News Round-Up

• “Exclusive: BBC ‘doctored’ Trump speech, internal report reveals” – The BBC doctored a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by the Telegraph.
• “Nine ways the BBC misled viewers over Trump” – In the Telegraph, Gordon Rayner reveals nine ways the BBC showed anti-Trump bias in the 2024 election, from “doctored” clips to favouring Kamala Harris in its coverage.
• “It’s now verified, the BBC is biased” – The revelations about Panorama are at once shocking and entirely unsurprising, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Moment ‘knifeman who hurt 11 in train rampage storms barber shop’” – The Mail has footage of the moment a man believed to be the Huntingdon train attacker stormed into a Peterborough barber shop with a knife – as police investigate whether he stabbed a 14 year-old boy.
• “‘Do you want to die?’ knifeman asked victim as he stabbed him six times” – A Nottingham Forest supporter has told how the suspected Huntingdon train knifeman asked him “Do you want to die?” as he stabbed him six times, reports ITV News.
• “Bravery of passengers who threw themselves in front of train knifeman” – In the Mail, Neil Sears and colleagues recount how passengers on the 6.25 from Doncaster became heroes – throwing themselves in front of danger to save strangers, and almost certainly preventing further tragedy.
• “UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe” – Britain has topped the list of asylum claims in Europe after record numbers of migrants made attempts to settle in the UK last year, reports GB News.
• “Prisons are awash with phones: TikTok videos from inside are no surprise” – Our MoJ management allows increasing lawlessness both inside prison walls and on our streets, warns David Shipley in the Telegraph.
• “Moment masked council workers tear down Union Jack flags at night” – Masked council workers have torn down Union Jack flags from a roundabout in the dead of night, reveals the Mail.
• “Average family pays £1.3 million in tax in lifetime… and Reeves wants more” – The average family will cough up nearly £1.3 million in tax over their lifetime – and that’s before Labour’s hikes kick in, says the Mail.
• “UK ‘doomed’ under Labour as wealthy scramble to get out” – The UK is doomed under Labour, the boss of Ryanair warns, claiming wealthy people are scrambling to “get the hell out of London” before being hit by a Budget tax raid, according to This is Money.
• “How a Lib Dem council massaged the figures to trumpet their four-day week” – South Cambridgeshire’s Lib Dem council trumpeted its four-day week as a roaring success – but, according to the Telegraph’s Ben Butcher, the numbers tell a different story.
• “Four-day week for councils is pure daylight robbery” – Until we see a surge in public sector productivity, the question of shorter hours should be a non-starter, says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi has a path to victory in 2029: this warrior queen has the appetite to transform Britain” – Kemi Badenoch for Prime Minister by 2029? Don’t bet against it, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “In defence of the British voter” – On Substack, James Lachrymose takes a stand for the British voter, saying despite all the political mess and elite finger-pointing, people have made sensible choices time and again.
• “Barton ‘crossed line between free speech and crime’ with posts about Vine and Aluko” – A jury has heard that ex-footballer Joey Barton “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with social media posts about Jeremy Vine and TV pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, reports the Standard.
• “Drill oil to be a better ally to the US, Trump’s ambassador tells Starmer” – Donald Trump’s ambassador to the UK tells Sir Keir Starmer to drill for North Sea oil to become a better ally to the US, according to LBC.
• “Questioning Net Zero cannot remain taboo” – The Government must be far more open about how our money is being spent in its pursuit of Net Zero, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Net Zero policy and UK Government failings – a rap sheet’s first charge” – In Climate Scepticism, John Cullen slams Net Zero as costly, based on shaky science and political self-interest.
• “Is extinction going extinct?” – The much-hyped ‘sixth mass extinction’ might itself be facing extinction, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “The hypocrisy of Labour’s international ‘greenwashing’” – The West seeks to assuage its own climate guilt by proxy by forcing the world’s poor to live lives of environmental purity, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Mayor of West Yorkshire flies to COP30 to battle ‘climate crisis’” – The Mayor of West Yorkshire has come under fire after jetting 5,700 miles to the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, reports the Mail.
• “Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, heads off to Brazil with Sadiq Khan” – Why on earth is the Mayor of West Yorkshire needed in Brazil to fight climate change? wonders Charlotte Gill on Substack.
• “The ‘climate crisis’ of 1695” – Centuries-old records reveal Central England warmed 2°C in 40 years in the 17th Century – twice the rate of modern warming, writes Ron Barmby in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Ugandan villages destroyed to fight climate change” – A £33 million UK-backed climate aid project in Uganda ended up destroying farmers’ homes and crops under armed guard, leaving them near starvation, reports Paul Homewood in Not A Lot Of People Know That.
• “‘High street’ baby scan clinic wrongly told woman she needed an abortion” – An unqualified sonographer at a private clinic advised a woman to seek an abortion after incorrectly telling her her unborn baby was malformed, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Is the British Council worth saving?” – There is the problem of the British Council not really knowing what it is for – or perhaps knowing, but not relishing, its mission, writes Philip Patrick in the Spectator.
• “Trans lobby ‘has fooled Labour over cost of single-sex spaces’” – Ministers have been accused of falling for lobbying by trans activists over concern among big business about new rules on single-sex spaces, reports the Times.
• “French taxi driver acquitted of stealing ‘incoherent’ David Lammy’s luggage” – A taxi driver accused of stealing luggage belonging to Deputy PM David Lammy has been acquitted of all charges, says the Mail.
• “Internal BBC whistleblower memo reveals how BBC misled viewers about Trump” – The Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner explains how Panorama misled viewers about Donald Trump’s involvement in the January 6th riots.

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