News Round-Up

• “I need 300 more officers to protect Jews from terrorists” – Sir Mark Rowley has called for up to 300 additional firearms-trained officers to protect the Jewish community in the wake of the Golders Green terror attack, reports the Mail.
• “Polanski says sorry for sharing criticism of Golders Green terror cops” – The Green Party leader has faced more than 24 hours of pressure after retweeting a post accusing officers of heavy-handedness during Wednesday’s Golders Green knife attack, says the Mail.
• “Polanski’s party turns on him over Golders Green row” – Senior Green figures, including the Welsh party leader, have publicly distanced themselves from Polanski’s Golders Green repost, reports GB News.
• “An antisemitic terrorist was a ‘martyr’… say the Green hopefuls” – A Daily Mail investigation has found that three Green Party candidates facing next week’s polls have been accused of gross antisemitism.
• “Green Party leader Zack Polanski is an extremist, says Israel” – The Israeli Government has accused the Greens leader of fuelling antisemitism in Britain, reports the Telegraph.
• “British Jews have always supported Israel. Now, they need us” – The rise in antisemitic attacks on British soil has prompted Israel’s first lady Michal Herzog to travel to the UK to show solidarity with the Jewish community, writes Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
• “Green Party conspiracies of Right-wing division are laughable” – Progressives have refused to acknowledge that certain communities hold regressive views, preferring instead to blame Right-wing agitators for the rise in antisemitism, says Brendan O’Neill the Telegraph.
• “We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror” – Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications, warns Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
• “The canary is dying and we are discussing food prices.” – On her Free Mind Substack, Laura Dodsworth flags a recent Question Time exchange laying bare the refusal of politicians and commentators to name the ideological source of the racial hatred now convulsing Britain.
• “Peter Kay ‘bundled off stage’ as gig is abruptly halted 45 minutes in” – A 19 year-old has been arrested after a suspicious bag was found at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena, forcing the comedian’s charity tour show to be evacuated mid-performance, reports GB News.
• “Streeting ready to launch leadership challenge against Starmer” – The Health Secretary has reportedly recruited enough MPs to trigger a contest, with supporters urging him to strike after next week’s local elections, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer allies warn ditching Keir risks creating ‘Labour’s Liz Truss’” – Labour MPs have been warned that removing the PM after next week’s local elections could hand power to a hard-Left figure such as Ed Miliband or Angela Rayner, reports the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer’s niece revealed to be standing as Labour candidate” – The Prime Minister’s niece has secured a plum Labour candidacy following a raft of deselections imposed on the local party by Labour HQ, says the Mail.
• “Starmer, immigration and oil set to hand SNP victory in Scotland” – Growing Westminster frustration over immigration and North Sea oil policy means the SNP is set to remain the largest Holyrood party, with Reform also punishing Labour, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ditch Chagos deal and use the £400 million to fund frigates” – Kemi Badenoch has urged ministers to formally abandon the blocked Chagos agreement and redirect the £400 million saved to accelerate the delivery of new Royal Navy frigates, according to the Mail.
• “Merz-Dämmerung” – Friedrich Merz’s authority has unravelled so quickly since taking office that commentators are already writing his political epitaph, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Merz’s Germany is ‘broken by immigration’” – The US President has told the German Chancellor to fix his own country’s immigration and energy crisis before criticising American strategy in the Iran war, reports GB News.
• “Time we walked away from the Gates controlled WHO and its vested interest global vaccine agenda?” – Bill Gates’s outsized financial influence over the WHO raises fresh questions about whether Britain should continue to fund a body that serves private vaccine interests, says Brian Monteith in the Conservative Woman.
• “Labour MPs demand Keir Starmer sack ‘bat-s**t’ Ed Miliband” – Anger among Labour backbenchers at the Energy Secretary’s refusal to permit new North Sea oil licences has surged in the wake of soaring energy bills following the Iran war, reports the Mail.
• “Grid balancing costs set to rise to £8 billion by 2030” – Ofgem’s claim that its £80 billion grid upgrade will ultimately cut bills is misleading, says Paul Homewood at Not a Lot of People Know That, with constraint payments alone projected to hit £7.2 billion by 2030.
• “Claim: Extreme heat is responsible for more than half of Aussie natural hazard deaths” – Cold weather still kills more people overall, according to Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Sorry, Los Angeles Times, climate change isn’t driving Georgia’s wildfires” – Data on Georgia’s wildfire history torches the LA Times’s claim that climate change is responsible for worsening blazes, says Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “The future of leasing is EVs” – The push to make electric vehicles the dominant product in the leasing market raises questions about who will bear the financial risk when residual values collapse, writes Jit at Climate Scepticism.
• “Florida AG James Uthmeier just ended the ‘green’ plastics cartel” – Florida’s Attorney General has issued civil investigative demands to a coalition of green packaging bodies and major corporations including Coca-Cola and Nestlé, accusing them of operating an unlawful sustainability cartel, says Melanie Collette for CFACT.
• “Why intellectuals become Leftists” – The tendency of intellectuals to drift left is due to a structural preference for systems that reward those who direct rather than those who do, writes Logan Lamont in Quadrant.
• “The rewriting of campus history” – This week’s Sussex judgment ignores reality, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “Snobbery and philistinism” – The cultural assumptions that underpin elite disdain for ordinary taste come under scrutiny by Anthony Daniels in Quadrant.

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