News Round-Up
- “‘A defeat for Starmerism’: Labour’s dire night in Caerphilly” – Labour’s defeat in the Caerphilly by-election has ended its 100-year hold on the former mining town, sounding alarm bells for the prime minister and Rachel Reeves before a tricky budget, says the Times.
- “The castle of lies is collapsing” – A dynamite letter from the CPS has blown up the Government’s explanation for its mishandling of the China spy case, writes Neil O’Brien on his Substack.
- “The fall of Jess Phillips” – Is Jess Phillips okay? wonders Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “Why Jess Phillips must resign” – In the Telegraph, Robert Jenrick says the Safeguarding Minister’s position has become untenable.
- “End Of The Keir Show: How Senior Labour Figures Now Believe Starmer Is Already Toast” – Will the embattled PM even make it to the New Year in No.10? Many of his close colleagues, including members of the Shadow Cabinet, think he’ll go after the Budget, according to the Huffington Post.
- “Burnham allies warn Starmer ‘time is running out’ after by-election defeat” – Andy Burnham’s supporters have put Starmer on resignation watch, reports the Telegraph.
- “Asylum seeker guilty of killing migrant hotel worker with screwdriver” – Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19 but has no documentation, stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver as she talked to her best friend on the phone at a bus stop, says the Mail.
- “The burka is a symbol of repression, not freedom for women” – In the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey agrees with Robert Jenrick about banning the Burka.
- “The Diversity Crusade’s going to kill us all” – By ‘diversity’, the world’s real rulers of course mean “total compliance”, writes Bill Rice on his Substack.
- “The Church of England’s plan to pay £100 million in reparations explains exactly why its pews are empty” – Going woke doesn’t make the Anglican church more relevant – it just alienates the faithful, writes George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Landmark trade deal with Britain could go off the rails, warn US officials” – State Department officials are complaining they’ve been kept waiting for final texts from the UK while some in London counter that they want to avoid being ‘steamrollered’, according to the Times.
- “US deploys aircraft carrier to Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela rise” – Caracas says it has 5,000 anti-aircraft weapons placed in “key defence positions” as America deploys an aircraft carrier to the area, reports the Telegraph.
- “Steve Bannon: Trump will run in 2028 to finish what he started” – The ‘godfather of Maga’ tells Katie Balls in the Times that the US President will run again in 2028 and win another term.
- “Democrat mayor ditches party because it can’t stop moaning about Trump” – Mike Duggan is running as an independent candidate against Gretchen Whitmer after 40 years of being a loyal Democrat because he’s fed up with his party bellyaching about Trump, says the Telegraph.
- “Democrats’ embrace of Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes how lost they are” – The former Trump loyalist has attracted new fans thanks to her unhinged criticism of Israel, according to the Telegraph.
- “EU’s €140 billion Ukraine loan plan derailed” – Belgium’s PM has refused to sign off on using frozen Russian assets for a ‘reparations loan’ to provide Kyiv with much-needed funds, reports the Telegraph.
- “Russia massing nuclear fleet in Arctic circle ‘for war with Nato’” – Russia is amassing nuclear weapons and attack submarines in the Arctic Circle as it prepares for war with Nato, Norway’s defence minister has warned, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s mad Net Zero crusade has suffered a fatal blow” – Starmer should ditch his fanatical Energy Secretary and adopt the Conservative Party’s Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills, writes Claire Couthino in the Telegraph.
- “Heathrow expansion puts Net Zero in ‘serious jeopardy’, Starmer warned” – New report findings threaten to reignite Labour feud about the Heathrow third runway, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ministers on alert as North Sea supplier scrambles to avert collapse” – UK taxpayers may need to ‘pick up the tab’ as Petrofac is put on the brink of administration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Top scientists deliberately misrepresented sea level rise for years” – IPCC’s claim of ‘high confidence’ in rising sea levels is disinformation purposefully created by top university professors to mislead journalists, policymakers, and the public, writes Michael Shellenberger on his Public Substack.
- “Hugh Bonneville girlfriend’s ‘vegan influencer’ Heidi eats fish” – The girlfriend of Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville eats fish, in spite of setting herself up as a ‘vegan influencer’, says the Mail.
- “Sturgeon’s government ‘misled’ firms on green scheme, court told” – Lord Jack says businesses were not told the whole story before they invested in an SNP-Greens recycling programme, reports the Telegraph.
- “West End musical changes controversial ‘Pinball Wizard’ lyrics” – The Who classic appears in Just For One Day missing the line “deaf, dumb and blind kid”, which producers say was taken out as it was “not relevant” to the plot, says the Times.
- “Trans nurse used female change room while ‘trying to impregnate’ woman” – A man who claimed to be a woman and accessed nurses changing rooms was trying to get his girlfriend pregnant at the time, according to the Mail.
- “Oxford Union in fresh turmoil after second no-confidence vote” – A motion of no confidence against the current President of the Oxford Union, Moosa Harraj, has failed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fresh row involving president’s ‘romantic partner’ engulfs Oxford Union” – George Abaraonye, the ousted President-Elect of the Oxford Union, has accused Moosa Harraj, the current President, of “inviting abuse” towards him because he defeated his girlfriend in an election, says the Times.
