News Round-Up

• “Trump allies warn Britain would face U.S. reprisals for helping International Criminal Court arrest Netanyahu… as Home Secretary says U.K. ‘respects’ warrant against Israeli PM” – The U.K. has been warned it could face U.S. reprisals for helping enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for the Israeli PM, reports the Mail.
• “Trump could sanction British lawyer leading ICC push for Netanyahu arrest” – Donald Trump is considering sanctions against British lawyer Karim Khan over the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Telegraph reports.
• “The farcical ICC has reached an astonishing new low – all countries must reject it” – In the Telegraph, Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely says the ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant sets a worrying precedent and reveals double standards.
• “The ICC’s anti-Israel arrest warrants are a travesty – we must stand with Netanyahu” – In the Telegraph, Ian Austin says it’s time for the U.K. to consider pulling out of this charade of an international court.
• “Germany won’t arrest Netanyahu ‘because of its Nazi history’” – Germany has suggested that it will not arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to the country because of its Nazi history, according to the Telegraph.
• “Making it a crime for the Jews to defend themselves” – The ICC’s issuing of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders is a vile act of moral inversion, fumes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Government Admits It Didn’t Do an Impact Assessment of Family Farm Tax” – The Government has admitted it did not carry out an impact assessment on how the inheritance tax increase would hit U.K. farmers, says Guido.
• “Record inheritance tax haul proves Labour needlessly attacked farmers” – The Treasury is set to rake in £300 million more than forecast from inheritance tax this year, raising concerns Labour needlessly attacked farmers and pensioners, reports the Telegraph.
• “The BBC’s loathing of rural Britain is clear” – An embarrassing blunder involving the Corporation’s Verify service reveals its ignorance of farming woes, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Jeremy Clarkson: Starmer’s a nightmare for farmers. He doesn’t even eat meat” – The TV star tells the Times why he joined the Tractor Tax protests and why the government’s new inheritance rules are “nuts”.
• “Rachel Reeves and the five claims about her fiddling CV” – The Times dishes the dirt on the five occasions where the Chancellor has embellished her credentials as an “economist” at key moments in her career.
• “Panic stations for Labour as poll shows support slumping to post-election low of just 25% amid Budget farm tax backlash – as 70% of Brits say U.K. is worse under Starmer” – Sir Keir Starmer’s party is now three points behind the Tories – and just six ahead of Reform – on 25% after a week of battles over its plan to make farmers pay inheritance tax, reports the Mail.
• “Labour peer: ‘We’re becoming the cruel party’” – Labour Peer and President of the Countryside Alliance Baroness Mallalieu warns her party that it is becoming the “cruel party”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Private sector shrinks after Labour Budget” – The first economic figures published since the Chancellor’s damaging tax raid on employers showed that the private sector is shrinking and even raised recession fears, according to the Mail.
• “Elon Musk vs home-working slackers is a battle for the future of America” – The DOGE head has no chance of cutting spending massively if WFH remains the federal bureaucratic norm, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Civil servants threaten to strike over working three days in the office” – U.K. civil servants are threatening possible strike action after being told they will have to come into work at least three days a week, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk vows to summon MPs to the U.S. ‘to explain censorship and threats to American citizens’: Billionaire hits back at calls for him to testify in U.K. over X’s role in summer riots” – Elon Musk has hit back at a suggestion MPs could summon him to Britain to give evidence about X’s role in promoting disinformation by threatening to ask them to come to the U.S. to “explain their censorship”, reports the Mail.
• “Elon Musk sets his sights on struggling MSNBC” – Elon Musk has expressed interest in buying MSNBC after Comcast decided to sell the struggling liberal network, reports the Mail.
• “Trump’s Pony Hobbled” – Thomas Buckley with an update on Team Trump, where Gaetz is out and Bondi is in.
• “Top Media Outlet Killed My Piece Praising ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Coalition After Editorial Board Lambasted RFK Jr.” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Rav Arora tells how his pro-MAHA piece was spiked at a late stage by a major media outlet as the prejudices of the higher-ups were bared.
• “Covid very likely came from a Chinese lab leak and there was ‘obviously’ a cover-up by Beijing, British expert says” – Covid most likely came from a lab leak in China and its origins were “obviously” the subject of a cover-up by Beijing, Zoe app founder Professor Tim Spector has said, according to the Mail.
• “No Maskers, Thank You” – In the New Conservative, independent financial adviser Neil Liversidge explains why he has banned all face coverings in his company.
