News Round-Up

• “U.S. election 2024 results: when will we know who won?” – Once polls close on Tuesday, a winner may not be projected for several hours, days or even weeks, according to the BBC.
• “Voter discontent does not bode well for Kamala Harris” – Early exit polls have revealed widespread negativity about the state of the nation, dealing a blow to Harris’s chances of winning the White House, notes David Charter in the Times.
• “Google accused of election interference” – Google has been accused of election interference for showing voters where they can vote for Kamala Harris – but not for Donald Trump, according to the Mail.
• “Musk sends ‘emergency squad’ to secure Pennsylvania votes” – Elon Musk’s America PAC has deployed an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to help Trump voters fix ballot errors in a costly, last-minute push to secure crucial votes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Insiders reveal ‘lonely’ Biden’s humiliating last days in office” – Behind closed doors, the message from the Harris campaign to Joe Biden has been clear: stay away, writes Emily Goodin in the Mail.
• “How Robert F. Kennedy made fluoride an unexpected election issue” – Donald Trump has backed RFK Jr.’s idea to remove fluoride from drinking water, says Joe Barnes in the Telegraph.
• “The Trump-Harris election has broken America” – After months of the Donald Trump–Joe Biden–Kamala Harris drama, the United States is in a state of nervous exhaustion, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
• “‘Why I hope Trump will win’” – Today, Americans will elect a new president, and I hope that new president will be Donald J. Trump, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
• “For Britain, it has to be Trump” – The Pimlico Journal makes the case that, contrary to the opinion of most Britons, a Donald Trump victory would be better for Britain than a Kamala Harris victory. 
• “What happens if Trump loses the election?” – With memories of the 2021 Capitol riots still fresh in people’s minds, many are hoping there will not be a repeat, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
• “What will happen if Trump loses? The threat of civil war examined” – Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the U.S. election, specialists disagree on only one thing: how catastrophic the escalation in violence will be, says Tom Newton Dunn in the Times.
• “‘F— around and find out’: DA warns election protesters as U.S. braces for violence” – Voters thinking about interfering with the U.S. election were warned not to “f— around” by the DA of Pennsylvania as polls opened in one of the most tense votes in modern history, according to the Telegraph.
• “Fury at BBC Chris Kaba documentary showing an ‘utter lack of balance’” – Police officers have slammed the BBC for its “utter lack of balance” in a new Panorama documentary about the fatal shooting of violent gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
• “Watchdog investigator defends decision that led to Chris Kaba trial” – The man who led the investigation into the shooting of Chris Kaba has defended the decision that led to a firearms officer being unsuccessfully tried for murder, says the BBC.
• “Has the police watchdog learnt nothing from the Chris Kaba debacle?” – A BBC Panorama documentary suggests that the Independent Office for Police Conduct has learned nothing from the Chris Kaba case, writes Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
• “Britain to take dozens of asylum seekers from Chagos Islands” – Britain is to take dozens of asylum seekers from the Chagos Islands instead of sending them to St. Helena or Rwanda, reports the Telegraph. Shock!
• “The Government must stop hiding the true costs of immigration” – Despite immigration ranking as a top public concern, the Government falls short on delivering clear, thorough data to fuel informed debate, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
• “Foreign criminals could be deported immediately after conviction to free up jail space” – Ministers are considering deporting foreign offenders convicted in the U.K. immediately, bypassing British prisons to ease overcrowding, according to the Telegraph.
• “Don’t mess with farmers, Rachel Reeves. You’ll find yourself in the mud” – Politicians who take on farmers almost always end up in a mess, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Farmers threaten ‘sewage strike’ over inheritance tax raid” – Farmers have threatened to co-ordinate a “sewage sludge strike” after the Chancellor outlined plans to impose inheritance tax on their properties, reports GB News.
• “Farming tax raid puts food security at risk, warn suppliers” – Suppliers warn that Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on farmers will put food security at risk and leave Britain more reliant on foreign imports, says the Telegraph.
• “Three quarters of British food will be hit by Reeves’s tax raid, warn farmers” – Farmers warn that Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax changes will hit three-quarters of British food production, risking investment cuts, land sales and food security, reports the Independent.
• “Inheritance tax reform may free up land for renewable energy projects” – A renewable energy expert has noted that inheritance tax changes announced in the Labour Budget will make more agricultural land available for renewable energy projects across the U.K., according to Pinsent Masons.
