News Round-Up

• “With cold fury, the victims and their families told Rudakubana precisely what he was: a coward” – The Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson says that in Liverpool Crown Court she came face to face with both the best and the worst of humanity.
• “I’m as tough as they come but I held back tears over Southport details – no parent should have to endure those horrors” – In the Sun, Julia Hartley-Brewer says that some of the cold, hard facts hit you like a punch in the stomach.
• “Southport killer Axel Rudakubana deserves to die behind bars” – Rudakubana will serve a minimum of 52 years in prison, but the judge was prevented from imposing a whole-life order because the massacre was committed just short of the killer’s 18th birthday, an outcome that David Shipley in the Spectator says is abhorrent.
• “The 10 missed chances to stop Southport killer Axel Rudakubana” – From the age of 13 the teenage killer, whose pre-meditated attack shocked the world, carried knives, was visited by the police on a number of occasions and attacked his own family. The Mail looks at the 10 times he could have been stopped.
• “Southport killer said he wanted to stab someone – but police didn’t arrest him” – The Southport attacker was not arrested by police two years before he carried out the killings despite him saying “he wanted to poison people and stab someone”, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s response to the Southport murders is either stupid or shameless” – Forcing Amazon to step up its security checks won’t save lives – but it may let Ministers steer the conversation away from Sir Keir, says the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
• “Starmer’s ‘masterclass in obfuscation’ over Southport murders” – Starmer gave a masterclass in obfuscation over the Southport murders, says Frederick Attenborough in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Man stabbed four people ‘like a serial killer’ in attack at Argos warehouse” – A balaclava-clad man went on a knife rampage stabbing four people “like a serial killer” in a daytime attack at an Argos warehouse in south London, the Telegraph reports.
• “Birmingham schoolboy murder suspect, 14, arrested over pensioner assaults” – The 14-year-old suspect in the murder of 12 year-old Leo Ross in Birmingham has been arrested on suspicion of a number of assaults on pensioners, the Telegraph reports.
• “The grooming-gangs scandal is far worse than you think” – A new film illuminates the shocking depravity of these crimes, says Phelim Mcaleer in Spiked.
• “We have no clue how many people live in Britain – and Starmer doesn’t care” – The news that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant is likely to be an under-estimate, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Labour would rather pave over the green belt than deport illegal migrants” – Too many people are being allowed to cock a snook at the law of the land without fear of the consequences, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Row over Benefits Street-style Channel 4 show called Go Back to Where You Came From that will see six ordinary Britons ‘experience terror of small boat crossings’” – Channel 4 has promised a “thoughtful and impactful” programme, but has been accused of trivialising the issue in a sensationalist bid to win ratings for its new prime time show, according to the Mail.
• “Germans no longer feel safe after these horrific crimes” – In the Spectator, Katja Hoyer says even mainstream German politicians have now had enough of murderous migrants.
• “Trump bans Pride and BLM flags from US buildings across the globe” – President Donald Trump is stamping his authority on America’s presence around the world with a sweeping new order that only the Stars and Stripes – and nothing woke – will be flown from diplomatic buildings, reports the Mail.
• “Transgender inmates panic as Trump’s order sends them to men’s prisons” – Transgender inmates have been sent into a tizzy with President Trump’s day-one executive order that will send them back to men’s prisons, reports the Mail.
• “Has Trump killed Davos Man?” – The WEF’s globalist gabfest has never looked more irrelevant, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “Davos people thought they were more important than democracy. Trump has proved them wrong” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley is enjoying the discomfort of the Davos set in the face of Trump’s electoral victory.
• “Trump orders the release of the final JFK assassination documents” – The last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King can now be published after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the release of all classified documents, the Mail reports.
• “Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ – an expert’s view” – As a biographer of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator gives an expert view on Musk’s emphatic salute, which, he says, was certainly not a Nazi one, but was probably inadvisably similar to it.
• “‘Heil Musk’ projected on to German Tesla factory” – Left-wing activists have projected a giant image of Elon Musk’s salute alongside the word “heil” onto Tesla’s Berlin factory, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump announces $500 billion AI investment to develop cancer vaccines” – President Donald Trump has announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion investment for private companies to develop artificial intelligence tools to support medical advancements, including a cancer vaccine, reports the Mail.
