News Round-Up

• “Kemi Badenoch is the true inheritor of Thatcher’s legacy” – Her integrity and strong convictions prove she has what it takes to become party leader, says Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
• “Is Kemi Badenoch scared of Robert Jenrick?” – As the frontrunner with the most to lose, Kemi Badenoch appears to be ignoring Robert Jenrick’s invitation to debate her on the BBC, says William Atkinson in the Spectator.
• “Labour is embracing the ideology of ineptitude” – Ministers would rather ‘do the right thing’ than protect British interests – as Net Zero and Chagos make clear, says the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley.
• “The Times view on challenging students: Free Thinking” – Labour is complacently ignoring the free speech crisis on university campuses, says the Times in a leading article.
• “The proof Reeves will be unable to squeeze the rich” – Rachel Reeves’s tax raids are already unravelling as the Chancellor is warned that her war on wealth will backfire, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says the letter to the Times from the heads of 14 banks and other financial institutions declaring it is “time to invest” in Britain “reads like a note scrawled by hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome”.
• “Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system” – In the Spectator, Laurie Wastell asks what it will take for the Government and public authorities to take seriously the threat of illegal immigration and actually do something about it.
• “Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme” – The Italian navy began transferring migrants to a new offshore processing centre in Albania on Monday, according to the Telegraph.
• “How ‘tree-hugging’ Hezbollah duped the UN in southern Lebanon” – United Nations peacekeepers supposed to keep Hezbollah from Israel’s border have instead been outmanoeuvred and intimidated into allowing the militant group to build up extensive military might, says the Telegraph.
• “Watch: Ukrainian men dragged out of nightclubs by army recruiters” – The Telegraph shows social media videos of Ukrainian men being dragged out of night-time venues by recruiters and press-ganged into the army.
• “Monkeypox: Evidence of the “Pandemic Preparedness” Lie” – ‘Pandemic preparedness’ is an excuse to carry out dangerous biowarfare and biodefence experiments under the unconvincing cloak of keeping the public safe, argue Clayton Baker, Brian Hooker and Heather Ray in Brownstone Journal.
• “The Takada paper shows very clearly that the Covid vaccines are not safe” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch summarises the alarming findings of a recent Japanese paper on Covid vaccine safety.
• “The flaw at the heart of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plan” – In the pursuit of decarbonisation, the Energy Secretary appears willing to blight the environment, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Blackout prevention system activated as electricity demand set to spike” – A backstop system designed to prevent blackouts was mobilised for the first time in two years amid a capacity warning as Britain’s power grid battled low winds and nuclear outages, the Telegraph reports.
• “Tesla suffers first drop in U.K. sales since 2013” – Tesla’s U.K. revenues have fallen for the first time in more than a decade as Elon Musk’s electric car company grapples with a slowdown in demand, reports the Telegraph.
• “European Union is ‘dividing U.K. with electric car border’” – Northern Ireland is being made to enforce a “protectionist tariff” on imports of Chinese models in a move drawn up by Brussels under the Windsor Framework Brexit deal, the Telegraph reports.
• “Doctors told to avoid traditional asthma inhalers because they generate greenhouse gas” – Future doctors will be expected to take the “climate impact” of inhalers into account, medical school leaders have said, reports the Telegraph.
• “The myth of plastic recycling is finally unravelling” – A Telegraph investigation looks into the truth about how much of our waste gets recycled really (very little, most of it is burned, thank goodness) and where it ends up.
• “This season of The West is atrocious” – The Postcards from the Abyss Substack imagines the current travails of the West as a TV show and gives the latest season the thumbs down.
• “When we cannot even expel foreign criminals, it’s time to leave the ECHR” – There is only one way for Britain to radically reform human rights laws and reduce illegal migration, argues Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “BBC presenters will not be called ‘talent’ anymore, says Director General” – Good to see terminology catching up with reality…
• “The new anti-gay activism” – Those who advocate gender identity ideology are fundamentally opposed to gay rights and we need to start describing them accurately, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
• “U.S. publisher Dovid Efune in exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph” – The publisher of U.S. news website the New York Sun has entered exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph for more than £500m.
• “Britain’s second-richest man among billionaires backing ‘anti-woke’ university” – The “anti-woke” University of Austin has received $200m from high-profile investors supporting its “fearless pursuit of truth”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis” – The cancellation of Suella Braverman’s speaking event at Cambridge last week was grimly predictable, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying, Canadian cancer patient reveals” – A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room, reports the Telegraph.
• “Von der Leyen’s authoritarian plot” – In a few weeks, Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission will officially take office, at which point she will have almost unfettered control over the bloc’s politics, warns Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “The biopic meant to derail Donald Trump’s campaign has backfired spectacularly” – The U.S. Presidential candidate tried to stop The Apprentice being released, but its pitiful box office proves he needn’t have worried, says Alexander Larman in the Telegraph.
• “Trump tightens gap with Harris in three new national polls” – Three national polls released Sunday depict a tightening Presidential race, with former President Trump erasing recent gains from Vice President Kamala Harris with just 23 days to go, reports Axios.
• “Happy Columbus Day, or as Elizabeth Warren calls it: ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’” – Celebrate Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a video posted on X of Elizabeth Warren musically reminding us that she is, of course, an Indian too.

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