- “So, two years on, will a foreign state end up wielding power over the Telegraph?” – The process of buying the Telegraph has been opaque and disquieting, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph. The Government must now ensure that press independence is protected.
- “Motability spending surges by £274 million under Labour” – The scandal-hit Motability scheme has cost the taxpayer nearly £275 million more since Labour took office, according to a written parliamentary answer to Helen Whately, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Goodbye and good riddance to ‘non-crime’” – The congratulatory messages started pouring in shortly after 5.30 p.m. on Monday. But, I write in the Spectator, the Free Speech Union cannot claim the lion’s share of the credit for vanquishing non-crime hate incidents. That belongs to Sir Mark Rowley.
- “Yet ANOTHER middle-aged white man in a business suit running amok on public transport, targeting ethnic minority women—will no one stop these monsters??” – Jack Montgomery on X marvels at the dishonesty of the Transport for London ad campaign claiming the harassment of black and brown women by white men in suits is a big problem on the London Underground.
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“The Who classic appears in Just For One Day missing the line “deaf, dumb and blind kid”, which producers say was taken out as it was “not relevant” to the plot, says the Times.”
Interesting. No idea what “Just for one day” is or what the plot is, but that line is, er, integral to the song.
Its integral to the plot! They’ve lost their plot!
deaf dumb and blind and yet a pinball wizard!! Derrrrrr
Isn’t this appalling? And this is just the one hotel. Weapons in their rooms but nobody does anything about it, then they can come and go as they please, totally unsupervised with nobody taking any responsibility for their behaviour. So does that mean when they’re moved to HMOs, where there’ll be no staff, they can just collect all the weapons they like?Are we to expect these migrants to magically acclimatize to our culture just because they’re staying in a UK chain hotel? And does anyone else think it’s seriously foolish to have women working at these places? These men already come from a culture where women are second class citizens and disrespecting them is the norm, so obviously any females in the vicinity are going to be the soft targets they’ll go for. ”Asylum seekers had made bomb threats and harassed young women at the hotel where the killer of a young woman stayed. Chris Durham, 46, who worked as a housing officer at Serco – the company that ran Park Inn hotel – said during the trial there were numerous occasions where police were called after migrants harassed women. He said: “Some of [the migrants] made threats to kill,… Read more »
WTAF??? Yeah, nobody really thought about this possibility, did they? What’s to stop many of those ‘Palestinian’ prisoners that were released in the deal by Israel from making their way over to Europe? This is what people mean when they say it’s Israel fighting not just to defend themselves, but to protect the West also. ‘Jihad’ is not specific to one country, it’s global, and we’re welcoming them in; ”Hamas terrorists released under the Gaza peace deal are staying in a five-star hotel alongside unsuspecting Western tourists. Experts warned of a radical new threat to global security after the Daily Mail tracked down more than 150 of the highly dangerous extremists to a luxury hotel in Cairo. Israel was forced to empty its prisons of nearly all its most feared jihadists held on life sentences as part of Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. Some 154 of the 250 fanatics who were freed are currently staying in the Marriott’s five-star Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel in the Egyptian capital, a Daily Mail investigation has found. Families can still book in to stay at the hotel without being aware of the dangers. Undercover journalists booked into the resort and stayed amongst the murderous jihadists, who… Read more »
So white men in suits are alleged to “harass” non-white women in public, but non-white men are proven to do far worse than harass white girls. They say that they didn’t understand British law. Perhaps Khan would be better spending money on educational posters in minority languages explaining British law to these people.
People have been posting online photos of signs in their area which include ”Do not defecate in the street”, and the picture is not of a dog. 😮
Yeah, but vibrant colourful cultures, music, uh, street food…. uh….
A foreign takeover of the Daily Telkegraph might just improve the accuracy or its reporting. At the moment many of the articles are pure fiction aimed at winding readers up. Reading the comments column is enlightening. I hadn’t realised there were so many irrational, hate filled people reading it.
Regarding vegan “influencers” eating fish. The late Jeremy Hardy once joked about pescatarians “meat is murder, but fish is justifiable homicide”
I try to avoid the Mail anyway, but ‘girlfriend of posh actor eats fish (despite saying she doesn’t)’ is not news. Unless she happens to be in the Brighton Aquarium at the time.
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“Oxford Union in fresh turmoil after second no-confidence vote”
Oxford and Cambridge universities =
International joke!
“Motability spending surges by £274 million under Labour”
This is what the disability scheme was meant to be about, helping the physically disabled get around! Now it’s used to prop up the fanciful and ailing ‘EV transition’
There is no press independence. The press is under the control of the state through OFCOM. If they want press independence, they’ll need to start with getting rid of OFCOM.
“Yet ANOTHER middle-aged white man in a business suit running amok on public transport, targeting ethnic minority women—will no one stop these monsters??”
This was actually nauseating to watch: Demonic Globalist Propaganda brazenly turning reality on its head, expecting us to ignore the Mass, Genocidal Sexual Assaults by Third World Men on the White Women & Children of the West, and expecting us to believe that the real problem is a White Man in a suit harassing an Ugly Ethnic African woman pretending to be a victim.
It causes a jarring kind of “cognitive dissonance”, like the insane, Orwellian “News speak” of “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.