- “Netanyahu vows no ceasefire without hostage return in six month address” – The Israeli Prime Minister vows, “there will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages”, in an address marking six months since the conflict in Gaza began, reports the Mail.
- “Palestinian journalist given asylum in the U.K. accused of ‘mocking’ hostages” – Campaign group Camera accuses a Palestinian journalist who was granted asylum in the U.K. after being given a prison sentence in Gaza of mocking Israeli hostages in a series of now-deleted social media posts, says the Express.
- “Maureen Lipman claims protests against Israel ‘close to fascism’” – Actress Dame Maureen Lipman says the protests against Israel by Left-wing actors are “close to fascism”, according to the Mail.
- “Prospective candidate and activists for George Galloway’s party accused of antisemitism” – Activists and prospective candidates for George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain have endorsed conspiracy theories involving antisemitic tropes, reveals the Telegraph.
- “‘Pray to stay’ row deepens” – The row over asylum seekers who claim they have converted to Christianity has deepened after it emerged one migrant only knew one of the 10 Commandments, reports the Mail.
- “Seven British al-Qaeda terrorists are freed after half sentence served” – All seven dangerous terrorists convicted alongside al-Qaeda ‘dirty bomber’ mastermind Dhiren Barot, who wanted to kill hundreds of people in New York and London, have been released from jail, says the Mail.
- “Less than 1% of ‘hate crimes‘ in Scotland are ‘actual investigations’” – The Scottish Police Federation claims that less than 1% of all ‘hate crimes’ reported in Scotland are turning into “actual investigations”, according to the Mail.
- “Scottish football fans face hate crime complaints from TV viewers, senior lawyer warns” – A senior lawyer warned that Scottish football fans at yesterday’s Old Firm derby face hate crime complaints from members of the public who heard ‘hateful’ chants on TV at home, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is stifling academic freedom” – If actors and comedians are fair game under Scotland’s Hate Crime Act, why wouldn’t university lecturers be as well? asks Romina Frohar in the Spectator.
- “How Scotland made a mess of its hate crime law – in a week of chaos” – Scottish Police, who were already overstretched, are well into hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of overtime dealing with Yousaf’s hate crime laws, write Alex Massie and Sian Bradley in the Sunday Times.
- “Why aren’t Daszak and Baric arrested?” – There is a mountain of evidence that Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric created SARS-CoV-2, says John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “Angela Rayner should face independent probe as tax scandal row deepens” – Keir Starmer has been challenged to open an investigation into Angela Rayner’s tax affairs, according to the Express.
- “Sadiq Khan ‘losing control’ of crime in London as thefts soar” – Figures reveal that thefts and robberies involving a knife in London have nearly doubled on Sadiq Khan’s watch, reports the Telegraph.
- “Half of Tory councillors think Sunak’s Government is ‘too Left-wing’” – A Savanta survey reveals that 47% of Tory Councillors believe the Government is too Left-wing, compared to 24% who say it is too Right-wing, according to the Mail.
- “The tax-raising Tories deserve to be wiped out” – A heavy defeat would allow the Tories to return to their conservative roots, says Rocco Forte in the Telegraph.
- “Sick-note culture to blame for worklessness crisis, says Pimlico Plumbers founder” – The millionaire founder of Pimlico Plumbers calls for state-backed apprenticeship schemes to combat rising economic inactivity, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Wales’s clampdown on second homes could do more harm than good” – Policies designed to boost local ownership of Welsh properties may have the opposite effect and hollow out towns, says Abigail Buchanan.
- “Why the death of North Sea oil is a disaster for Britain” – Having squandered its most valuable asset, the U.K. has left itself dangerously exposed, write Jonathan Leake and Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Enraged local spray paints ‘embarrassing’ potholes in Chichester” – A pothole vigilante in Chichester has shown road rage of a different kind by spray painting the worst craters plaguing their local roads in a bid to shame the council into fixing them, reports the Argus.
- “Our museums have fallen into the hands of a careless generation” – We must rescue our museums from liberal elites who appear intent on trashing priceless artefacts, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “If young men want ‘traditional’ gender roles, we need to know why” – Gen Z women and men are growing further apart in their political outlook and aspirations. It is vital the root causes are understood so we can all find common ground, writes Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
- “LinkedIn career expert shares do’s and don’ts for working with Gen Zs” – With many employers uncertain about how to engage with the ‘woke’ younger generation, a LinkedIn career expert offers five tips on working with Gen Z professionals in the Mail.
- “Junior doctors accused of smear campaign to seize control of BMA” – Hard-Left junior doctors face allegations of running a covert social media campaign aimed at taking over the British Medical Association, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS loophole allows puberty blockers for children” – An NHS loophole allows puberty blockers to be prescribed to children who want to change gender despite the drugs being banned, says the Telegraph.
- “Academic who claims trans womens’ milk is as good as breast milk has taxpayer funding” – An academic who told the BBC that trans womens’ milk is as good as breast milk has had a PhD project funded by the taxpayer, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why do schools let children choose pronouns at four, ask parents” – Parents are calling for an independent inquiry into how schools have allowed children as young as four to choose their own names, pronouns and uniforms, says the Sunday Times.
- “Law firms urged to introduce overworking ‘trigger warnings’ to protect mental health” – According to a senior industry figure, law firms should introduce “trigger warnings” to protect lawyers’ mental health when working extreme hours, reports the Telegraph.
