News Round-Up
- “Musk deepens grooming gangs attack on Starmer saying PM ‘complicit’” – The multi-billionaire X owner launched a tirade against the PM and the U.K. Government on Friday about their failure to do more about the grooming gangs scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk’s many jabs at Sir Keir Starmer and Labour” – Following Labour’s election, and Musk’s appointment to a key White House role, the world’s richest man has become one of the U.K. Government’s harshest critics, says the Times.
- “Elon Musk says the King should order a new general election” – The billionaire X owner and Donald Trump adviser shared a post demanding the monarch step in to dissolve Parliament and trigger a General Election, as he clashed with the government over grooming gangs, according to the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting accuses Elon Musk of being ‘misjudged and misinformed’ over grooming scandal” – The Health Secretary has come to Sir Keir Starmer’s defence after Musk accused him of not doing enough to prosecute grooming gangs as the Director of Public Prosecutions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Musk’s love-in with Tommy Robinson presents a problem for Nigel Farage” – The Reform U.K. leader may have to warn his new billionaire friend that the jailed far-Right activist is bad news, says the Telegraph.
- “Reform doesn’t need Tommy Robinson, says Nigel Farage” – Reform U.K.’s leader has distanced himself from backer Elon Musk’s support for the jailed former head of EDL, according to the Telegraph.
- “Victims of grooming gangs demand public inquiry” – The row began on Thursday after Jess Phillips rejected a request by Oldham Council for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation, reports the Mail.
- “How men pursued me when I was nine: Life in a town with grooming gangs” – In the Mail, a Telford resident describes how she narrowly escaped becoming the victim of a grooming gang.
- “Starmer ‘guilty as anyone I know’, says grooming gang whistleblower” – Ex-detective Maggie Oliver thinks the PM must bear some responsibility for widespread failure to bring members of grooming gangs to justice, says the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer has lost control of our borders” – Ever since he has led the Labour Party, the Prime Minister has done everything in his power to encourage migrants to our shores, writes the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp in the Telegraph.
- “How migrants are smuggled from the Afghan desert to Britain – and crossing the Channel is the easiest part” – A people smuggling network has been infiltrated by the Telegraph and its secrets are revealed.
- “Why Labour can’t afford to lose more Muslim votes” – The re-emergence of the grooming scandal raises further issues between Labour and its key voter bases, according to the Telegraph.
- “Inside the ‘priority’ NHS services for migrants” – Asylum seekers are receiving “preferential medical treatment” despite increasing wait times for Britons, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers considering Islamophobia definition” – With characteristically bad timing, a Labour Cabinet minister has said it may be time for the Government to embrace the APPG on British Muslim’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’, according to the Spectator’s Steerpike.
- “Politicians are too cowardly to defend free speech in the face of Islamism” – In the Telegraph, Tom Harris says politicians of every hue are too cowardly to defend free speech from Islamic fundamentalists.
- “Trump: UK raising windfall tax on North Sea oil ‘a big mistake’” – The President-elect, who has pledged to increase U.S. oil and gas production, criticises the U.K. Government’s levy on North Sea oil after an American firm announced plans to withdraw from the area, reports the Times.
- “Starmer faces free speech row with Trump” – Prime Minister has also come under attack in the U.S. over plans to ban social media content that is harmful even if it is not illegal, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: What Trump really said to Keir Starmer” – The American President-elect kept going off on tangents in his first official phone call with the PM, at one point suggesting wind turbines kill so many birds that the coyotes who eat them are getting dangerously fat, according to the Times.
- “I was wrong to call Donald Trump a would-be tyrant” – The historian Niall Ferguson was once a critic of the President-elect, but now says he is glad that Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris — and has already visited him at Mar-a-Lago, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s plan for the Lords is a socialist attack on Britain’s glorious past” – I would rather have hereditary peers than an upper house full of Keir Starmer cronies, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “The PM’s Chagos deal is craven and defeatist” – There are many reasons for despising Keir Starmer ‘s botched attempt to sell out our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands – and Boris Johnson lists some of them in his Mail column.
- “Bridget Phillipson wants no alternatives to expose her education mistakes” – England’s schools’ educational performance stands as a personal affront to Labour, which is trying to undo the improvements in schools thanks to 25 years of education reforms, writes Iain Mansfield in the Spectator.
- “Britain braces for -10C Arctic blast after ‘severe’ warning” – The Met Office has warned that up to 1ft 4in (40cm) of snow could blanket parts of the U.K. this weekend, with fears of rural communities being cut off amid widespread travel chaos, according to the Mail.
