News Round-Up

• “Revealed: Epping hotel judge ran socialist think tank linked to Labour” – Lord Justice Bean, who has ruled migrants can stay at Essex site, is a former chair of the Fabian Society, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Epping hotel ruling is a victory – and a defeat – for Labour” – It wasn’t surprising that the Home Office chose to back an urgent appeal in the Epping hotel case. But victory could mean defeat for Labour, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Reform take 15 point-lead over Labour” – Party conference season begins next week when Reform UK kick off their two-day jamboree in Birmingham. The party is on a high, says James Beale in the Spectator, having hit 35% in the latest poll.
• “What the Bell Hotel case reveals about two-tier Labour” – The interests of asylum system are deemed by Yvette Cooper to be in a higher tier than the people of Epping, writes Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
• “Uprising! Flying the flag and why they gate you – The Real Normal Podcast” – On the Real Normal podcast, the hosts talk about flying the George Cross over our glorious island and why the Government and local media hate us for it.
• “‘Push back against crazies,’ says JD Vance as he wades into flags row” – The Vice-President has waded into the row over Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags, according to the Mail.
• “Rylan Clark confirms ‘last day’ on This Morning after immigration row” – Rylan Clark confirmed on Friday that it was his “last day” on This Morning amid a backlash over his comments about immigration earlier in the week, reports the Mail.
• “Malcolm Rifkind: I have changed my mind… the UK should quit the ECHR” – The former foreign secretary says convention is delaying and obstructing the Government’s efforts to stop illegal migrants crossing the Channel and its time to leave the ECHR, says the Telegraph.
• “Angela Rayner faces ethics investigation over tax dodge” – The Deputy Prime Minister admits taking her name off the deeds to her family home in a move that saved her £40,000 in stamp duty and is now facing an ethics investigation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves’s next Budget is set to be more devastating than Liz Truss’s” – Our desperate Chancellor will be moving house very soon if she doesn’t grasp the nettle, says the Telegraph.
• “More than £8 billion wiped off British banks over Reeves tax raid fears” – Investors panicked today as the Chancellor came under pressure to introduce a new banking levy, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sickness benefits pay more than the minimum wage for one million Britons” – The UK is “writing off” a generation of young people with welfare payments of up to £25,000 a year each, more than they’d be earning if they had full-time jobs paying the minimum wage, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer faces revolt over ‘needlessly cruel’ treatment of female aides” – The Prime Minister is under fire after it emerged his Principal Private Secretary Nin Pandit is to be replaced, the latest in a long line of female aides Starmer has ‘moved on’, says the Telegraph.
• “Palestine Action’s proscription may end up as a propaganda coup for Israel haters” – There is a ready plan which could combat extreme activists without resorting to anti-terrorism legislation, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
• “Gal Gadot stays away from Venice due to support for Israel” – Gadot and her co-star in her latest film, Gerard Butler, are coming under pressure over their perceived support of the state of Israel, according to the Mail.
• “Security agency uses Lord Of The Rings commentary to block mayoral candidate in Germany” – The Social Democrats have taken the unusual step of banning an opponent from running in a mayoral election in German, pointing to, among other things, his fondness for Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings adaptation, reports Public News.
• “Trump, Greenland and the ‘covert activity’ that has Denmark on high alert” – Danes are reeling after a report suggested intelligence officers were involved in a secret operation to pave the way for a US takeover, according to the Telegraph.
• “Trump cancels Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection” – The former vice-president, who is about to start a book tour, has had her security detail cancelled by the current President, reports the Telegraph.
• “Cancel THIS” – Cancel THIS, the new book by Mike Fairclough, is surely the book we have all been waiting for. It is hilarious – mostly – and instructive, writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Gay rights group barred from Brighton pub over gender-critical views” – A gay men’s organisation is planning legal action after a pub in Brighton cancelled its meeting because of the group’s gender-critical views, says the Telegraph.
• “The Queen was a Remainer: her secret views on Brexit revealed” – In Power and the Palace, Valentine Low traffics in a good deal of Royal gossip, including the scandalous claim that the Queen was actually a Remainer, according to the Telegraph.
• “Self-proclaimed ‘Nazi’ schoolboy, 15, who stockpiled weapons is jailed” – A 15-year-old from near Market Drayton, Shropshire, wrote notes about his plans to attack his school and two others, landing him with an 18-month jail sentence, reports the Mail.
• “Struggling ONS staff spaff £23,000 on meals, travel and hotels in one year” – Guido Fawkes has details of some extravagant expense account meals run up by the staff of the ONS.
• “Key Atlantic current is on the brink of collapsing” – The Mail is the latest paper to wheel out this hardy perennial. No cause for alarm, say the Daily Sceptic’s climate experts.
• “Chris Packham’s rewilding dream stalls as ‘autism-friendly’ home fails to sell” – The BBC presenter wants to sell his £2.4 million house so he can purchase a 40-acre plot and ‘re-wild’ it. But no one wants to buy his ‘autism-friendly’ home, according to the Telegraph.
• “The wind farm that shows why Miliband’s energy bill claims are wrong” – The staggering cost of renewable subsidies is undermining claims about the benefits of Net Zero, reports the Telegraph.
• “Brazil implores businesses to attend major climate summit, despite ‘second thoughts’ amid Trump backlash” – The backlash against green gobbledegook gathers pace, with the latest sign being low attendance at November’s COP30 in Brazil, says Sky News. Will the organisers have to hire seat-fillers?
• “Miliband delays hydrogen plant decision amid Cabinet Net Zero row” – Ed Miliband’s plans for H2Teesside clash with Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to turn Teeside into an ‘AI growth zone’, according to the Telegraph.
• “Chinese oil giant throws Miliband’s £2.5 billion floating wind farm into disarray” – The Chinese owner of Scotland’s most polluting oil platform has rejected Ed Miliband’s plans to power it with a £2.5 billion wind farm, reports the Telegraph.
• “Love it when you can recycle old material” – Dominic Frisby dusts off an old ditty about Angela Rayner, which is surprisingly topical, given that she’s been in trouble before for tax avoidance.

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