- “Nine dead and thousands injured after Hezbollah pagers explode” – At least nine people have been killed and more than 2,700 injured after hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives exploded in Lebanon, reports ITV News.
- “Shamima Begum’s lawyer fined over appearance on ‘antisemitic’ TV show” – Shamima Begum’s lawyer has been forced to cough up thousands of pounds after being fined for making false antisemitic claims on TV, says GB News.
- “‘Islamists and the woke Left are the enemies of civilisation’” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the call to criminalise ‘Islamophobia’ in Spiked.
- “Gold-plated public sector pension shortfall costs taxpayers £208 billion” – Taxpayers have been handed a £208 billion public sector pensions bill because workers and employers haven’t paid enough in, reports the Telegraph.
- “Musk accuses Britain of having ‘misplaced priorities’ over Edwards sentencing” – Elon Musk has waded into the criticism surrounding the decision to spare former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards from jail for child sex offences, according to 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 a serving British police officer in Spiked.
- “Britain won’t turn migrant boats back to France, says immigration minister” – The Minister for Border Security says Britain will not adopt the Italian-style tactic of intercepting migrants’ boats in the Channel and turning them back to France, reports the Telegraph.
- “On the slow demise of migrationism” – Migrationism, like pandemicism, is a political programme fuelled by myths – myths Germany’s desperate elites are now dismantling, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “It’s a pity Thierry Breton didn’t resign sooner” – The spectacular resignation of Thierry Breton from the European Commission is a moment of celebration for Europe, writes Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “There is no other option for a crippled Europe than the break up of the EU” – Centralisation has never made Europe more stable or more competitive, says Alex Story in the Express.
- “Martin Lewis warns Ed Miliband over ‘perverse’ smart meter rollout” – In MoneySavingExpert, Martin Lewis urges Ed Miliband to overhaul the “perverse” smart meter rollout as an estimated four million broken devices sit in British homes.
- “Civil servants threaten to boycott the office for an entire year” – Civil servants are threatening to boycott the office for a year after bosses at Britain’s official statistics agency banned working from home full-time, reports the Telegraph.
- “Workers on long-term sick set to rise by 50% in five years” – New research claims that more than 4.3 million people will be economically inactive because of sickness by the end of this Parliament, up from 2.8 million today, according to Ella Pickover in PA Media.
- “GPs work an average of 26 hours a week, study finds” – According to new analysis of NHS data, the contracted hours fulfilled by each fully qualified GP has fallen from 30 a week on average in 2016, to 26 a week in 2022, reports the Telegraph.
- “Healthy 27 year-old died after NHS wrongly gave him AstraZeneca Covid jab” – A man died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine due to a mix-up with his medical records that incorrectly listed him as living at home with his “at risk” parents, says the Mirror.
- “DNA contamination in Australian mRNA Covid shots up to 145 time regulatory limit, study shows” – The first independent study of Australian Covid vaccines confirms global concerns over oncogenic and genomic integration risks, echoing findings from the U.S., Canada, and Germany, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “Policy shifts against the mRNA platform rapidly emerged this past week” – Major Covid mRNA policy reversals and awakenings occurred this week within a major U.S health system, a large U.S state, a South American country and in the U.K. The dominoes are starting to fall, says Dr. Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “The most chilling words today: I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you” – When Jonathan Turley wrote aHill column criticising NewsGuard, a week later, NewsGuard came knocking at his door.
- “Trump is right: mass migration is tearing America apart” – The citizens of towns like Springfield, who don’t want America to adopt Haitian norms, are being ignored by elite liberals, says Daniel McCarthy in the Telegraph.
- “The New York Times blames Trump” – The New York Times finds victim-blaming repellent – except when the victim is the former President, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “‘I want a society where paedophiles are going to prison, not just socially shamed’” – On TalkTV, Kemi Badenoch calls for a root-and-branch review of sentencing guidelines in the wake of Huw Edwards’s verdict.
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