News Round-Up

• “Michael Gove to be Editor of the Spectator following takeover” – Michael Gove has been appointed Editor of the Spectator following the purchase of the magazine by Sir Paul Marshall, reports Press Gazette.
• “Michael Gove is the new Editor of the Spectator” – In the Spectator, Fraser Nelson bids farewell to his role as editor after 15 years as Michael Gove takes over the position.
• “IDF chief tells his forces to prepare for ground invasion of Lebanon” – Israel’s army chief has told his forces to prepare for a ground invasion of Lebanon as the Middle East spirals towards a seemingly inevitable wider war, reports the Mail.
• “Is this the end for Hezbollah?” – The recent outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that could prove terminal for Hezbollah, writes Michael Karam in the Spectator.
• “The BBC’s shameful moral cowardice over Hamas” – The Beeb is showing a film about Hamas’s pogrom but the film won’t feature the word ‘terrorist’. This is insane, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Reeves prepares to rewrite debt rules to unlock up to £50 billion in spending” – The Chancellor is understood to be considering changing how debt is calculated to take into account investment spending, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer wants to give investigators power to spy on personal bank information” – Starmer has just announced a law giving investigators access to personal bank accounts, writes Michael Curzon in the European Conservative.
• “I had to take freebies for my son, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has defended taking free accommodation by claiming it was important for his teenage son to have somewhere peaceful to revise for his GCSEs, reports LBC.
• “Keir Starmer Covid broadcast urging work from home came from donor’s flat” – Keir Starmer was accused of “hoodwinking” the public after telling Britain to work from home during Covid from the comfort of Lord Alli’s luxury penthouse, says the Mail.
• “The ‘freebies’ scandal exposes the entitlement of the woke” – Labour bigwigs are so convinced of their own virtue that they really think they can do no wrong, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Transphobic ‘hate speech’ will not be illegal in Ireland after U-turn” – Ireland will not introduce hate speech laws following criticism from Government lawmakers, opponents and billionaire Elon Musk, according to Reuters.
• “Top barristers revolt over ‘dangerous’ diversity plans” – The Bar Standards Board could penalise those who fail to promote equal opportunities in the profession, reports the Telegraph.
• “The intolerant age” – Hannah Barnes in the New Statesman writes about the creeping intolerance in the commanding heights of Britain‘s cultural institutions.
• “Regulators under fire” – On Substack, Joshua Rozenberg KC takes aim at the Bar Standards Board’s “illiberal” diversity mandate, as two top barristers label it social engineering wrapped in red tape.
• “The ‘lammy’” – In the New Conservative, Peter Harrison suggests a new word for the Oxford English Dictionary: lammy, n. /ˈlæmi/ A politician who attempts to appear important and clever through grandiose statements but ultimately makes a fool of himself due to the erroneous nature of his remarks.
• “HS2: billions wasted on an outdated dream” – By 2023, HS2 had drained £27 billion from taxpayers for a grand project built on a scandalously shaky business case, writes Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s winter fuel raid has now become sadistic” – It’s time for Sir Keir and Ms. Reeves to finally consider that they might actually be wrong about cutting winter fuel payments, says Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
• “Climate scientists call on Labour to pause £1 billion plans for carbon capture” – Leading climate scientists are urging the Government to pause plans for a billion pound investment in “green technologies” that are unproven and would make it harder for the U.K. to reach its Net Zero targets, reports the Guardian.
• “Ed Miliband sends armed police to guard gas terminals” – Ed Miliband has directed the nuclear police to boost staffing to safeguard key energy projects from rising protests by environmental groups like Just Stop Oil and Greenpeace, according to the Mail.
• “‘West Antarctic ice sheet may disappear by 2300’” – From the “we’ve heard it all before” department and the Dartmouth College Division of Modelled Unverifiable Predictions, comes another ho-hum scare story, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “The NHS and prevention” – Wes Streeting is repeating the mantra of all Health Secretaries, write Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
• “Our crumbling NHS would make assisted dying a disaster for Britain” – The U.K.’s broken welfare state will turn personal tragedy into a Canada-style national catastrophe, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Letby hospital baby delivery ‘like something out of horror film’” – The Thirlwall Inquiry has heard that the operating theatre where some babies were delivered at Lucy Letby’s hospital was like “something out of a horror film”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Journal pressured to retract study on COVID-19 vaccine harms” – A manufacturer has launched proceedings against researchers who published a study that reported adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination, writes Maryanne Demasi on her Substack.
• “After lockdown, the pandemic of ‘just can’t be bothered’” – In a world reshaped by the pandemic, we’ve traded vibrant social lives for lazy conveniences, says Liz Hodgkinson in TCW.
• “The UN admits it: global government is what it wants to meet all ‘challenges’” – The UN’s newly endorsed Pact for the Future promises sweeping reforms and global governance under the guise of progress, warns Javier Villamor in Brussels Signal.
• “Big Tech deboosted millions of posts during EU elections” – Newly released documents have confirmed that Big Tech platforms ‘deboosted’ millions of posts throughout the period of the European Elections this year, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Male rapists cannot formally be recorded as female, Scottish police say in ‘major U-turn’” – Police Scotland chiefs have been accused of “gaslighting” after U-turning on their policy in dealing with male rapists who self-ID as women, says the Scottish Sun.
• “University fired professor who spoke out against trans surgery for children” – The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that University of Louisville officials can be sued for their roles in firing a psychiatrist who criticised transgender drugs and surgeries for minors, reports the College Fix.
• “Trans activists set off explosion in attempt to sabotage conference critical of gender ideology ” – A private school in Lyon, France, had its electricity sabotaged as trans activists attempted to have a conference critical of gender ideology cancelled, says Reduxx.
• “‘I’m Britain’s ‘welfare Queen’ – here is what I spend the cash on’” – A jobless mother-of-eight has boasted about the “luxuries” she has bought with taxpayers’ cash – claiming that being on benefits has never held her back, reports the Mail.
• “Misjudging the debate?” – Polling suggests that voters viewed the September 10th Trump–Harris contest differently from the commentariat, notes Jeffrey H. Anderson in City Journal.
• “Elon Musk denies having an affair with ‘beautiful’ Giorgia Meloni” – Elon Musk denied any romance between him and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after he called her “beautiful” at an awards ceremony in New York, reports Politico.
• “Free Gear Kier tries to justify having his nose in the trough and fails” – Sir Keir Starmer is hauled over the coals by Sky News’s Beth Rigby for his apparent addiction to freebies, calling him “continuity Johnson”.

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