News Round-Up

• “Tommy Robinson is found not guilty of terror offence” – Tommy Robinson has been found not guilty of a terrorism offence for failing to provide police with the PIN to his mobile phone, reports the Mail.
• “‘Heads should roll’ at BBC over doctored Trump video, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has demanded accountability from the BBC over what she calls a “fake news” scandal, telling GB News that “heads should roll”.
• “Man accused of Huntingdon knife rampage charged over stabbing of boy” – Police have confirmed that the mass stabbings on a train on Saturday have been linked with an attack on a teenager and an incident in a barber shop, reports the Mail.
• “The failing system that lets killers slip through the cracks” – In the Telegraph, Eleanor Steafel lays bare a mental health system so overstretched it’s letting the dangerously unwell slip through the cracks.
• “Violent crime is spiralling out of control” – The Left is using bad data to normalise unprecedented levels of savagery on Britain’s streets, warns David Shipley in the Telegraph.
• “How Reeves lied about tax rises” – The Chancellor’s numerous promises are about to be broken, writes Amy Gibbons in the Telegraph.
• “Can the last ‘working person’ in Britain please turn out the lights?” – Labour is on the roopes, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator. How do they increase tax while claiming they haven’t broken their manifesto pledge?
• “Starmer turns to COP to fend off Green threat” – Sir Keir has one eye on Zack Polanski’s party and another on Reform – wooing both sets of voters will not be easy, says Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
• “Ofcom’s cunning plan to extend its censorship role” – Ofcom’s not content with censoring Covid dissent, warns Dr Gary Sidley on the HART Substack. It now wants even more power to police what Britons see and hear online.
• “Benefit claimants could get cheaper stamps” – Benefits claimants will pay less for stamps under plans for a social tariff being considered by Ofcom, reports the Telegraph.
• “That they might let him starve” – Who is social welfare actually for? asks Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
• “HMRC worker who refused to return to the office after Covid lockdown must pay £20,000” – A HMRC worker who claimed his anxiety and kidney issues prevented him from returning to the office after lockdown has been ordered to pay £20,000 in legal costs, reports the Mail.
• “Miliband’s wind blitz to blanket Britain’s coastline with cables” – Britain’s coastal towns face widespread disruption after the UK’s grid operator unveiled plans to triple offshore wind capacity as part of Ed Miliband’s green building blitz, says the Telegraph.
• “World’s most obnoxious carbon dioxide hysteric decides that there are worse things than carbon dioxide” – Bill Gates, once climate’s biggest alarmist, now says worse things exist than CO₂ – a major about-turn marking climatism’s fading grip, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Climate hypocrite Harrison Ford demands we change our lifestyles” – Harrison Ford slams Trump’s climate denial as criminal, oblivious to his own private jet hypocrisy, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Burning ember – part 3” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson cuts through the hype around the latest Ember report to show renewables barely edge out coal, with fossil fuels still dominating global energy.
• “Unlocking America’s rare earth riches could finally break China’s grip on minerals” – Trillions in strategic minerals lie beneath US soil, but bureaucrats and activists are keeping them off-limits, says Paul Driessen in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “White House rejects COP30 Brazil climate fest attendance” – No top White House officials will fly to Brazil for COP30, with Trump putting US energy and jobs first, reports Breitbart.
• “The rise of anti-democratic human rights” – The ECHR today presents more of a problem to be solved than an institution to celebrate, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Chagos deal delayed after Labour pulls Bill” – Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to delay a key vote on his £3.4 billion Chagos Islands deal, following warnings he was set for a humiliating defeat in the Lords, according to the Telegraph.
• “It is time to abolish the Commonwealth” – Far from being an upholder of democracy, the Commonwealth has become a club for anti-British autocrats, writes David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “Go home or we will deport you, Germany tells Syrians” – Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Syrian refugees in Germany must go home now that their country’s war is over or face deportation, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Poland’s economic success has put Britain’s decadent elite to shame” – Warsaw’s bold, pro-growth policies show stagnation isn’t destiny – and that Britain’s elites have only themselves to blame for the UK’s decline, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “Trump threatens to cut New York funding if ‘communist’ Mamdani elected” – Donald Trump has threatened to withhold funding from New York if Zohran Mamdani is elected as the city’s next mayor, reports Fox News.
• “Online Report Launch: Immigration as a Tool of War” – Join the Henry Jackson Society online on November 5th as experts unpack how Russia is weaponising migration to destabilise the West.
• “Decent effort, though kind of pathetic that one is almost grateful for an ad that doesn’t attack white men” – Nick Dixon reluctantly praises the new John Lewis Christmas ad, which could be worse.

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