News Round-Up

• “The horror of turning children into thoughtcriminals” – A ‘non-crime hate incident’ can haunt a child for life, says Toby in Spiked.
• “Non-crime hate incidents are out of control” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn makes some practical suggestions as to how to improve the dire state of free speech.
• “Starmer must tell cops – police streets, not tweets” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson laments the decline of Britain from the ‘free country’ of his youth.
• “Any one of us could be next, say female journalists as they rally around Allison Pearson” – Female journalists are rallying around columnist Allison Pearson, saying they could be next to face police investigations for their social media posts or columns, reports the Telegraph.
• “I too had visit from police over tweet, says writer” – In the Telegraph, Julie Bindel reveals that officers visited her home over an alleged hate crime after a complaint “from a transgender man in the Netherlands”.
• “The story so far” – On X, Allison Pearson defends herself against allegations that the tweet being investigated by the police is “racist”.
• “Police refuse to pursue ‘hate crime’ after Swastika sent to Jewish group” – Unlike Allison’s case, Cambridgeshire police refused to prosecute a man who sent an image of the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika to a Jewish students’ organisation, on the basis it was not offensive enough, reports the Telegraph.
• “Group that wants to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ shares address with Labour Together” – The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which vowed to “kill Musk’s Twitter” and was founded by Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, shares an address with Labour Together, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
• “Farmers besiege Welsh Labour conference” – Angry farmers have besieged the Welsh Labour Party conference with tractors and farm trucks in protest at the Government’s inheritance tax changes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves accused of exaggerating time spent working for Bank of England” – The Chancellor told a magazine she “spent a decade” at the Bank of England but her online CV lists only six years there, says the Telegraph.
• “Without America, Britain’s economy will stall” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says he agrees with the comments of Stephen Moore, Donald Trump’s economic adviser, that Britain needs to choose between free trade America and socialistic Europe.
• “Record number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay allowed to stay under ECHR rules” – It appears some people may be gaming the system by pretending to be gay so their applications get accepted, says the Telegraph.
• “Is Starmer really proud of this rubber dinghy crackdown?” – That the arrest of a single suspect has brought forth statements from both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary shows how desperately slowly the ‘crackdown’ is proceeding, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “The Revolution of 2024” – Trump’s appointments represent the coming together of MAGA, MAHA and DOGE, the fulfillment of disparate groups of dissidents, says Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone Journal.
• “Health warrior RFK Jr. faces coalition of formidable enemies” – Niall McCrae and Roger Watson in TCW look at who is lining up to take shots at Trump’s Health Secretary pick.
• “A Letter to Elon Musk” – In Persuasion, Francis Fukuyama explains how to actually make Government more efficient – and it’s not slashing the workforce, he claims.
• “Bluesky offers speech policing for users fleeing Musk’s X” – Millions of social media users have migrated from X to alternative platform Bluesky this year, resulting in an online subculture defined in opposition to Elon Musk’s platform, says Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
• “War will end sooner with Trump in White House, says Zelensky” – The Ukrainian President says the conflict with Russia must be concluded next year “by diplomatic means”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk Declares ‘The Hammer of Justice is Coming’ for Fauci” – Musk has declared his pronouns are still “Prosecute/Fauci”, says Nicolas Hulscher on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
• “New Hampshire legislature special committee issues scathing report that eviscerates the federal and state Covid response” – Steve Kirsch has had advanced sight of a New Hampshire legislature Covid report that slams lockdowns, but finds those in Government are still clueless as to how bad it all was.
• “Confected emergencies and the new world order” – On Substack, Richard Lyon links airport security, men in dresses, Covid and bad weather in Spain.
• “Killer superbugs mainly emerging from hospitals, not animals and environment — study by Indian, U.K. scientists” – Superbugs responsible for life-threatening infections and highly resistant to last-resort antibiotics may be emerging in hospitals primarily due to the misuse and abuse of such drugs, rather than environmental pressure, according to a study from India reported in the Print.
• “Call that Net Zero, Sir Keir? Britain has an astonishing 470 delegates at climate change summit that’s a 5,000-mile round-trip flight” – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after the sheer scale of the U.K. delegation sent to the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan was revealed, reports the Mail.
• “It’s high time to end this ludicrous COP jamboree – but it just won’t die” – Eco-summits in petro-tyrannies sound like something out of a comic novel, but sadly, they are all too real, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “COP is dying” – In the near three-decade history of the annual round of UN climate conferences, the Baku COP29 stands out for being singularly marked by indifference and mass absenteeism, says Rupert Darwall in the Spectator.
• “Why Ed Miliband’s Net Zero dream is doomed to failure” – Starmer wants Britain to be a “climate leader”, but the obstacles facing the Government’s ambitious plans seem increasingly insurmountable, argues Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “Horrifying moment parents ‘try to choke their daughter, 17, to death in an honour killing’ outside her school’” – Ihsan Ali and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali were charged with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after their arrest on October 18th in Washington, USA, reports the Mail.
• “Photos that prove Tories had group sex in the Commons” – In the Mail, Nadine Dorries exposes the sordid antics of some gay Tory MPs and the impact its having on their young staffers.
• “Science journal editor resigns after calling Gen X fascists over Trump win” – The Editor of prominent science journal Scientific American, Laura Helmuth, has resigned after calling Gen X “fascists” following Donald Trump’s election, the Telegraph reports.
• “Geology is racist, claims university professor” – The study of the Earth’s rocks and natural resources is racist and linked to “white supremacy”, according to Geography Professor Kathryn Yusoff at Queen Mary University of London.
• “Assisted dying bill ‘could open door to involuntary euthanasia’” – Safeguards promised by supporters of the planned assisted suicide legislation will not hold, warns the former Chief Coroner Thomas Teague, according to the Telegraph.
• “Losing friends over politics? Sadly, it’s becoming an everyday event” – The culture wars have marched from the periphery – the preoccupation of journalists and tweeters – to the centre, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.

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