News Round-Up

• “Miliband’s sanctions will endanger Jews” – The Chief Rabbi has warned that Ed Miliband’s decision to accuse Israeli settlers in the West Bankof “ethnic cleansing” and threaten them with the “full force” of UK sanctions risks endangering British Jews, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel lashes out over UK claims of war crimes and ethnic cleansing” – Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government has retaliated after Ed Miliband targeted “settler terrorists” in the West Bank, banning imports, cutting arms sales and closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem, says the Times.
• “The problem with Ed Miliband’s West Bank sanctions” – In the Spectator, Jon Mendelsohn argues that Britain’s policy towards Israel has become more about making performative statements than having a clear strategy.
• “Labour’s gross hypocrisy on Israel has just been exposed” – Labour’s sanctions on Israel could easily spiral out of control and become far more damaging than the British Government intends, warns Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s anti-Israel obsession shows it hasn’t changed since Jeremy Corbyn was leader” – The settlement trade ban amounts to a de facto boycott of the Jewish state and cannot be squared with Labour’s claim to be against antisemitism, writes Kemi Badenoch in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Labour should focus on borders and law and order, not Israel, says Badenoch” – In the Sun, Kemi Badenoch calls on Labour to prioritise protecting our borders and upholding the law rather than targeting Israel.
• “Flights grounded across Britain” – Tens of thousands of airline passengers have been left stranded after an air traffic control failure brought flights across Britain to a halt, reports ITV News.
• “What caused air traffic control issue at UK airports? Inquest begins” – The National Air Traffic Services is facing a fresh grilling after another air-traffic control meltdown left passengers stranded, says the Times.
• “Burnham is tied to the wrong Miliband – now David is telling him home truths” – The Prime Minister should heed David Miliband’s warning not to romanticise a period of abject failure for the Labour Left, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “More migrant boats will head for Britain’s South Coast, warn French” – French officials are predicting that “far more” migrant dinghies will make the long-distance sea voyage from Normandy in the coming weeks, reports the Mail.
• “Balaclava-clad anti-migrant protesters descend on Glasgow” – A group of approximately two dozen demonstrators dressed in balaclavas and chanting “stop the boats” have descended on Glasgow, says the Scottish Sun.
• “Protests will only grow if Burnham keeps ignoring the migrant crisis” – With the Port of Dover blockaded by masked men and protests spreading across the South Coast, the Prime Minister’s refusal to act on the country’s most explosive issue risks making a bad situation much worse, warns Dr Alan Mendoza in the Mail.
• “The ‘poison’ on Britain’s streets is a failure by the political class” – As more mega-dinghies arrive on our shores, Andy Burnham is about to discover just how little patience ordinary Englishmen have left, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Teenager reveals disturbing words of Nigerian migrant who raped her” – A teenager has recalled the terrifying moment she was dragged into the woods and raped by a Nigerian migrant who dodged deportation because it would “breach his human rights”, reports the Mail.
• “Islamic State supporters urged to start wildfires and ‘overwhelm’ emergency services in chilling arson attack guide” – LBC has infiltrated an online forum used by Islamic State supporters to share detailed instructions on starting wildfires, exhausting emergency services and evading police detection.
• “Pro-Palestine duo guilty of damage at National Gallery are spared” – NHS worker Jai Halai, 25, and politics student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, who plastered a poster over a 125 year-old painting at the National Gallery, have been spared jail despite being convicted of criminal damage, reports the Mail.
• “Police drop year-long case against ‘heroes’ who tackled Tube flasher” – Police have dropped a year-long investigation into three passengers who tackled a man exposing himself in front of children on a train, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain pays highest borrowing rate since 1998” – The UK has agreed to pay an interest rate of 5.82% to investors buying £4.25 billion of 30-year debt, the highest such rate since 1998, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s latest billionaire exit to cost tax of 38,000 workers” – The departure of hedge fund magnate Chris Rokos to Greece has left a £330 million hole in public finances, says the Times.
• “Corbyn’s North London home on sale for £700,000” – Jeremy Corbyn is selling his North London home for around £700,000 – nearly twice as much as he paid for it, reports the Telegraph.
• “SAS suffering soldiers exodus over ‘decades of lawfare’, warns Tory” – Sir David Davis warns that elite SAS soldiers are leaving the regiment because of relentless legal persecution, according to the Mail.
• “The Canary: the hard-Left website getting a taste of its own medicine” – It’s known for attacking the Right but with frozen finances and disgruntled staff speaking out, the Canary is eating itself, writes Leaf Arbuthnot in the Telegraph.
