News Round-Up

• “Case dropped against woman who unfurled Union flag at migrant hotel protest” – A woman arrested and charged after unfurling a Union flag from a council building during an anti-migrant protest has received a letter from the Crown Prosecution Service telling her she faces no further action, reports GB News.
• “Moment ‘scary’ migrant ‘shoulder-barged’ hotel worker before ‘murder’” – The Mail has video of the moment an asylum seeker barged into a hotel worker, whom he is accused of stabbing to death with a screwdriver hours later.
• “If the rape gangs inquiry continues to stall, Starmer could be in big trouble” – The suspicion that Labour is more concerned about losing Muslim votes than delivering justice must be addressed, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Shabana Mahmood is proving to be predictably clueless on migration” – Quite what the Home Secretary thinks she is achieving at her Balkan summit is unclear, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “We come back to the central thing” – Brexit was a vote to leave, but Britain never did, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
• “Reeves blames Brexit as she admits tax rises are coming in Budget” – Rachel Reeves has blamed Brexit, austerity and the Tories for the grim state of Britain as she admitted tax hikes are looming, reports the Mail.
• “Labour is fooling nobody by blaming its own mistakes on Brexit” – Despite no evidence that leaving the EU has harmed our economy, Nigel Farage is Labour’s latest scapegoat, writes Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph.
• “It’s ridiculous to blame Farage for tax rises” – The plain truth is that taxes are being forced upwards because no government of any colour has balanced the books in 23 years, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Taxpayers on the hook for Labour’s £45 million gold-plated pensions plan” – Labour’s plans to reinstate pensions for councillors and mayors will cost taxpayers £45 million a year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer is the king of porkies” – Sir Keir Starmer’s honesty allergy was on full display over China, says Madeline Grant in the Spectator. 
• “Security panic as Mauritius and India establish ‘satellite tracking station’ on Chagos after Starmer’s deal” – UK and US security sources have confirmed to Guido that Mauritius has signed an agreement with India to allow New Delhi to set up a “satellite tracking station” near Chagos.
• “Cabinet Office covered up China hack that stole state secrets, says Cummings” – Dominic Cummings has made a bombshell claim that China successfully stole vast amounts of British state secrets in the run up to 2020, reports the Express.
• “Starmer publishes China spy case evidence” – The civil servant who gave evidence in the China spying case says the UK was committed to a “positive relationship” with Beijing, despite being asked to prove the country was a threat, according to the Telegraph.
• “Now it’s clear, China hawks were right all along” – While a group of MPs stood up for the nation’s security over spying, the Government failed to stand up to Beijing, writes Juliet Samuel in the Times.
• “City watchdog accused of ‘deep lack of clarity’ over car loan scheme” – A committee of lawmakers has blasted the Financial Conduct Authority over the “deep lack of clarity” it provided over its motor finance redress scheme, reports City A.M.
• “Angela Rayner accepts £17,000 golden goodbye after tax scandal” – Angela Rayner has accepted almost £17,000 in severance pay, despite previously voting against such payments, reports the Mail.
• “The Tories will regret smearing Farage as a socialist” – It’s clear from the Conservative Party’s petty sniping that they are unable to reflect on their legacy of failure, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
• “How close is Labour to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ group?” – Labour insists it hasn’t engaged with the ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ group, but the Spectator’s Steerpike shows emails and roundtables suggest otherwise.
• “UK’s Free Speech Union membership grows as arrests over online speech reach 30 daily” – In the Epoch Times, Owen Evans talks to Toby about how UK arrests for online speech have hit 30 a day.
• “Ed Miliband or Jeremy Clarkson? The big decision facing Doncaster” – Jeremy Clarkson has hinted he might stand against the Energy Secretary at the next election – and a visit to the area suggests he could win, reports Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
• “Electric bills ‘could soar 20% in the next five years’” – Octopus Regulations Director Rachel Fletcher warns that electricity prices will rise by 20% within four or five years unless the Government changes course, according to the Mail.
• “Why is my energy bill so high?” – Britain’s sky-high energy bills are the price of Net Zero dogma, carbon taxes and endless renewables subsidies, argues David Turver on his Substack.
• “UEA publishes a green food communism road map for Britain” – Britain’s push for a centrally planned, ‘sustainable’ food system risks repeating the disasters of the past, warns Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Starmer defies Trump by backing global Net Zero tax” – Sir Keir Starmer will back a global Net Zero tax on shipping in defiance of Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “US urges Starmer to block Chinese wind farm factory amid spy scandal” – A senior US Republican has urged Sir Keir Starmer to block a £1.5 billion Chinese wind turbine factory in Scotland over national security fears, says the Telegraph.
