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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
29 January 2024 12:36 AM

  • “Corbynista MP accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza” – A Labour MP has provoked fury after marking Holocaust Memorial Day by calling for the Israeli military action in Gaza to be remembered as “genocide”, reports the Mail.
  • “A nasty provocation that proves Labour hasn’t changed” – Has Sir Keir changed fundamentally since he sat at Jeremy Corbyn’s top table? Or has he just learned to look moderate and responsible? asks the Mail on Sunday in a leading article.
  • “Hundreds of pro-Palestine campaigners target Barclays’s bank branches” – Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators descended on Barclays’s branches across the U.K. to protest its alleged funding of Israel’s attacks, according to the Mail.
  • “Metropolitan Police adviser endorsed tweet by leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir” – An adviser to the Metropolitan Police endorsed a tweet by the former head of an Islamist extremist group, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda” – South Africa’s case against Israel was a self-evidently absurd ploy designed to further undermine its right to self-defence, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon’s adviser says ‘I was wrong to push for zero Covid’” – Devi Sridhar advised Nicola Sturgeon to pursue an elimination strategy, but now admits she made “a mistake”, reports the Mail.
  • “The rule of terror and empty vessels” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan call for the removal of our leaders for mishandling the COVID-19 response.
  • “Medical researcher shares must-know evidence on the health benefits of wine” – In the Mail, Tony Edwards says that people who drink moderate amounts of alcohol are less prone to various diseases than teetotallers.
  • “Post Office chairman Henry Staunton sacked by the Government” – The Chairman of the Post Office has been asked to step down by Kemi Badenoch amid ongoing tensions in the wake of the Horizon IT scandal, reports the Mail.
  • “Former Fujitsu U.K. CEO quits Government role” – The former U.K. head of Fujitsu during part of the Post Office scandal has resigned from his role at the Cabinet Office, says the BBC.
  • “Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain” – Don’t blame Reform. Sunak’s party is unravelling because it succumbed to socialist delusions that were impossible to implement, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
  • “Take it from a copper – two-tier policing is real” – “My senior colleagues are more interested in appealing to the chattering classes than in tackling crime,” says Police Officer Paul Chapel in Spiked.
  • “Does ‘woke’ Britain have strength to defeat Russia” – With the poison of ‘woke’ political correctness flowing through our society, are we in any state to defend ourselves? asks Bob Seely in the Mail.
  • “Kemi Badenoch warns ‘stirring’ Tory plotters to ‘stop messing around’” – The Business Secretary has insisted those touting her as Rishi Sunak’s replacement “are not my friends”, according to the Mail.
  • “The plotters, the coup and Farage’s path to the Tory throne” – Does Canada offer a blueprint for the predicted Conservative electoral wipeout – and a saviour to ‘unite the Right’ rising from the flames? asks Tim Bale in the Telegraph.
  • “Cash for courses: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades” – While Britons need straight As to get onto prestigious Russell Group degree courses, their international classmates can buy their way in with much lower grades through secret routes, reveals the Sunday Times.
  • “If Government fails to seize the benefits of Brexit, the Blob will drag us back into the bloc” – Already, it looks as though officials are deliberately holding the door ajar for Starmer to tie us closer to the EU, writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “Global bodies must be held to account” – We must reject the widespread delusion that supranational bodies have a claim to moral superiority, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
  • “Most Scots no longer trust Nicola Sturgeon, poll reveals” – Sturgeon’s popularity has sunk to depths once unimaginable, write Alex Massie and Kieran Andrews in the Sunday Times.
  • “So-called hate crime law ‘could be used to stop the display of the Union flag’ in Northern Ireland” – At the first Belfast meeting of the Free Speech Union, founder Toby Young predicted that nationalists would be more likely than unionists to use a planned hate speech law “to silence and shut down opposition”, according to the Belfast News Letter.
  • “Greta Thunberg joins Extinction Rebellion protest against airport” – Greta Thunberg joined Extinction Rebellion to protest against plans to expand a British airport, known for hosting private jets, reports the Mail.
  • “Demonstration held in Central London to protest Ulez expansion” – Protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square to demand an end to London’s Ulez, says the BBC.
  • “Port Talbot fiasco will destroy well-paid jobs for fantasy Net Zero benefits” – Rushing to close industrial processes like those at Port Talbot is short-sighted, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
  • “Petrol and diesel prices ‘must rise to pay for Net Zero’” – The owner of the U.K.’s largest refinery has warned that petrol and diesel prices will have to go up if the U.K. is to hit its Net Zero targets, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The electric vehicle fiasco has become dangerous” – The Telegraph’s Ross Clark comments on the recent spate of electric buses bursting into flames.
  • “The first Britons were black, exhibition on diverse history claims” – The “very first Britons were black”, an exhibition on the diverse history of Britain has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Lucy Worsley in hot water over interview with drag queen about women being sidelined” – A BBC radio show, presented by Lucy Worsley, that discusses murderers from a “feminist perspective”, has sparked a backlash from female listeners after focusing on discrimination against male drag artists, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Girls allegedly encouraged to bind or remove breasts through surgery on NSPCC chat rooms” – Informal advice shared by users of the NSPCC website encourages girls to have breast removal surgery if they are unhappy with their bodies, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Prof. Jo Phoenix: character assassination in Open University tribunal ‘like my rape case all over again’” – In the summer of 2021, Prof. Jo Phoenix was at the lowest point in her life after the Open University failed to protect her from bullying and harassment by her academic colleagues – lower, even, than when she was raped aged 15, writes Gwyneth Rees in the Telegraph.
  • “Vindictive, cowardly leaders bowed to the gender bullies and failed Jo Phoenix” – As a society, we are relying far too much on the courts and tribunals to act as a check on our nastier, more illiberal tendencies, says Sonia Sodha in the Guardian.
  • “Caribbean nation seeks slavery reparations from British brewer Greene King” – The Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis is demanding slavery reparations from Greene King, the British brewer, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Where does repatriated African artwork really end up?” – “Decolonising” Western museums will likely mean repatriated artefacts are to be treated as the personal property of African potentates, writes Ralph Leonard in UnHerd.
  • “BBC accused of identity politics with £50k grant scheme aimed at ‘woke comedy’” – The BBC has been accused of pursuing a heavily woke agenda after it invited “under-represented groups” to apply for its Comedy Grants scheme, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Political correctness is strangling comedy – and with it our British sense of humour” – Today’s sitcoms present a right-on, offence-free world in which many of us simply do not live, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
  • “Fury over Justin Trudeau’s £49,000 luxury Jamaican holiday” – Opponents and even allies of the Canadian Prime Minister seize on his winter getaway as evidence that the leader is increasingly out of touch with the electorate, reports the Telegraph.
  • “It’s no coincidence that those who are disgusted by humanity wish to desecrate its greatest achievements” – On X, Andrew Doyle reacts to environmental loons at the Louvre spraying the Mona Lisa with soup.

Environmental activists at the Louvre have sprayed the Mona Lisa with soup.

It’s no coincidence that those who are disgusted by humanity wish to desecrate its greatest achievements. pic.twitter.com/6WCQbjjdJE

— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) January 28, 2024

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