News Round-Up

• “Starmer ‘in the pocket of millionaires’, says Diane Abbott” – Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is “in the pocket of millionaires”, veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott has said, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sir Shameless is at it again! PM enjoy Spurs freebie with lobbyists” – The freebie row engulfing Sir Keir Starmer deepened tonight as it was revealed that he shared lavish football hospitality with a powerful lobbyist who backed the hated breakaway Super League, reports the Mail.
• “Now Rayner’s register of interests is under scrutiny” – The Sunday Times reports that Angela Rayner “appears” to have breached Parliamentary rules by failing to declare that a friend joined her on a “personal holiday” funded by Lord Alli.
• “Starmer’s freebies and the truth about Labour’s double-standards” – The Labour Government’s u-turn on freebies, its disclosure that it will no longer accept free clothes, is an admission it got it wrong, says Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “Ministers ‘demand more heaters for their offices in the Commons’” – Westminster sources have told the Mail on Sunday that some Government ministers have been asking for new radiators to be installed to stave off the winter chill despite cutting the winter fuel allowance for millions.
• “Whitehall is fast losing confidence in Rachel Reeves” – The absence of a clear approach to economic growth is leading some to ask whether she is really up to the job, says Henry Newman in the Telegraph.
• “Honeymoon over: Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak” – An Opinium poll for the Observer finds a 45-point drop in the Prime Minister’s approval rating since he won the election.
• “Never has a government slurped down the drain so quickly” – When Keir Starmer, who hasn’t been in power for three months, resorts to claiming, “I’m completely in control”, we can be sure his Government is already in serious trouble, argues Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “Is Starmer just an empty nobody unfit for the top?” – Is it possible that Sir Keir Starmer simply isn’t up to the job, asks Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Starmer ‘has four weeks to prove Government is not dysfunctional’” – In a warning shot to the Prime Minister, a senior Whitehall figure says he has a month to “get a grip” on the situation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hungary piggybacks on Dutch EU migration opt-out request” – Hungary will join the Netherlands in asking for an opt-out from the European Union’s migration policies, according to Politico.
• “Foreigner who clubbed man to death will not be deported to protect mental health” – A Ugandan murderer who clubbed a man to death in the back of a London ambulance will not be deported in order to protect his mental health, a court has ruled, according to the Telegraph.
• “Dozens of terror suspects have crossed Channel in small boats, says Jenrick” – Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick claims individuals linked to Islamic State and Al-Qaeda have “waltzed right in”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t fall for the Chinese wet market theory for Covid” – Contrary to reports, the evidence still points to a lab leak being the most likely cause of the pandemic, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “How Covid [sic] destroyed our lives, from newborns to pensioners” – A growing body of evidence shows that the impact of lockdown continues to affect every generation – and will do for decades to come, says the Telegraph‘s Rosa Silverman.
• “Energy giant abandons ‘blue hydrogen’ plans” – Norwegian energy giant Equinor has scrapped plans to produce so-called blue hydrogen, citing high costs and insufficient demand, the Telegraph reports.
• “Heat pump humiliation and wood burner back-pedalling – the SNP’s Net Zero mission has turned into a farce” – Everyone knew this was going to happen, says the Telegraph’s Robert Taylor – all except the nationalists and their Green allies.
• “MSM Journos Inadvertently Reveal Shocking Truth About Global Warming” – Washington Post journalists recently cited a new study about Earth’s global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years to try to support the climate alarm narrative – but ended up showing that Earth’s temperatures have been sliding for 50 million years, says ZeroHedge.
• “Right to offend is essential to being British” – Labour assured us the culture wars were over but an increase in institutional censorship shows they are anything but, says Trevor Philips in the Times.
• “Church of England criticised for racial justice job paying twice a vicar’s salary” – The Church of England has been criticised for advertising a “head of racial justice priority” vacancy on £66,646, more than double the salary earned by vicars, the Telegraph reports.
• “Does Britain Need a First Amendment?” – Transposing the First Amendment into U.K. law would be an emphatic restoration of what England has lost, argues Harrison Pitt in the European Conservative.
• “How migration became the rallying cry of the German far-Left” – The Telegraph profiles Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of a new anti-immigration far-Left party in Germany.
• “Swedish Professor: ‘Disinformation’ Label Used To Limit Free Speech” – The West is increasingly engaging in a form of “quiet censorship” says Inger Enkvist, reports Gript.
• “All British universities in China ‘have a communist party branch’” – Every British university which has set up an outpost in China has a branch of the Chinese Communist Party for staff and students, a new report has claimed, the Times reports.
• “Watch: Wembley turns green as Saudi Arabia national anthem played at Joshua vs Dubois” – Wembley became an enclave of Saudi Arabia last night as its national anthem was sung under the colours of the Saudi flag, reports the Telegraph.
• “How Israel could invade Lebanon and wage all-out war with Hezbollah” – War is coming in the north for the Jewish state, says the Telegraph.
• “Private school VAT raid could hit four U.K. areas harder than anywhere else, Labour warned” – Some cities and boroughs “do not have capacity” for influx the of students into the state sector, says the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris’s ‘hide from the press’ strategy is worryingly effective” – Republicans hope the Harris-Walz campaign will irritate voters by skirting the press, but depressingly the awful strategy will probably work just fine, says Emily Jahsinshy in UnHerd.
• “We are sick to death of our kids at school, at young ages, if they are white they’re being told they’re oppressors. If they’re black, being told they’re victims” – Watch Nigel Farage tell GB News that the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda isn’t consistent with British values.

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