- “Jewish chaplains’ houses targeted in ‘frightening’ campaign on two university campuses” – Jewish chaplains’ houses are being targeted in a “frightening” campaign, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour MP Andy McDonald suspended over ‘between the river and the sea’ speech” – Sir Keir Starmer has suspended the whip of an MP who made reference to the controversial “from the river to the sea” chant at a pro-Palestine rally, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer must confront Labour’s Islamist problem” – Those making common cause with Hamas are the terrorists’ useful idiots, or worse, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a one billion dollar terror group” – The Telegraph reports that high-value assets in Turkey are said to be a part of a secret global investment portfolio for Hamas.
- “German-Israeli Shani Louk, seen paraded by terrorists in Gaza, confirmed dead” – The remains of a German woman snatched from a music festival by Hamas have been discovered, with Israel’s President suggesting she was beheaded, reports the Times of Israel.
- “Fury as Met Police officers pull down posters of kidnapped children” – The Campaign Against Antisemitism has accused the Met of a “double standard” by “turning a blind eye to extremists”, yet pulling down the posters of kidnapped Israeli children in Edgware to avoid inflaming “community tensions”, says the Mail.
- “British society will pay a terrible price for indulging extremism” – We have imported hatreds and lost our common identity. Policy will have to be more muscular as a result, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Jews feel abandoned by the British Left” – In the aftermath of the massacre, it is finally dawning on Jewish progressives that the Left doesn’t care for them at all, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “The great betrayal” – The Left’s reaction to the massacre in Israel has many progressive Jews in the West rethinking their past activism, political affiliations and friendships, write Suzy Weiss and Francesca Block in the Free Press.
- “We must defend the right to hate” – Hamas apologists are entitled to free speech, too, says Wendy Kaminer in Spiked.
- “Chelsea Israeli fan club told Star of David banner cannot be displayed inside Stamford Bridge” – Chelsea fans have been prevented from displaying a banner that features the Star of David, with the club and the Premier League at odds over who is to blame for the decision that has been branded “antisemitic”, reports the Telegraph.
- “An adult on campus, finally” – In the U.S., Tulane University President Michael Fitts has schooled his mealymouthed peers in responding to a ‘Free Palestine’ protest-turned-riot, writes Nicole Gelinas in City Journal.
- “Why the Kremlin will fear Dagestan’s antisemitic mob” – Not only is the Russian Federation home to the largest Muslim population in Europe, accounting for perhaps 10% of its total population, but it’s growing, says Mark Galeotti in the Spectator.
- “What happens when there aren’t enough Jews to lynch?” – There’s a dearth of Jews in Dagestan, so the antisemites who live there have faced a supply-demand issue in recent days, writes Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt in the Free Press.
- “Humza Yousaf admits SNP ministers encouraged to delete WhatsApps” – The Scottish First Minister has revealed there was a “social media messaging policy” that required Scottish Government figures to “routinely delete” WhatsApp messages, reports the Mail.
- “U.K.’s top civil servant said Boris Johnson ‘cannot lead’ as Covid pandemic raged, WhatsApps show” – Boris Johnson was described as “creating chaos and undermining everyone” by key aides in WhatsApp messages shown to the Covid Inquiry, says Politico.
- “Chris Whitty called Sunak’s flagship restaurant scheme ‘Eat Out to Help Out the virus’” – Rishi Sunak’s scheme to save restaurants from ruin during Covid was thought by the Chief Medical Officer to be contributing to the spread of Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “The damning Covid Inquiry testimony of Martin Reynolds” – The appearance at the Covid Inquiry of Martin Reynolds has been a real eye-opener in some rather unexpected ways, writes Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “Dominic Cummings’s Barnard Castle trip ‘clearly against the rules’, said Patrick Vallance” – The Covid Inquiry revealed that No10 pressured Boris Johnson’s top scientific advisers to join a press conference following Dominic Cummings’s lockdown-breaking trip to Barnard Castle, says the Telegraph.
- “Covid Inquiry is biased against lockdown sceptics, claim scientists” – The Telegraph reports that Oxford academics Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson have both accused Baroness Hallett of dismissing evidence.
- “Kids less likely to spread Covid in daycare than at home: Study” – A new study disputes the widely-held belief that childcare centres are primary sources of COVID-19 transmission, says the Epoch Times.
- “Worldwide Covid mortality patterns” – PANDA investigates the trends in Covid mortality using the data from Canada and around the world. Does it point to a deadly pandemic?
- “Genetically modified organons” – On Substack, Dr. Ah Kahn Syed discusses recent Senate Estimates hearings in Australia, raising questions about the testing and classification of mRNA vaccines.
