News Round-Up
- “Suspected terror attack on train leaves several people stabbed” – A suspected terror attack on a train on Saturday evening has left 10 people with knife wounds, reports the Mail.
- “Huntingdon train stabbing latest news: Ten people in hospital as counter-terror police investigate” – Read the latest live reports about the train attack in the Telegraph.
- “Huntingdon train stabbing: nine have life-threatening injuries” – Two men have been arrested over the attack in Cambridgeshire that left ten people in hospital, says the Times.
- “Afghan who threatened to kill Farage mocks him in video filmed in prison” – TikTok posts showing Fayaz Khan ranting in his prison cell about killing Nigel Farage are a further embarrassment for the beleaguered justice ministry, according to the Telegraph.
- “The successful restaurant owner and the Somalian thug who killed him” – Their paths crossed for just 22 fleeting seconds in Lloyds Bank one afternoon in Derby city centre, but it was long enough for a successful small businessman to be murdered at the hands of a Somalian thug, reports the Mail.
- “After Uxbridge, how can anyone call the migrant crisis a ‘myth’?” – A Left-wing campaigner says concern about immigration is just a “manufactured panic”. Not so, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Deported illegal migrants get £3,000…then boast it’s easy to return” – Migrants are cynically gaming the Home Office’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return Scheme’ where they are each given a one-off payment and a plane ticket home, says the Mail.
- “Asylum appeals surge six-fold leaving courts ‘overwhelmed’” – A six-fold surge in asylum seekers appealing rejected applications has left the courts “overwhelmed” as migrants remain in taxpayer-funded limbo, according to the Mail.
- “Schools spend £540 million a year to help non-native English speakers” – Department for Education figures for the current school year show that the cost of teaching migrants to speak English has risen by £125m in just five years – up from £415m in 2020, reports the Mail.
- “Locals near new asylum seekers centres ‘know what’s coming’” – The Cameron Barracks in Inverness and the Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex have been lined up to house 900 male asylum seekers, says the Mail.
- “Pupils pulled from school after building used to teach adult migrants” – Dozens of youngsters were pulled out of their primary school by furious parents after they discovered newly-arrived migrants were being taught English in the same building during school hours, according to the Mail.
- “Labour lord quits Britain for Dubai” – A former Labour minister made a life peer by Gordon Brown has quit Britain for Dubai for tax reasons, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves warned by two estate agents she’d need rental licence” – The Chancellor has been engulfed by scandal since the Mail revealed she had been illegally renting out her south London property for £3,200 a month without the proper licence – and the story isn’t going away.
- “Chess, writing career, letting her home – Reeves has a big delete file” – A weird kind of narcosis seems to grip Labour politicians when they are asked stuff about their homes. A kind of pervasive amnesia which somehow, unaccountably perhaps, occasions them to tell lies, writes Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Reeves eyes doubling council tax for a million homes” – Families will face council tax bills of up to £10,000 a year under plans being considered by Rachel Reeves to double rates on more than a million homes, reports the Telegraph.
- “MPs plotting to oust PM after Budget – and look who’s in the running” – After another disastrous week for the PM – in which he had to battle to keep Rachel Reeves in post – despairing ministers are talking openly about ousting him before Christmas, with Ed Miliband talked of as a possible successor, says the Mail.
- “Trump’s critics said he would abandon the world. He’s proved them wrong” – The unpredictable president has shown himself capable of foreign policy achievements that his predecessors could only dream of, writes David Blair in the Telegraph.
- “Trump threatens military action against Nigeria” – President Donald Trump has threatened military action against Nigeria if the government continues to allow terrorists to kill Christians, according to the Mail.
- “Horrifying accounts of how Sudan has descended into Hell” – This week, more than two thousand unarmed civilians were slaughtered in the country in just 48 hours as its bloody conflict rages on, reports the Mail.
- “Al-Qaeda militants poised to take over an entire country” – Al-Qaeda is tightening its grip on Mali’s capital in a Taliban-style bid to seize control of the west African nation, says the Telegraph.
- “Banned tech firms fuel fear China’s embassy will be a spy base” – Chinese tech giants blacklisted on national security grounds in Britain and the United States are lobbying for Beijing’s new embassy in London, deepening fears it could be used as an overseas “spy centre”, according to the Times.
