News Round-Up

• “Donald Trump reinstates Winston Churchill bust in Oval Office” – Joe Biden removed Churchill’s statue from the Oval Office, but Trump has restored it to pride of place, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump is humiliating his woke enemies – and it’s a joy to watch” – In the U.S., the Donald has declared that progressive dogma has had its day. But it lives on unchallenged in the U.K., writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Trump 2.0 will leave Europe looking like a basket case” – If the President is as good as his word on deregulation we can expect another Roaring Twenties, predicts Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Trump turns tables on Biden with ‘broad investigation’ into censorship” – Donald Trump issued two executive orders launching investigations into Joe Biden’s White House over institutional censorship and weaponisation of law enforcement, says the Mail.
• “If President Trump can order government staff back to work so can we” – All that it takes to get a country moving again is a government willing to take tough decisions and push them through regardless of the trade union backlash, according to Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “What’s wrong with the British Left? It has to take feminism lessons from Donald Trump” – Don’t be fooled, the President dislikes gender ideology in exactly the same way other misogynists don’t like it: the most regressive way, says Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “‘That’s a big one’: Trump orders US to leave the WHO” – One of Trump’s first Executive Orders was to leave the World Health Organisation, according to the Telegraph. Public health ‘experts’ are up in arms!
• “Trump sacks coast guard leader over ‘excessive diversity focus’” – Adml Linda Fagan, the diversity-obsessed head of the U.S. Coast Guard, has been fired by Trump, says the Telegraph.
• “What Executive Orders has Trump signed? A full list” – The Times has a run-down of all the Executive Orders Trump signed on his first day.
• “No, Elon Musk didn’t make a fascist salute” – At Donald Trump’s inauguration, a giddy Elon Musk gave a speech during which he gave the crowd what some are claiming was a Nazi salute. It was no such thing, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “No, Elon Musk did not give a ‘Nazi salute’” – Are the media really going to start this nonsense all over again? asks Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Now the hysterical liberal media is branding Elon Musk a NAZI!” – The 45th and now 47th President took the oath of office on Monday promising a “revolution of common sense”. Predictably, says the Mail, the mainstream media punditry cannot contain their disgust.
• “Trump purges thousands of White House staff not aligned with MAGA” – Taking to his social media platform, Truth Social, the newly appointed President publicly fired several senior workers in an unprecedented White House shake-up, reports the Mail.
• “Who’s who in Trump’s tech bro club” – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and more stepped out to show allegiance to the new President on Monday. Who are they and what does their presence at the inauguration mean? asks the Times.
• “Trump exposes the madness of Ed Miliband’s energy plans” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark celebrates Trump’s rejection of the climate change boondoggle and wonders if it could ever happen here.
• “Ed Miliband warns Trump that Net Zero is ‘unstoppable’” – The Energy Secretary is unimpressed by Trump’s scepticism about the ‘climate emergency’ and and has doubled down on Britain’s suicidal energy policies, according to the Telegraph.
• “Starmer says there was NO Southport ‘cover-up’ but condemns ‘failings’” – The PM told a press conference in Downing Street yesterday that people were right to “demand answers” over “failings” in the case of Axel Rudakubana, reports the Mail.
• “When will Keir Starmer tell us everything about Southport?” – Yesterday, Starmer implied but did not categorically say that Islamist ideology was not the motivation of the dreadful Axel Rudakubana, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Cuper-up Keir at his finest” – Sir Keir Starmer is hiding behind bogus arguments on prejudicing trials to justify not disclosing more about the Southport killer, writes Paul Sutton on his Substack.
• “Police were ‘gagged’ by CPS over Southport killer” – Merseyside detectives were warned to hold back from releasing information about Axel Rudakubana, according to the Telegraph.
• “Starmer ‘hid Southport terror link by cynical use of contempt law’” – Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former Joint Chief of Staff, has accused the PM of a cover-up, claiming the justice system was used to hide details of Axel Rudakubana’s past, reports the Times.
• “The flaws in the counter-terrorism scheme that helped Axel Rudakubana slip through the cracks” – The teenager who murdered three girls in Southport was referred to Prevent three times – but it’s been failing for years, says Danny Shaw in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s mealy-mouthed statement shows he’s no leader” – The public deserves to know everything about Axel Rudakubana and the Southport attacks – there must be no cover-up, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “‘Disgrace’ that Axel Rudakubana could buy a knife on Amazon” – Yvette Cooper has told MPs that Prevent failed to stop the Southport attacker despite his “obsession” with violence and a criminal conviction, reports the Times.
• “The ‘15 missed opportunities’ to stop Axel Rudakubana” – The teenager who carried out the Southport atrocity was brought to the attention of multiple state institutions that failed Britain and its children, says the Times.
• “Axel Rudakubana researched self-driving car bombs” – The 18-year-old, who pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of murder, was found in possession of articles and books that sources said proved he had an “obsession with violence”, according to the Mail.
• “The grooming gang perpetrators who are never convicted” – In the Spectator, Julie Bindel says there are thousands of men involved in the mass rape of children who haven’t been brought to justice.
• “The Grooming Gangs Cover-Up” – Watch Dominic Frisby reading the words of the judge in one of the most notorious grooming gang trials.
