News Round-Up

• “‘Get our country back!’ Scots rejoice as Humza Yousaf resigns as First Minister” – Scottish residents express their joy at Humza Yousaf’s resignation on GB News.
• “Humza Yousaf’s reign of error” – Scotland’s bungling clown prince made a career out of failing upwards, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Why the SNP’s fatal pact with the Greens will end up pushing them to the Right” – The SNP had no idea just how far out of their comfort zone the Greens would manage to pull it, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
• “The lunacy of the Scottish Greens” – The Scottish Greens proved too extreme for even the SNP, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “How about a vote of no confidence in Holyrood?” – Holyrood is simply not fit for purpose, argues Philip Patrick in TCW.
• “Labour poised to profit from SNP chaos after Humza Yousaf resigns” – The SNP faces a bruising leadership contest which could help Labour to become the largest party in Scotland and win a huge majority at Westminster, says Kieran Andrews in the Times.
• “Netanyahu tells Biden he’s worried about possible ICC arrest warrants” – Benjamin Netanyahu has asked President Biden to help prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials in connection with the war in Gaza, according to Axios.
• “Hundreds of students arrested at campuses across U.S. for Gaza protests” – Pro-Palestine protesters clash with police as they call for a ceasefire and a boycott on companies with ties to Israel, reports the Telegraph. 
• “The three Rs” – Mark Steyn wonders if anyone still talks about the three Rs in education – that would be reading, writing and racism.
• “The school as a battleground” – The Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools, warns Ben Cobley in the Critic.
• “Hypocritical Ireland is now facing the consequences of its woke virtue signalling” – Rather than an exceptional paragon of woke virtue, Ireland is just like Britain – and indeed every other country, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “The snide Irish political establishment is getting its comeuppance” – Unless France agrees to take back irregular migrants it has been funnelling into the U.K., it is the Irish who will end up getting the booby prize in an unedifying game of pass-the-parcel, writes Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
• “Home Office lost contact with thousands set for Rwanda flights” – The Home Office admits it is unable to locate thousands of migrants it intends to deport to Rwanda, according to the Times.
• “EU set to ‘follow Britain’s lead’ as manifesto plans to copy Rwanda-style asylum deportation deal” – The EU will “follow Britain’s lead” after Ursula von der Leyen’s party proposes Rwanda-style asylum deals with third countries, reports GB News.
• “Subpostmasters step closer to ‘hard-won exoneration’ after MPs back law change” – The Post Office Offences Bill is set to quash convictions and pay compensation to those affected by the Horizon IT scandal, says Perspective.
• “Get benefits claimants back to work – cleaning our filthy streets” – Not far off half a million young people are on out-of-work benefits, the vast majority of whom would be able to do some work, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad” – British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing, writes Tom Jones in the Critic.
• “Rumours of our pending extinction are greatly exaggerated” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses declining fertility, the Great Replacement and the demographic pressures of industrial society.
• “If you want people to have babies you’re now ‘far-Right’” – Doing the thing we literally exist as organisms to do is “far-Right” according to a Politico writer, says Steve Watson in Modernity.
• “Scotland Yard to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested” – Scotland Yard is set to pay a five-figure sum to a French publisher arrested by counter-terror officers after he took part in anti-Macron protests, reports the Mail.
• “Propagandist warns Russia will sink Britain under a nuclear tidal wave” – Putin’s most senior propagandist vows that Russia will sink Britain under a nuclear tidal wave if NATO sends troops into Ukraine, says the Mail.
• “Jeremy Clarkson stops growing food in some fields as he makes more from eco-handouts” – Jeremy Clarkson warns that British farmers are being incentivised not to produce food, so more has to be imported from abroad, according to the Telegraph.
• “The dark side of veganism” – Going vegan hurts the planet rather than helps it – and causes a wealth of other problem, too, says Jason Reed in Brussels Signal.
• “G7 countries including United States reach agreement to shut down all coal-fired power plants by 2035 ” – Ministers from the G7 nations have agreed to eliminate all coal-fired power plants by 2035, reports Jim Hoft in the Gateway Pundit.
• “Coral reefs are as good as dead, so we don’t have to try anymore?” – Nothing we are doing to the planet is any kind of threat to the survival of coral and coral reefs, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Researchers find Arctic region was warmer – 10,000 years ago than today” – A new Nature study shows that 10,000 years ago the Arctic experienced warmer temperatures, causing a shift in sea ice from perennial to seasonal, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Polar bears: they are going extinct!?” – We are told that polar bears are hugely threatened by climate change. But does the data support this proposition? asks Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “Musk gets self-driving Teslas tentatively cleared in China during surprise trip” – Tesla has received in-principle approval from CCP officials to deploy its driver-assistance system in the world’s biggest auto market, according to Bloomberg.
• “As MPs debate euthanasia, the facts its advocates don’t tell you” – If you deliberately take a human life you cross a line and open the door to all kinds of abuse, warns Simon Caldwell in TCW.
• “‘I joined Dignitas but changed my mind – assisted dying is too extreme’” – While support for euthanasia remains high, one author says such clinics ignore how precious the end of life can be, says Antonia Hoyle in the Telegraph.
• “In Scotland, anorexia could soon be a death sentence” – Scotland’s Assisted Dying Bill could encourage patients with eating disorders to die, rather than recover, warns Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
• “Stonewall faces a corporate reckoning following the Cass report” – It’s time for businesses that followed Stonewall’s advice to finally ask some questions, says Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
• “How we misunderstood gender nonconformity” – Gareth Roberts’s new book raises tough questions about the history of gay liberation, writes Helen Dale in CapX.
• “DEI conquers Stanford” – Stanford University now has at least 177 bureaucrats dedicated to Left-wing racialism, says Christopher F. Rufo in City Journal.
• “Feds demand employers use workers’ preferred pronouns” – The U.S Government warns employers that if they don’t use workers’ preferred pronouns or if they try to stop them from using bathrooms that align with their ‘gender identity’, they will face punishment, reports Cristina Laila in the Gateway Pundit.
• “Bravo to these geniuses” – An anonymous group at UCLA has set up a giant screen across from the protesters with the October 7th attack playing on loop.

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