News Round-Up

• “Why I resigned from the national grooming gang inquiry” – In the Spectator, Fiona Goddard explains why she quit the Victims/Survivor Liaison Panel of the National Grooming Gang Inquiry, calling it secretive, compromised by insiders and doomed to fail survivors.
• “It’s time for Jess Phillips to resign” – The member of government responsible for the inquiry must be trusted implicitly by all survivors on the panel, writes David Shipley in the Spectator. Jess Phillips has clearly lost that trust.
• “The grooming gangs rapists are mainly Pakistani Muslim, not ‘Asian’” – It’s time to stop using the word ‘Asian’ to describe the members of grooming gangs, says Hardeep Singh in the Telegraph.
• “Why is London ignoring its grooming gangs?” – How can there ever be justice for the abused girls, and retribution for the perpetrators, if public servants such as Sadiq Khan remain in denial? asks Julie Bindel in UnHerd.
• “Starmer says Channel migrant who returned to the UK will be deported” – Keir Starmer insists that a migrant, returned to the UK after being deported to France under the ‘one in, one out’ deal, will “swiftly” be sent back, reports the Mail.
• “Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ scheme is a total embarrassment” – If this Government wishes to control the borders it needs to take power away from judges, says David Shipley in the Telegraph.
• “Moment hotel migrant carries out sex attacks on multiple women” – An asylum seeker has been captured on video carrying out sex attacks on multiple women while cycling through the town where he was staying – and has been spared jail after claiming he was “unfamiliar with UK laws”, reports the Mail.
• “Syrian migrant with ‘grey hair’ wins case after judge rules he was 16” – A migrant from Syria who has a “receding hairline” and “grey hair” has won a case after an immigration judge ruled he was 16, says the Mail. 
• “Migrant posed as A&E nurse and helped treat seriously ill patients at same hospital as Lucy Letby” – A male migrant who posed as a female nurse and worked on the A&E ward at the same NHS hospital where Lucy Letby was employed has avoided jail, reports the Sun.
• “Migrant attacked security guards after jumping train station” – A Sudanese migrant who attacked two train guards, threatening he would “teach them a lesson” after jumping a station barrier, has been spared jail, says the Mail.
• “Jenrick was wrong to call for burka ban” – The Tories are split over the wearing of Islamic garments in public with James Cleverly distancing himself from Robert Jenrick’s comments, reports the Telegraph.
• “Southport killer was most sinister pupil, teacher says” – A headteacher has described the Southport killer as “sinister, unpredictable and the most unusual” pupil she had ever encountered in her career, according to the Mail.
• “Teacher banned from classroom for ‘inappropriate’ comments in honour killings lesson” – A former head of sixth form has been banned from teaching in any school or children’s home across England after telling a pupil that honour killings were a serious issue in their culture, reports the Independent.
• “NHS doc arrives at tribunal wearing ‘celebratory’ number 7 necklace” – NHS junior doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, facing antisemitism claims, turned up to her tribunal wearing a gold ‘7’ necklace, having vowed never to condemn the October 7th Hamas attacks, says the Mail.
• “Badenoch calls for visas of non-British university actvists targeting Israeli professor to be revoked” – Kemi Badenoch has called for the expulsion of pro-Palestine students who disrupted a lecture at a London university due to the speaker’s links to Israel, according to Jewish News.
• “Bob Vylan blames ‘political pressure’ for cancelled shows” – Bob Vylan has named the likes of Bridget Phillipson and “political pressure” as the reason for so many of their shows being cancelled, reports Birmingham Live.
• “Imagine what Enoch Powell might have said” – Birmingham is one of those places where ‘multiculturalism’ is approaching its natural endpoint, warns Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Ellie Reeves is even more incompetent than her sister Rachel” – The younger Reeves makes the Chancellor look like Bismarck, says Madeline Grant in the Spectator.
• “The Ultras: meet Britain’s new Islamo-socialist alliance” – In the Spectator, Angus Colwell and Max Jeffery reveal how Jeremy Corbyn has fused an uneasy new force on the Left.
