News Round-Up

• “Trump to end all U.S. diversity programmes today in first round of executive orders” – The new administration will also target planned tariffs on imports, illegal migration and Joe Biden’s TikTok ban, says the Telegraph.
• “Trump pulls U.S. out of world’s biggest climate deal” – He is also pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate deal, according to the Mail, in a move welcomed by energy industry leaders in the U.S.
• “Donald Trump has a new mission: to be America’s messiah” –  “To America, he said: follow me to a new golden age which starts right this minute,” writes the Telegraph’s Janet Daley.  “Message to the rest of the world: buckle up.”
• “Smug liberals still don’t get it: Trump is on the side of the people” – America is a “decaying superpower that has no choice but to radically alter the status quo”, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.  “Trump gets this in a way that his denouncers do not.”
• “Exclusive: Trump’s day one Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’” – The Free Press publicises one of President Trump’s day-one executive orders, titled, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
• “Donald Trump’s second coming” – Writing in UnHerd, Christopher Caldwell wonders if the Trump coalition may soon “face a choice between tempering the populism that is its raison d’être or incurring the wrath of the tech bosses”.
• “Trump has upended the Davos dominion” – A reminder from the Spectator’s Kate Andrews that the Davos conference opened yesterday. But everyone important was at Trump’s inauguration.
• “Boris Johnson joins Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration” – The Mail lists the British politicians who have been in Washington for the inauguration.
• “David Lammy changes tune on ‘funny, friendly and warm’ Trump” – The Foreign Secretary once described Trump as a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath”, the Telegraph says. But he now speaks of the new President’s “incredible grace” and “generosity”.
• “Trump won’t respect David Lammy’s fawning” – Ross Clarke explains in the Spectator’s Coffee House why Lammy’s praise won’t cut much ice in the White House.
• “Despite everything, Trump” – “The moment feels almost fated,” says Eugypius of Trump’s inauguration, “and much bigger than the man himself.”
• “J. D. Vance is the future of MAGA” – “Vance has the calibre and vision to address the concerns of the New Right,” says James Orr in the Spectator, and to “sustain the MAGA movement after Trump leaves the stage”.
• “Trump has told me his new plan for America” – In the Mail, Kellyanne Conway celebrates Trump’s return to the White House.
• “The strangeness and sanity of Donald Trump” – “In a mad world forged by ‘sane’ people like Blair, Merkel and Obama, I’ll take the loony option, please and thank you,” declares Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Trump becomes one of world’s richest men after $43 billion crypto coin launch” – Trump’s new meme coin is one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies, according to the Telegraph.
• “Musk’s new Government department in turmoil as partner mulls quitting” – Vivek Ramaswamy may be planning to run for Governor of Ohio in a move which could upend Doge, reports the Telegraph.
• “Biden pre-emptively pardons family members minutes before Trump inauguration” – In his final hours in office, Joe Biden issued pardons to family members and a swathe of Trump critics to protect them from potential revenge, the Telegraph says.
• “Her name is Emily Damari” – “We should take inspiration from that British badass, Emily Damari,” writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. “If she can survive 15 months at the hands of Islamist fanatics, surely we can look the fanaticism in our own midst right in the eye.”
• “Vaccine-injured groups give evidence to Covid Inquiry Module 4” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance reports on the evidence provided by two people who were injured by mRNA vaccines at the Covid inquiry.
• “Chris Whitty was ‘sceptical’ about mandatory Covid jabs for healthcare workers” – The Chief Medical Officer told the Covid Inquiry that the decision to mandate jabs for care works was “100% political”, according to the Telegraph.
• “My husband has been left disabled by the Covid vaccine” – The Mail tells the story of Kate Scott and her husband Jamie who suffered a catastrophic bleed on the brain after he was given the AstraZeneca vaccine.
• “Epidemiological evidence of Covid mRNA vaccine deaths in the U.K. Yellow Card database” – Eyal Shahar analyses the Yellow Card database and finds that the “short-term fatality rate of Covid mRNA vaccines has been real and unacceptable but fortunately not as high as is sometimes assumed”.
