News Round-Up

• “BBC Newsnight is also accused of doctoring Donald Trump speech” – The BBC has been accused of doctoring footage of a Donald Trump speech on Newsnight two years before a similarly edited clip was shown on Panorama, the Mail reports.
• “Newsnight’s Trump edit proves just how deep BBC bias goes” – Today’s revelation blows the entire notion of ‘one bad edit’ out of the water, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “BBC issues grovelling apology to Donald Trump over documentary” – The BBC has issued an apology to Donald Trump after the US President suggested he has an “obligation” to sue the broadcaster over the editing of his speech – but the corporation still denies “there is a basis for a defamation claim”, reports the Mail.
• “BBC News boss admits: We haven’t got our trans coverage right” – A senior BBC News executive has admitted the broadcaster made mistakes in its coverage of transgender issues, telling journalists in an all-staff call on Wednesday that they must cover the gender debate impartially, according to the Telegraph.
• “Nick Robinson is wrong there’s no Right-wing conspiracy at the BBC” – If the BBC encourages people to start believing that it is the victim of some giant Right-wing conspiracy to bring it down, it will fail to learn the right lessons from this crisis, says Jamie Angus in the Mail.
• “How to fix the BBC” – Time and again the corporation’s executives have been told about the egregious bias within the BBC, and at every single juncture they have shrugged their shoulders and done nothing, just as they are doing now, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “The BBC and the death of ‘lanyardism’” – An institutional shift is taking place in Britain, and the BBC may not survive, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
• “Revealed: the bias of the BBC News app” – The most influential person in British media is not Rupert Murdoch or Lord Rothermere – it’s the editor who pushes out the BBC News app alerts to 14.2 million users, says Lara Brown in the Spectator, as she exposes its biases.
• “How Morgan McSweeney lost control of No 10” – The Telegraph‘s Tony Diver has the inside track on the chaos engulfing the heart of government.
• “I have witnessed a Labour feeding frenzy before. Starmer is finished” – In the Telegraph, Tom Harris sees the writing on the wall for soon-to-disappear Keir.
• “Keir Starmer accused of cover-up after No 10 briefings investigation ended” – Keir Starmer has been accused of a cover-up after he vowed to sack those responsible for claims Wes Streeting was mounting a coup, but now says no such briefings came from Downing Street, reports the Times.
• “Globetrotting Keir Starmer spends a sixth of his time abroad” – After revelations that Not Here Keir is spending as much as a sixth of his time out of the country, the PM is being urged to focus at home and delegate travel amid Labour hitting its lowest poll rating, reports the Times.
• “Fury as No 10 says Starmer is willing to pay billions to Brussels” – Downing Street has sparked anger by signalling that the Prime Minister is preparing to give in to EU demands for cash payments in return for improved access to the single marked, reports the Mail.
• “I’ve never known a Government as staggeringly naïve as this one” – Rumours that the Government may struggle to pass the Budget are an indication it has lost the confidence of Parliament, says Steve Davies in the Telegraph.
• “Hermer Scuppers UK Intelligence-Sharing With United States” – Guido reports that the Attorney General, Richard Hermer, has been blamed for the suspension of SIGINT intelligence-sharing with the United States over the killing of drug-dealers.
• “Lord Hermer cuts US intelligence sharing over ‘drugs boats’ strikes” – Lord Hermer fears Britain could face a challenge under international law if found complicit in the Trump administration’s operations in the Caribbean, reports the Times.
• “Reeves abandons tax raid on wealthy people fleeing Britain” – Starmer has reportedly abandoned plans for an income tax rise and the Chancellor has ruled out an ‘exit tax’ over fears it could result in a further exodus of millionaires, according to the Telegraph.
• “Trump plans shock Venezuela strikes within days” – The Mail reports that Donald Trump is planning strikes on Venezuela within days and has been presented with a suite of military options by his top generals.
• “EV owners to pay London congestion charge from January 2026” – Electric car drivers will have to pay the London congestion charge for the first time from January, a move one private hire operator described as a “major own goal” that would undermine Sir Sadiq Khan’s green credentials, according to the Times.
• “At COP30, UN Declares War On Free Speech To Silence Climate Dissent” – At COP30, the UN is moving to stifle climate dissent through its Orwellian ‘Information Integrity’ push, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
• “German Energy Professor: COP30 Is A Failure – ‘Only Europe Remains Committed’” – In No Tricks Zone, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt declares COP30 to be a flop.
• “Centrica boss Chris O’Shea: Ofgem is no longer fit for purpose” – At a critical moment for Britain’s energy future, the current regulatory framework has not kept pace with today’s demands, writes Chris O’Shea in the Times.
• “RFK Jr probes health dangers of offshore wind turbines” – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has ordered the CDC to investigate wind projects’ effects on the health and safety of commercial fishermen, according to CFACT.
• “Giant blade breaks off Massachusetts wind turbine” – A blade detached from a 300-foot wind turbine and fell into a cranberry bog, reports Boston.com.
