News Round-Up

• “Lammy admits recognising Palestinian state will do nothing to help” – David Lammy admits that Keir Starmer’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state will make no difference to the suffering in Gaza despite the potential huge cost to Britain’s standing with its allies, reports the Mail. 
• “Recognising Palestinian state is shameful reward for October 7th” – Starmer’s rush to recognise Palestine while 48 hostages remain is, as Stephen Pollard writes in the Mail, a shameful reward for Hamas’s massacre.
• “Hamas sees Keir Starmer’s Palestine statement as vindication for murder” – This is a decision that will come back to haunt the PM and one that will reverberate globally for years, warns Matthew Syed in the Times.
• “Starmer is appeasing the cruel brutality of Hamas” – Desperate to seek the approval of his backbenchers, the PM has rewarded one of the most horrific and barbaric acts of terrorism in history, writes Priti Patel in the Telegraph.
• “Palestine state will never exist, says son of Hamas founder” – In the Telegraph, Paul Nuki interviews Mosab Hassan Yousef – Hamas founder’s son turned Shin Bet spy – who is not a fan of recognising the state of Palestine.
• “Labour small boats farce continues as ‘one in, one out’ fails to deter” – More than 1,000 illegal migrants crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats on the day Labour ministers hailed deporting a third asylum seeker to France under the “one in, one out” deal, reports the Mail.
• “‘The Greens’ new deputy leader unleashed hate on my family’” – A rabbi targeted in an antisemitic hate campaign has expressed concern that a businessman who played a key role in amplifying the attacks has become deputy leader of the Green Party, says the Sunday Times.
• “Islamophobia definition could hamper police, Hermer adviser says” – An adviser to Lord Hermer has warned that Labour’s plans for an official definition of Islamophobia could be used to object to the police investigating Muslims for criminal offences, reports the Telegraph.
• “Call for probe into claim PM aide Morgan McSweeney hid £700,000 donations” – Downing Street is facing the threat of a police investigation over claims that the PM’s Chief of Staff hid more than £700,000 of donations to boost Keir Starmer’s political career, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer and his Cabinet could be wiped out by Corbyn” – Up to 52 Labour seats are at risk to a combination of Left-wing alternatives, including the Green Party and independent MPs allied to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s own MPs blast digital ID plan as ‘dystopian disaster’” – Sir Keir’s political allies have been lining up to lambast him for effectively making law-abiding citizens pay the price for his Government’s failure to tackle the migration crisis in the form of digital ID cards, according to the Mail.
• “Labour’s Welsh collapse is trouble for Starmer” – With Reform on the rise, the PM’s support in Caerphilly, where there’s a by-election coming up, is as crumbly as its cheese, says Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times.
• “Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants” – Nigel Farage has declared that hundreds of thousands of migrants will be forced out of the UK if Reform wins the next election – saving taxpayers more than £230 billion, according to the Mail.
• “Corbyn party chaos deepens as Sultana membership portal crashes” – Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-Left party has descended into further chaos after Zarah Sultana’s “unauthorised” membership portal crashed, reports the Telegraph.
• “The collapse of Your Party is bloody hilarious” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explains why we should cheer the demise of the Corbyn-Sultana freakshow.
• “Why I defected to Reform” – The case for conservativism has never been stronger, but my old party is no longer the one best placed to make it, says Danny Kruger in the Telegraph.
• “The radical Right-wing reforms needed to fix Britain’s democratic deficit” – In the Telegraph, Sir Michael Ellis offers 10 ways to save the UK from the road to ruin.
• “Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson ‘threaten our democracy’” – Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are a threat to British democracy, Sir Keir Starmer has warned, as he blasted Right-wing populists who “exploit” the England flag to “whip up hatred”, reports the Mail.
• “Prison officers will get stab-proof vests and Tasers after attacks by lags” – Thousands of prison officers will get stab-proof vests and Tasers to protect them from violent prisoners, says the Sun.
• “Inside crisis facing UK’s skint primary schools as 60 close in 2025 alone” – The Sun on Sunday reveals that around 60 state primary schools have closed this year due to the nation’s plummeting birth rate.