- “Turn your heating on this weekend, Streeting says despite winter fuel cuts” – The Health Secretary is under fire after telling pensioner to heat their homes during this cold snap in spite of the Government’s decision to strip 10 million pensioners of their annual fuel payment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pressure grows on minister over flat linked to deposed Bangladesh PM” – Tulip Siddiq, who was given a flat in King’s Cross flat in 2004 by by a developer with links to Bangladesh’s ousted former prime minister, has been accused separately of helping her family embezzle up to £3.9 billion from an energy project, says the Times.
- “Reeves expenses £10,800 council tax bill for second home” – The Chancellor is among several MPs who’ve been criticised for “morally questionable” expenses claims amounting to £500,000, according to the Telegraph.
- “The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans” – Is Labour right to think that lowering the voting age to 16 would increase its support? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “It’s not the Conservatives who have most to fear from Reform – it’s Labour. Here’s why” – Look at Britain’s electoral arithmetic and see where Nigel Farage’s party is now faring best – it’s Keir Starmer who should be scared, says Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch is right to bide her time” – Kemi Badenoch has only been Conservative leader for two months. Yet there have been persistent rumblings that she must set out clear policies. Not so fast, says Eliot Wilson in the Spectator.
- “Nick Clegg banked £24 million from Facebook owner before exit” – Britain’s former Deputy PM has benefited from Meta’s soaring share price in recent years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Apple to pay £76 million over claims Siri eavesdropped on iPhone users” – Millions could receive payouts after Apple settles claims that conversations triggered adverts for certain products, says the Telegraph.
- “Jon Sopel book title at centre of non-crime race-hate row” – Wiltshire Police recorded an NCHI against a man who gave a copy of Jon Sopel’s book, If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Note From Trump’s America, to an American neighbour in his village, according to the Telegraph.
- “Car theft ‘decriminalised’ in London – how do police do in your area?” – Less than one in 100 investigations into London car thefts result in a charge against the perpetrator – the lowest figure of regional police forces in the entire country, reports the Mail.
- “How Alastair Campbell’s son oversaw a £5 million betting syndicate disaster” – The Times has more details about Rory Campbell’s multimillion-pound football betting firm and how it collapsed, leaving debts of £5 million and a truckload of very angry investors.
- “Why cancel culture is on the brink of being cancelled” – As the New Year begins, culture warriors on the Right are in a buoyant mood, writes Leo Mckinstry in the Mail. After years of being stuck on the defensive, they now sense that wokery is in retreat.
- “Rapper sues Arts Council for racism after putting takeaways and driving licence on company card” – Corynne Elliot, better known as Speech Debelle, has been ordered to pay £9,870 towards the Arts Council England’s costs after her Employment Tribunal claim was dismissed as “vexatious”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Refusing Justin Welby’s Christmas donation may prove costly for Children’s Society” – The decision by a children’s charity not to accept Welby’s Christmas donation has divided opinion, writes Julian Mann in Christian Today.
- “Why isn’t the Children’s Commissioner interested in abuse of independent school kids?” – On her substack, Isabel Paterson says the Children’s Commissioner should stop ignoring the mistreatment of children at private schools.
- “New poll shows Musk effect: AfD at new high, Free Democrats in collapse, Christian Democrats and Greens too weak for a coalition” – Musk’s recent op ed backing AfD has given the party a boost in the polls, says Egyppius on his Substack.
- “Mystery disease outbreak in China overwhelms hospitals” – Social media posts alleged to be from China show crowds of patients overwhelming hospital wards, and parents holding sick children, reports the Mail.
- “‘Experts’ running the Covid playbook again as mask mandates return” – On his Substack, Ian Miller cautions against following the advice of so-called experts in response to the flu epidemic.
- “Federal Judge rules for Pfizer in lawsuit over company’s COVID-19 vaccine” – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer, alleging the company misrepresented the vaccine’s efficacy. But lost in federal court, according to the Epoch Times.
- “If the media had done their jon, there’d be no need for Tommy Robinson so speak out” – In an interview on Spectator TV Douglas Murray holds forth on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain.
