News Round-Up

• “Channel migrant who threatened to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok jailed” – Nigel Farage has called for an Afghan migrant jailed for making death threats against him to be deported, says the Mail.
• “CCTV of asylum seeker ‘following woman before stabbing’ shown to trial” – Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19, went on trial on Tuesday accused of launching a “frenzied attack” on Rhiannon Whyte as she travelled home from the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall, reports the Mail.
• “UK has lost control of its borders” – Shabana Mahmood will say on Wednesday that Britain’s failure to control its borders is eroding trust in politicians and the credibility of the state, according to the Telegraph.
• “Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in Britain” – Migrants will need to speak and understand English to an A-level standard to work in Britain under new rules announced by Shabana Mahmood, reports the Express.
• “Woman cut down Israeli hostage ribbons because they ‘intimidated’ her” – A woman who sparked outrage after she was caught snipping down yellow ribbons tied to support the Israeli hostages has claimed they made her feel “intimidated”, says the Mail. 
• “BBC criticised for ‘sympathetic’ interview with woman who cut down hostage ribbons” – The Hostages and Missing Families Forum UK has condemned the BBC for publishing a sympathetic interview with a self-described “Palestinian Jew” who cut down yellow ribbons, calling it “deeply disappointing”, reports Jewish News.
• “Man who chanted ‘put the Zios in the ground’ is Oxford student” – Samuel Williams, the young man who chanted “put the Zios in the ground”, is a University of Oxford student studying PPE at Balliol College, reveals the Mail.
• “Get your hands off the Holocaust, Mehdi Hasan” – Mehdi Hasan’s claim that aspects of the Gaza conflict were worse than the Holocaust is a whole new low for Israel-haters, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “If you don’t disarm, we’ll disarm you” – Donald Trump has threatened to forcibly disarm Hamas if they refuse to give up their weapons as the Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread, according to the Mail.
• “Netanyahu accused of ‘betraying’ families of dead hostages” – Israel will block a key aid crossing and cut Gaza’s truck deliveries over Hamas’s “failure” to return the bodies of dead hostages, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hostages reveal horror of two years in Hamas captivity” – Hostages were beaten unconscious, tortured, starved and chained up inside tunnels for months by Hamas, reveals Fox News.
• “Why isn’t Hollywood’s Free Palestine crowd celebrating the ceasefire?” – For years, A-listers have bashed Israel for its war in Gaza, claiming they want to see an end to the violence. So why are they silent now that Trump has brought about peace? wonders Paula Froelich in the Times.
• “Hamas executes ‘collaborators’ in Gaza and clings to power” – Shocking footage shows Hamas executing Palestinians as the terror group fights to cling to power, reports the Mail.
• “Thank God for Donald Trump” – If the career diplomats sneered at the ‘real estate men’ entering geopolitics, they may now see that sometimes it takes builders to rebuild the world, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “How Reform would crush all before them if election was held tomorrow” – According to an explosive megapoll, Nigel Farage is set for the biggest Commons majority in modern political history with the Tories reduced to just seven MPs, reports the Mail.
• “A power grab to create two-tier chants” – Keir Starmer’s Government is seizing on antisemitic protests to push new, illiberal powers, warns Bruce Newsome in TCW.
• “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy” – Paul Holden’s explosive new book exposes how Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed allegedly used dark money and censorship to oust Corbyn, install Starmer and reshape British politics in their own image, says Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
• “William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford” – The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”, according to the Times.
• “Staggering number of troops are too obese for combat” – Of the military’s 147,300 service personnel, 40,063 were at “increased, high or very high risk” of ill health owing to their weight in the past year, reveals the Sun.
• “Taxi boss makes nearly £10 million a year driving special needs children” – A taxi firm boss is making nearly £10 million a year from government contracts by taking special needs children to and from school, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police arrest man over collapse of Rory Campbell betting syndicate” – Police officers investigating the collapse of a betting syndicate led by Rory Campbell have made an arrest, the Times reports.
• “Does conventional climate science threaten civilisation?” – Reason, empirical investigation and intellectual freedom have been undermined by a politically charged climate movement, which poses a threat to science and civilisation itself, warns Vijay Jayaraj on American Thinker.
• “‘Death Valley days’ may be over for global temperature record” – If the world has warmed since 1913, why hasn’t the 134°F (56.7°C) record been broken? asks Anthony Watts on WUWT?
• “The breaking of hemispheric symmetry” – Earth’s darkening is throwing old climate assumptions out the window, says Dr David Whitehouse on Net Zero Watch.
• “GOP ‘RINOs’ consider attending big globalist climate shindig” – A clutch of RINOs are weighing a trip to the UN’s globalist climate shindig in Brazil, breaking with Trump’s energy agenda, according to Daily Caller.
• “Treatment of trans people may breach ECHR, ministers told” – The Home Secretary has accused Europe’s human rights watchdog of undermining the case for Britain to remain a member of the ECHR after it criticised the Government’s stance on trans rights and Palestinian protests, reports the Times.
• “A personal health statement” – Founder and director of the New Culture Forum Peter Whittle has revealed he is battling cancer in a heartfelt health update on YouTube.
• “Young people need culture, not condescension” – Canterbury Cathedral’s grafitti installation is patronising in the extreme, says Anthony Boutall in CapX.
• “DOGE website gets a rebrand!” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill unveils the new, revamped DOGE UK website, exposing government waste and the patronage networks that are undermining democracy.
• “Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, claims new book” – Tina Gaudoin claims in The Incidental Feminist, her new biography of Margaret Thatcher, that the former prime minister had two affairs: one early in her career as an MP and one with another politician, says the Times.
• “Mary Beard wouldn’t dare say black rugby players are thick” – Well-qualified students should not have been excluded in favour of weaker, but more athletic applicants. But is today’s process any fairer? asks David Abulafia in the Telegraph.
• “Oxford Union alumni will descend on city to try to oust president-elect” – Oxford Union alumni plan to descend on the university city this weekend in an attempt to oust the president-elect, says the Telegraph.
• “Oxford student chants ‘put the Zios in the ground’” – A pro-Palestinian protester who led chants calling on Gaza to “put the Zios in the ground” is a philosophy, politics and economics student at the University of Oxford, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tommy Robinson ‘unlawfully detained over political views’” – Tommy Robinson was discriminated against for his political beliefs when he was stopped at the border in a Bentley full of cash, a court has been told, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ex-Cabinet secretaries lead mutiny over Labour’s China spy debacle” – Two former Cabinet secretaries have led a Civil Service mutiny after Labour publicly blamed an official for the Chinese spy fiasco, says the Telegraph.
• “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck” – On Real Time, Bill Maher suggests the mainstream media’s silence over the Islamist genocide of Christians in Nigeria is because no Jews are involved.

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