• “Covid censorship and the shame of supine doctors” – John Tumilty takes aim for the Conservative Woman at the doctors who fail to recognise mRNA vaccine harms.  
• “Northern Territory Government sued for ‘wrongful death’ inside Covid quarantine facility” – The family of an Aboriginal woman who died at a Covid quarantine facility in Darwin is suing the Northern Territory Government for her ‘wrongful death’ and false imprisonment, reports ABC news.
• “Climate Bill threatens us all with starvation (not that the MSM wants to know)” – This Private Member’s Bill “poses the biggest threat to the future prosperity of the U.K. of any Bill ever to have been introduced”, writes Paul Homewood in the Conservative Woman. “It already has the public support of 192 MPs.”
• “Keir Starmer admits state ‘failed’ Southport child murder victims” – The Prime Minister has admitted that the state “failed in its ultimate duty” to protect the Southport victims, the Mail reports, as it was revealed that the culprit, Axel Rudakubana, was known to the counter-extremism officials.
• “Government announces public inquiry into Southport stabbing” – Axel Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times, according to the Times.
• “The Prime Minister has questions to answer over Southport” – Writing in the Telegraph, Robert Jenrick demands a complete account of what the Government knew and when about the Southport stabbings.
• “Starmer to address nation after being accused of ‘cover-up’ over Southport murders” – Nigel Farage says the Summer riots could have been prevented if the Prime Minister had been honest with the public over Axel Rudakubana’s background, the Telegraph says.
• “Axel Rudakubana: from class clown to killer” – The Times reveals how Axel was was expelled from school, but returned with a hockey stick to target children.
• “The day began with friendship bracelets and songs and ended in horror” – An in-depth report on the Southport murders, courtesy of the Times.
• “The state missed chance after chance to stop Axel Rudakubana – then covered its errors” – The Telegraph’s Sam Ashworth Hayes suspects that a desire to avoid ‘community tensions’ was at play in the failure of the authorities to stop the Southport killer.
• “America is free from the electric car nightmare. In Europe, it’s just beginning” – Matthew Lynn pens a lament for the fate of the U.K. and European auto industries in the Telegraph.
• “Rayner’s workers’ rights plan is sparking panic in corporate Britain” – Businesses are bracing for a £25 billion tax raid, the Telegraph says. But they must also contend with a litany of new red tape.
• “Reeves to back Heathrow third runway in push for prosperity” – The Chancellor is expected to use a speech next week to back expansion plans at Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports in move to drive economic growth, reports the Times.
• “Britain topples Germany to become Europe’s top investment spot” – Britain has become the most attractive place to do business in Europe, according to the Telegraph. Are things that bad in Germany?
• “Attorney General accused of hiding over Gerry Adams” – Lord Hermer is facing some criticism for using legal convention “as a shield” to avoid questions over a conflict of interest with Sinn Fein leader, the Telegraph says.
•  “Claims for £69,000-a-year disability benefits scheme surge” – Thousands of people with self-diagnosed mental health conditions are using a disability benefits scheme that can hand claimants nearly £69,000 a year, reports the Telegraph.  
• “How assisted dying changed my mind on religion” – Sonia Sodha explains to the Spectator how exploring the subject of assisted dying has brought her a new found respect for believers.
• “Neil Gaiman and the misogyny of the geeks” – Neil Gaiman is “pretty much the perfect example of the ‘bad man who identifies as good’ woke-bro type” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
• “Woke Scottish exams body removes word ‘slave’ to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum’” – Pupils sitting exams in history, geography and even classical studies are to use the term “enslaved people”, according to the Scottish Daily Express, as the term highlights how people were forced into slavery.
• “Alastair Campbell’s son ‘accepted fresh backer to failing syndicate’” – According to the Times, Rory Campbell’s betting fund received injections from an existing investor and a new member after others were no longer able to withdraw their cash.
• “The campaign to rescue the Freedom of Speech Act” – Toby joins Josh Howie on GB News to discuss the fight to save the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act following Bridget Phillipson’s move to torpedo it last year.

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