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by Richard Eldred
17 November 2023 12:37 AM

  • “Pro-Palestine protest chaos breaks out amid vote in Parliament on Gaza” – Pro-Palestine protesters climbed the Hyde Park war memorial, shut down streets and swarmed around an elderly couple’s car on Wednesday night, reports the Mail.
  • “Pathetic! MP blasts Met as war memorial is trampled on” – The Met claims they were powerless to stop yobs clambering over the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park, says the Mail.
  • “BBC apologises after ‘incorrect’ report stated Israeli troops targeted Gaza medical team” – The BBC has apologised after an anchor mistakenly stated during a live broadcast that Israel was deliberately targeting medical staff and Arabic speakers, according to Politico.
  • “Christmas display cancelled in Bethlehem as Palestinian authorities ban tradition in birthplace of Jesus” – Bethlehem has cancelled its annual Christmas display in deference to Palestinian “martyrs”, reports GB News.
  • “Jewish D-Day veteran, 98, tells of his despair at tragic October 7th Hamas attack” – Speaking to the Sun, Jewish D-Day veteran Mervyn Kersh fears another war could be on the horizon, and the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation could be in vain.
  • “Why don’t celebrities care about the Israeli hostages?” – Why did the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 capture the attention of global megastars, while the recent kidnapping of Israelis by Hamas did not, asks Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
  • “The battle for the truth about the October 7th pogrom” – Why are so many people in denial about Hamas’s atrocities, asks Frank Furedi in Spiked.
  • “Progressives appeal to base emotions” – The BLM brigade joining the ghastly Muslim chant of ‘Glory to our martyrs’ makes perfect sense, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
  • “The Genius of Israel, even still” – Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s The Genius of Israel, written before October 7th, charts the path for Israel’s renewal post-October 7th, writes Bret Stephens in his review for Commentary. Well worth a read.
  • “Covid lockdowns were no more effective than Swedish softer approach” – A major Oxford University-backed study suggests that Covid lockdowns were no more effective at controlling the pandemic than letting people adapt their own behaviour to meet the threat, reports the Mail.
  • “Inside EcoHealth Alliance’s closed-door congressional testimony” – In the U.S. Spectator, Matthew Foldi reveals that Peter Daszak, head of the controversial EcoHealth Alliance, was summoned to a closed-door interview in the House of Representatives. What has he got to hide?
  • “FBI is purging Christians, conservatives and Covid skeptics, new whistleblowers allege” – New disclosures show a massive politicisation of federal law enforcement, writes Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
  • “The Covid wars” – Will America revert to lockdowns and panic again? On their website, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff weigh up the different schools of thought.
  • “The Covid caper gradually unravels” – In the Epoch Times, Jeffrey A. Tucker examines the uncertainties and inconsistencies surrounding the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • “Panel discussions from Brownstone’s third annual conference: Rebuild freedom” – The Brownstone Institute has shared a video from its third annual conference, where hundreds of scholars, writers, researchers and supporters convened to discuss the civilisation-wide trauma we have collectively experienced since March 2020.
  • “Scientists warn catastrophic ‘Factor X’ virus waiting to be unleashed, might wipe out humanity” – In the latest fear porn scare, scientists are warning of a deadly ‘Factor X’ pathogen lurking in the Earth’s permafrost, waiting to be unleashed, says WION.
  • “Tories turn fire on U.N. agency that ‘torpedoed’ Rwanda asylum plan” – Senior Tory MPs have turned on the U.N.’s refugee agency, accusing it of bias and hypocrisy over evidence that influenced the Supreme Court’s Rwanda judgment, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Tinkering with a failed plan will not stop the boats” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman sets out the five tests that Rishi’s emergency Rwanda legislation must meet if it’s to be fit for purpose.
  • “Galling as it is, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Rwanda plan may yet force us to break the chokehold of the European court” – Dr. Bryn Harris, the Free Speech Union’s Chief Legal Counsel, argues in the Mail that in light of the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Government’s Rwanda plan we now have no choice but to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
  • “Exit Suella, pursued by democracy” – Despite numerous attempts, outdated election mechanisms have struggled to counterbalance the strength of horizontal power networks in the information age, argues John Wycliffe in TCW.
  • “The Establishment wins again” – The people who are almost always wrong about almost everything will always have their way in the end, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
  • “U.K. Government proposals would allow it to mass surveil all users of an internet service within specific timeframe” – The U.K. Government is planning legislation that would give authorities the right to carry out mass surveillance of an internet service within a specific timeframe, reports Reclaim The Net.
  • “Civil servants told to stop being ‘TWaTs’” – Senior civil servants have been told to come into the office more than 60% of the time to promote “strong visible leadership”, says the Telegraph, and stop being TWaTs, which means people who only come into the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
  • “Nigel Farage is a gameshow king” – The latest round of Westminster court drama and reality-TV antics are, in essence, the same story, argues Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
  • “Labour’s socialist experiment in Wales should terrify us all” – The Welsh administration has been quietly doing everything it can to make life in the country as difficult as possible, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
  • “Price paid for offshore power to rise by 66%” – The price paid to generate electricity by offshore wind farms has been raised by more than 50% as the Government tries to entice energy firms to invest in this dead-end sector, reports the BBC.
  • “Chris Packham should stop lecturing us and leave the Scottish countryside to its own” – Chris Packham, the self-styled saviour of the natural world, has been at it again, bashing his favourite target, the ‘country set’, writes Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
  • “Is Net Zero leading to economic ruination?” – On the Spectator’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray discusses with author Robert Bryce the economic implications of Europe’s Net Zero targets and the case for nuclear energy.
  • “GQ Men Of The Year list sparks fury as over half honourees are female” – GQ’s ‘Man Of The Year’ list has sparked outrage over the number of female honourees featured, with some deeming the choices “disgraceful”, reports the Mail. 
  • “Protesters in Indonesia call for Coldplay concert to be scrapped over band’s support of LGBTQ community” – Hundreds of conservative Muslims protested outside Coldplay’s first ever concert in Indonesia have clashed with police and booed concertgoers over the band’s support for the LGBT community, according to Sky News. Queers for Palestine, anyone?
  • “Schools want to turn kids into identitarian activists” – Scotland’s ‘Read Woke’ literacy scheme is bound to foster division and resentment, says Alma Sehgal Cuthbert in Spiked.
  • “This is a savage attack on Bill Gates – but it’s doomed to fail” – Tim Schwab’s investigative book, The Bill Gates Problem, talks a detailed and pugnacious game, but its arguments don’t survive scrutiny, writes Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
  • ‘The Jewish machine is so strong. It doesn’t allow you to talk’ – A video on X captures the moment when a woman is told to “get the f**k out of my cab” by a taxi driver who’d had enough of her antisemitism.

“The Jewish machine is so strong. It doesn’t allow you to talk.”

An antisemite assumes this taxi driver will agree with her hate.

Taxi driver: “Right you can get the f**k out of my cab. Out!”

More ppl need to stand up for Jews. Well done that man. pic.twitter.com/0Oh6IR6hHY

— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) November 16, 2023

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