News Round-Up

• “I respect Le Pen’s ideologies, says Barnier as he calls French borders ‘sieves’” – France’s new Prime Minister admits he doesn’t have “much in common” with the “ideologies” of National Rally but he “respects it” as he vows a crackdown on immigration, the Telegraph reports.
• “BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war” – The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war due to its anti-Israel and pro-Hamas bias, a damning report has found, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC’s bias lain bare will be sickening to British Jews” – The wide-ranging new report shows the extent of the corporation’s failure to provide balanced journalism, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
• “The Labour Party does not understand the most basic rules of economics” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan blasts Labour for its sheer economic illiteracy.
• “Starmer and Reeves’s recklessness is about to unleash an inflationary storm” – Everything Labour is doing is going to push up prices, unleashing an inflationary storm that will plunge the new administration into crisis, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Pimlico Plumbers founder to sell £12m penthouse as he flees Britain ahead of tax raid” – Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins has put his £12m London penthouse up for sale as he prepares to flee the U.K. to avoid a Labour tax raid, according to the Telegraph.
• “This wicked tax on private education is going to backfire badly” – Ministers haven’t got a clue how many people will be affected, and it’s highly unlikely to raise money either, says Michael Forsyth in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s winter fuel raid faces ‘fatal motion’ in House of Lords” – Labour’s winter fuel raid could be blocked by a motion in the House of Lords next week tabled by Ros Altmann, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour drops plans to teach ‘nuanced’ history of British Empire” – The Conservatives started a review of the modern history curriculum to cut the risk of schools coming under pressure to ‘decolonise’ the subject, but to the surprise of no one Labour has dropped it, reports the Times.
• “How the unions took control of your child’s classrooms” – When overhauls to the education system prioritise teachers over pupils, it’s clear who is telling the Government what to do, say Gordon Rayner and Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
• “Wales ‘haemorrhaging’ money as holiday let tax backfires” – Tourist hotspots in Wales are “haemorrhaging” money after a 200% council tax rise forced holiday homeowners to sell up, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy” – Less than half the people in developed countries trust their government, media and NGOs, says Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone.
• “People Are Still Being Punished For Refusing To Take Covid Vaccines” – Covid vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the U.S., says Ian Miller on Substack, showing it’s all about control.
• “Ed Miliband’s plan to ban North Sea oil licences ‘could cost thousands of jobs’” – Ed Miliband’s plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas licences could see thousands of energy workers losing their jobs and becoming the “miners of Net Zero”, a major union has claimed, the Telegraph reports.
• “Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – Bill Gates’s Telegraph Says” – In WUWT, Paul Homewood skewers more Bill Gates funded propaganda.
• “Net Zero is gifting our future to an increasingly dominant China” – Kemi Badenoch flashes her Net Zero-sceptic and China hawk credentials in the Telegraph.
• “Eco-protesters halt construction of telescope designed to spot meteors that could wipe out humanity” – A last-ditch appeal to delay the start of the project by environmental groups was accepted by a local court in Sicily, the Telegraph reports.
• “Free speech is under threat as never before” – Free speech is in retreat across the democratic world, as governments, politicians, judges and powerful lobbies increasingly seek to curtail or censor what we can say, see or hear, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “The public sector pensions ‘Ponzi’ scheme will soon be obsolete” – In the Telegraph, Neil Record sets out the eye-watering scale of unfunded, gold-plated public sector pensions and what the Government could do about it.
• “The shameful Nazi apologism of the Very Online right” – Tucker Carlson’s chat with Darryl Cooper was a new low for the crank right, says Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill.
• “Calls to free Lucy Letby fuelled by ‘lies and misinformation’, say parents” – Victims’ families tell the Sunday Times that the campaign to free the convicted killer nurse has made them question humanity, as she appoints top human rights barrister Mark McDonald to argue her case.
• “I never wanted my children to go private. But the state school chaos became too much” – In the Times, Camilla Long admits defeat as she takes her three children out of the state sector. Not exactly an option for most people.
• “Woke Weather” – In the New Conservative, Jack Watson has some non-PC suggestions for what the Met Office might name this season’s storms.
• “Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticised her” – No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration, says Tulsi Gabbard. “I put my life on the line for this country. Now the Government calls me a terror threat.”

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