News Round-Up

• “Fury as PM refuses to say whether he’d sign away Falklands or Gibraltar” – Sir Keir Starmer has provoked anger after refusing to say whether he would sign away the Falklands or Gibraltar, reports the Sun.
• “Starmer’s Chagos betrayal is unforgivable” – We will not survive in our increasingly dangerous world if we cannot act in our own self-interest, says Sam Bidwell in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s Chagos surrender shows we need a stronger China strategy” – The Starmer Government cares more for global elite opinion than it does for British interests, according to Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “Cabinet rebellion over Rachel Reeves’s cut to foreign aid budget” – Ministers and charities warn of damage that will be caused if the Chancellor cuts overseas aid, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband supports change to ‘cruel’ laws on assisted dying” – MPs will be given a historic vote on whether to legalise euthanasia within weeks, says the Times.
• “Lord Alli laid on hospitality for Labour 23 times in run-up to election” – Peer at centre of ‘freebies’ row hostedaides and shadow ministers at his £4m Soho townhouse, according to the Telegraph.
• “10,000 fewer children in private schools ahead of Labour’s VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council has identified a 1.7% drop in pupil numbers this year compared to last, reports the Times.
• “Private schools plan legal challenge against Starmer’s VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council is prepared to challenge the legality of Labour’s tax raid on private schools if the Government doesn’t make some concessions, says the Telegraph.
• “Lockdown babies not ready for school, report finds” – Children are joining Reception still using buggies, not toilet trained and not knowing how books work, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sending 70% of young people to university will be the ruin of Britain” – In our trade-starved economy we must do more than just saddle students with a sociology degree and a lifetime of a debt, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband’s ‘new era’ for energy policy is anything but” – Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband travelled up to Merseyside to announce the latest twist in the Government’s energy policy, according to Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Labour to commit almost £22 billion to fund carbon capture and storage projects” – The Government is planning to commit almost £22 billion over 25 years to fund carbon capture and storage projects, reports the Guardian.
• “Why The Left Hates Laughter” – In Country Squire magazine, Sean Walsh explains why the Left lack a sense of humour.
• “A divided Right will mean decades of Labour misrule” – The Conservatives must not waste their time in Opposition as Labour did, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “Dutch resistance hero denied bridge naming honour due to lack of ‘diversity’” – The city of Amsterdam is refusing to name a bridge in honour of one of the most famous Dutch resistance heroes in World War II because he’s a white male, according to Brussels Signal.
• “Alarming rise of ‘super-fit’ slim young people suffering heart attacks” – Doctors agree that the numbers of young people having heart attack is on the rise, but disagree about the cause, according to the Mail.
• “The Hallett Inquiry: Evidence given on 26 September 2024” – on their Trust the Evidence Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson parse the evidence given by Chris Whitty to the Hallett Inquiry.
• “The fate of Israel’s hostages one year on” – The Telegraph accounts for every hostage taken on October 7th.
• “‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship” – “Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: Something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “Tim Walz is Weird” – Eugyppius watched the Vice Presidential debate and, on his Substack, concludes that Tim Walz is far weirder than JD Vance.
• “The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections” – Alex Armstrong in the Critic writes about the recent Austrian elections.
• “What does “hate speech” actually mean?” – No government has yet been able to define ‘hate speech’ successfully, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack. And therein lies the problem.
• “GB News facing ‘significant fine’ after losing High Court battle against Ofcom” – A High Court Judge has given permission for GB News to launch a judicial review into Ofcom’s finding that its Rishi Sunak election special breached the Broadcasting Code, reports the Telegraph.
• “The National Trust must not play politics” – This once-cherished body appears more preoccupied with woke activism than preserving our heritage, says Lord West, a retired Admiral in the Royal Navy, in the Telegraph.
• “Non-binary customers win compensation for being asked if they are male or female” – MoneySuperMarket and Transunion have been criticised over lack of more than two options when asking customers to identify their gender, reports the Telegraph.
• “Revealed: First migrant crime table” – One in 50 Albanians in the UK in prison, Telegraph analysis shows
• “President Milei delivers a powerful speech at the United Nations General Assembly” – On X, the libertarian President of Argentina tells the United Nations General Assembly why it’s mistaken to promote socialism over free markets.

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