News Round-Up

• “Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology, says Prevent” – Online Home Office guidance says ‘cultural nationalism’ could be a reason for referring someone to the Prevent programme, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is Sir Keir Starmer a Right-wing extremist?” – It beggars belief that two years after the Shawcross Review people are still being referred to Prevent for holding mainstream British values, says the Telegraph in a leader.
• “Labour faces embarrassing defeat over foreign state ownership of newspapers” – Peers are threatening to revolt over a loophole in forthcoming secondary legislation which may allow foreign powers to team up to influence British newspapers, according to the Telegraph.
• “Who owns the news? It must not be a group of foreign powers” – Labour’s proposals would allow multiple states to take 15% stakes in the Telegraph, writes Andrew Roberts.
• “Zia Yusuf’s resignation won’t harm Reform” – Zia Yusuf owed his rapid rise in Reform entirely to Farage’s favour, reports the Spectator. His departure won’t harm the party’s electoral prospects.
• “Reform’s burqa ban isn’t ‘Islamophobic’” – The number of Muslim-majority states outlawing the burqa is increasing, says the Spectator. Why can’t Britain impose a similar ban?
• “By-election shows Reform could stop Labour winning power in Scotland” – The Conservative Party is at risk of recording its worst-ever result in a Scottish election next year, according to the Telegraph.
• “The case for uniting the Right has never been stronger” – Expect one word to crop up repeatedly as Reform and Tory voters digest the result in the Hamilton by-election, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph – pact.
• “Illegal immigration is turning us into a lockdown society” – ID cards will not fix our immigration problem, says Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
• “Lord Hermer talked up ‘immense positives’ of immigration” – The Attorney General said we need to “alter the popular discourse” about immigration in speech made in 2022, reports the Telegraph.
• “Don’t write off Kemi Badenoch” – In the great game of musical chairs that is British politics, it’s impossible to foresee which contestant will be left with nowhere to sit when the music stops. But Andrew Gimson says in the Spectator that he thinks Kemi will lead the Tories into the next General Election.
• “Kemi is walking into an ECHR trap of her own making” – A group of Tory MPs have discreetly made it known that they will leave the party if it plumps for an ECHR exit, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Rayner’s workers’ rights bill will damage growth, warn bosses” – Nearly half of all business leaders say they will be less likely to hire staff if Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is passed, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘It’s getting silly’: The influencers teaching commuters how to fare-dodge” – Videos promoting ways of getting around station barriers are helping to ‘normalise’ ticket evasion, says the Telegraph.
• “This Idea Explains a Lot About What Has Happened in Trump 2.0” – In the New York Times, Nathan Levine, aka NS Lyons, explains why the Right is uniting against bureaucratic managerialism.
• “Miliband: I’ll force solar panels onto ‘vast majority’ of new homes” – The Energy Secretary has announced his plans for a massive increase in rooftop solar panels, according to the Telegraph.
• “Trans people ‘lied to over their rights to enter female-only spaces’” – The Supreme Court ruling has taken nothing from those who are transgender “except a false belief”, says Equality and Human Rights Commissioner Akua Reindorf in the Telegraph.
• “ITV ‘censored’ Martina Navratilova for claiming boxer Imane Khelif was male” – Martina Navratilova was censored by ITV for describing Imane Khelif as a man, but her comment was restored after viewers’ complaints, reports the Telegraph.
• “Whopping 97% rise in killer infection since March, data shows” – Dubbed ‘Nimbus’, the latest Coronavirus strain is descended from Omicron and has already triggered a surge in cases in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, says the Mail. Here we go again.
• “The Maga movement won’t miss Elon Musk” – In the Spectator, Raheem Kassam, Steve Bannon’s right-hand man, says good riddance to Elon Musk.
• “Why can’t Piers Morgan handle the truth about Israel?” – “When I called into question why artificially-generated imagery was used to promote this story, I was shouted down,” writes Natasha Hausdorff in the Spectator.
• “The real housewives of Isis” – Brilliantly funny take off of ‘Real Housewives’ franchise

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