• “George Abaraonye deserves his downfall” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle revels in the downfall of Oxford Union’s George Abaraonye.
• “The extinction of private conversation” – The real casualty in destroying private conversation is not privacy itself, but us, warns Tiffany Jenkins in the Spectator.
• “MoD faces £2 billion budget black hole” – The Ministry of Defence is scrambling to find more than £2 billion worth of cuts this year to avoid blowing its budget, according to Eastern Daily Press.
• “Former paratrooper in 70s cleared of double murder on Bloody Sunday” – A former paratrooper has been cleared of the murders of two men and the attempted murder of five others on Bloody Sunday more than 50 years ago, reports the Mail.
• “Net Zero’s £30,000 ruin tax” – The Rational Forum Substack exposes how Labour’s energy efficiency laws threaten to bankrupt ordinary homeowners while sparing the political elite.
• “A bright new energy dawn in the UK” – UK energy policy has hit a crisis, and the Conservatives are finally pivoting, writes Francis Menton in WUWT?
• “Escape from Net Zero II” – Labour could ditch Net Zero, cut bills, save jobs and grab headlines, argues Robin Guenier in Climate Scepticism – if only MPs would dare defy Miliband and his climate crusade.
• “Why is Britain trying to make our nuclear reactors ‘woke’?” – Britain’s nuclear plans have gone nuclear-woke, says Sam Dumitriu in the Spectator.
• “Money is the most important factor in climate madness” – On Clintel, Peter Baeten reacts to top climate sceptics Richard Lindzen and William Happer dissecting climate science and the cash behind today’s alarmism on Joe Rogan.
• “Surprised by Left-wing radical rhetoric? Look closer at the climate movement” – In Real Clear Energy, Chris Johnson warns that radical environmentalists treat humans as the enemy, and calls for conservatives to fight back with facts and hope.
• “Ireland is about to elect a radical far-Left president” – The gross political incompetence of the Irish mainstream centre will see Catherine Connolly win, writes Barry O’Halloran in the Telegraph.
• “Meloni paves the way to ECHR reform to tackle migration” – Giorgia Meloni has told EU leaders to prepare for a first political debate on reforming the ECHR in the “coming months”, reports the Telegraph.
• “German police raid the home of renowned media critic and WELT columnist Norbert Bolz for an ironic tweet, in latest case of insane speech repression to hit the Federal Republic” – German police have just raided a mainstream media figure’s home over a two-year-old ironic tweet – a new low in Germany’s war on speech, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “91% of Moderna mRNA shot recipients develop cardiovascular side effects with measurable arterial dysfunction” – Spectral pulse-wave analysis has revealed significant post-vaccine cardiovascular dysfunction consistent with increased arterial stiffness and impaired vascular function, reports Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
• “Lockdowns and liberty: what did Britain get right – and wrong” – Debating Britain’s lockdowns: were they lifesavers or liberty-busters? Join an Oxford panel on November 19th to weigh the trade-offs, with insights from Sunetra Gupta, Hugh Montgomery, Toby Green and Mark Honigsbaum.
• “NHS bosses told nurses transgender colleague would ‘educate them’” – NHS bosses allegedly told nurses a trans colleague would “educate them to broaden their mindset” when they were appalled at using the same changing room, reports the Mail.
• “Trans swimmer handed five-year ban for refusing sex test – Trans swimmer Ana Caldas, 47, has been handed a five-year ban by the sport’s governing body for refusing to take a gender verification test, according to the Mail. 
• “Oxford accused of ‘social engineering’ over black students’ A-levels” – Oxford University has been accused of “social engineering” because black applicants who miss their required A-level grades are more likely to be accepted than white candidates, reports the Telegraph.
• “Wildest attack ad ever seen in politics” – NY City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo’s campaign has released a wild AI-generated attack ad that depicts supporters of rival candidate Zohran Mamdani committing crimes like burglary, looting, drunk driving and human trafficking. 

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