• “Critics fear financial titans have found Trojan horse for ‘climate mandates’” – Major global asset managers have been seeking to buy utilities all across America in a move that some warn will harm consumers and raise electricity costs, reports Daily Caller.
• “Hungary attacks EU energy policy at Moscow conference” – Hungary would suffer if cut off from Russian energy, says Budapest’s Foreign Minister, insisting the country will not bow to outside pressure over its energy decisions, according to Reuters.
• “Al Jazeera supports climate grift – Tuvalu’s islands are growing, not disappearing” – What’s sinking is honest, fact-based journalism, not Tuvalu, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “A ‘green Earth’ is inextricably linked to high atmospheric CO₂ concentrations” – Earth’s greening isn’t just a modern miracle – historical periods of lush vegetation also needed high CO₂, not low, writes P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “Checking in on the climate: here are a few facts” – Issues & Insights unwinds the twisted ‘truths’ of the global warming activists.
• “Britain and France are heading for bankruptcy” – Starmer and Macron have become brothers in arms committed to destroying all that is great about their countries, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “France can’t stand another humiliation like this” – With its pension reform bill suspended, the only thing France will be producing now is more debt, says Gavin Mortimer in the Telegraph.
• “BBC’s emotive coverage of Palestinian prisoner’s homecoming fails to mention he’s a terrorist” – The BBC featured the crying sister of a Palestinian prisoner but failed to mention her brother was serving four life sentences for his role in a suicide bombing, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ceasefire is ‘oppressor’s term’, say pro-Palestinian protesters” – Pro-Palestinian campaigners have vowed to continue protesting, claiming the ceasefire agreement did not amount to a peace deal and branding “ceasefire” an “oppressor’s term”, reports the Times.
• “Hamas is killing Palestinians. Unsurprisingly, the Left don’t seem to care” – Why are the ‘Be Kind’ brigade not marching against Hamas following its cold-blooded execution of its own civilians? wonders Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “If Hamas is dragged into a gang war, Gaza risks descending into anarchy” – A brutal power struggle has begun and the outcome will shape the Palestinian territory’s future far more than any ceasefire agreement, writes David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “Hamas unchecked is as brutal as ever” – As the dust settles on Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas has slithered straight back into the void, says Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator.
• “Crowds in St Petersburg sing about overthrowing Putin” – Hundreds of young people have gathered in St Petersburg to sing an outlawed song calling for Vladimir Putin to be overthrown, reports LBC.
• “No, America is not experiencing fascism. Yes, you should still worry” – On the Persuasion Substack, Roger Partridge warns that, while Niall Ferguson assures us America isn’t fascist, Trump’s grip on courts, regulators and law enforcement is hollowing out democracy.
• “Spanish Catholic priest found guilty of hate speech for telling the truth about Islam” – A Spanish priest has been convicted for ‘hate speech’ over a 2016 essay claiming true dialogue with Islam is impossible, reports Zenit.
• “I thought I didn’t need God. I was wrong” – I spent decades dismissing religion as superstition, but the more I learned, the less my own certainty made sense, says Charles Murray for the Free Press.
• “There’s no such thing as mum and dad anymore, only the state” – It is a long road back to good parenting, but the first step is to recognise that school readiness is a problem, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “Avoiding ultra-processed foods is completely unrealistic” – Feeding kids a fully unprocessed diet is basically impossible, and sometimes you just have to reach for the mac and cheese, says Olga Khazan in the Atlantic.
• “Now scientists redefine ‘obese’ – and now 60% more people are ‘fat’” – Up to 60% more adults could be classed as obese under a radical shake-up of the body-mass-index (BMI) system, reports the Mail.
• “Architect of gender ID lunacy can’t accept defeat” – Michael O’Flaherty, whose work led to the erosion of women’s rights, is targeting Britain after the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex, warns Janice Turner in the Times.
• “Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row” – An urgent ECHR exit just became a great deal more plausible, and rightly so, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Pub cancels Harry Potter party because staff were ‘getting too much grief’” – Britain’s most isolated pub has scrapped its planned Harry Potter Halloween celebration after staff faced “inappropriate grief” from trans activists, reports the Mail.
• “Oxford Union President-elect’s latest own goal” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reports that Oxford Union President-elect George Abaraonye has bizarrely triggered a no-confidence vote in himself.
• “Shadow Home Secretary is flabbergasted by Oli Dugmore’s crackpot plan to fix the public finances” – Chris Philp cannot quite believe that Oli Dugmore’s plan for returning the country to financial health is to tax millionaires 100%.

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