News Round-Up

• “Trump: I’ve no desire to repair rift with Musk” – Donald Trump said he has no desire to repair his rift with Elon Musk as the President warned Musk of “very serious consequences” if he switches allegiance, reports the Telegraph.
• “Zia Yusuf returns to Reform blaming departure on ‘exhaustion’” – Zia Yusuf has announced his return to Reform UK just two days after he quit as party Chairman, saying he would “redouble” his commitment to the party, the Telegraph reports.
• “Why Zia Yusuf changed his mind about quitting Reform” – “Welcome back Zia,” wrote Richard Tice on one internal Reform WhatsApp group. “Hope you enjoyed your holiday!” The Spectator‘s James Heale looks at what’s behind the dramatic U-turn.
• “Has Nigel finally shown he can be a team player?” – The return of Zia Yusuf suggests the Reform leader might have learnt how to work with others at last, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
• “Reform declares war on gold-plated public sector pensions” – The ‘rip-off’ public sector pension schemes must be scrapped to stop Britain hurtling towards catastrophe, Richard Tice has warned, according to the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch: Let bosses ban burkas in the workplace” – The Tory leader hits out at burqas, sharia courts and first-cousin marriage in an interview with the Telegraph.
• “We need to talk about the burqa” – In Spiked, Inaya Folarin Iman argues that, while burqas are undeniably misogynistic, a ban may backfire.
• “Without a Badenoch/Farage pact, the Left will rule Scotland for decades to come” – Reform has the passion, the Tories can come up with the policies. The two would make a perfect match, argues Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph. Presumably different policies to 2010-24…
• “Reviving Britain will require our version of the chainsaw act” – Reform in the style of Argentina’s Javier Milei is what is needed to set the UK on the right track, but Nigel Farage’s ideas would return us to the 1970s, argues Niall Ferguson in the Times.
• “Kemi Badenoch : Make migrants wait 10 years before claiming benefits” – In the Mail, Kemi argues that restricting migrants’ access to benefits is a crucial way of limiting the flow.
• “The death of the Tory Party has been exaggerated” – The Tories are languishing in the polls behind Labour and Reform, so it’s no wonder some have read it the last rites. And yet, under Kemi Badenoch there are signs the party is flickering back to life, says the Mail in a leading article.
• “The Death of Britain” – The furore raised by Professor Matt Goodwin’s latest research – that White Brits will become a minority in the UK by 2063 – is somewhat unjustified, says Frank Haviland on Substack.
• “Compulsory ID in United Kingdom” – How is compulsory ID supposed to stop illegal immigration, asks the Thinking Coalition on Substack.
• “‘Rachel Reeves can’t deliver,’ say Labour ministers” – Labour ministers drip poison to the Mail‘s Dan Hodges on why the Chancellor is doomed.
• “England football fans chant ‘Keir Starmer is a c—’” – Supporters took aim at the Prime Minister during a dull first half of a World Cup qualifying match against Andorra, reports the Telegraph.
• “Lord Hermer defended suspected Iraqi bomber” – Robert Jenrick says the Attorney General is unfit for his role after spending his professional life “defending Britain’s enemies” as it emerges he represented a suspected Iraqi bomb maker who won more than £33,000 in compensation from the Government, the Telegraph reports.
• “Koran burner told of imminent terror threat to his life” – Hamit Coskun is in hiding after being convicted of a public order offence for burning the religious text, after the police warned him of a terror plot to murder him, reports the Telegraph.
• “We shall not remain a free country if we continue to submit to radical Islamists” – Some Muslims call for a blasphemy law but it is our liberties that are sacred, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Why won’t the Met Police deal with Palestine protesters blocking parliament?” – Does the Metropolitan Police have more respect for the rights of aggressive protesters than it does for Parliament itself, asks David Spencer in the Spectator. “That’s the unavoidable question after the Met handled the latest demonstrations outside the Palace of Westminster with the usual kid gloves.”
• “Pro-Palestinian protester in two-tier police row is Islamist refugee” – A pro-Palestinian activist who evaded terror charges in a two-tier policing row is an Islamist propagandist granted asylum in Britain, the Telegraph reveals.
