News Round-Up

• “Fresh Labour chaos as new Deputy Leader Lucy Powell challenges Starmer and says he has let ‘Farage ‘run away with it’” – Lucy Powell – who was sacked from the Cabinet by the PM just last month – saw off Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in the contest, the Mail reports.
• “Lucy Powell tells Starmer to soften on migration” – Lucy Powell has immediately challenged Sir Keir Starmer to soften his stance on immigration and generally move to the Left after winning the Labour Deputy Leadership contest, reports the Telegraph.
• “Chancellor Rachel Reeves plotting class war mansion tax raid on homes” – Chancellor Rachel Reeves could hit homeowners with a new mansion tax costing thousands of pounds a year as part of a class war plan being considered for next month’s Budget, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer’s workers’ rights bill ‘will cripple job market’” – Labour’s flagship workers’ rights bill risks crippling the jobs market, the party’s ‘favourite’ think tank, the Resolution Foundation, has warned in a fresh challenge to Sir Keir Starmer, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Attorney General is a Defendant in a Torture Claim from a Libyan Military Commander that He Drafted” – Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previous Labour government in complicity in torture, PoliticsHome reports.
• “Grooming gangs victim who quit inquiry threatens to sue Jess Phillips” – Fiona Goddard, who was the grooming gangs victim first to quit her role in the national inquiry, has threatened to sue Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips for libel, the Mail reports.
• “Brave grooming gang victim who was drugged and raped as a child says she ‘doesn’t trust Keir Starmer’ after quitting ‘toxic’ inquiry – as survivors demand Jess Phillips’ resignation” – Ellie-Ann Reynolds, 24, from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, has spent 11 years trying to get people to hear her as she has bravely opened up about the horrific abuse she suffered as a child, reports the Mail.
• “The fall of Jess Phillips” – The Safeguarding Minister’s increasingly erratic, shirty performances at the despatch box would suggest she is crumbling under the scrutiny, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “Why would Labour hide the truth about grooming gangs?” – Widening the scope of the inquiry is suspicious and means justice is being delayed again, says our own Laurie Watsell in the Telegraph.
• “I’ve seen how civil servants work. The Home Office will never stop the grooming gangs” – In the Telegraph, Fiyaz Mughal says that when people are driven by ideology rather than evidence, difficult truths are buried.
• “Epping migrant ‘confused and asking officers for help’ before release” – The migrant sex offender who was accidentally released from prison spent more than an hour asking warders for help before he was allowed to walk free, according to a witness, the Times reports.
• “Migrant ‘tried to return to prison but guards turned him away’” – The Epping migrant accidentally released after sexually assaulting a girl tried “four or five times” to return to prison, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mistaken releases of prisoners double in a year” – The number of prisoners released by mistake more than doubled in one year amid an overcrowding crisis, official figures show, reports the Telegraph.
• “Accidental prison releases are all too common” – While there are some decent governors, the Prison Service management culture as a whole is one of excuses, blaming others and avoiding responsibility, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “A lesson in sums for Ed Miliband” – TCW prints an open letter from Roger J. Arthur to the Energy Secretary setting out the real cost of wind power.
• “The climate scaremongers: Pass the locusts – I’m starving” – A great global food transformation is needed to address climate change, sustainability and social justice, according to a report published by the Lancet. Paul Homewood disagrees in TCW.
• “Is Public Criticism of Climate Claims a Criminal Offence in Today’s Britain and Europe?” – In WUWT, Eric Worrall worries that the UK and Europe are clamping down on climate dissent by insisting on a certain set of ‘facts’.
• “Antarctic Amundsen-Scott Station Sees Coldest October in 44 Years… Mainstream Media Silent!” – While the headlines relentlessly holler about ‘exploding global warming’ and ‘dramatic melting’ of the polar caps, the South Pole is telling a starkly different story, says Pierre Gosselin in the No Tricks Zone.
• “Labour council spends £500k planning LTN while seven libraries go bust” – Enfield’s Labour council has “wasted a staggering” £575,000 planning a low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) with money that could have saved seven libraries, reports the Telegraph.