• “Even the Canary doesn’t deserve to be debanked” – The Canary’s de-banking crisis throws a sharp light on the dangerous power financial institutions hold over free speech and a free press, says Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
• “Channel 4 to axe 300 jobs in biggest ever round of cuts” – Channel 4 is expected to cut around a quarter of its workforce in the biggest redundancy round in its four-decade history, reports the Sun.
• “Results on maths, science and reading show Gove reforms worked” – Michael Gove’s education reforms appear to have borne copious fruit in the latest international comparisons, with England’s results in maths, science and reading all showing marked improvement, notes Nicola Woolcock the Times.
• “Lucy Powell must acknowledge England’s Pisa success” – In the Spectator, John O’Neill says England’s top-in-the-UK results for reading, maths and science in the latest Pisa rankings deserve some credit from the Education Secretary.
• “Welsh children almost two years behind English at school” – A major international study finds that Welsh pupils are almost two years behind their English counterparts in science, maths and reading, according to Nation Cymru.
• “Alliance MLA’s ‘conversion therapy’ ban could see ‘parents, preachers and teachers in the dock’” – DUP minister Gordon Lyons has warned that an Alliance Party bill to ban so-called conversion therapy risks criminalising ordinary parents, restricting religious freedom and leaving teachers “fearful of expressing honestly held views”, says the Newsletter.
• “Eiffel Tower workers strike after female staff removed during Hindu visit” – The Eiffel Tower was forced to close after staff walked out in protest over the removal of female employees during a private Hindu visit, reports CNN.
• “Argentina to file criminal case against Falklands oil driller” – Argentina is set to bring criminal charges against the Israeli energy company behind the Falkland Islands’ first commercial oil drilling project, says Reuters.
• “Iranian twin sisters have hair ripped out and bones broken in torture” – In the Mail, Imogen Garfinkel reports that a pair of Iranian twin sisters had their hair ripped out and their bones broken as punishment for joining anti-regime protests, with one now sentenced to death.
• “MPs hit out at bid to ‘railroad’ assisted dying law through Parliament” – The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is due to return to the Commons for its Second Reading on Friday, with MPs warning the legislation is unsafe, reports the Mail.
• “LG smart TVs record and upload conversations in homes, report says” – Smart televisions made by LG can listen to conversations in the home, record them and upload the files to the internet, says the Times.
• “Norway’s oil and gas production to plummet in threat to UK supplies” – Norway has warned that its North Sea gas production will begin to fall as soon as 2030, threatening crucial supplies that have helped Britain keep the lights on, according to OilPrice.com.
• “We passed peak ‘climate change’ (um) research” – Data from Google Scholar suggests the torrent of academic papers carrying the keyword “climate change” has crested and is now in decline, writes William M. Briggs on his blog.
• “Leading physicist debunks foundation of Canada’s Net Zero goals” – Professor William A. van Wijngaarden of York University in Toronto argues that there is no human-made climate crisis and that efforts to “stop climate change” will cause serious damage to society, according to CO2 Coalition.
• “America depends on small businesses. Small businesses depend on reliable energy” – In RealClearEnergy, Ted Ellis argues that the political push away from a dependable electricity grid threatens the small businesses that form the backbone of the American economy.
• “Aussie activists moaning about massive new ‘climate bomb’ gas field in the Northern Territory” – Australian climate activists are denouncing a major new gas field development in the Northern Territory as a “climate bomb”, insisting that no amount of jobs or economic benefit can justify it, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “And they’re off!” – The BBC is scaremongering about climate change threatening seahorses, despite evidence that human activity is the real threat, says Mark Hodgson at Cliscep.
• “Bridget Phillipson targets white working-class inequality” – Ministers are set to put social class on a par with sex, race and disability for the first time in a major shake-up of the Government’s equalities framework, reports the Times.
• “Leak: Whitehall promotion scheme for ‘diverse’, disabled and ethnic minority staff” – A leaked note about a taxpayer-funded Whitehall promotion drive reveals that two-thirds of the places for high-flyers are reserved for candidates deemed diverse, disabled or from ethnic minorities, reveals Steven Edginton on his Substack.
• “Are British husbands really as useless as the BBC thinks?” – The BBC’s claim that British husbands burden their wives with an unbearable “mental load” is put under the microscope by Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “They’re clearly political opportunists” – On GB News, Don’t Divide Us founder Alka Sehgal Cuthbert takes aim at Caribbean campaigners demanding that tribal artefacts be returned by the British Museum.

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