News Round-Up

• “UK loses bid to challenge ruling blocking Eritrean man’s deportation” – The Home Office has been refused permission to challenge a High Court ruling that blocked an Eritrean migrant’s deportation to France – dealing another blow to Labour’s flailing ‘one in, one out’ scheme, according to the Mail.
• “Small boat migrants ‘having babies to get British passports’” – Migrants in asylum hotels are having babies in the belief it will improve their chances of getting a British passport, reports the Express.
• “Epping hotel asylum seeker jailed 12 months for sex assaults” – A migrant who tried to kiss a schoolgirl before groping a woman who came to her aid has been jailed for 12 months, says the Mail.
• “Fury as asylum seekers ferried hundreds of miles in expensive taxis to see a GP” – Taxpayers are stumping up millions of pounds a year for taxis to take asylum seekers hundreds of miles to see doctors, reports the Sun.
• “Starmer to ‘reclaim the flag’ from far-Right” – Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to “reclaim the flag” from Right-wing protesters in a speech tackling the rise of populism, according to the Telegraph.
• “St George’s flag campaigners are ‘nonces’, says Labour council leader” – A Labour council leader is facing calls to quit after being shown on camera labelling St George’s flag campaigners as “criminals” and “nonces”, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer‘s Chief of Staff and £700,000 ‘admin error’” – According to a leaked email, a top Labour lawyer advised Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff to pass off £700,000 in “hidden” donations as an “admin error”, reports the Mail.
• “Britain’s inflation crisis getting worse, warns OECD” – The UK is suffering from the worst price rises in the G7 as it also faces an economic slowdown, says the Conservative Post.
• “Hit drivers with pay-per-mile tax to fix Budget, Reeves urged” – Rachel Reeves is facing pressure to abandon the long-standing freeze on fuel duty and implement a pay-per-mile taxation system in the Autumn Budget, reports GB News.
• “Is Torsten Bell an idiot?” – On Substack, Isabel Paterson argues Labour’s economic maestro Torsten Bell is sharp, articulate and exam-smart, but also as dumb as a pile of bricks.
• “Oxford Union President-Elect must resign over Charlie Kirk messages, say former leaders” – More than 70 alumni of the Oxford Union Society have called for the resignation of the group’s President-Elect over his celebration of the murder of Charlie Kirk, reports National Review.
• “Private Eye’s shameful Charlie Kirk article” – Private Eye’s latest on Charlie Kirk drips with weasel words and smears instead of condemning his murder outright, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Britain’s worklessness crisis begins at school” – A generation of young people are being let down by the education system, warns Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “National Gallery accused of discriminating against private schools” – The National Gallery has been accused of discrimination after imposing a £240 fee for private schools who enter pupils into its art competition, reports the Telegraph. State schools can enter for free.
• “Britain is teetering on the edge of a mass unemployment explosion” – Just like the Industrial Revolution, in the coming decades AI will disrupt all our lives, yet our politicians are in denial, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “This is the maddest argument for assisted suicide yet” – What on earth has the so-called ‘right to die’ got to do with tackling climate change, Lord Brooke? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “People don’t know what assisted suicide really means. They’re about to find out” – Compassion that takes imprudent risks with the lives of the vulnerable is not a virtue at all, says Nigel Biggar in the Telegraph.
• “Banning vaping in public? What is Labour smoking?” – The planned crackdown on vapes is driven by prejudice and prohibitionist instincts, not scientific evidence, writes Martin Cullip in Spiked.
• “If Harriet Harman strips me of my free speech, I’ll give up my job as a barrister” – Baroness Harman’s independent review is meant to stop bullying at the Bar, but Sarah Phillimore in the Telegraph says she knows from personal experience just how dangerous these recommendations could be.
• “Are we living in a stupidogenic society?” – On Substack, Daisy Christodoulou discusses the cognitive decline of Britons.
• “Starmer ‘insults’ Jewish community wishing them ‘peace’ for New Year” – Sir Keir Starmer has been slammed as a “hypocrite” for wishing the Jewish community “peace, health and sweetness” in the New Year, just 24 hours after recognising a Palestinian state, reports the Mail. 
• “Jubilant Palestinians raise flag at new London ‘embassy’” – Jubilant Palestinians have raised their flag in London as the UK moved to recognise their state, with envoy Husam Zomlot poised to become ambassador, says the Mail. 
• “Hamas are being smashed in Gaza City. Starmer’s shameful betrayal will be cold comfort” – Hamas are on the ropes in Gaza, but Starmer’s recognition of a Palestinian state hands them a propaganda win, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer to demand Palestinian Authority stops ‘pay to slay’ policy” – Keir Starmer is set to demand an end to the Palestinian Authority’s payments to those involved in violence against Israel, reports the Washington Examiner.
• “Britain only recognised Palestine because it is ‘flooded with foreigners’” – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that Britain and its allies have only recognised Palestine because its migration policies mean it has been “flooded with foreigners”, according to the Telegraph.
• “UN Climate Week reveals elites’ scorn for the world’s poor” – Hundreds of trillions of dollars spent on climate-change measures can only deliver tiny benefits. But spending just billions on simple, proven policies can transform lives and alleviate poverty, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the NY Post.
