News Round-Up

• “Muslim protesters are like ‘foreign invading army’, Nigel Farage says” – Nigel Farage says that Saturday’s Tower Hamlets demonstration was “one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen in my life”, according to the Mail.  
• “The Jewish academics living in fear of antisemitic hate mobs” – Pro-Palestine activists are forcing staff to hide in their homes – and the silence from university authorities is deafening, says Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
• “Pochin’s ‘too many black people in adverts’ claim was offensive, says Kruger” – Danny Kruger has called remarks by a fellow Reform MP about white people not being represented in adverts “crass and offensive”, reports LBC.
• “It is not racist to notice black and Asian people are overrepresented on TV adverts” – Sarah Pochin’s remarks were badly expressed, but there was truth in what she said, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “If Reform MP Sarah is racist, so is David Lammy” – In TCW, Steve Doughty notes that David Lammy pretty much agrees with Reform MP Sarah Pochin – he just thinks there are too many white faces in ads.
• “Most Britons do not believe that criticising minority overrepresentation in ads is racist” – Most Britons don’t see complaining about white under-representation in ads as racist, while Left-leaning voters are far more likely to call concerns about black over-representation racist, notes Eric Kaufmann on Substack.
• “Pirate ship Reform has an ill-disciplined crew” – Danny Kruger calls Reform a “pirate ship” with an ill-disciplined crew, but wants to turn it into something fit for His Majesty’s service, writes the Spectator’s Steerpike.
• “Farage’s parliamentary grooming gang inquiry won’t work” – Farage’s emphasis on speed reveals either opportunism or genuine misunderstanding of what this inquiry requires, says Melisa Court in the Spectator.
• “A unique evil: why Britain’s grooming scandal demands a reckoning” – When evil is embedded in cultural attitudes toward women, when it thrives in communities that see outsiders as prey, it becomes something larger than crime – it becomes a system, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her Restoration Substack.
• “Labour is making the illegal immigration crisis far, far worse” – Asylum seekers have not magically disappeared – relocating them is just displacement activity, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “The Royal Navy won’t stop the boats. But this is how to do it for real” – Rescue Channel migrants safely, then ship them to Africa instead of Dover, says ex-Navy man Lewis Page in the Telegraph.
• “Prisons shouldn’t rely on migrant labour” – Of all the prison officers hired last year, 13.6% were from Nigeria and Ghana, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Productivity bombshell ‘blows a £20 billion hole in Reeves’ Budget’” – Rachel Reeves has suffered a fresh blow ahead of her Budget next month following a larger-than-expected downgrade to official productivity forecasts, reports the Mail.
• “It’s not me, it’s Brexit! Reeves blames quitting EU for inflation woe” – Rachel Reeves has heaped blame on Brexit for the UK’s economic woes, claiming Britain could reap “huge benefits” from moving closer to Brussels, says the Mail.
• “Mansion tax will force thousands of pensioners to sell up” – Pensioners could be among the hardest hit by plans to introduce a 1% annual charge on homes worth more than £2 million, reports GB News.
• “Starmer’s workers’ rights Bill could cost Britons £1,000 each” – Sir Keir Starmer’s workers’ rights overhaul could cost up to £1,100 per person in terms of lost economic growth, according to the Growth Commission. Guido has the story.
• “Britain facing £1 billion blow as more people do depressing jobs” – Britain is set to lose £1 billion to sick days as more people end up in jobs that supposedly make them too depressed to work, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour is living in a fantasy Britain” – It’s always enjoyable hearing about the place that senior Labour politicians think they inhabit, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “2025 Neville Kennard Address: The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right” – The centre-Right is wobbling everywhere – from Britain to the US to France – and at the 2025 CIS Consilium, Andrew Neil warns Australia it may be next.
• “RNLI boatman sacked after calling Sadiq Khan a ‘terrorist’” – A veteran RNLI helmsman who was sacked for calling Sadiq Khan a “terrorist” has won an unfair dismissal case, according to the Mail.
• “Should this teacher really have been struck off?” – A teacher’s career is in ruins for saying what many think, writes Clarissa Hard in the Spectator.
• “Our documentary about censorship is being censored” – Thanks to the Online Safety Act, X has muzzled Spiked’s new documentary, Think Before You Post.
