News Round-Up

• “Tory ‘star chamber’ rejects Sunak’s Rwanda flights plan” – A ‘star chamber’ of Conservative lawyers has concluded that Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plans are not fit for purpose, says the Telegraph. More bad news for the PM.
• “Boris could return as Prime Minister in astonishing plan being hatched by disgruntled Conservative MPs” – Boris Johnson could return as Prime Minister under astonishing plans being hatched by Tory MPs, with a ‘dream ticket’ leadership tie-up with Nigel Farage even being considered, according to the Mail on Sunday.
• “Lockdown had ‘catastrophic effect’ on Britain’s poverty gap” – A new report from the Centre for Social Justice says the lockdowns had a “catastrophic effect” on the most disadvantaged, according to the Telegraph.
• “How the Covid Inquiry is spending £750K a day on lawyers” – Keeping London’s most sought-after barristers in the style to which they are accustomed is an eye-wateringly expensive business, says Guy Adams in the Mail.
• “Brits urged to ‘wear masks’ and ‘avoid hugs’ this Xmas as 100-day cough surges” – Brits are being urged to “wear masks” and “avoid hugging” this Christmas as a cough that can “last up to 100 days sweeps the U.K.”, according to the Sun. Give us a break.
• “People who run from debate challenges aren’t scientists” – Steve Kirsch says he had a chat with William M. Briggs, a statistician who did not find a safety signal for the elderly in the leaked New Zealand data. He thinks he knows why he missed it.
• “Hurricanes aren’t getting more frequent” – Paul Homewood’s latest fact-check tour de force in TCW.
• “The Case Against Offshore Wind” – Another Paul Homewood cracker, this one in WUWT.
• “Net Zero’s dirty secret: Britain’s green transition is powered by Chinese coal” – A New Statesman analysis of climate and trade data exposes how much the U.K.’s Net Zero agenda depends on cheap foreign coal power, particularly from China, says Paul Homewood (for a hat trick) in WUWT.
• “Thames Water scraps plan to become Net Zero by 2030” – The water supplier is axing its ambitious climate target as it battles growing pressure on its finances, according to the Telegraph.
• “Electric vehicle owners to be charged extra to park in London Labour-run council” – Under Westminster City Council’s new rules, vehicles with larger batteries are set to pay more due to having a higher carbon footprint during their construction, taking up more space and causing more wear and tear to the road, the Telegraph reports.
• “Split your rubbish into 13 different bags, residents of Georgian street told” – Strict recycling rules are leaving Caledonia Place in the affluent Bristol suburb of Clifton in a mess on Thursdays, says the Telegraph.
• “The race to Net Zero is slowing to a crawl” – “Despite all the warm words and protestations of earnest resolve to make a difference, it’s becoming increasingly clear that nobody is taking any notice” of the COP climate conferences, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “The electric-car fantasy” – Rishi Sunak’s green diktats are a recipe for disaster, argues James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Devon beauty spot threatened with wind turbine ‘disaster’ in name of Net Zero” – Developers want to dig up and drill through parts of Saunton Sands’s historic landscape to link electric cables to new offshore wind turbines, says the Telegraph.
• “UPenn president Liz Magill resigns after disastrous anti-Semitism hearing” – The President of the University of Pennsylvania has resigned after losing the support of her board.
• “One in five young Americans believes the Holocaust is a myth, poll finds” – Only half of 18-29 year-old Americans are convinced the Holocaust actually happened, according to a new survey in the Economist.
• “Pro-Palestine marchers make ‘sickening’ comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust” – Activists brandished placards making “sickening” comparisons between the Gaza conflict and the Holocaust at yesterday’s pro-Palestinian march in Central London, repots the Telegraph.
• “Scotland Yard invited mosque chairman who praised Hamas founder to dinner” – A prominent mosque chairman who praised the founder of Hamas was invited to a buffet dinner at Scotland Yard hosted by the Met Commissioner in July, reports the Telegraph.
• “The UN vs Israel” – From ignoring the rape of Israeli women to employing Hamas fighters, the UN is not to be trusted, writes Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
• “Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling” – Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph says Putin is on the cusp of victory in Ukraine and it could be NATO’s Suez moment.
• “Government should say ‘no way’ to Abu Dhabi-backed takeover of the Telegraph, says ex-head of MI6” – Sir Richard Dearlove tells the Telegraph that the Telegraph being controlled by a foreign state poses a “profound security concern”.
• “Abu Dhabi’s takeover of the Telegraph puts press freedom at risk” – The state ownership of newspapers brings with it a unique and deeply troubling set of questions, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Schoolchildren taught St Hadrian was ‘black’ scholar – even though he wasn’t” – Schoolchildren have been taught that St. Hadrian was black despite him being North African, according to the Telegraph.
• “Too many migrants to integrate into society, says Jenrick” – Integrating migrants into society is “impossible” at the current levels of immigration, Robert Jenrick has said in his first comments since resigning, the Telegraph reports.
• “Freedom of speech dies in a South London pub.” – After being barred from a pub for daring to sit at a table and discuss non-woke views, Tom Ed concludes that “the woke want a segregated society; they simply banish rather than engage opposing opinions”. 
• “How mass immigration is worsening the housing crisis” – Millions of Brits are utterly fed-up with how immigration is driving up house prices, rents and flooding social housing, says Matthew Goodwin in the Spectator in a sharp analysis packed with figures. “If the policy of mass immigration is so beneficial to Britain, then why exactly is Britain importing so many low-skilled, high-need people from places like sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East who are disproportionately more likely than the U.K.-born to be placed in social housing and to be a net fiscal cost to the economy?”
• “It isn’t free speech that causes violence – it’s censorship” – Denmark’s ban on burning the Koran will embolden some of the most regressive elements in Europe, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Top civil servants urged to push diversity to get more money” – Senior civil servants are being encouraged to lead diversity and inclusion schemes in order to be awarded bonuses, according to the Telegraph.
• “Covid vaccines and Operation Warp Speed was cut from the live feed of the latest Republican debate” – DD Denslow shares on X the footage that was blacked out from the American public during the live debate. “If MSM and their Big Pharma paymasters didn’t want you to see it, then it’s probably worth sharing.”

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