News Round-Up

• “Mel Stride knocked out of Tory leadership race as Robert Jenrick firms up top spot” – Former Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride has been knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader, reports GB News.
• “How the Tories elect a new leader” – The Telegraph explains what happens next in the race to succeed Rishi Sunak.
• “The Spectator’s new owner – and new era” – The financier Sir Paul Marshall is to become the Spectator’s 14th proprietor, announces Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “Andrew Neil issues editorial independence warning after the Spectator sold for £100 million” – Andrew Neil has resigned as Chairman of the Spectator, issuing a warning to the new owner, Sir Paul Marshall, not to interfere with the title’s editorial independence, according to inews.
• “Two arrested for telling the truth about terror at Gaza march” – In the European Conservative, Graham Barnfield highlights more cases of ‘two-tier policing’ amid a report slamming the BBC for anti-Israel bias.
• “Labour is about to hand a grotesque new victory to Hamas terrorists” – For the U.K. to recognise Palestinian statehood at this moment would be a grave mistake, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Inside the child’s bedroom tunnel where Hamas executed six Israeli hostages” – New footage reveals a chamber of horrors where the IDF claims six Israeli hostages captured on October 7th were imprisoned, tortured and killed two weeks ago, according to the Times of Israel.
• “Killer released early from prison by Starmer” – In the Mail, victims speak of the “devastating” impact of their attackers’ release as more than 1,700 prisoners are freed in a single day.
• “Hotels could be used to house early-release prisoners, says Justice Secretary” – Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says that hotels could be used to house some prisoners who are released early to tackle jail overcrowding, according to Sky News.
• “Starmer’s Britain is not a safe place for women” – The early release of domestic abuse prisoners, combined with the flood of illegal migrants from misogynist cultures, puts females in danger, warns Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Nearly 2,000 prisoners are being released. So why are probation officers working remotely?” – Insiders warn that skipping in-person contact risks losing vital “grassroots intelligence”, leading to dangerous mistakes and worsening the U.K.’s already strained probation service, writes Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer cheered by union leaders as he vows to undo anti-strike laws” – Keir Starmer was cheered by union leaders as he vowed to weaken anti-strike laws and introduce a broad swathe of new rights for workers, reports the Mail.
• “Rayner’s workers’ rights reforms put majority of bosses off hiring” – More than half of bosses say they are less likely to hire new workers as a result of the planned Employment Rights Bill, according to the Telegraph.
• “Private school VAT: Kent mum plans legal action against policy” – A mother from Kent is hoping to launch legal action against the Government’s plans to change the tax on private school fees, reports the BBC.
• “We’re being ruled by a 1980s Left-wing student elite” – Eighties student Tory haters have matured into Labour politicians and Labour’s useful idiots, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Dividing the national tribe” – If Keir Starmer is intent on anything it is further dividing, rather than uniting, the national tribe, says Neil Datson on his blog.
• “The end of the idea of Britain” – With public voices from Elon Musk to Prof. David Starkey ringing the alarm bells about the state of British democracy, Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s interview with the BBC was cause for great alarm, writes C.J. Strachan on his Substack.
• “Former Oxford Islamic scholar convicted of rape in Switzerland” – Tariq Ramadan has been convicted of rape and sexual coercion by a court in Geneva, overturning a previous acquittal, according to AP.
• “German opposition leader wants ‘comprehensive’ rejection of illegal migrants at borders” – Germany’s opposition leader has slammed the Government as “leaderless” after a meeting failed to agree on tighter border controls, reports the Telegraph.
• “Europe’s fury as Germany tightens borders” – Germany’s new stringent border controls to tackle migration and Islamist terrorism have angered European neighbours, who are reluctant to accept migrants turned away by Berlin, says the Mail.
• “Mass migration is tearing the EU to pieces” – Germany’s decision to impose new controls at its borders is seismic, and may be just the beginning, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “EU elites are in despair over Europe’s economic death spiral” – Treating AI as guilty until proven innocent is the eurozone’s next great error, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “The EU’s Apple tax ruling is a bleak day for Ireland” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill slams the European Court of Justice’s decision to force Ireland to demand £11 billion in back taxes from Apple.
• “Musk, Telegram and the European assault on online speech” – The focus of European regulators is now increasingly on stopping free speech in the first place, says a report from MCC Brussels.
• “Online censorship will only make matters worse” – The ban on X in Brazil is just the latest stage in a sinister global trend, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “More than 50 Labour MPs defy Starmer over winter fuel cut” – More than 50 Labour MPs defied Keir Starmer and refused to vote for his plan to strip pensioners of the Winter Fuel Allowance, reports Politics Home.
• “The timeline that reveals Labour’s winter fuel raid hypocrisy” – Speculation is growing that Rachel Reeves’s decision to axe winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners has been years in the making, says Noah Eastwood in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves claimed £4,400 in energy support before axing winter fuel payments” – Rachel Reeves has been blasted after it emerged she billed the taxpayer thousands for her own energy bills, before announcing the decision to slash pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance, reports the Express.
• “Port Talbot to support Miliband’s Net Zero plans under £500 million subsidy deal” – Welsh-made steel from Port Talbot could be used to build giant floating offshore wind turbines as part of a £500 million Government support package being finalised with ministers, says the Telegraph.
• ““We’re robbing them of their ambition”” – In conversation with Hannes Sarv on the Freedom Research Substack, Dr. Matthew Wielicki argues that there is no evidence of a climate crisis and we should avoid frightening younger generations into abandoning their ambitions.
• “Letby’s conviction is unsafe, says Boris Johnson’s former science adviser” – A former science adviser to Boris Johnson has warned that Lucy Letby’s conviction is unsafe and raises questions about whether juries should be allowed to assess complex scientific evidence, reports the Sun.
• “There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab” – Opponents of the lab-leak theory have lost the argument, says Matt Ridley in Spiked.
• “Non-Covid patients felt ‘neglected’ in pandemic” – The Covid Inquiry has heard that patients with illnesses other than coronavirus felt as if they were left to die, reports the Telegraph.
• “Both MPs competing to chair Women and Equalities Committee say trans women are women” – Both Labour MPs competing to chair the Women and Equalities Committee, Kate Osborne and Sarah Owen, believe that transgender women are women, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Police taking the knee or wearing rainbow lanyards ‘can undermine public confidence’” – A police watchdog has warned that taking the knee and wearing rainbow lanyards could erode public trust and raise questions about impartiality, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why Left-wing comedy isn’t funny” – Under a Starmer Government, Labour-supporting ‘satirists’ serve no purpose, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Is it offensive to call someone ‘middle-aged’?” – Is seems that ‘People of Age’ are the hot, new victim group, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “DEI is sinking the U.S. Navy” – The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have announced that a shortage of manpower will force them to sideline ships. DEI might be the reason, writes Brent Sadler in the National Security Journal.
• “Harris supported gender transition surgeries for prisoners paid for by taxpayer” – A newly surfaced ACLU questionnaire from 2019 shows that Kamala Harris supported the idea of offering sex-change surgeries to illegal immigrants or migrants held in federal custody, reports the Mail.
• “On the cowardice of Kamala Harris” – Tonight’s Presidential debate may be the only time Kamala Harris is forced to answer basic questions about her political views, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “‘Vote for Trump in every state, not for me’” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging supporters to vote for Trump in every state, regardless of whether it is “blue”, “red” or a battleground state, reports Breitbart.
• “‘Herr Schwab… the Haitians we brought in ate all the cats’” – On X, the latest Hitler’s bunker meme shows leaked footage of Kamala’s campaign chief discovering that illegal migrants who entered America on her watch are eating domestic cats.

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