• “Put Britain’s safety before migrants’ rights, Mahmood to tell judges” – Shabana Mahmood will force judges to prioritise public safety over the rights of illegal migrants in a crackdown on asylum claims, says the Telegraph.
• “Tower Hamlets sums up modern Britain’s ‘diversity’ problem” – It’s been revealed that councillors in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets are simultaneously standing for election in Bangladesh. Is anyone surprised, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Sectarian voting is preventable” – The Gaza Independents are pursuing an organisational strategy which can be countered, argues Emma Schubart in the Critic.
• “Giorgia on My Mind” – In the New Conservative, Prof Roger Watson reports from Italy on Europe’s migratory pressure cooker.
• “Bataclan Massacre – 10 Years On” – On Substack, ‘Cunning Jon’ marks the 10th anniversary of the most horrific day in rock and roll history.
• “Islamist Violence and Official Silence” – A month after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack, the UK still refuses to take its number one terror threat seriously, writes Daniel Allington in Quillette.
• “The persecution of our local politicians” – Have a thought for Darren Grimes, the 32 year-old Reform councillor, says Toby in the Spectator. Since becoming Deputy Leader of Durham County Council in May, he has been investigated more than two dozen times by his officials following complaints of the usual sort.
• “How Britain became a surveillance state” – With one camera for every 10 people and facial recognition on the rise, Big Brother has the nation firmly in its sights – but at what cost, asks Ben East in the Telegraph.
• “Brighton beach rape: three migrants to go on trial” – Two Egyptian citizens and an Iranian, who all arrived in Britain via small boats, are accused of attacking a 33 year-old woman in October, reports the Times.
• “Why is the NHS in a flap about flags?” – There is nothing ‘intimidating’ or racist about the English flag or the Union Jack, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Police inspector ‘made bogus racism allegations against colleague’” – Metropolitan Police officer Zahir Asghar tried to frame a colleague by making bogus allegations of racism against her, a court has heard, according to the Telegraph.
• “Are 30-40% of conservative Gen Z staffers really Groypers?” – Last week, Rod Dreher caused a stir in Washington after claiming that an “older insider” had told him between 30 and 40% of conservative Gen Z staffers on Capitol Hill and in the Trump administration are ‘Groypers’, followers of far-Right streamer Nick Fuentes. Emily Jashinsky in UnHerd is unconvinced.
• “Katie Hopkins rages at police after they drop inquiry into ‘one word’” – Columnist and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins has railed at Devon and Cornwall Police claiming they had finally ended their inquiry into her use of the word ‘spaz’ to describe herself, reports DevonLive.
• “Male rapists can no longer identify as women, says Chief Constable” – Police Scotland has agreed to accurately record the sex of alleged offenders in a U-turn that campaigners say is long overdue, reports the Times.
• “Top maths society withdraws ‘unlawful’ trans inclusion policy” – The London Mathematical Society has backed down on its draconian trans inclusion policy after a gender-critical lecturer whose objections were ignored threatened legal action, the Times reports.
• “Labour’s Troubles bill ‘provokes special forces exodus’” – Elite soldiers from the SAS and SBS are said to be quitting amid fears they could be hauled into court decades down the line for missions carried out on the Government’s behalf under Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, the Telegraph reports.
• “This is the worst film since Cats” – Christmas Karma, a woke musical take on Dickens from Gurinder Chadha, is the most dreadful thing to happen to Christmas since King Herod, says Robbie Collin in the Telegraph.
• “The UK’s tax take, take, take” – Lionel Shriver skewers the “ludicrous” and insatiable UK tax system in the Spectator.
• “The economic orthodoxy of the last 20 years has failed Britain. It must be dumped” – We need to abandon collectivist policies, argues David Frost in the Telegraph, as true growth comes from the free market and private enterprise.
• “Christianity on Trial in Modern Europe” – Europe’s moral pulse is fading, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Restoration. “The very values that sustain its democracies — decency, discipline and discernment — were born from the Christian worldview now being eliminated.”
• “Children’s book portrays Picts as black” – The Picts have been depicted as black in a new book intended to show that Scotland has always been “multicultural and diverse”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Without decent data, the country is flying blind” – Once a world leader in reliable statistics, the ONS is in chaos — making public policy impossible, says Sonia Sodha in the Times.
• “Assisted dying bill set to face delays after record list of amendments” – Assisted dying faces delays after more than 940 amendments were tabled before the Lords’ scrutiny of the much-debated proposed law, reports the Times.
• “Police and Crime Commissioners failed to hold useless officers to account” – As it’s announced that PCCs are to be abolished come 2028, David Spencer argues in the Spectator that while they won’t be missed, if Labour returns police ‘accountability’ to the shadows things will only get worse.
• “The Covid Index” – Check out the new initiative from Children’s Health Defence, an “extensive, growing directory of evidence exposing the many falsehoods promoted by dishonest officials and major media outlets throughout COVID-19”.
• “Wall Street’s dreaded ‘fear index’ explodes higher as brutal stock sell-off intensifies” – All three major indexes – the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 – recorded steep losses on Thursday, reports the Mail.

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