• “Reeves’ attempt to derail car finance compensation puts £30 billion at risk” – A Supreme Court ruling could “adversely affect U.K.’s reputation as place to do business”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Embattled Rachel Reeves jets off to World Economic Forum in Davos” – Ms. Reeves jetted off to the World Economic Forum yesterday as the U.K. heads for a “debt death spiral”, reports the Mail.
• “Employment suffers largest fall since pandemic” – Rachel Reeve’s £25 billion National Insurance rise is beginning to bite, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator. According to the latest ONS data, payrolled employment fell by 47,000 last month — the sharpest fall since the pandemic.
• “Cut Net Zero burden to grow economy, Bank tells Reeves” – The Bank of England has warned the Chancellor that the thicket of climate regulations makes City risk-taking harder, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour cannot agree that economic growth is a good thing” – The conflict between Net Zero and avoiding recession is becoming clearer and clearer, says a Telegraph leader.
• “Wanted – a politically and economically viable path to low emissions” – In ConservativeHome, ex-MP Steve Baker says we should repeal the Climate Change Act, ditch Net Zero and work out how to transition from gas to nuclear.
• “Britain’s soaring sickness bill is leaving experts baffled” – Broken system serves neither neither taxpayers nor those it is intended to help, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour strips environmental quangos of powers to delay housebuilding” – The removal of powers to delay developments will help up to 150 major road, rail and energy projects, the Government claims, according to the Times.
• “Rishi Sunak lands  jobs at Oxford and Stanford universities” – The former prime minister will return to his alma maters while staying on as an MP, says the Times.
• “Government to investigate cancel culture after death of Oxford student” – The death of Alexander Rogers has prompted an inquiry into cancel culture by the Department for Education, reports the Times.
• “Assisted dying row as patients given six months to live often survive for three years” – One in five people given six months by NHS doctors is still alive three years later, figures show, says the Telegraph.
• “Common sense prevails in FSU’s battle with Wikipedia” – In Anglican Ink, Julian Mann writes about my successful battle to get Wikipedia to remove its description of the Free Speech Union as “far-Right”.
• “75 years after Orwell, one man is still fighting for free speech” – In Gript, Laura Perrins interviews yours truly about the never-ending battle to defend free speech in the U.K.
• “NHS cleaner who took 400 sick days in four years wins £50,000 compensation” – Managers failed to recognise employee as disabled despite her struggling with “complex mental health issues”, the Employment Tribunal hears, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sacked for Wrongthink is launched” – Daily Sceptic contributor C.J. Strachan has launched a Substack to draw attention to all the people losing their jobs for expressing heterodox opinions. Please subscribe and help him get the word out.
• “Only Fools And Horses outrage as sitcom slapped with trigger warning” – Only Fools and Horses has been slapped with a trigger warning that some fans have deemed “excessively woke”, reports the Mail.
• “NHS tries to ban nurse from calling trans doctor a man” – Sandie Peggie refuses to use gender-neutral pronouns when addressing Beth Upton, a biologically male doctor who identifies as female – and got into trouble for it, according to the Telegraph.
• “Oxfam ‘weaponising history’ with claim Britain owes India £52 trillion” – Oxfam’s batty report argues that the U.K. owes reparations to India of £52 trillion, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Pioneering’ literary agency that promoted diversity forced to close” – The Good Literary Agency had vowed to “blow open the pipeline” for minority writers. But it’s gone belly-up because no one wanted to publish their books, according to the Times.
• “Watch: Shoppers ram vegan protesters with trolleys in Sainsbury’s meat aisle” – A vegan protest staged by Animal Rising at a store near Southampton on Saturday left shoppers visibly angry, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is Prince Harry really this deluded?” – Vanity Fair claims he wanted to host a podcast in which he would interview the world’s most powerful men and ask them how their life experiences had “made them into sociopaths”. Not surprisingly, it didn’t get off the ground, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Harry ‘very close’ to striking last-minute deal with Sun publisher” – In a day of high drama, the Duke of Sussex was said yesterday to be “very close” to clinching an out-of-court settlement with the newspaper group, reports the Mail.
• “Attorney General suggested Israel is enforcing apartheid” – Lord Hermer signed a letter claiming Netanyahu’s government is led by a ‘far-Right’ coalition seeking formal annexation of West Bank, says the Telegraph.
• “Her name is Emily Damari” – The left will never live down the shame of staying silent on the racist kidnapping of a British Jew, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Hong Kong activist, 19, fears kidnap by bounty hunters” – Chloe Cheung, who lives in the U.K., is on a wanted list issued by China, but says the police have offered her minimal protection, reports the Times.
• “Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?” – In the Spectator, Matt Ridley asks why Joe Biden’s pre-emptive pardon for Fauci covers anything he might have done since 2014. Surely, Covid started in 2019, not 2014?
• “Chris Whitty was ‘sceptical’ about mandatory Covid jabs for healthcare workers” – The decision to introduce Covid mandates for healthcare workers was “100% a political one”, Chris Whitty has told the Covid inquiry, according to the Telegraph.
• “At last the truth” – On X, Nigel Farage says the cover-up surrounding the Southport attacker is a disgrace.

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