• “Larry Ellison Sells Stargate AI-Driven Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines Developed in 48 Hours” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr Peter McCullough expresses scepticism about the potential of AI to cure cancer.
• “The Trump I (barely) know” – In the Spectator, Toby recounts how during the five years he lived in New York between 1995 and 2000, he and Trump were on nodding terms – mainly because Trump had his wandering eye on his then-girlfriend.
• “Rachel Reeves to water down non-dom tax raid” – Rachel Reeves is planning to water down her tax raid on ultra-wealthy non-doms after an exodus of millionaires from Britain, the Telegraph reports.
• “Rachel Reeves is getting an expensive lesson in economics” – Reeves’s concessions on non-doms may prove to be just the first of many screeching U-turns, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Sainsbury axes more than 3,000 jobs and plans to shut all cafes ” – Sainsbury’s will cut more than 3,000 jobs and plans to close its remaining in-store cafes as part of a major restructure in the “particularly challenging cost environment” created by Reeves’s Budget, the Mail reports.
• “Labour is pushing Marxist ideology, says Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’” – On the Planet Normal podcast, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan speak to Katharine Birbalsingh, Headteacher at Michaela Community School, about the far-Left revolutionary zeal driving Bridget Phillipson’s education reforms.
• “Why the media failed during Covid” – On Dystopian Down Under, Daily Mail Australia journalist David Southwell gives an insider perspective on what went wrong with the fourth estate during the pandemic.
• “Trump sounds death knell for the World Health Organisation” – Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the WHO has sounded its death knell, says David Paton in UnHerd.
• “Why Britain should follow Trump’s lead and pull out of the WHO which failed so wretchedly over Covid” – In the Mail, Fred Roeder argues that Britain should follow America out of the WHO.
• “Heat pumps ‘cost more to run than gas boilers’ in winter” – Households with heat pumps face higher energy bills in colder months than those with gas boilers as plummeting efficiency drives up bills by up to 74%, according to the Telegraph.
• “Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society” – Thanks to our over-zealous pursuit of Net Zero, the UK is moving beyond post-industrial to what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “I won’t resign over Heathrow expansion, Miliband insists” – Ed Miliband has refused to resign if the Government publicly backs a third runway at Heathrow, prompting accusations by green campaigners of “disappointing” hypocrisy, the Telegraph reports.
• “Britain’s Net Zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality” – In the Telegraph, Matt Ridley says that Britain is de-industrialising for no reason at all, as the jobs, business, money and emissions we shed simply go elsewhere.
• “The assisted suicide bill’s shameful lack of scrutiny” – Kim Leadbeater and her supporters have given up on any pretence of balance and transparency in their handling of the assisted suicide bill, says Yuan Yi Zhu in the Spectator.
• “Guardian journalists cave in over Observer sale” – Journalists at the Guardian have finally caved in over the sale of the Observer to loss-making start-up Tortoise Media, as they agreed to vote through the deal despite four days of strikes, the Telegraph reports.
• “The struggle against scientism” – Science is great at many things, but it is not the only path to enlightenment, argues Bo Winegard in Aporia.
• “How Hamas became invisible” – The greatest trick these vicious Islamists ever pulled was convincing the world they didn’t exist, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Charlotte Raven, fast-living and controversial editor of the Modern Review” – Telegraph obituary for one of Toby’s 1990s free-living colleagues at the Modern Review.
• “Mark Carney’s bid to rule Canada may be over before it’s begun” – The ex-Bank of England Governor is hoping to fill Justin Trudeau’s shoes – but many see him as too similar to the current, unpopular leader, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain wrongly locking up people who expose crimes by immigrants, claims Milei” – The Argentinian President has channelled Elon Musk’s accusations in a Davos speech, reports the Telegraph.
• “Slowly the hegemony of the woke Left in politics, in educational institutions, in the media and even in Davos has begun to crumble” – Argentina’s heroic President turns up at the WEF just to deliver to them the message that their reign is over.

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