- “Genocide campaigners raise alarm over Telegraph bidder’s Chinese links” – Uyghur campaigners have called on the Culture Secretary to prevent the proposed acquisition of the Telegraph by an investment firm with links to the Chinese leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Telegraph cannot keep its credibility if it is not transparently independent” – Professional journalism is too valuable in an age of misinformation to be compromised by the external interests of newspaper owners, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Great news from Northern Ireland: draconian Public Health Bill halted” – Great news from Northern Ireland where the draconian proposed Public Health Bill (which picked up where Covid left off) has been halted, says the Together website.
- “JK Rowling attacks Glamour magazine over trans ‘women of the year’” – JK Rowling says that putting nine trans women on the cover of Glamour and naming them the women of the year sends a message to girls that “men are better women than they are”, according to the Times.
- “Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We’re launching a battle for women’s rights” – In the Telegraph, Julie Bindel interviews the three plucky young Cambridge students who’ve set up a gender critical feminist society, enraging their woke peers.
- “Progressives have destroyed the human sciences” – Science still flourishes in the West, but the human sciences have been ruined by progressivism, writes Bo Winegard in Aporia.
- “BBC licence fee to rise above £180 a year” – The BBC license fee increase to more than £180 is expected to be confirmed later this month, reports the Telegraph.
- “Prosecutors refused to treat Jews faced with ‘Nazi salutes’ as hate crime victims” – Prosecutors refused to treat Jews who were allegedly subjected to Nazi salutes, intimidation and harassment as victims of hate crime until threatened with legal action, says the Telegraph.
- “Taxpayers helped foot bill for climate project that ‘destroyed’ villages” – A £33 million aid project was designed to help poor Ugandan farmers deal with the impact of climate change, but the reality saw their crops and homes destroyed in an “inhuman” project that left them “on the brink of starvation”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why plummeting oil price could finally undo Putin” – There are flickering signs of Russians daring to criticise Vladimir Putin and his war which is now only 70 days short of the length of Soviet participation in the defeat of Hitler in WW2, reports the Mail.
- “What do a £52 million road in Guyana, rusting solar panels in Zimbabwe and condoms in the Congo have in common?” – The answer, says the Telegraph, is the British taxpayer if funding them all in the name of climate aid.
- “Trump will not send top officials to Cop30” – The US president has called climate change a “hoax” and will not send any senior officials to this year’s climate change jamboree, according to the Telegraph.
- “Is oil major BP finally back from the brink?” – Pressure on boss Murray Auchincloss to deliver returns to investors may finally be easing after a recovery in the share price and an epoch-changing oil discovery in Brazil, reports the Mail.
- “Life in 10mph Britain: Drivers, cyclists and even joggers risk tickets” – As London’s war on drivers rages, cab drivers with almost two decades of experience are warning they may be forced to give up their jobs as Britain’s roads are no longer drivable, says the Mail.
- “Nasa assures Kim Kardashian Moon landings were not faked” – The reality TV star claims that as Buzz Aldrin has aged, his facade has slipped and he no longer pretends to have walked on the Moon, something which is completely untrue, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Woke’ ITN make staff do training on workplace ‘microaggressions’” – ITN has been branded hopelessly woke after it instructed its staff to avoid “heteronormativity” and “pitying” in the workplace, reports the Mail.
- “‘Man of the match’ is offensive, says England Rugby” – A new language guide issued by the England rugby team says use of “man” or “men” can feel exclusionary and claims there are more than two genders, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain had a Nazi streak – and other teachings from Zohran Mamdani’s father” – The New York mayoral candidate, who looks to be a dead cert to win the election, has credited his father with shaping his world-view. But what does the crazy old Communist believe? The Telegraph has the receipts.
- “NATO is creaking but soldiers told to skip men-only clubs” – Last week, Lieutenant General David Eastman MBE sent a circular to the officers of the British Army instructing them to review their “affiliations” with private members’ clubs – the Mail is unimpressed.
- “The Army faces serious threats. Private members’ clubs are not among them” – In his Telegraph column, Charles Moore is equally scathing about the ‘don’t join private members’ clubs’ letter.
- “Watch our mini-documentary Censorship: The Engine Behind Open Borders” – A new must-watch video from Freedom Research links censorship to the UK Government’s apparent tolerance for open borders.