- “Theatregoers given trigger warning over ‘sound of people eating oranges’” – Theatregoers for an upcoming London show have been given a trigger warning over the sound of people eating on stage, says the Telegraph.
- “South African Rhodes scholar behind Oriel College’s removal of contentious Duke of Beaufort painting” – The student who urged his Oxford college to remove a portrait of an 18th-century duke because he felt it was “racist and dehumanising” is a Rhodes Scholar, reveals the Telegraph.
- “New AI app encourages women to upload pics of partners’ genitals” – Calmara describes itself as your “tech savvy BFF for STI checks” and urges users to “snap a pic” so their AI can scan for “visual signs of STIs”, reports the Mail.
- “We should be begging Google to charge us” – We got used to digital things being free. Artificial intelligence will change all that, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Justices’ grave error in Murthy v. Missouri” – The Supreme Court is at risk of overturning the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ finding that the federal government’s attempt to influence social media companies was a breach of the First Amendment, argues Aaron Kheriaty for the Brownstone Institute.
- “‘There’s a different expectation for the Prime Minister’” – On Sky News, David Lammy tries to explain to Trevor Phillips why there should be one rule for the Prime Minister and another for Angela Rayner.
This is really dreadful from David Lammy who attempts to justify Angela Rayner’s tax affairs by saying “there's a different expectation for the Prime Minister than there is [in this case] because “we're not yet in Government”
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) April 7, 2024
Imagine him representing us on the world stage.pic.twitter.com/JElcBbdny2
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“Half of Tory councillors think Sunak’s Government is ‘too Left-wing’”
This really shocks me as it suggests that the other half of Tory councillors are happy with Sunak’s socialist government. I hadn’t realised how deep the rot is.
Exactly. A quarter of supposed Tory councillors think the far-left government aren’t left enough, and half think that it’s bang on. That’s three quarters of supposed Tory councillors that are actually not Conservatives at all, but socialists/communists in disguise (perfectly explaining everything we’re experiencing at a local level). ~75% of supposed Tory councillors are actually far-left – that’s the real stat to be shouting about.
I’d love to know the logic of the downvoters. If you downvote please have the courage to explain why. “I don’t like you” isn’t a reason and shows you’ve had too much warm milk and rusk for one day.
“47% of Tory Councillors believe the Government is too Left-wing, compared to 24% who say it is too Right-wing”
This is nothing personal, Free Lemming:
Leaving aside your eccentric definitions of “socialists/communists” and “far-left”, can you explain how mathematically you arrived at your twice-stated stat that “75% of supposed Tory councillors are actually far-left” and “three quarters of supposed Tory councillors that are actually not Conservatives at all”?
Where do you get the figure of 75% from?
And the word ‘Tory’ is irish for thief!
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Hostage taking is illegal, but nobody ever seems to suggest a strategic value in Hamas’s doing it and persisting in it.
Arguably, it could have been to prevent Israel retaliating for October 7, but Israel did retaliate anyway, and the intensity of the response is easily explicable in terms of the desire to get hostages back. What nation would not do the same? Having hostages is not preventing any harm to the Palestinian people whatsoever.
So keeping the hostages appears to be a way of guaranteeing maximum war will continue, whereas releasing them would test the left’s assumption that Israel doesn’t care about the hostages (or even engineered/faked the massacre) and make good propaganda if Israel did not reciprocate..
The only other explanation I can think of is that the genocidal antisemitic ideology of Hamas makes causing grief and harm to Jews more important than strategy, or the lives of Palestinians.
I suggest the reason for Hamas taking hostages was to force the Israeli government to discuss with them the appalling conditions the Palestinians are forced to accept as their daily life: for example, imprisonment in the Gaza Strip with 24h surveillance, overlooked by remote-controlled machine-guns stationed on watch towers, having to apply for permission (possibly/probably declined) to go outside, access to only limited food and medications, indiscriminate arrest or even killing, and so on. I do not believe Hamas was on a suicide mission or that they expected the excessive reaction of the IDF blasting away at anyone in sight, including their own people.
Under normal circumstances, any country would negotiate with people taking hostages, primarily to protect the lives of the hostages. But the Israelis have their Hannibal directive and their 2,000lb bombs, and seem only intent on causing maximal death and destruction.
We all know that these commies understand equality in the Orwellian form of some animals are more equal than others. Their main concern here will be having accusations of sexism thrown at them – that’s the top trump of victim cards. These morons are simply getting all their victim cults in a row.
Are these communists even further left than the far-left morons we currently have in government? Let’s hope so, only then can we have any chance of the rest of the not far-left population waking up. For it to get any better, it’s got to get a whole lot worse first.
“Why the death of North Sea oil is a disaster for Britain”
Never, Well blow me down!
Lucky enough to be above millions of tons of gas oil and coal and we choose not to use it, neah, we choose to import it from around the globe to keep a silly little idealistic Swedish schoolgirl happy!
“Academic who claims trans womens’ milk is as good as breast milk has taxpayer funding”
He should be blindfolded, led out to a wall and shot!
Why is it suggested that the Labour Party should carry out investigations into apparent, alleged breaches of the tax laws by one of its leading spokes persons? That is surely the role opf HMRC, when they can be bothered to turn up for work.
You may be sure that any similar allegation against Farage or Tice would be dealt with expeditiously and adverse leaks would continue until, miraculously, the day after the next GE the case ould be closed with no crime found.
“Maureen Lipman claims protests against Israel ‘close to fascism’”
The Fascists protected Jews against their Nazi allies.