• “CCA: AI is a challenge to climate goals ” – Greens have reached the bargaining stage of their grief for the demise of their movement, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Are we going to die from climate change?” – On Clintel, Greek hydrologist Demetris Koutsoyiannis debunks climalarmists’ claim that Europe’s summer heat wave killed hundreds.
• “Burning battery ejectors: the latest Chinese EV safety innovation” – China’s latest EV ‘safety’ trick fires its battery out like a cannon to stop fires – what could possibly go wrong? wonders Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Your Iron Maiden T-Shirt is propping up rock, but enraging eco-warriors” – Iron Maiden’s T-shirts are keeping rock alive and fans happy, but have eco-warriors clutching their pearls over shipping and synthetics, writes Ian Winwood in the Telegraph.
• “Corals won’t disappear, contrary to what the New York Times claims” – The New York Times warns of coral collapse, but in Climate Realism, Anthony Watts shows that history and real-world data tell a very different story.
• “The New York Times reaches acceptance stage” – On Clintel, Charles Rotter says that the climate movement has run headlong into the limits of political reality.
• “National Academies claim CO₂ harm is ‘beyond scientific dispute’ – experts say otherwise” – The National Academies claim CO₂ harms are “beyond dispute”, but on CFact David Wojick says that is absurd and proves NASEM cannot be trusted as a neutral advisor.
• “Fury as Trump claims paracetamol when pregnant raises autism risk” – UK experts have reacted with fury at Trump’s claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy strongly increases the risk of autism, reports the Mail.
• “Trump’s paracetamol claims wipe billions off UK drugmakers” – More than £4.1 billion has been wiped off the value of Britain’s biggest drugmakers after Trump linked paracetamol to autism, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ignore Trump’s claim that paracetamol raises autism risk, Streeting urges” – Wes Streeting has urged the public to pay no attention whatsoever to Donald Trump after his comments linking paracetamol to autism, reports the BBC.
• “Is Donald Trump right to link autism with paracetamol?” – Taking medical drugs is often a trade-off between risk and reward, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “A response to World Health Organisation” – On Substack, Jim Haslam blasts WHO’s SAGO – the virus origins advisory group – for bungling “chimera” (lab-made hybrid virus), mixing up bat vaccine work and missing the Wuhan lab trail of SARS-CoV-2.
• “French town halls are weaponising the Palestinian flag” – By turning their buildings into platforms for international causes, French town halls betray the very neutrality that holds the Republic together, argues James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
• “Candace Owens says she’ll make Brigitte Macron submit to medical exam” – Right-wing influencer Candace Owens has told the Daily Mail she is escalating her legal feud by demanding that Brigitte Macron, 72, undergo a “third-party examination” to prove she is a woman.
• “Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration” – Donald Trump has accused the UN of “funding an assault” on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly, reports the Mail.
• “Forget the polite Trump, this was a gloves-off Europe mauling” – After a restrained state visit, the US President used his UN speech to attack the continent over migration, energy and free speech – and he won’t stop soon, says Katy Balls in the Times.
• “Trump slams Sadiq Khan in speech to global leaders” – Donald Trump has used his speech at the UN General Assembly to take a jab at Sadiq Khan, reports Guido.
• “Trump tells Ukraine: Take back all your land… then go further” – Donald Trump has urged Volodymyr Zelensky to take back all of Ukraine’s territory won by Russia and “go even further than that”, says NBC News.
• “Trump vows to ‘retrain’ TikTok as he saves Charlie Kirk’s favourite app” – Donald Trump’s gone from wanting TikTok banned to cutting a deal with Xi to save it, with US investors retraining the algorithm, reports James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris’s strange memoir epitomises why Trump won” – Full of gossip, preening and attacks on the Biden family, 107 Days is the most interesting account of total failure you will ever read, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Stop Trump: a very Millennial meltdown” – A generation reared on Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Remainerism can’t accept that the world has changed, says David Shipley in Spiked.
• “Postcard from Marrakech” – On his Mad World blog, Russell David recounts his Marrakech trip, where a break turned into chaos, smog, scams and culture shock, leaving him rethinking Western complacency.
• “Cancelled for rejecting trans ideology, this trade unionist is fighting back” – Fiona Macdonald says she was shunned by her union for defending women’s rights – and now she is taking legal action, writes Jill Foster in the Telegraph.
• “Noel Clarke must pay £3 million to Guardian publisher after losing libel battle” – Noel Clarke has been ordered to pay at least £3 million of the Guardian publisher’s legal costs after losing his “far-fetched” libel case over allegations of sexual misconduct reported by the newspaper, says Sky News.
• “Yours for just £280: an ‘ethically made’ Guardian jumper” – The Guardian is selling jumpers for £280 after it reported a loss of almost £30 million in the most recent financial year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pluralism against scientism” – The universe really is beautiful and ugly and inviting and terrifying, says Bo Winegard in Aporia.
• “Hiya Chucks! Angela Rayner here” – Angela Rayner gets the Spitting Image treatment.

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