- “The BBC’s hypocrisy is now clear for all to see” – The BBC refused to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ because it’s a ‘loaded word’. But isn’t the same true of ‘far-Right’, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A ‘two-state solution’ now is a dangerous fiction” – In the wake of the October 7th massacres, what would an independent Palestine look like and who would run it, asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Is identity politics to blame for the rise of antisemitism?” – It is now hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Stunning new charts from New Zealand shows a large gender effect that should not happen in a safe vaccine” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch questions COVID-19 vaccine safety using new gender-specific mortality data from New Zealand.
- “The architecture of isolation 6: Fever hospitals” – In their latest historical review of infectious disease management, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan revisit Manchester’s Monsall ‘fever’ hospital.
- “Almost 10,000 sex crime cases languish in U.K.’s broken court system” – From overcrowded prisons to record court backlogs, the criminal justice system is being pushed to breaking point, reports Bloomberg.
- “London set to become like drug-ravaged San Francisco, says policing chief” – A senior police officer warns of a U.K. opioid surge mirroring the one in the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants were paid £150 million in ‘golden goodbyes’ last year” – Figures reveal that a ‘golden goodbye’ of nearly £400,000 was among more than £150 million-worth of exit packages lavished on civil servants in 2022, according to the Mail.
- “Is ‘immigration’ good for the economy?” – The claim that “immigration is good for the economy” is so vague as to be meaningless, says Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “Unilever has turned mediocrity into a fine art. It faces a painful reckoning” – Without a genuine overhaul, Unilever is sleepwalking into a painful reckoning, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “How the CCP infiltrated Britain” – Whatever else Britain’s China policy does, it must never again make Cameron’s mistake of taking the CCP at its word, says Sam Dunning in UnHerd.
- “EU launches an ‘illegal content’ probe into Elon Musk’s X” – The EU has launched an “illegal content” probe into Elon Musk’s X for allegedly breaching new social media regulations, reports the Mail.
- “Why the EU is coming for Elon Musk” – The Brussels investigation into X is a brazen attempt to crack down on free speech, writes Norman Lewis in Spiked.
- “Europe on cusp of mass secret censorship” – The European Commission is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech, says Michael Shellenberger in his Public Substack.
- “EDF customers ‘terrified’ to put heating on after sudden rise in bills” – Panicked EDF customers say they are now too scared to put the heating on after a ‘system error’ caused energy bills to soar to eye-watering sums, reports the Mail.
- “Wasted wind power adds £40 to household energy bills, says think tank” – According to the think tank Carbon Tracker, wasted wind power will add £40 to the average U.K. household’s electricity bill in 2023, says the BBC.
- “Another heat pump myth has just crumbled” – It’s time we stopped pretending that going green will save us money, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die” – It’s difficult to see how an immediate ban on fossil fuels will allow civilisation to continue to flourish, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Cop28: Not much cop” – Cop28 is yet another triumph of ignorance and hubris over experience, writes David Turner on Substack.
- “Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says Government” – Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues, reports the Independent.
- “Trans guidance offers route back to sanity” – What is important now is that the sensible new trans guidance for schools is implemented as quickly as possible and is no longer beset by delays, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Teachers can ignore transgender guidance, suggests biggest teaching union” – The National Education Union says that teachers can ignore the Government’s new transgender guidance, according to the Telegraph.
- “Activist schools threaten to flout new trans advice being issued today” – Activist schools are already threatening to flout the new trans guidance, reports the Mail.
- “Teaching children they can be born in the ‘wrong’ body is ‘harmful’” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch says that teaching children they can be born in the wrong body is “harmful”, according to the Mail.
- “Wanting to hire ‘fewer white men’ for a job is not discrimination” – A tribunal has ruled that wanting to hire “fewer white men” for a job is not discrimination, says the Telegraph.
- “Police record hate incident against Tory deputy chair after trans row with Greens” – Redditch MP Rachel Maclean says she will not apologise for her comments about the Green Party’s embrace of gender ideology, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rees-Mogg calls for Equality Act to be scrapped to save taxpayer cash” – Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Equality Act should be scrapped to tackle “wokery” and restore common sense to the workplace, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Esther McVey has a tough task bringing back common sense – it’s been made redundant” – Esther McVey must tackle the waste and wokery plaguing the public sector from the ground up, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Why October 7th may mark a turning point for universities” – Psychologist and public intellectual Steven Pinker tells NY Magazine’s Benjamin Hart that the debacle at Harvard is a blow to campus leftism.
- “Harvard’s plagiarism hypocrisy” – Harvard President Claudine Gay is teaching us a lot about how corruption of words and the seductions of ideology go hand in hand, says Peter Wood in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer ties himself in knots trying to define ‘working class’” – On LBC, Keir Starmer struggles to provide Nick Ferrari with a definition of ‘working class’ and lands on the aspiration to own a car!
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