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News Round-Up

by Toby Young
10 February 2024 1:26 AM

  • “The ‘anti-racists’ want me to hate Britain” – This country is one of the most tolerant in the world. But there is a limit to how much a society can take before it breaks, says Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
  • “‘I refuse to be complicit in baptism dishonesty’” – Reverend Matthew Firth tells how he wanted to hit stop button on the “conveyor belt” of asylum seekers converting to Christianity, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Were lockdowns ethical?” – The lockdowns are frequently defended as “following the science”, but were they? ask David Paton and John Keown in the Critic.
  • “Joint Open Letter to the Secretary of State” – When will the Secretary of State order an investigation into vaccine harms? ask the good folks at HART.
  • “Liberal U.S. media downplays Biden’s poor memory after bombshell report” – Federal prosecutors say Joe Biden struggled to recall when he was Vice President or when his son died, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The world can see that Biden is finished. Why can’t the Democrats?” – Prosecutions are bad, but being deemed too old to stand trial is worse, according to Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “The climate scaremongers” – We pay China billions to shaft our own car industry, says Paul Homewood in TCW – Defending Freedom.
  • “The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism” – Labour’s green U-turn reflects the reality that voters prefer prosperity to green virtue signalling, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “Parkrun event director quits over ‘inclusive policy’ as CEO pleads to ‘turn heat down’ on trans row” – All records were erased earlier this week, after allegations that some women’s ‘bests’ were held by biological men who identify as women, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Kemi Badenoch: ‘I’m on top of my brief. I will not be tripped up’” – What does the woman tipped to be Rishi Sunak’s successor as Conservative leader really think? asks Janice Turner in the Times.
  • “Rishi Sunak’s tax bill rises by more than £75,000 in a year” – The Prime Minister filed his personal income details late on Friday showing he paid some £508,308 in taxes on earnings of £2.2 million in the 2022-2023 financial year, reports the Mail.
  • “Firms forced to recruit overseas staff as 9m Britons quit jobs market” – A growing number of firms are scrabbling to fill 900,000 U.K. vacancies as Britons refuse to go back to work, says the Mail.
  • “Raising concerns about the MHRA” – A ‘we-the-undersigned’ letter to the Health Select Committee sent by email on October 24th 2023. Signatories include Danny Kruger, Graham Sringer and Miriam Cates.
  • “How Shahrar Ali beat the trans inquisition” – The gender ideologues in the Green Party have been cut down to size, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “U.K. Government secretly shuts down NHS Pride programme” – The NHS Rainbow Badge scheme has been adopted by hundreds of hospitals and hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers, yet it’s being discontinued, reports Vice.
  • “Tony Abbott: West may need national service to boost army recruitment” – Former Australian PM says many civilians are still labouring under the illusion that peace is inevitable and are “sleep-walking through lotus land”, according to the Times.
  • “What did Putin say in Tucker Carlson interview? His claims fact-checked” – The Russian President’s interview with Carlson included a number of familiar allegations, none of which were challenged and some of which are false, says the Times in a ‘fact check’ of the interview.
  • “Jewish university chaplain forced into hiding following death threats” – Pro-Palestinian campaigners have accused Rabbi Deutsch of ‘genocide’ after he returned to Israel after Hamas’s October 7th terror attacks to serve in the Israeli Defence Force, reports the Mail.
  • “Biden can no longer hide from the appalling truth about his irresponsible presidency” – Accusations that he was in decline were dismissed as smears. Now the evidence is too huge to ignore, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
  • “Ireland is fast becoming Europe’s nastiest nation” – Its image is changing fast thanks to its cheap shots against countries like Israel, Britain and Taiwan, says Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
  • “Conversion therapy ban is threat to free speech, warns Tory peer” – In the Telegraph, David Frost points out that many of the ‘conversion practices’ that proponents of a conversion therapy ban want to stamp out in the U.K. are already illegal.
  • “Barnstorming speech against the conversion therapy ban in House of Lords” – Lord Forsyth have an excellent speech against Baroness Burt’s private member’s bill seeking to ban conversion therapy in the Lords last night.

An absolutely barnstorming speech by Conservative peer Lord Forsyth in the House of Lords debate on the Conversion Therapy Bill. We agree, the ‘world has gone mad’ and this Bill ‘undermines the family and free speech’. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/NRVQkXAKTR

— Family Education Trust (@FamEdTrust) February 9, 2024

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