News Round-Up

• “How Democrats Helped Trump” – Ross Douthat in the New York Times explains why the Democrats only have themselves to blame for Trump’s victory.
• “‘We Blew It, Joe!’” – In the Free Press, Peter Savodnik asks how the Ivy League technocrats with oodles of cash and all their allies in legacy media, Hollywood and Silicon Valley managed to bungle the presidential election so spectacularly.
• “In the U.S. election, fakery finally got trounced by authenticity” – In TCW – Defending Freedom, Sean Walsh says Trump’s victory over Harris is a triumph of authenticity over fakery.
• “Kamala Harris and the death of the celebrity endorsement” – Philip Patrick in the Spectator says Kamala Harris’s failure to win the presidency shows how worthless celebrity endorsements are.
• “Kamala’s woke ideology has left San Francisco a cesspit of crime” – Niall Ferguson in the Mail welcomes Trump’s victory and says you only have to look at the devastation wreaked by Democrats in San Francisco to see the damage a Kamala Harris presidency would have done.
• “Your favourite half-British president” – We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump, says Ed West on his Substack, pointing out that he’s the first U.S. president to have a British parent since Woodrow Wilson.
• “Trump makes bombshell vow to the U.K. for when he enters the White House” – Donald Trump has vowed to restore Churchill’s bust to pride of place in the White House as a “mark of respect”, reports the Mail.
• “A trade deal with America is within our grasp – but will Labour squander the opportunity?” – An oven ready trade agreement with America negotiated by the last Tory government could be dusted down, says Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph. But the Prime Minister is bound to squander the chance.
• “A surreal evening at Mar-a-Lago as Team Trump gets to work” – Louise Callaghan in the Sunday Times reports from Mar-A-Lago, where Team Trump is planning a ‘business-like’ transition.
• “Trump planning to withdraw from Paris climate agreement” – Leaving the Paris climate agreement is one of the ways in which the President-elect is going to undo the legacy of Joe Biden, predicts the Telegraph.
• “Farage: PM should proscribe IRGC to build bridges with Trump” – Nigel Farage urges Sir Keir Starmer to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as an olive branch to the President-elect, given the evidence that Iran dispatched an assassination squad to murder him.
• “Peter Mandelson in pole position to become U.S. ambassador” – Assuming Mandelson doesn’t win the Oxford Chancellorship election, he has another sinecure lined up, according to the Sunday Times – Starmer’s man in Washington.
• “Appeasing anti-Zionist bigots – that’s what cost Kamala the election” – The problem with Harris was that her sense of ‘centre’ was blown gruesomely off course by a rabid, obsessed bloc of anti-Israel progressives, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer accused of allowing anti-Semitism in Britain to ‘deteriorate’” – A Labour Party campaign group has accused the Prime Minister of “adding to a climate of intolerance and hate” against British Jews, reports the Telegraph.
• “Qatar orders Hamas to leave in major blow to terror group’s leaders” – The rulers of Qatar have told Hamas it’s no longer welcome following Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, says the Telegraph.
• “Harrowing video shows Hamas torturing innocent Palestinians” – Israel has released footage of Hamas torturing Palestinians after recovering video captured by CCTV cameras inside a Hamas military base in northern Gaza, according to the Mail.
• “Amsterdam attacks were no Kristallnacht — but Europe’s Jews should be afraid” – The extreme and organised violence meted out to Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam heralds a terrifying resurgence of antisemitism, says Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times.
• “Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses can finally be published in India” – A court in Delhi has ruled that The Satanic Verses can be imported into the country three decades after the ban, but publishers are still wary of a backlash, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Tesco’s £1 billion budget bill fuels price rise fears” – Tesco’s will be £1 billion a year worse off during this parliament as a result of the National insurance hike, according to the Sunday Times.
• “Care home tycoon threatens legal action over Reeves’s ‘devastating’ tax raid” – The National Insurance rise has prompted a care home entrepreneur to seek a judicial review of the policy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Private school closes because of Labour VAT and NI tax raids” – Budget changes that will mean the parents of children in private schools have to pay £2,000 more on average have led to the closure of a prep school in Banbury, says the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves accused of covering up impact of National Insurance raid on workers” – The Treasury has yet to publish a Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) about the £25 billion National Insurance raid, in spite of tax changes always being accompanied by TIINs, says the Telegraph.
• “Rebel farmers threaten port and supermarket disruption” – Angry farmers could resort to withholding produce in a protest against Labour’s changes to the inheritance tax rules that leave many farmers unable to pass on their farms to their children, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘The NFU doesn’t possess our power’” – Farmers across the country are taking matters into their own hands after the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) limited the numbers who can attend its rally on November 19th to just 1,800, in spite of the size of pro-Palestinian protests, says the Telegraph.
• “Clarkson furious as farmers’ inheritance tax protest ‘blocked’ after Labour declares ‘all out-war on the countryside’” – Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to abandon plans to ferry farmers to a London protest after the NFU restricted the number of attendees, according to LBC.
• “Ed Miliband’s heating bill fairy tale: a cautionary comedy of Leftist delusion” – The NESO report doesn’t just poke holes in Miliband’s vision – it torpedoes it, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “Electric car prices slashed by a third to meet Net Zero sales targets” – Unrealistic Net Zero sales quotes are forcing manufacturers to discount the price of new EVs heavily or risk government fines, reports the Sunday Times.
• “Is EU obsession with getting rid of dams to blame for Spanish floods?” – The Spanish floods had nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with the Spanish obsession with getting rid of dams, argues Sue Reid in the Mail.
• “Murderers and rapists from Eastern Europe allowed into Britain despite criminal records” – ‘Weaknesses’ in the U.K. visa system mean violent foreign offenders with previous convictions can slip through the cracks, says the Telegraph.
• “Ministers to review ‘cancel culture’ trend sweeping campuses” – The Oxford Coroner is writing to the Department for Education about the death of Alexander Rogers, 20, who took his own life when he found himself frozen out by his friends, reports the Mail.
• “I lived in fear of being cancelled as an Oxbridge student. We all did” – Two Oxford students writing in the Sunday Times say they live in fear of being publicly shamed on social media by their vicious, virtue-signalling peers.
• “Now pupils aged as young as four told to address their teacher as ‘Mx’” – Scores of teachers in Scotland have told children as young as four to use gender neutral pronouns when addressing them, according to the Mail.
• “Yes!” – Elon Musk has reposted a speech Trump gave in 2022 vowing to smash the censorship-industrial complex.

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