News Round-Up

• “Now Trump cuts off intelligence-sharing with Ukraine” – The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, reports the Mail.
• “Trump turns off Ukraine’s missiles” – Ukraine’s most powerful missiles have been frozen after the US cut off intelligence-sharing and demanded fresh talks with Zelensky, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer and Macron consider accompanying Zelensky to White House” – Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are mulling accompanying Zelensky to Washington to salvage his relationship with Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “US suspends military aid to Ukraine and impotent, childish Eurotards lose their minds and say a lot of foolish things” – Trump’s suspension of military aid to Ukraine has sent the Eurocrats into meltdown, exposing their delusions of grandeur and unwavering loyalty to Zelensky’s lost cause, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Lord Hermer said to be blocking proposal to seize Russian assets held in UK” – Sources suggest the proposal to move to seize Russian assets in the UK has hit Lord Hermer’s desk – and he is blocking the move, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Rapists who groomed and attacked vulnerable teenage girls are jailed” – Two Rotherham rapists who groomed and attacked vulnerable teenage girls and called them “fresh meat” have been jailed for a total of nearly 40 years, reports the Mail.
• “Migrant couple can stay in UK because warring El Salvador gangs ‘would stop relationship’” – An unmarried couple from El Salvador have been allowed to remain in the UK after claiming that opposing gangs in their home towns stopped them from continuing their relationship, reports the Mail.
• “‘Britain should leave the ECHR unless it is reformed’” – Rishi Sunak says that the European court “does need to reform or we should leave”, according to the Telegraph.
• “PM signals he’ll block laws seeking to ban first cousins from marrying” – Keir Starmer has suggested that Labour will block a Tory MP’s bid to introduce a legal ban on first cousins being able to marry in England and Wales, reports the Mail.
• “Possessing photos of Muslim woman without hijab should be criminalised” – The Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee says that pictures of a Muslim woman without her headscarf should be considered “non-consensual intimate images” and sharing them should be a crime, according to the Mail.
• “‘Two-tier justice’ claims over sentencing for ethnic minority criminals” – The Sentencing Council has been accused of “two-tier justice” following reports ethnic minority criminals are to receive “special treatment”, reports GB News.
• “Say no to Angela Rayner’s Islamic blasphemy law” – A crackdown on ‘Islamophobia’ could chill discussion of extremism and grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in Spiked.
• “Can multiculturalism be fixed?” – Multiculturalism cannot succeed unless we confront the realities of incompatible cultural values, enforce the rule of law and stop sacrificing truth and justice on the altar of political correctness, says Jordan Peterson in the Spectator.
• “Why the left hates Gail’s”– In the Spectator, Ross Clark reveals why the Left really, really hates a posh high street bakery.
• “Left-wing activists are now threatening our national security” – Taxpayer-funded charities are demanding pro-migration measures that go against the interests of the British public, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves ‘to cut billions from welfare’ after £9.9 billion fiscal headroom wiped out” – Rachel Reeves is expected to cut billions from the welfare budget and other departments amid fears that her £9.9 billion of fiscal headroom has been wiped out, reports Sky News.
• “The Government spent the Royal Mail pension pot – costing taxpayers £4 million a day” – Taxpayers have been handed a £45 billion bill for Royal Mail’s pensions after government mismanagement left the scheme with no money to pay retirees, reveals the Telegraph.
• “How the British broke their own economy” – With the best of intentions, the UK has engineered a housing and energy crisis, writes Derek Thompson in the Atlantic.
• “Chinese student may have drugged and raped more than 60 women in five-year reign of terror” – A Chinese PhD student has been found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women in England and China, as police warn there could be more than 50 other victims, reports AP News.
• “Net Zero was never a good idea. Now it’s a dangerous one” – Rishi Sunak says Britain should abandon its legal commitment to deliver carbon neutrality, and he’s right – we simply can’t afford it, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “US and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan” – The US and Israel have rejected an Arab plan for the post-war reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that would allow the 2.1 million Palestinians living there to stay, reports BBC News.
• “Israel’s intelligence failure” – Israeli intelligence failed on October 7th, 2023, because it misread Hamas’s intent and relied on faulty assumptions – an error of analysis that is a lesson for all intelligence agencies, says George Friedman in GPF.
• “Pete Hegseth says the US is ‘prepared’ to go to war with China” – Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the US is “prepared” for war with China, following fiery remarks from the Chinese Embassy as the trade war escalates, reports the Mail.
• “Teacher sacked over using ‘wrong pronoun’ says child put on ‘path to self-destruction’” – A Christian teacher who was sacked after refusing to call an eight year-old girl by male pronouns has accused the school of putting the child “on a path to self-destruction”, says BBC News.
• “City lawyer who called colleague ‘Jabba the Hutt’ ordered to pay £30,000” – A City lawyer has been told to pay £31,000 after admitting giving his colleagues “rude” nicknames including “Pol Pot” and “Jabba the Hutt”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Were the builders of Stonehenge black?” – The builders of Stonehenge likely had darker skin, but calling them “black” in the modern racial sense is misleading, says Mike Pitts in the Spectator.
• “Standing up for my children lands me in jail” – Jailed for challenging a custody system that tore his children away, the New Conservative’s Frank Haviland exposes the harsh price of fighting for fatherhood.
• “Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull” – Julie Burchill reviews With Love, Meghan for the Spectator. She did not like it.
• “Meghan’s awful Rotten Tomatoes rating as Netflix ranks her below WWE” – Meghan Markle’s With Love show has a dismal 11% rating from viewers, falling behind wrestling and sitcoms on Netflix’s chart, according to the Mail.
• “Science should be an engine for knowledge and freedom, not something that stands on top of society and says you must do this or else” – Watch Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s new head of the NIHs, testify before the Senate Health Committee.

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