News Round-Up

• “Met Police officer cleared of murdering Chris Kaba is set to be promoted to the rank of inspector” – Armed police officer Martyn Blake has been promoted just weeks after he was cleared of the murder of gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
• “How street market traders tackled ‘knifeman who stabbed man to death’” – Heroic street market traders wrestled a knifeman to the ground in South London after one man was fatally stabbed and two others were injured, says the Mail.
• “Labour’s total ignorance of the reality of a farmer’s life will undoubtedly lead to mass protest” – Farmers could soon take direct action against Labour’s punitive inheritance taxes. Is No.10 ready for when the manure hits the fan? wonders William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Labour are coming for the farms.” – On Substack, Tom Ed lets rip at Rachel Reeves’s state-sanctioned land grab.
• “Jeremy Clarkson to protest against tractor tax alongside rebel farmers” – Jeremy Clarkson is set to rally with rebel farmers next week to protest the Chancellor’s tractor tax, reports the Telegraph.
• “Clarkson accuses Labour of ‘ethnically cleansing’ the countryside” – Jeremy Clarkson has accused Labour of wanting to “ethnically cleanse” the countryside in order to build “new immigrant towns” and Net Zero windfarms, says the Mail.
• “‘We’re getting married to dodge inheritance tax – there’s no romance in it’” – Pensioners are considering a trip down the aisle following Rachel Reeves’s bombshell Budget, writes Maya Wilson-Autzen in the Telegraph.
• “Chancellor’s National Insurance raid claims first victim” – British manufacturing company Connectix Cabling Systems, a specialist cable manufacturer with revenues of £50 million in 2023, says it will close down its four factories and move abroad because of Rachel Reeves’s Budget, according to the GB News.
• “Hotel tycoon scraps £20 million investment after Reeves’s tax raid” – A hotel tycoon has scrapped plans to invest around £20 million in his hospitality empire as he hit out at Rachel Reeve’s inheritance tax raid for being “anti-business”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pubs and restaurants tell Reeves they face closures and ‘drastic’ job cuts after tax raid” – Top pub and restaurant bosses have warned the Chancellor that tax rises in last month’s Budget will “unquestionably” cause closures and job losses, according to the BBC.
• “The Times view on campus free speech” – Labour’s surreptitious retreat on legislation intended to safeguard free speech at universities has dismayed even its natural allies, says the Times in a leading article.
• “Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs as Remembrance Sunday tribute scrapped after nine seconds” – A minute’s silence before Kilmarnock’s clash with Celtic was abandoned after nine seconds yesterday when fans of the Scottish Premiership champions booed and sang pro-IRA songs, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
• “Israel warns of planned attacks at large events, including in U.K.” – Authorities say they have intelligence suggesting pro-Palestinian groups intend to target Israelis and Jews at sporting and cultural events, according to the Express.
• “‘Starmer has got to start taking this antisemitism seriously’” – In the Telegraph, actress Tracy-Ann Oberman opens up on how she became a spokesperson for Britain’s Jewish community and why Shakespeare’s Shylock is still relevant today.
• “Why our young people are scared to wear the poppy” – Far from being proud to wear it, many members of the younger generation seem confused about what our symbol of remembrance represents, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
• “The establishment blocked me from laying wreath at Cenotaph, claims Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage has blamed “the Establishment” for not allowing him to take a public facing-role with other party leaders at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, according to GB News.
• “Pressure grows on Justin Welby to resign for ignoring sex abuse” – Vicars have launched a petition urging the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign for ignoring sex abuse – and a top bishop has declined to defend him, reports the Mail.
• “The Church of England has lost its way – there is only one route back” – Justin Welby has said he “considered” resigning after the John Smyth Review. That’s not good enough, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “If the U.S. imposes tariffs it will be an act of self-harm, but it may just push Labour to embrace Brexit” – Trade barriers make us all poorer – and are worst for the country that imposes them. But cosying up to the EU would make things worse, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Donald Trump takes Arizona in swing state clean sweep” – President-elect Trump has won Arizona, claiming all seven battleground states in a thumping victory, reports the Washington Post. 
