- “On the sexual atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th” – We cannot ignore the depravity of the October 7th attacks or what they mean for women, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “2023 has exposed the moral depravity of the radical Left” – Jews, women, the working class – leftists have betrayed everyone they once claimed to speak for, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “How Hamas weaponises victimhood” – Also in Spiked, Frank Furedi says that Hamas are the masters at weaponising victimhood.
- “Broken codes of conduct” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple takes delight in the Harvard President’s plagiarism kerfuffle while scolding the ever-expanding power of the bureaucratic state.
- “The Elgin Marbles weren’t stolen – Greece is just exploiting our weakness” – In the Sunday Times, Jonathan Sumption argues it would demean the British Museum and its universalist mission to return the Elgin Marbles.
- “Five-day work from home deals for pampered civil service mandarins” – Hundreds of civil servants are on full-time ‘home-working contracts’ and do not go into Whitehall at all, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “The year the pandemic ended: A retrospective” – On Substack, Eugyppius reflects on the year when the Covid circus finally packed up its tents in Germany.
- “Senior lawyer drafting Rwanda Bill told Rishi Sunak it would not work” – A senior lawyer who advised on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill warned ministers that it was far from guaranteed to protect deportation flights from legal challenge, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s secret talks to bring back Dominic Cummings” – The Sunday Times recounts the story told in Dominic Cummings’s latest blog of his meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss a return to Downing Street.
- “Delors and Thatcher clashed, but their visions combined might now save Europe” – Vladimir Putin has proven Margaret Thatcher’s fears right, yet only a united Europe of the kind envisaged by Jacques Delors can bring him to heel, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Jacques Delors destroyed the European Left” – Jacques Delors enabled the populist Right, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Jacques Delors was the father of Brexit – without the U.K., his vision is turning to reality” – Jacques Delors dreamt of a unitary, centralised European state. This is what the EU is now fast becoming, argues Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Biden won’t run, Labour won’t win a landslide, Middle East may find peace” – In the Telegraph, Janet Daley gives her optimistic predictions for 2024.
- “Military shuns heat pumps in favour of cheaper cutting-edge electric boilers” – The military is shunning heat pumps and instead warming soldiers’ homes with electric boilers that cost less to run, according to the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is about to get even more painful” – Few would challenge the need to decarbonise – eventually. But our current approach will be economically ruinous, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. university chancellor sacked for vegan porn videos” – A U.S. university chancellor has been sacked after it was discovered that he had filmed vegan-themed pornographic videos with his wife and posted them online, according to the Telegraph.
- “Have Ireland’s Gen Z been duped?” – For Gen Z, talk about ‘choice’ and ‘equality’ seems particularly cruel given many of them will spend their 20s and 30s living in the box room upstairs, says Donal Horgan in Gript.
- “Why are theatres so cowardly?” – Good luck finding a play that criticises the NHS, remarks Lloyd Evans in the Spectator.
- “Straight men at fault for Hollywood failures on diversity, says Sofia Coppola” – According to Sofia Coppola, Hollywood is failing to produce diverse cinema because “99% of the people giving money in film are straight men”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The American Museum of Supernatural History” – By embracing indigenous superstitions, the West’s great science museums are abandoning their mission to educate and compromising their scientific integrity, warns Elizabeth Weiss in Reality’s Last Stand.
- “Facebook censors podcast hosted by pro-Israel Arab” – Facebook has removed a pro-Israeli post by an Arab commentator, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal Government operatives and Soros money behind plot to keep Trump off ballot” – The public-private model used for censorship is now being used to undermine U.S. democracy, says Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “Not with a whimper but a bellow…” – Mark Steyn discusses the ban on Trump from running in Maine’s election, drawing unfavourable comparisons with Russia.
- “When the Bernsteins hosted the Black Panthers” – The Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro, skips a key chapter in his life, which is fortunately resurrected in a new documentary about his nemesis, Tom Wolfe, says Gregg Kilday on the Ankler Substack.
- “Non-crime hate incidents are deeply sinister” – On Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle takes issue with the police’s recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, an authoritarian, Orwelllian concept.
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