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We are slowing moving towards peak insanity, but still quite a way to go, I fear. Hang on to your hats…
Why plummeting oil price could finally undo Putin ‘Russia is getting billions of dollars of money from oil sales’ Kellogg said. ‘What if you drop that to $45 a barrel, which is basically the baseline break-even point’ ‘That’s how we’re going to finish this thing off. It’s not going to be done by killing each other. That’s not going to work’ Kellogg said.’ 24 Jan 2025 ‘….the timing of the sanctions works in Trump’s favor. Unlike in the immediate post-2022 period — when Joe Biden’s administration hesitated to sanction Rosneft and Lukoil for fear of fueling oil price shocks and inflation — the market outlook is now bearish. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts a record global oil surplus in 2026. The Russian Finance Ministry itself expects a gradual $1-per-year decline in the base oil price in the federal budget until 2030; by 2026, it expects a price of $59 per barrel.’ Russian Urals oil trades at up to $10/barrel less than Brent crude. ‘Russia’s Urals crude at Baltic ports fell below the $47.60 per barrel European Union price cap on Wednesday for the first time, pressured by a five-month low in benchmark Brent prices and higher freight costs’ ‘I used to admire him as a strong leader who brought us a better life, with stability not… Read more »
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/27/motorway-save-nato-putin-aggression/
‘People in Lithuania have felt fear and understood the threat for centuries, which allows us to prepare’ says Antanaitis. “But today, as Nato and EU members, we are significantly safer.”
‘This year, Poland will invest 4.5 per cent of GDP in defence, Lithuania will allocate 4 per cent, Latvia 3.7 per cent and Estonia 3.4 per cent, all comfortably ahead of America’s 3.2 per cent – and far above Britain’s 2.4 per cent.’
….the decision of Sweden and Finland to join Nato in 2023 has transformed the situation for the better. The Baltic is now a Nato lake, with both shores of the Gulf of Finland and the approaches to St Petersburg falling inside the alliance.’
Putin has never been worried about NATO. The evidence is that the threat from Putin’s lunatic and inhuman demographic imperialist colonial war has only enhanced NATO capabilities.
Just how dumb is that?
Top marks for this as a Halloween costume team effort. They even went full ‘black face’ and everything!😆
https://x.com/DavidPoulden/status/1984695400477929751
Class 😀😀
Well, all we’ve got so far as a description of one of the attackers in this horrific mass stabbing is that the guy was black and dressed in black.
Meanwhile, in Birmingham last night, 9 arrested for launching fireworks at a bus. It’ll be Gary Neville’s “angry, middle-aged white men” again, no doubt;
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1984872310914863429
The Birmingham film is horrific. I would hazard a guess the perps were probably not British, well white British.
And to think, the Khant banned this just yesterday;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1984697346329137572
“Two British nationals” (as confirmed just now) is more than enough for me to know the rest of their description.
I wonder if British nationality was granted earlier this morning?
Haha, was thinking the same thing! They should have a mobile citizenship unit along with a parapriest for christening.
If after having been over 13 hours in custody the authorities have released no information about the suspects, then you can be certain that you already know a lot about the suspects.
How many times in the last oh, twenty years have we seen reports of white, British males going on the rampage and engaging in err mass stabbings?
That is correct.
Police being decidedly unbothered here. Should’ve set a police dog on him. That’d sharp move his arrogant, entitled arse;
”UK: In Leeds, during a pro-Palestine protest, a Muslim migrant sets a police van on fire, climbs on another one, and starts waving the Quran to assert dominance.
The police just stand by as if it’s normal.”
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1984913197678182641
I wish I could say that’s unbelievable, but it’s very believable. As a nation we’ve lost our backbone thanks to decades of being run by spineless politicians.
What the hell are we paying these muppets for?
“Afghan who threatened to kill Farage mocks him in video filmed in prison”
A video filmed in prison???? Is it not a prison? It aught to be a fu@#ing oubliette for this peice of shyte!
“BBC licence fee to rise above £180 a year”
Oh my! And no doubt “Mr braindead of Milton Keynes” will still think it represents excellent value for money!
“Horrifying accounts of how Sudan has descended into Hell”
Wondering why one clown’s RSF troops massacred, raped and tortured 2000 Sudanese civilians, instead of fighting the Sudanese Army, I looked it up, and it seems that the RSF clown is not Sudanese at all, but a kind of Wealthy Arabic Gangster from Chad, whose Family of Camel Herders made a fortune from gold mining and other “activities”, and is happy to slaughter 2000 Sudanese civilians and turn thousands more into sex slaves, because they are not from his own Ethnic Arabic Chadian tribe. Perhaps he is also gathering more African slaves to work in his Arabic Camel Herder family’s gold mines?
Yet more senseless mass rapes, mass sex slavery, mass murders and forced military conscription of young boys in Africa, by Africans and Arabs.
It’s what they do.
Remind me again why we are importing all these people to the West?