• “EVs show our Net Zero obsession has gone too far” – EV drivers have been told to “think twice” before switching on their hot air blowers during cold snaps. No wonder the rest of the world is sniggering at the U.K.’s energy policy of high prices and self-sacrifice, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
• “How electric car apathy brought down Europe’s battery giant” – If Northvolt, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, cannot be revived, Europe will be perilously exposed to China, says Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
• “BBC admits it lied about vanishing polar bears” – In TCW, Paul Homewood reports that the BBC has upheld his complaint about an August story wrongly claiming that polar bear numbers are in decline.
• “Sweden has reduced net migration to zero – here is how they did it” –In the Telegraph, Fraser Nelson says Sweden, an EU member, is successfully implementing a policy of strict border restrictions and remigration. Why can’t we do the same?
• “Unmasking Lucy Letby: What if there was no baby killer…?” – In the Mail, Peter Hitchens look at the new Letby book from Judith Moritz and Jonathan Coffey, saying the only only really awful thing about it is the title; the rest is surprisingly open-minded and even-handed.
• “Democrats refuse to change course on trans” – Fresh from their election thumping, the Democrats are digging in and doubling down on gender woo, says Eliza Mondegreen in UnHerd.
• “Why did Children in Need fund a charity linked to a paedophile scandal?” – In the Spectator, Debbie Hayton looks at the resignation of Rosie Millard, who has stepped down as Chair of Children in Need because of an “institutional failure” that led to almost £500,000 being paid out to LGBT Youth Scotland, a pro-trans charity whose former CEO was a paedophile.
• “Who is Jo Sidhu? The diversity champion accused of targeting aspiring lawyers” – Jo Sidhu is a formerly high-flying KC and diversity champion who was once in the running to be the country’s top prosecutor but now faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment, according to the Times.
• “How to tackle groupthink in the arts” – On Substack, Andrew Doyle discusses addressing groupthink in the arts with Freedom in the Arts founder Rosie Kay.
• “I take Jaguar’s woeful woke rebrand personally” – In the Times, Giles Coren says that from heritage British cars to classroom lessons, there’s always one demographic under attack — the middle classes.
• “Jaguar cars are now a clothes brand” – Jaguar is now a brand of clothes that no one wants to wear, says Tom Ed on Substack.
• “Late Queen’s chaplain among priests suspended by Church over abuse scandal” – Hugh Palmer and three other clergy have had their ‘permission to officiate’ withdrawn following the Makin Report that triggered Justin Welby’s resignation – but no other bishops or diocesan officers as yet, reports the Telegraph.
• “Jay Rayner accuses Guardian of employing anti-Semites” – Restaurant critic Jay Rayner has accused the Guardian of employing antisemites and its Editor of lacking the courage to take them on – turning up the heat on the identity crisis gripping the Left-wing news organisation, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain does not need assisted suicide, it needs properly funded hospice care” – In the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey says the death of a beloved relative has taught her there is a way to die with dignity, and it has nothing to with the Leadbeater bill.
• “Assisted dying law would breach human rights legislation, watchdog rules” – The proposed assisted dying law would breach human rights legislation because palliative care provision is so poor there could not be true free consent, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Dandridge Review, The Open University and The Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act 2021” – Jo Phoenix with a cautionary tale on Substack.
• “Bluesky is hell on Earth” – The ‘nice’ version of Twitter is a breeding ground for status-craving sociopaths and thin-skinned snitches, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked. So, not a fan.
• “Met Police claimed imam’s sermon saying ‘destroy Jewish homes’ is not a crime” – The Metropolitan Police deemed that an imam’s sermon that called for the destruction of Jewish homes is not a hate crime, but has now said it will urgently review its decision following outrage on X, reports the Telegraph.
• “David Keighley was right. Everything he warned about hate crime has come to pass” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell says David Keighley’s 2017 article warning about the monster ‘hate crime’ would become has been thoroughly vindicated.
• “The police handle crimes against Jews strangely leniently” – Inconsistent policing – as seen this week – based on spurious ideas means there is a danger that some minorities will enjoy the full protection of the law, with others thought fair game, says Toby in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “NCHIs are wasting police time” – If any good is to come from the Orwellian experience inflicted on Allison Pearson, it must be the end of this pernicious practice, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Police log hate incident for refusal to shake hands in gender row” – Police recorded a non-crime hate incident against a “suspect” for refusing to shake a person’s hand in a row over gender identity, among 13,200 ‘hate incidents’ logged in the past year, reports the Times.
• “Still deeply upset that I was treated like a criminal for a year-old tweet by Essex Police. I’d like an explanation from the Chief Constable” – On X, Allison Pearson poses 14 questions to Essex police about her mistreatment over a ‘hateful’ tweet, including, “Why did Essex Police say it was ‘unethical’ for me to write about my traumatic experience?”, “Who confirmed which tweet it was to the Guardian?” and “Why was the transcript of my conversation with the police leaked to the Sunday Times to try and discredit me?”

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