• “Dawn French apologises ‘unreservedly’ and takes down her Gaza video” – The Vicar of Dibley star has taken down a video she published on social media in which she criticised Israel’s continued war in Gaza, after she was accused by the relatives of the victims of Hamas of a “smug dismissal” of their suffering, reports the Mail.
• “Dawn, there is nothing funny about October 7th” – Recording a video about Gaza without even mentioning Hamas is not remotely proportionate, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Why Britain must not recognise Palestine” – The leaders of both Hamas and Fatah have proved again and again that they will not cohabit with a Jewish state, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “BBC fact-checker service under scrutiny after White House attack” – With the BBC’s Gaza coverage under fire, some staff are said to be nervous about BBC Verify as it broadens its global reach through a live webpage, reports the Times.
• “The benefits cheats making a £6.5 billion mockery of the welfare system” – Amid calls for higher defence spending and an angry electorate, the Prime Minister faces pressure to cut the nation’s soaring welfare bill, says the Telegraph.
• “Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?” – Every regime that inherits a disaster of five years is necessarily going to be squeezed between the legacy regime and populist movements, says Brownstone‘s Jeffrey Tucker as he looks at how the Trump administration is faring against the swamp.
• “Save QoVAX: Biobank could prove key to treating long Covid and vaccine injuries, but first campaigners must prevent its destruction” – The Queensland Government is facing strong pushback over its plans to destroy a globally significant biobank which could prove invaluable to research into diagnosing and treating Long Covid and Covid vaccine injuries, says Rebekah Barnett on Dystopian Down Under.
• “Undercover at Youth Demand’s awards for arrested activists” – A Times reporter attends three events that launched Youth Demand, the group taking up the mantle of public disruption from Just Stop Oil, and tells all.
• “Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change” – On Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood says today’s climate lie comes from Climate Brief: “Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change”. Yeah, right.
• “Can Anyone Save New York From its Coming Self-Inflicted Climate and Energy Disaster?” – New York State has officially ordained the destruction of its electricity system and its economy with a mad dash to energy utopia, says Francis Menton on WUWT.
• “Michelin restaurant guide ‘racist and Eurocentric’” – The Michelin restaurant guide is racist, Eurocentric and elitist, academics are claiming as it is accused of failing to support the movement to “decolonise food”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Two private schools close in wake of Labour’s VAT raid” – Two prep schools have become the latest victims of Labour’s VAT raid by announcing their closures as a result of the levy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer’s pick to lead EHRC defended gender critical feminists” – Mary-Ann Stephenson’s appointment to the equalities watchdog is being celebrated by women’s rights campaigners, says the Times.
• “Cruelty is central to the Garrick’s appeal” – If women are uncomfortable with the idea of being vetted, they haven’t grasped what a members’ club is for, suggests Giles Coren in the Times.
• “Is it real or is it German intelligence? On online ‘authenticity’” – Recent revelations that German intelligence is running hundreds of fake account on social media raises an obvious question: how is this not against EU law, asks John Rosenthal in Brussels Signal.
• “George Osborne negotiating a ‘reciprocal’ loan of the Elgin Marbles” – The Chairman of the British Museum is pursuing a deal in which the sculptures would return to Greece as part of a long-term loan, reports the Times. Won’t be seeing them again, then.
• “Prevent deems concerns over migration ‘terrorist ideology’” – The Government’s anti-radicalisation programme lists “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could lead to an investigation, reports the Times as it picks up the FSU’s story broken in the Telegraph.
• “Concern about mass migration is ‘terrorist ideology’, Government says” – Among the ‘dangerous’ beliefs flagged by Prevent’s online training course are “cultural nationalism” and the idea “Western culture is under threat”, reports the Mail.
• “Concern about mass migration is a ‘terrorist ideology’ that requires Government intervention, claims Prevent” – Keir Starmer himself might be included after his recent “island of strangers” speech, says GB News, quoting Toby.
• “Starmer’s immigration speech ‘fundamentally racist’, says Diane Abbott” – Labour MP Diane Abbott has said Keir Starmer’s speech about Britain becoming an “island of strangers” was “fundamentally racist”.
• “Most of the country are terrorists under this definition!” – Watch GB News’s Headliners react to reports that fears over migrants are a “form of terrorism”.

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