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Mystery disease outbreak in China overwhelms hospitals ‘….official reports from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that regular flu is leading the latest outbreak, with 30 percent of tests coming back positive for influenza’ It is crystal clear why annual Influenza Like Illnesses are so lethal in China: ‘China had successfully reduced coal’s share in its energy mix from 67.4 percent in 2013 to 57.7 percent in 2019. However, following widespread electricity shortages in 2021, China authorized 218 GW of new coal power within just two years—enough to power all of Brazil. By 2023, China’s coal production reached a record 4.66 billion metric tons, up 2.9 percent from the previous year. In the meantime, China’s coal imports also surged to a record 474.42 million tons, marking a 61.8 percent increase year-over-year. Consequently, coal’s share of China’s energy mix returned to the 2017 level of 60 percent. In the last quarter of 2023, China’s thermal coal power generation climbed 7.3 percent year-over-year to 1,584 TWh, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the nation’s electricity generation.’ https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-battle-against-air-pollution-update ‘During the last decade, epidemiological studies on particulate air pollution and human health have been growing in China, comprising large, multi-city studies, prospective cohort studies, experimental and quasi-experimental studies, and… Read more »
“Turn your heating on this weekend, Streeting says despite winter fuel cuts”
And if you can’t afford bread, simply eat cake.
Wes Streeting = £160000 per year!
No doubt he can manage to turn his heating on for a few minutes
He has a husband to keep him warm. Apparently.
“Why Labour can’t afford to lose more Muslim votes”
Labour – the party of the raping man.
Mythical Douglas Murray!
“Car theft ‘decriminalised’ in London –
howwhat do police do in your area?”No need to feel sorry for Clegg. I forecast he will not pay UK tax on his £24 million reported windfall on leaving Meta.
His estate won’t pay IHT either. It will go into an offshore trust for his family.
I dare say that creep will come slithering back to the UK to be welcomed with open arms and a knighthood from Kneel for services to “free speech.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-uk-grooming-gang-scandal-is-a-galileo-moment/ This makes harrowing reading with details of the Pakistani Rape Gangs. A lid is being kept on this industry, and it is an industry because too many within the establishment are implicated and once they admit the failings then the whole multiculturalism facade collapses. Horror Warning. “Thus, Tommy Robinson is a household name in Britain (and indeed Ireland) for his alleged ‘islamophobia’ while most of us have never heard the name of the man who branded his initials onto a 13-year-old girl, using red hot metal, on the sensitive skin next to her anal passage. His name is Mohammed Karrar. Here is some more of what he did to that child, in the words of the judge who sentenced him: ‘You, Mohammed Karrar, prepared her for gang anal rape by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to a gang rape by five or six men (count 30). At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet. Not only were you both involved in the commercial sexual exploitation of GH, you also used her for your own self-gratification. You both raped her when… Read more »
I disagree. This is a British problem, or are all the involved police, lawyers, judges, and politicians of Pakistani origin?
Yes, clearly Pakistan has a problem with its citizens but so does UK, quite definitely.
You said, “…or are all the involved police, lawyers, judges and politicians of Pakistani origin?”
Many of them ARE, thanks to The Great Replacement.
And that is the source of the problem.
I see the BBC are still pretending to misunderstand the issue and they present it as having first been raised in the past year or two. They say they were “Asian” gangs.
In fact they were overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men. I have never read of a Hindu or Sikh raping young women and girls in this scandal. I have never read of Malaysian muslims or Ceylonese Bhuddists.
The issue goes back (I have not checked) about two decades. It was under way when 2-TK was DPP.
So I wrote to my councillor to ask clarification about postponement of council elections: A received a prompt reply: “The government published its devolution white paper last month which outlined the governments intention to see devolution (and reorganisation) in all regions by 2030. This is very much a case now of ‘devolution by default rather than deal’, with all areas needing to submit proposals to government depending on their current makeup (in Surrey we have a two tiered system of local government, Districts and Boroughs and then the County Council). In response to this, and to ensure we make the most of the additional powers and opportunities that exist and are on offer, as an administration we are looking submit an expression of interest to the Minister to be considered as part of the first tranche of devolution. This is essentially what the emergency council meeting is about next week. Once a letter is submitted, the government will then notify us by the middle of January whether it will consider us to be included in this first tranche. At which point, it will then be the decision of the Minister/government to delay county elections and not councillors. As such, the… Read more »
“Why Musk’s love-in with Tommy Robinson presents a problem for Nigel Farage”
“Reform doesn’t need Tommy Robinson, says Nigel Farage”
That’s because Nigel allowed a Pakistani Muslim to buy his way into the Chairmanship of the Reform Party,
and allowed that Pakistani Muslim to immediately re-write the rules,
in order to allow that Pakistani Muslim to TAKE OVER AS REFORM PARTY LEADER,
simply by “urging” masses of Pakistani Muslims to sign up as members of the Reform Party,
in order to eventually VOTE NIGEL OUT, and VOTE THE PAKISTANI MUSLIM IN.
It’s called “Bait & Switch”.
Hence the rush of new members joining the Reform Party. No one is noticing or asking who they are…
And of course that Pakistani Muslim Chairman is not going to allow Tommy Robinson to ever join the Reform Party.
And that is why I will not be joining the Reform Party.