- “Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel, report reveals” – Only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th, a major report has found, the Telegraph reports.
- “Chief Magistrate disciplined for ‘worthy cause’ comment to Hamas supporter” – The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office has “issued formal advice” to a senior judge after he “gave the impression that he endorsed” the Palestinian cause in one of his judgments, reports Jewish News.
- “Britain has turned against Israel. It’s an unforgivable betrayal” – The false accusations of Israeli malice and international-law flouting have been hysterical, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. has failed to prepare itself for war, warn former defence ministers” – Britain has failed to prepare itself for war as a “whole nation endeavour”, former defence ministers have warned in a stark wake-up call to the Government, the Telegraph reports.
- “Disbelief as undermanned Royal Navy spends £2.4m on ‘diversity team’” – The Royal Navy has splashed out £2.4 million on dedicated diversity and inclusion staff in recent years at a time when defence budgets are more constrained than ever, ministers have admitted, according to the Mail.
- “Almost half of Tory councillors think Government is too Left-wing” – Two thirds of local representatives are dissatisfied with the Conservative party nationally as they fear a “bloodbath” at the May elections, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tax-raising Tories deserve to be wiped out” – A heavy defeat would allow the Conservatives to return to their conservative roots, argues Rocco Forte in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is too Left-wing to govern like Blair, and the country will pay a heavy price for it” – There’s no guarantee that this will lead to an immediate Tory turnaround, but eventually Starmer will be sniffed out, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Proof that Angela Rayner ‘lied about home at centre of tax row’” – The Mail says it has photographic evidence that the Labour Deputy Leader has been telling porkies.
- “The recklessness of William Wragg” – In the Spectator, former Commons Clerk Eliot Wilson says Wragg should step down from his positions and lose the whip after sharing MPs’ contact details with a stranger on a dating app.
- “Covid support scheme fraud has cost taxpayer over £10bn” – The British taxpayer has lost more than £10 billion on Covid support schemes as a result of fraud and error, figures released by the Government show, according to the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer accused of ‘bringing discredit’ on pharmaceutical industry after Covid social media posts” – Pfizer has been accused by the U.K.’s pharmaceutical watchdog of “bringing discredit” on the industry after senior executives used social media to promote the unlicensed Covid vaccine, the Telegraph reports.
- “Are Correctiv and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ‘military and intelligence front groups?” – Eugyppius casts a critical eye over the latest explosive report from Public.
- “The MHRA and Bell’s Palsy” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson focus on Bell’s Palsy as a side-effect of the Covid vaccines.
- “Modelling our Scientific Crisis” – Toby Green in Café Américain looks at how models became the blueprint for reality.
- “MPs accuse Charity Commission of legal breach over climate sceptic thinktank” – The Charity Commission is facing a legal challenge by MPs over its failure to investigate “campaigning” by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, reports the Guardian.
- “Greta Thunberg is detained twice by Dutch police during protest” – Greta Thunberg was detained twice by Dutch police during a protest over fossil fuel in The Hague, reports the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling accused of ‘spreading disinformation’ about hate crime law” – Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf tries to turn the tables on the Harry Potter author, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s hate crime law will force police to make cuts, warn senior officers” – The Scottish hate crime law will force police to make cuts, senior officers have warned as staff work overtime to deal with the volume of complaints, the Telegraph reports.
- “Police overtime bill soars by £100m despite drop in crime solving” – Just 5.7% of offences are solved yet spending on extra hours has ballooned to more than £400m, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mere words are now criminal. We are inching towards totalitarianism” – Politics has become entangled with subjective experience, yet nobody seems to realise how dangerous this is, comments the Telegraph‘s Janet Daley.
- “Feminists accuse pro-trans activists of ‘intimidation’ on Scottish march” – Women demonstrating against the new hate crime legislation in Scotland called the counter-protest “abusive and homophobic”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Resisting oppressive hate crime laws will come at a cost” – Julian Mann wonders what impact the new Scottish hate crime law will have on Christians in Christian Today.
- “Preparing for the worst” – The Critic‘s Shonagh Dillon on how gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act.
- “Scotland’s Hate Crime Act may have done us all a favour” – Iain MacWhirter in the Spectator argues that the debacle has actually boosted free speech in unintended ways.
- “Children allowed to ‘socially transition’ face psychological harm, review warns” – Children face grave psychological consequences if they are allowed to “socially transition” to a different gender, the landmark Cass review is expected to say this week, according to the Telegraph.
- “Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors” – Dr. John Wyatt warns of the impact on medics of having to kill their patients (and then falsify the death certificate) in the Spectator.
- “Swiss To Hold Referendum That Will Restrict Population to 10 Million Until 2050” – In a move intended to restrict mass migration, Switzerland will hold a referendum to restrict its population to 10 million until 2050, Modernity reports.
- “The Age of Underpopulation is Here” – The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment, says Steve Goreham in WUWT.
- “Hilaire Belloc’s children poems given trigger warning over ‘hurtful’ rhymes” – Classic children’s poems have been given a trigger warning by a publisher because they may be “harmful” to modern readers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Is it wrong to compliment a man on his speedos?” – The war on workplace banter is puritanism posing as progress, argues Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Hollywood’s Sydney Sweeney heralded as proof woke culture is dying” – The uninhibited actress is being held up as evidence that woke prudery is not here to stay, according to the Mail.
- “British MP, Mark Francois: The WHO is attempting to grant Tedros — an ‘unelected’ and ‘unaccountable’ individual — ‘unprecedented levels of power’ to declare public health emergencies on a whim; mandate vaccines, vaccine passports, lockdowns, masks and travel restrictions; and censor dissenting voices, among other things” – Watch on X the MP speak in Parliament against the WHO Pandemic Treaty courtesy of Wide Awake Media.
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