• “Civil servants scupper attempts to revive nuclear industry over salary row” – Whitehall officials are scuppering Britain’s nuclear ambitions by blocking pay deals for engineers and scientists tasked with launching a fleet of mini-nukes, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Gatwick second runway approved as Labour overrules eco-warriors” – Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has granted permission for a £2.2 billion expansion of Gatwick Airport, which will see an extra 100,000 flights per year, according to the BBC.
• “Britain’s other grid, just as vital as the electric one, is underfunded and creaking” – Failing to invest in legacy infrastructure puts our nation’s energy security at risk, warns Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s AI drive ‘will lead to hosepipe bans’” – The Government has been advised that Sir Keir Starmer’s AI plans risk leading to hosepipe bans and could drive up water bills, according to the Telegraph.
• “A picturesque Yorkshire village is battling an ugly Net Zero facility. But it’s everyone’s fight” – Despite local opposition, another area of British countryside can expect to be blighted by one of Labour’s mega batteries, warns Tony Lodge in the Telegraph.
• “Gone with the wind” – Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn that wind operators are issuing profit warnings, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Arctic sea ice minimum 2025: another year, another non-event” – The Arctic sea ice is still there – stubbornly refusing to cooperate with climate apocalypse narratives, writes Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “The climate crisis anti-baby movement” – Young Aussies are electing not to have babies over climate fears, blaming boomers and following anti-natalist logic, reports Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Disposable face masks used during Covid have left chemical timebomb, research suggests” – The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical timebomb that could harm humans, animals and the environment, says the Guardian.
• “RTÉ: those lazy, druggie Irish, we need immigration” – RTÉ smears the Irish as lazy while flogging mass immigration as the cure for labour shortages, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript.
• “Television pastor likens Germans who criticise state media defamations of Charlie Kirk to the devil” – On Substack, Eugyppius breaks down the absurdity of the press painting Kirk as a Right-wing villain.
• “Did Mossad and Trump kill Charlie Kirk?” – Rumours are swirling that Mossad or Trump killed Charlie Kirk, but on Substack, Spaceman Spiff shows it is far more likely that a confused young man acted alone.
• “Truth behind tries to turn Charlie Kirk’s murder into romantic tragedy” – Podcaster Megyn Kelly has slammed some journalists for denying any political motive in Charlie Kirk’s death, instead spinning it as a tragic twist in the gunman’s “beautiful love story”, reports the Mail.
• “‘Cancelled’ Kimmel made himself unemployable” – If you are going to defend Jimmy Kimmel on the grounds of ‘free speech’ you should have some care for the meaning of words. He has not been ‘cancelled’. He’s just made himself unemployable, says Sean Walsh in TCW.
• “Spare me Right-wing tears over Jimmy Kimmel” – In Gript, Laura Perrins tells Right-wingers to dry their tears over Jimmy Kimmel losing his chat show hosting gig, pointing out he lied on air.
• “The US Right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing” – Right-wingers have long complained of a censorious Left-wing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’, says J. Oliver Conroy in the Guardian.
• “Gunman shouting ‘Free Palestine’ kills wedding guest” – A crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before he opened fire on a Nashua, New Hampshire, wedding reception and killed one of the guests, reports the NY Post.
• “Where is the outrage over the aid trucks hijacked in Gaza?” – To see aid hijacked at gunpoint, to watch humanitarian routes blocked by brutal terrorists, and to remain mute is a betrayal of truth, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “Activists demanding ‘reparations’ for slavery must read this polemic” – Group-think has replaced serious history, and some facts have become unsayable, as Nigel Biggar eloquently shows in his new book, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Cambridge University women-only college risks breaching equality laws” – Cambridge University’s oldest women-only college risks breaching equality laws by having zero single-sex toilets available for its students, reports the Mail.
• “John Boyne is ‘too popular to be cancelled’ after trans views backlash” – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author says that his literary peers have tried to cancel him over his views on trans issues – but book sales have only gone up, according to the Mail.
• “When will the Left learn? If you go woke, you go broke” – The Ben and Jerry’s’ co-founder should have stuck to making ice cream instead of trying to save the world, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Satire is dying and I couldn’t make Father Ted now” – Graham Linehan warns that satire is dying and claims he would not be allowed to make a comedy like Father Ted today, according to the Mail.
• “This Bill drives utilitarian thinking!” – In a speech advocating assisted suicide, Labour peer Lord Brooke praises abortion, contraception and homosexuality for helping control the population, which he says is necessary because of climate change.

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