• “Oxford is on its knees to every Left-wing god. No wonder students cheer the death of their political opponents” – Increasingly, the incentive – both at Oxford and other top academic institutions – is to claim incapacity rather than celebrate excellence, to ask for special treatment, not strive for a glittering prize, says Michael Gove in the Mail.
• “Barristers win right to go without wigs in court after campaigners branded the hairpieces ‘culturally insensitive’” – The Mail reports on revised guidance from the Bar Council which allows lawyers to ditch their wigs for criminal cases if it is “uncomfortable or impractical” after black barristers complained the hairpieces look “ridiculous” on black advocates and are designed for white people’s hair.
• “Rudakubana’s school knew he was trouble” – In the Spectator, David Shipley says the Southport killer’s headteacher tried to warn others he was “sinister” and “cold and calculating” but she was silenced by accusations of racism.
• “Hamas racing to entrench itself in Gaza as ‘dark cycle’ continues” – Analysts fear the terror group is “going nowhere” as reprisals, beatings, interrogations, disappearances and public executions continue, reports the Telegraph.
• “The problem with talentless Left-wing women” – Jen Psaki’s condescending comments about Usha Vance gave the game away: liberals think conservative women must be oppressed, says Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “Piers Morgan is wrong. Woke is far from dead” – A few battles may have been won, but the war is far from over, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Masked Muslim youths take to east London streets to ‘defend our community’ after police banned UKIP march to ‘reclaim’ the area” – The Mail reports on a day of chaotic protests in the capital.
• “Sex offender who groped granddaughter uses ‘family life’ to avoid deportation” – A convicted foreign paedophile who abused his own granddaughter has been allowed to fight to stay in Britain on the grounds that he has the right to a family life under the ECHR, reports the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris: I may run for President again” – Kamala Harris said she might run again for the White House in her first British interview since losing to Donald Trump, the Telegraph reports.
• “Extremist Left-winger Catherine Connolly who said Israel behaved like ‘terrorist state’ and called Hamas ‘part of the civil society of Palestine’ is confirmed as new Irish president at Dublin Castle after landslide triumph” – Hard Left Irish independent Catherine Connolly, who previously accused Israel of behaving like a “terrorist state”, has been confirmed as the new President after claiming a landslide victory, reports the Mail.
• “Zack Polanski will lead a Socialist Super Bloc” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill makes a prediction about where the Green Party and its allies are headed.
• “Why I am threatening to sue the London Mathematical Society” – In the Spectator, John Armstrong says he plans to sue the London Mathematical Society after it chose to write its first ever trans policy following the Supreme Court judgment and appears to be openly flouting it. The Times also reports on the case here.
• “‘Woke’ policies are fuelling Whitehall chaos, says Lord Case” – Woke staff networks and an “obsession” with officials’ feelings are fuelling the chaos at the Home Office, the former head of the Civil Service Simon Case has warned, reports the Telegraph.
• “Therapists ‘to prescribe having a job’ for depressed and anxious patients” – Under new guidance, therapists will tell anxious and depressed Britons that work is good for their mental health in a fresh attempt to end Britain’s sick note culture, the Telegraph reports.
• “Statistics watchdog cuts ties with Stonewall after census debacle” – Britain’s statistics watchdog, the ONS, has cut ties with Stonewall after the 2021 census hugely overestimated the country’s transgender population, reports the Telegraph.
• “British Airways withdraws support for Louis Theroux podcast after Bob Vylan episode” – British Airways has pulled support for the Louis Theroux podcast after an appearance by the front man of controversial punk act Bob Vylan, Jewish News reports.
• “Fury as ‘hard-up’ Met Police is set to splurge £5 million a year on 64-strong woke taskforce… as half of its mounted officers face losing their jobs” – Britain’s biggest police force is to spend a staggering £5.2 million a year on employing 64 diversity staff, despite paring frontline services to the bone, the Mail reports.
• “The lunacy of the Covid years summarised perfectly in a hilarious two-minute skit” – Relive the madness courtesy of WideAwake Media on X.

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