News Round-Up

• “Keyboard warrior jailed for ‘instigating’ riots with posts” – A ‘keyboard warrior’ whose social media post calling for people to riot, which had 1.7 million views, has been jailed for three years, reports the Mail.
• “Think before you post” – The severity of sentences handed down after the recent disorder is causing unease and feeding claims of a regime bent on punishing dissent, writes Ed West on Substack.
• “Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to crack down on people ‘pushing hateful beliefs’” – The Home Office says it will “kickstart” an initiative to “tackle the threat posed by extremist ideologies”, according to Sky News. Haven’t we heard this before?
• “We should beware of the motives behind another counter-extremism strategy” – The Home Secretary may want to make a mark with another review of the counter-extremism strategy, but we should be wary of her motives, warns the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Between bigots and censors” – Without the right to hate, there is no freedom of speech, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “The great disinformation panic” – The elite crusade against ‘fake news’ is authoritarian, anti-democratic and deeply hypocritical, write Benjamin Schwarz and Jon Zobenica in Spiked.
• “Two-tier policing risks turning white British people into another ‘community group’” – Engaging with minorities through group ‘leaders’ has perverted policing. Let’s not make that error again, warns Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Where’s the Christianity in Welby’s woke riot sermon?” – In TCW, Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack criticises the Church of England leader for his lack of insight into the recent riots and disregard for the grievances of England’s white working class.
• “John Mason stripped of SNP party whip over ‘unacceptable’ Gaza posts” – SNP MSP John Mason has been stripped of the party whip after writing on X that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not amount to “genocide”, according to the BBC.
• “‘We’re coming to kill you’: Jewish chaplains reveal campus threats” – In the Sunday Times, Josh Glancy details how a Leeds University couple was bombarded with hundreds of abusive calls and texts after the husband was called up as an Israeli reservist.
• “Don’t cancel Reginald D. Hunter over Israel joke” – In UnHerd, Simon Evans comes to the defence of Reginald D. Hunter, the comedian who’s at risk of being cancelled for an anti-Semitic incident at his show in Edinburgh.
• “The BBC should not trust Hamas’s death figures” – Israel is doing all in its power to minimise innocent fatalities, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Gardai believe teen who stabbed army chaplain has ‘radical Islamist mindset’, court hears” – A teenager has appeared in court charged with the frenzied stabbing of an army chaplain in Co Galway, with gardaí suspecting the accused of holding a “radical Islamist mindset”, reports the Irish Examiner.
• “Nearly 500 migrants successfully crossed the Channel yesterday to U.K.” – Hundreds more migrants have been brought to shore after illegally crossing the English Channel in small boats this weekend, says the Mail.
• “Reeves’s appraisal of Britain’s economy is becoming laughable” – No amount of hyperbole on Rachel Reeves’s part can change the fact that the U.K. is enjoying robust growth, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s Britain is a worse nightmare than anyone imagined” – Once the novelty fades, we are left with socialist leaders determined to “soak the rich”, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “This Labour Government is mean, dishonest and downright dangerous” – It has been appalling to see firsthand in the Commons the untruths and terrible policies of our new Labour masters, writes Nick Timothy MP in the Telegraph.
• “Labour to make it easier for unions to strike” – Trade unions will be free to strike even if a majority of their members don’t vote for one under a new law the Government will propose within weeks, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Britain’s failing universities must be allowed to go bust” – Bailing out failing universities will not benefit the economy – nor our young people, says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘strongly’ considering standing at next election” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted he is “very strongly” considering standing at the next General Election after losing his seat in July, reports the Standard.
• “GPs are the last people to deserve a pay rise – but they’ll get one anyway” – If the Government caves in to GPs’ funding demands, it will be rewarding years of failure, says J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
• “Almost a fifth of teenagers classed as disabled after rise in ADHD diagnoses” – Almost a fifth of teenagers are now classed as disabled due to a rise in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), reports the Telegraph. It also means families can avoid the ‘two child’ benefit cap.
• “Young suffer more from loneliness than the old, report finds” – Research by the Centre for Social Justice revealed that 70% of 18-24-year-olds admit to feeling lonely at least some of the time, compared to just 32% of over-75s, says the Telegraph.
• “Did the Covid vaccines really save 20 million lives worldwide?” – The reality is no lives were saved by the Covid jab which is why there aren’t any success stories, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
• “Resist the ghetto mentality, Walthamstow must have a Gail’s” – Woke North East London residents are priggishly fixated on the politics of the Chairman of Gail’s rather than £4 flat whites, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Germany plans to cut Ukraine aid to just 6% of current total” – Germany plans to reduce its military support for Ukraine to about 6% of what it is now by 2027, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rayner faces green belt fight over Mike Ashley’s megacampus” – Battle lines are being drawn in rural England as Labour seeks to “get Britain building”, writes Pui-Guan Man in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s winter fuel savings to be wiped out by £4 billion benefits bill” – Analysis suggests that Labour’s planned savings from scrapping winter fuel payments could be wiped out by an unanticipated £4 billion benefit bill, reports the Telegraph.
• “Miliband warned ‘absurd’ Net Zero electricity pricing will force factories to close” – Ed Miliband has been given a warning over “absurd” Net Zero proposals which could threaten to shut down British manufacturing, says GB News.
• “Schools referred 160 children to controversial gender clinic” – Schools and education services referred 160 children directly to the controversial Tavistock gender clinic before it closed, reveals the Telegraph.
• “‘This tendency to police speech is such a typically modern British thing’” – Douglas Murray speaks to SpectatorTV about why resorting to clampdowns on free speech during moments of crisis reveals the cowardice of British police and political parties.

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