of trans row” – Stephen King has extended an olive branch to J.K. Rowling with a rave book review following a row between the pair over trans rights, reports the Telegraph.
- “Critics pan Penelope Skinner’s ‘weirdly inept’ play Lyonesse” – Lyonesse, which has opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, has been branded “inexcusably poor” by critics, says the Mail.
- “Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilisation surgery to officially change gender” – Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to officially change gender is unconstitutional, according to AP.
- “‘We got this video from Hamas, the most credible not-terrorist organisation in the world’” – On X, Chris Rose is one of many people who’ve shared a video clip from an Israeli satirical show demonstrating how much of a laughing stock the BBC has become.
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”Look, Beth, for us accepting donations is not corruption, it’s an act of self sacrifice. The difference between us and the Tories is that we are righteous. We are on the right side of history. We fight for good causes. We are nice people.”
It’s all just theatre. Just like during “covid” when the Tories were found to have been partying, the general reaction wasn’t “hmm, perhaps they are lying to us about the big stuff too” it was “tut tut they should be following their own rules”. There’s no hope.
A Next Tuesday is still a Next Tuesday and Kneel is the definition of a Next Tuesday.l
I was actually having a visceral reaction to the announcement that Gove was going to be editor of the Spectator.
A man without integrity and a lockdown fanatic.
I cancelled my subscription.
Lionel Shriver will soon be cancelling her membership too, I don’t doubt.
Mr Scotch Egg. Despicable man.
The Spectator and the former editor were vaguely sceptical of lockdowns – I remember they broke a story where they had asked SAGE why they always gave the worst case scenario wrt “Covid” and they said “well the government never asked for realistic guesstimates”, around the time of the moronic variant.
I’ve been struggling with it for quite a while, but after subscribing for 34 years I think that’s me done.
Sorry, but the Sky interview looks to me like a big nothing sandwich.
The whole freebies thing is a stupid, ridiculous distraction from stuff that actually matters.
Asking “Do you get the optics?” half a dozen times is not hard hitting journalism.
Hard hitting journalism would be getting into mRNA vaccine damage and how pharma companies attack and intimidate anyone who raises the issue. It would be questioning what the point of Net Zero policies in the UK when it clearly makes no difference to the thing they claim changes the climate. It would be finding out how many new immigrants the government plans to let in next year and then holding them to account over it. It would mean defending free speech against a government determined to take it away. It would mean standing up for ordinary people rather than for the establishment and authority.
This silly exchange is indeed about optics but not regarding Starmer. It’s Sky trying to give the impression they hold power to account by going after trivialities rather than actual established power. (Which they can’t obviously because they are corrupt and completely owned by established corporate and state power.)
Yes, and just asking “Do you get the optics” is like saying, “we forgive you, next time don’t be so obvious about it, we have advisors who can make sure you don’t get caught, speak to me after to get a few telephone numbers, wink wink”
100% and baffled as to how anyone who reads DS would take issue with what you have written
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/25/letby-hospital-baby-delivery-out-of-horror-film-thirlwall/
Not for a minute do I minimise the absolute tragedy of losing a child, let alone two under any circumstances. It seems though after going through the utter horror show of the birth, which is incomprehensible in today’s day and age in a supposedly ‘civilised’ country they still blame Letby. I suppose that it was necessary to focus blame on one person despite relating the disgusting surroundings and the utter incompetence of the staff that were googling what to do!
I’ve always said that I’ve experienced the best and the worst of the NHS and again in the past couple of weeks I’ve seen the best and mediocre sides of it with Mr B. The NHS needs dismantling and starting again, something that will never happen if it continues being treated as a sacred cow.
Unbelievable. A Prime Minister earning £167,000 pa with ALL bills paid, every single one, cannot afford to buy his own knickers. What an utter, utter disgrace.