• “Foreign Office pleads for discounts from private schools after VAT raid” – The Foreign Office has pleaded with private schools to roll out discounts for diplomats after the Government’s VAT raid on fees, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bridget Phillipson in hypocrisy row after promising graduates will ‘pay less’” – Bridget Phillipson is facing another hypocrisy row after promising that graduates will “pay less under Labour” before raising tuition fees, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bridget Phillipson’s latest humiliation is good news for Britain” – Hiking tuition fees might be politically calamitous for Labour – but it’s the only way to fix our decaying university sector, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “One more shock would vaporise Rachel Reeves’ grand plans” – The Chancellor is wasting her one shot at arresting the U.K.’s seemingly inevitable decline, writes Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “From policing to tax, Keir is two-tier on everything” – We are moving towards a sharply-divided economic setup between the “chosen” public sector workers and their private sector counterparts, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
• “Lying Labour” – The only black hole in this country is the one Labour has dug for itself, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Britain is on course for an almighty fiscal reckoning” – Labour’s plans to ramp up borrowing and spending are leaving the country just one crisis away from catastrophe, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “The ‘very dangerous’ $1 trillion bet ringing alarm bells in Britain” – Trump and Harris’s debt indifference risks a U.S. fiscal collapse that could trigger global chaos, with the U.K. already bracing for the fallout, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘giving jobs to friends’ in cabinet reshuffle” – Kemi Badenoch’s most strident backers will join her on the front bench on Wednesday after the new Tory leader rewarded loyalty when appointing her Shadow Cabinet, reports the Times.
• “Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win: Farage” – It seems Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage won’t be setting their differences aside any time soon, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “The Left’s attack on Badenoch shows loathing for black Tories” – Left-wingers have been unable to countenance a member of an ethnic minority rising to a position of influence while failing to share their sense of grievance and victimhood, writes Dr. Rakib Ehsan in the Mail.
• “Hunt’s Treasury broke the law by hiding ‘black hole’, OBR chief suggests” – The head of the U.K.’s fiscal watchdog claims Treasury officials may have illegally concealed the Budget “black hole” passed to the Labour Government, according to the Telegraph.
• “New Tory joint chairman backed sale of Telegraph to UAE” – A former minister who endorsed the sale of the Telegraph to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund has been given a key Shadow Cabinet role by Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Why Miliband’s Net Zero revolution could drive the countryside to Reform” – Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise Britain’s electricity supply will change the topography of Britain’s countryside and the views from our shores – and may yet redraw the political map too, say Jonathan Leake and Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Millions more households to be asked to switch off to hit Ed Miliband’s Net Zero targets” – Millions more households could be asked to regularly switch off light and appliances under Ed Miliband’s plan for a clean power grid by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
• “If Net Zero means letting Britain go dark, Labour are finished” – Ed Miliband can’t seriously expect British voters to ration their electricity usage, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “A zealot’s delusion can’t prevent blackouts” – The Neso report is not a vindication of Mr. Miliband’s approach but a warning of how dangerous it has become, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “‘Dunkelflaute’ sends wind power generation plummeting in U.K. and Germany” – A “Dunkelflaute” weather lull has crippled wind power generation across the U.K., Germany and northern Europe, reports the Telegraph.
• “Flooding facts drowned by climate hysteria: the BBC ignores Spain’s weather history” – The BBC’s reporting ignores Spain’s long history of catastrophic floods due to many of its cities being situated in narrow mountain valleys, say Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett in WUWT?
• “Netanyahu offers Hamas $1 million for each hostage and amnesty for October 7th kidnappers” – Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a new deal to Hamas that would see Israel pay $1 million for each of the remaining October 7th hostages and allow their captors to leave, reports the Telegraph.
• “Benjamin Netanyahu sacks Defence Minister Yoav Gallant” – Israel’s Prime Minister has sacked his Defence Minister over a breakdown in trust during the Gaza war against Hamas, says the Mail.
• “Asda axes jobs and orders staff back to the office three days a week” – Asda is ordering staff back to the office at least three days a week, while also cutting jobs in an attempt to halt the supermarket’s decline, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s hospital smoking ban is doomed to fail” – The idea that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill could prevent smoking near hospitals and schools is a dishonest illusion, says Dr. Druin Burch in the Spectator.
• “The NHS needs less money, not more” – Rachel Reeves is about to throw another £20 billion at the NHS, but there’s a real risk it will go to waste in the name of inclusion, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Turbo cancers are rapidly forming, spreading and mutating” – On YouTube, Dr. John Campbell highlights a troubling surge in “turbo cancers” coinciding with the Covid vaccine rollout.
• “Over £14 billion wiped off AstraZeneca amid China fears” – AstraZeneca has suffered a £14 billion share price hit after Chinese media reported more details about an investigation into the British drug giant, reports the Guardian.
• “Conference on exposure of children to wireless radiation in schools” – On Substack, Gillian Jamieson highlights a November 9th conference on a neglected topic in the smartphones-and-kids debate: health risks from wireless radiation.
• “A more practical argument for free speech” – We should value free expression not so much for the truths it may reveal as for the vices it keeps in check, says Gregory Conti in City Journal.
• “Council worker fired for ‘offensive’ pronouns ordered to pay £12,000” – A council worker who protested against the use of woke pronouns has been hit with a £12,000 legal bill, reports the Mail.
• “Imane Khelif is a biological man, new ‘leaked’ report claims” – New calls for Olympics gender row boxer Imane Khelif to be stripped of his gold medal have emerged after a “leaked” report reveals he is a biological man, says the Mail.
• “What is ‘gender identity’?” – Why are so many government policies based on a concept of “gender identity” that no one can define? wonders Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Kamala pretends to talk to a voter on the phone but mistakenly shows that her phone is open to the camera app” – Libs of TikTok posts a video of the Democratic candidate engaging in yet another deception.

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