News Round-Up

• “Private Eye’s shameful attack on Allison Pearson” – In the Spectator, our very own Laurie Wastell takes aim at Private Eye’s snarky attack on journalist Allison Pearson over her police doorstep encounter.
• “Keir Starmer refuses to say taxes won’t rise again during PMQs clashes” – Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say that taxes will not rise again despite Rachel Reeves making the pledge to business, reports the Mail.
• “Dozens of business leaders slam Chancellor” – Guido Fawkes presents a selection of blistering reactions from business leaders to Rachel Reeves’s Budget so far.
• “How Labour has been hammered in council elections since July 4th” – Sir Keir Starmer’s candidates have won just 53 of the 150 seats up for grabs on local authorities since July 4th – having previously held 75, says the Mail.
• “Over 100 tractors head for Dover in fresh inheritance tax protest” – Over 100 tractors have rumbled through Dover as farmers launched a fresh protest against Sir Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax grab, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer can’t ignore the sickness benefits crisis” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark slams Sir Keir Starmer’s hollow promises on welfare reform.
• “The phone call that tells you all you need to know about the benefits system” – Labour’s package of half-measures is totally insufficient to tackle the sickness scandal, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Britain is closer to bankruptcy than anyone feared” – Local councils across the country are close to insolvency, but the real problems lay in Westminster, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Who is working class now?” – On Substack, Paul Sutton cuts through Labour’s class hypocrisy, exposing the spiteful divide between public-sector progressives and the true working class.
• “Labour MP calls for blasphemy law” – The Honourable Member for Birmingham Hall Green is at it again, this time calling for the introduction of blasphemy laws, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “Why is a Labour MP calling for a blasphemy law?” – In the Spectator, James Price warns that Tariq Ali’s call for blasphemy laws threatens free speech and fuels dangerous sectarianism.
• “‘The election petition has let us vent our loathing of the worst government in my lifetime’” – In a time when Starmer’s Britain feels bleak, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson finds solace in the joy of petitioning for change.
• “Non-crime hate incident recorded after neighbour played Bob Marley songs” – A neighbour who played Bob Marley songs at volume to supposedly “mock” their black neighbour has had the incident recorded by police as non-crime hate incident, reports LBC.
• “Badenoch admits Tory migration failures” – In the Spectator, James Heale discusses Kemi Badenoch’s latest pledge to fix migration.
• “Patience, grasshopper” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan examines how the state controls the future while keeping individuals unprepared for it.
• “More than 40,000 terminally ill pensioners lose winter fuel payment” – Campaigners warn that tens of thousands of terminally ill pensioners have lost their winter fuel payments ahead of what is likely to be their last Christmas, according to GB News.
• “U.K. car industry ‘in crisis due to lack of demand for electric cars’” – Ford U.K.’s boss has warned of a car industry crisis and urged tax breaks to boost electric car demand, reports the Mail.
• “German car supplier axes hundreds of U.K. jobs amid switch to EVs” – A German supplier of clutches is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs in Sheffield as the industry shifts towards electric cars, reports the Sheffield Star.
• “Labour poised to water down electric car rules amid crisis in industry” – Labour is set to soften EV rules as the industry faces a crisis over the rapid shift from petrol and diesel cars, says the Telegraph.
• “Scenic towns in uproar over Miliband’s 100-mile pylon scheme” – Local communities are in uproar over a multi-billion pound project to build 100 miles of pylon lines which will tear through the countryside, reports the Telegraph.
• “Net Zero is making Britain poorer, says Trump’s energy secretary” – Trump’s pick for U.S. energy secretary has attacked Britain’s Net Zero drive for making the country poorer, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer attempting to rush through Chagos handover before Trump enters White House” – Keir Starmer is trying to rush through a treaty giving away the Chagos Islands before Trump becomes President, reveals the Telegraph.
• “‘I would seek Netanyahu arrest if he came to U.K.’” – David Lammy has vowed to seek an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
• “France backtracks on ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu” – France says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has immunity from the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court, according to Euronews.
• “Putin orders Satan II nukes to be ready as soon as possible” – Russia is continuing work to put its “unstoppable” Satan II intercontinental ballistic missile on combat duty, reports the Mail.
• “‘Nearly a dozen’ in Trump’s top team targeted with bomb threats at their homes” – Members of Trump’s proposed Cabinet have been targeted with a series of hoax bomb threats, according to LBC.
• “Kamala’s bizarre farewell message” – In the Spectator, Steerpike delivers a scathing takedown of Kamala Harris’s farewell message.
• “Kim Leadbeater suggests fear of being a burden is ‘legitimate reason’ for dying” – In an interview on The News Agents, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater argued that “being concerned about being a burden is a legitimate reason” for seeking assisted suicide, according to the Catholic Herald.
• “Families cannot challenge assisted dying rulings under Bill” – Lawyers warn that under a proposed new law, a ruling permitting a patient to have an assisted death cannot be challenged by relatives, reports the Telegraph.
• “The advert that radicalised me” – In the Spectator, Ian Leslie exposes the glossy facade of assisted dying ads.
• “Should a government help people die?” – U.K. lawmakers have proposed an assisted suicide bill that claims to offer a compassionate death. But is it just a way to save money? wonders Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
• “SNP-controlled health service in Scotland is worse than NHS in England” – Scotland’s SNP-controlled NHS is performing worse than the health service in England despite ministers pouring more money per-person into care, reports the Mail.
• “Introducing the vaccine files…” – On her Inside The Right Substack, Isabel Oakeshott promises to reveal the hidden truth behind the U.K.’s pandemic response.
• “Pfizer pregnancy trial showed the Covid shots increased AESIs (like major congenital abnormalities) in newborns by over four times” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch reports that Pfizer’s pregnancy trial reveals the Covid shots resulted in a jaw-dropping 4.2x increase in major birth defects, with no reduction in Covid infections.
• “Public appeal to Northern European heads of state: stop using mRNA vaccines” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv reveals how the NORTH Group is demanding an immediate halt to mRNA vaccines, citing serious health risks and flawed approval processes.
• “Trump appoints lockdown sceptic to head National Institute of Health” – Donald Trump has appointed Jay Bhattacharya, a prominent lockdown sceptic, to lead the National Institute of Health, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police forces waste £15 million on diversity and inclusion jobs” – Almost £15 million of British taxpayers’ money has been spent on equality, diversity and inclusion roles in the U.K.’s police forces since the beginning of the 2021-22 financial year, reports Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Wicked slapped with trigger warning for ‘green-skinned’ discrimination” – The British Board of Film Classification has slapped a trigger warning on the movie adaption of Wicked for discrimination against a “green-skinned woman”, says the Mail. 
• “Female fire worker sues after male boss’s Mulberry handbag comment” – A female fire brigade worker has sued for harassment after her male boss made a remark about his wife having a Mulberry handbag just like hers, reports the Mail. 
• “Meet Trump’s pick for Director of the National Institutes of Health” – On X, friend of the Daily Sceptic and Trump’s nomination to be the next NIH director Jay Bhattacharya explains why lockdowns were such an enormous and catastrophic mistake.

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