• “More North Sea collapses are coming unless Labour ditches its toxic energy policy” – Petrofac’s decision to place its holding company into administration is another deeply worrying moment for Britain’s vital North Sea supply chain, says Russell Borthwick in the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s AR7 budget destroys his CP2030 plan” – The AR7 Budget for offshore wind will not deliver CP2030 but will impoverish us all, warns David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Headlight glare from Net Zero bulbs ‘dangerously bright’” – A poll of around 1,700 motorists found that the brightness of eco-friendly headlights was the most common reason for people feeling nervous when driving in the dark, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’” – The Microsoft co-founder has acknowledged that alarmist talk about the planet ending if we don’t cut carbon emissions is no longer credible or helpful, reports the Guardian.
• “The week climate catastrophism lost its grip” – Joe Rogan, Dr Richard Lindzen, Dr William Happer and Ted Nordhaus just cracked the climate panic bubble, says Anthony Watts in Red State.
• “China threatens Britain over Russian oil sanctions” – Beijing has lashed out at Britain’s move to impose sanctions on 11 Chinese companies, warning it could damage Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes of building closer economic ties with the Far East, reports the Telegraph.
• “Indian oil firms pause Russian orders amid Trump pressure” – Indian refiners have paused new purchases of Russian oil after Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Moscow’s top energy firms, says the Times of India.
• “Trump signs rare earth minerals deal with Japan” – Donald Trump and Japan’s new PM Sanae Takaichi have signed a framework agreement for “securing” supplies of critical minerals and rare earths, reports Reuters.
• “Amazon to slash 14,000 jobs in cost-cutting drive” – Amazon plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs, marking one of the biggest rounds of layoffs in the company’s history, says Business Insider.
• “Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns” – New evidence suggests that Democrats have badly weakened their party with Left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, becoming more popular with self-described “white liberals”, but less popular with almost every other demographic, according to Semafor.
• “Only honesty can kill the rise of Germany’s AfD” – The AfD party is prospering – not because it’s strong, but because its opponents are weak, says Henry Donovan in the Spectator.
• “Netanyahu orders ‘Gaza strikes’ after ‘faked’ return hostage remains” – Benjamin Netanyahu has sanctioned his military to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the US-brokered ceasefire, reports the Mail.
• “How Javier Milei confounded his critics” – Argentina’s President defied the dire predictions of pundits, experts and Davos plutocrats to pull off a landslide win, writes Hugo Timms in Spiked.
• “McCullough Foundation Report: Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder” – A new report led by Peter McCullough claims autism has many causes, but suggests early, combined childhood vaccines may be the greatest avoidable risk.
• “A ‘desperate’ couple asked me to be their surrogate, then sold my baby to someone else” – After giving birth, Carole-Anne discovered she’d been duped in a scam spanning America and the UK, writes Jill Foster in the Telegraph.
• “The genocide industry” – Academics, NGOs and institutions are appropriating history’s worst crimes for their own squalid ends, warns Frank Furedi in Spiked.
• “AI’s Left-wing bias is becoming too obvious to ignore” – With the right human involvement, AI models could take down political gatekeepers instead of doing their bidding, says Mark Brolin in the Telegraph.
• “Trans nurse who used female changing room ‘just a large woman’, NHS says” – An NHS boss has suggested that a trans nurse using a hospital’s female changing room was no different from a large woman, reports the Telegraph.
• “Shop bans woman who complained about ‘no Terfs’ badge worn by staff” – Hobbycraft has apologised to a customer who claimed she was “thrown out” of a Scots store for objecting to a “No Terfs” badge worn by a staff member, according to the Daily Record.
• “Rayner’s Lane: an overseas pupil goes missing” – It’s all go at Rayner’s Lane, where Alexander McKibbin serves up another absurd school bulletin slamming Britain’s political class in TCW.
• “Corbyn to play the Wizard of Oz in panto” – It will be exit stage Lefty for Jeremy Corbyn who has agreed to appear in panto, reports the Sun.
• “If you are going to have an official definition of Islamophobia, it should be embedded in an Act of Parliament” – At the Battle of Ideas, Toby talks about the problem with the Government’s plans to define Islamophobia.

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