- “Trans fat to be banned: What this means for your health” – The Epoch Times reports on the impending ban on trans fats in the U.S. food supply.
- “Public services are in doom loop of decline and worse than pre-Covid, report warns” – A report by experts has found that many parts of the state have deteriorated dramatically since the Tories came to power in 2010, according to the Telegraph.
- “U.S. plans nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than Hiroshima” – The Pentagon has announced plans for a new nuclear bomb 24 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, reports the Mail.
- “Watch: Met Police take 40 minutes to remove Just Stop Oil activists from Parliament Square” – Police took around 40 minutes to remove dozens of Just Stop Oil activists off the road in Central London, despite outnumbering them, according to the Telegraph.
- “Just Stop Oil clowns who sparked chaos in M25 demo are spared jail” – Just Stop Oil activists, who caused “massive disruption” on the M25 in “deliberate defiance” of an injunction, have been spared jail by a High Court judge, reports the Mail.
- “Hurrah for new North Sea oil licences!” – In CapX, Andy Mayer celebrates the Government’s approval of 27 new oil drilling licences in the North Sea.
- “EV sceptic Toyota Chairman says people are ‘finally’ waking up to reality of electric vehicles” – Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has stated that declining demand for electric vehicles signals a changing perspective on their role in combating carbon emissions, reports ZeroHedge.
- “Cheap electric cars are still out of reach” – The West needs to pick between a rapid Net Zero transition and its decoupling from China, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. think tank says ‘true cost’ of EVs after subsides equates to $6.32 per litre” – Despite a common perception that EVs are cheaper to own and operate than their internal combustion counterparts, a Texas think tank says the true cost is the equivalent of USD$17.33 per gallon, reports the Western Standard.
- “Australia warns ferries about EVs” – Australia’s Maritime Safety Authority has issued a domestic commercial vessel safety alert on the risks of ferrying battery powered cars, says WUWT.
- “Britain, a goner with the wind” – The dash for wind energy is a generational folly that will see the nation’s economic future sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero, predicts Barry Norris in the Critic.
- “Why consent is key to a just transition to Net Zero” – We need to bring the whole of society along on the journey to Net Zero, says Jeremy Apfel in CapX.
- “Why fossil fuels are here to stay” – Geopolitical conflict has exposed Net Zero as a fantasy, writes Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked.
- “The emotional dysregulation behind progressive authoritarianism” – J.D. Haltigan joins the Public podcast to discuss the vulnerable narcissism of the radical Left.
- “Where is the Left today?” – Identity politics has triggered an identity crisis, writes Richard Bourke in UnHerd.
- “‘The Left doesn’t mean what it says’” – On SpectatorTV, Oxford University’s Nigel Biggar says a new progressivism has emerged, which is far more cynically-motivated than the old kind.
- “Libraries are being destroyed from within” – The public does not need protection from ‘problematic’ texts, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “After academic freedom” – When fields of study surrender to ideological fads, they lose their right to govern themselves, argues Jonathan Winslow in City Journal.
- “The rise of the underground free speech groups” – In the Spectator, Melanie Notkin explores the evolving feminist perspectives on justice and free speech.
- “Why are feminists like me being labelled ‘far Right’?” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams shares her ordeal with censorship and free speech suppression regarding gender and sex-based rights in Canada.
- “BBC hails Roman emperor as ‘black Briton’ – even though he wasn’t black” – A Roman emperor who appears on numerous lists of “black Britons” was not black, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg blasts woke MI5 over ‘institutional racism against white people’” – On GB News, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that “MI5 is institutionally, publicly racist against white people”, following the news that only ethnic minorities can apply for its summer internships.
- “BBC presenter warns against science being ‘just done by European white guys’” – The presenter of The Sky At Night has warned that science being “all just done by European white guys” may lead to a “blinkered view of the world”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The myth of LGBT conversion therapy” – There’s no credible evidence that Britons face torture for being gay or trans, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “‘Gender-affirming care is dangerous. I know because I helped pioneer it’” – In the Free Press, Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala describes her increasing worries about the gender-affirming treatment she approved for vulnerable patients, and her decision to speak out.
- “Luis Rubiales gets three-year football ban for kissing Jenni Hermoso” – Luis Rubiales has been banned from football for three years for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso after the Women’s World Cup final, reports the Telegraph.
- “The AI fraudsters are coming – we need to act now” – The FBI is warning that AI could be used to create ‘deepfakes’ to exploit people’s trust, writes Richard Hyde in CapX.
- “Chief Covid lockdown architect Neil Ferguson denies ever calling for a lockdown” – On X, Michael P. Senger has posted a video of Neil Ferguson being grilled in the Covid Inquiry.
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