News Round-Up

“Two men, aged 32 and 29, are charged with spying for China” – One of the two men arrested for spying for China is the public school-educated son of a GP who co-founded an influential policy group with Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, reports the Mail.
“Vetting of UN agency staff for pro-Hamas bias needs improving, report finds” – An independent review concludes that the UN’s Palestinian refugee committee must improve its screening of staff to weed out Hamas supporters, says the Telegraph.
“Why couldn’t the law-abiding Jewish Londoner cross the road?” – Blame our politicians, not our police officers, for the creation of a dystopian society in which basic liberties are sacrificed to the interests of the mob, writes Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
“The Met has an antisemitism problem” – If an ‘openly Muslim’ man wanted to peacefully walk through a pro-Jewish protest in London, he would come to no harm at all, remarks Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
“Rwanda Bill finally passed by House of Lords after months of wrangling” – Rishi Sunak claims a crucial victory after the Rwanda Bill is finally passed by the House of Lords, reports the Mail.
“Huw Edwards resigns from the BBC” – TV news presenter Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC on “medical advice”, the corporation says.
“Lucy Letby launches second bid to appeal convictions” – Lucy Letby is trying again to appeal her conviction, reports the Times.
“The idea of free will is dead. Long live the NHS” – After two thousand years, our all-knowing MPs have decided individual choice was a foolish experiment, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
“Humza Yousaf’s house is crumbling around him” – The Scottish Greens are extremist activists parachuted into government jobs. Unless Yousaf ditches them, he’ll condemn his party to share that reputation, warns Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
“Alcohol-related deaths soar to an all-time high in wake of Covid” – Official data reveals that deaths from alcohol have soared to an all-time high in the wake of Covid, with experts particularly alarmed by an increase in booze-related fatalities among middle-aged women, reports the Mail.
“How politicians and nudgers deliberately terrified an already frightened population” – In TCW, Dr. Ros Jones highlights the state’s strategic deployment of fear, shame, peer pressure and scapegoating to promote compliance with Covid restrictions.
“Twitter/X restricts freedom of reach” – On Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil accuse X of “selective censorship” after a recent post by Prof. Fenton was shadowbanned on the platform.
“The EU’s war on cars is destroying its economic foundations” – In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
“Electric cars are a Trojan horse for the destruction of driving” – EVs are on track to become yet another doomed Net Zero project – and it’s motorists who will suffer, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
“Landowners cover countryside with solar panels in ‘sunrush’” – A new solar panel ‘sunrush’ is being driven by cheaper technology, carbon targets and government subsidies, explain Adam Vaughan and Will Humphries in the Times.
“Sixteen year-olds who have anorexia could be granted right to die” – Experts warn that teenagers with anorexia could apply for state-backed ‘suicide’ under “extremely dubious” laws proposed in Scotland, reports the Mail.
“Transphobia at Edinburgh University ‘driving out staff’” – Staff at Edinburgh University claim they are being “subjected to anti-trans rhetoric in the workplace”, says the Times.
“How Sweden fell again for transgender madness” – In the Spectator, Paulina Neuding reacts to Sweden’s new law which makes it easier to change your legal gender.
“Now Isla Bryson is claiming to be a victim of hate crime” – Could trans double rapist Isla Bryson have the same impact on Scotland’s illiberal Hate Crime Act as he did on Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID plans? Fingers crossed, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
“The Scottish Greens are morphing into the Flat Earth Society” – Co-leader Patrick Harvie would rather listen to the rantings of trans activists than the evidence in the Cass Review, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
“Gender dysphoric children facing ‘greatest abuse scandal in modern medicine history’, claims ideology campaigner” – On GB News, gender ideology campaigner Chris Elston hits out at the diagnosis of gender dysphoric children and labels it the “greatest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history”.
“Kemi Badenoch is right – Empire didn’t make Britain rich” – The Left clings to the idea colonialism was the root of all our wealth. In fact, it was a white elephant project – the HS2 of its day, says Kristin Niemietz in the Telegraph.
“Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part one” – In the first of a new three-part series for TCW, Karen Harradine scrutinises Hope Not Hate’s role in deflecting focus from genuine extremism.
“Ex-Manchester City player’s police visits: Joey Barton’s troubling encounters raise questions about U.K. speech police” – Ex-footballer Joey Barton criticises police visits over Twitter posts, drawing parallels to North Korean intimidation, according to Reclaim The Net.
“Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded” – Students may be starting to reject pronouns and BLM, but the ideology is embedded in organisations, writes Kathleen Stock in the Times.
“The cult of ‘my truth’” – NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
“Terms of Enslavement” – The CheckMate Substack examines NewsGuard’s censorship-based business model.
“The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights” – New York vs. Trump is a joke – 34 felonies for what comes down to misclassifying spending in a payment ledger – but the elite media is keeping a straight face, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
“Trump’s persecution has put the rule of law itself on trial” – The State of New York’s reputation for legal excellence is imperilled by the civil case against former President Trump, writes Richard Porter in the Telegraph.
“‘Dad, it’s just ISIS’” – An SNL sketch from the archive predicts an all-too-real future.

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