• “After the election, the rage against white women” – The Democrats are once again shocked to discover that women do not vote in accordance with their genitals, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Trump Derangement Syndrome” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson is finding the Left’s meltdown over Trump’s stomping victory just too delicious to ignore.
• “Ultra-wealthy Democrats race to buy London boltholes after Trump win” – Trump’s election triumph has sparked a flurry of interest from ultra-wealthy Democrats who want to buy prime U.K. property as a “safety net”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ruling by fear and cutting 80% of the workforce: Musk’s public sector revolution” – If Musk is truly planning to treat the Government as he has treated his businesses, employees are in for quite a ride, says Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “Stanley Johnson’s China links spooked the CIA” – Connections between Boris Johnson’s father and Beijing diplomats were so notorious that COP conference officials were ordered to keep them apart, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times.
• “Flat owners face £66,000 bill each for council’s new green heating” – Residents in a London estate claim they may have to pay up to £66,000 each towards a new heating system to help a Labour council reach its Net Zero targets, reports the Times.
• “Trump is about to expose the lie at the heart of Net Zero” – America’s inevitable turn away from its climate commitments will pave the way for Britain, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Time for think tanks to think again” – It’s time free market think tanks started to challenge the Net Zero orthodoxy, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “U.K. faces calls to pay into $1 trillion pot to help poor countries tackle climate change at COP” – The U.K. faces pressure to contribute to a $1 trillion climate fund for developing countries at COP29 in Baku, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s farmers brace for Miliband’s solar shock wave” – Tenant farmers warn they face being cleared out as landowners sell up to Net Zero developers, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s wind power falls to virtually zero as Miliband prepares to cut reliance on gas” – Britain’s wind generation is set to plummet to virtually zero this week as Ed Miliband presses ahead with plans to increase the nation’s reliance on renewable energy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Airline to double size of £414 ‘all you can fly’ scheme” – Wizz Air is set to double the size of its controversial “all you can fly” scheme in a rebuke to climate campaigners who say it encourages people to make unnecessary journeys, says the Telegraph.
• “Fluoride in the water” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson write about RFK Jr.’s fluoride scepticism, suggesting his questions are more justified than critics might think.
• “No place for war hawks in my father’s Cabinet, says Donald Trump Jr.” – Donald Trump Jr. says there’s no place in his father’s administration for “war hawks” amid growing signs the President-elect will follow through on plans to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine, according to EconoTimes.
• “Russia becoming more aggressive on British soil, defence chief warns” – Adml Sir Tony Radakin says the U.K. is not without threat in a “new era of competition and contest that will last for decades”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Assisted dying ‘could divert NHS funds from cancer patients’” – Health experts question whether end-of-life treatment will compete for funds with serious illness treatments, as a bill to legalise assisted dying is set to be published on Tuesday, reports the Times.
• “One NHS trust in ten has a male menopause policy” – About a tenth of hospital trusts have policies to assist staff members undergoing the male menopause, even though the NHS describes the term as “unhelpful and misleading”, says the Times.
• “Trump killed woke. For now” – Tuesday’s election was not a landslide, but it was at least a temporary triumph over wokism, writes Bo Winegard in Aporia.
• “School the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form college to visit after Labour took power ‘will trial a gender affirmation fund to give clothes and makeup to trans children’” – The Sheffield school the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form to visit is introducing a “gender affirmation fund” that will allow trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy “clothes and make-up”, reports the Mail.
• “How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations” – Tim Shipman’s new book reveals that Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by “woke ideology”, says the Mail. 
• “Confusion rules in Chomsky’s take on world power” – Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? misses the true power players, leaving readers with little more than a Marxist who can’t see the forest for the trees, writes Niall McCrae in TCW.
• “Climate change’s ‘substantial impact’ on mental health” – On X, our own Ben Pile tells TalkTV’s Peter Cardwell about the false link between climate change and mental health problems.

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