News Round-Up

• “Has Rachel Reeves crashed the economy?” – If Rachel Reeves was hoping for a glimmer of good news in today’s GDP figures, she has been left disappointed, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “This is Reeves’s most humiliating U-turn yet” – It’s no surprise that markets expect a lender’s premium when Labour have proven themselves so irresponsible, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves plots new tax on middle-class homeowners” – Rachel Reeves will introduce a new levy on middle-class homes in the Budget as she finalises plans to raise £25bn to shore up the country’s finances, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reeves ‘credibility crisis’ as markets batter UK after tax hike U-turn” – Markets have been heaping risk premium on UK borrowing after the Chancellor’s extraordinary backtrack on raising income tax – which came despite weeks of heavy hints and tough talk, according to the Mail.
• “No one on Starmer’s team seems to know the rules of the game” – All governments need an underlying story. This Government does not have one, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Council loses bid to stop numbers of migrants being housed in the city” – Coventry City Council took the Home Office to court over plans to place more asylum seekers in the city, arguing it was already accommodating far more than comparable areas. But it lost, says the Mail.
• “Failed Egyptian asylum seeker remanded in custody accused of rape” – Mohammed Fathi Eltbie, 24, is accused of attacking a woman in Bournemouth, according to the Mail.
• “Birmingham is a failing city – and a worrying harbinger of Britain’s future” – Integration and economic revival still stand a chance in Birmingham, in spite of the city’s all too visible dysfunction, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Labour wants to mimic Denmark’s asylum crackdown. Here’s why it won’t work” – Britain’s political divides and legal constraints make a Nordic-style migration strategy almost impossible to pull off, writes Colin Freeman in the Telegraph.
• “What resident doctors don’t want you to know about their pay” – The long-running pay dispute between resident doctors and the Government has resulted in yet another five-day walkout, reports the Telegraph.
• “Your Party MP quits after donations row” – A pro-Gaza MP has quit Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new hard-Left party over its “toxic” culture, says the Telegraph.
• “Renters’ Rights Act to trigger ‘fire sale’ as landlords race to sell up” – Working people will suffer as plummeting supply risks driving rents higher, experts warn, according to the Telegraph.
• “Immigration judge backed prosecution of Boris Johnson” – James Dixon, an immigration judge, broadcast his political views on his LinkedIn profile despite his role in the judiciary, reports the Times.
• “Lord Mandelson caught relieving himself against a garden wall” – The disgraced former US Ambassador was seen relieving himself against a garden wall after a late-night visit to George Osborne’s Notting Hill home recently, says the Mail.
• “Mauritius government in crisis over Chagos deal” – The coalition government in Mauritius is on the verge of collapse as a row escalates about the “excessive concessions’” it has made to the Government of the UK, according to the Telegraph.
• “A Journalism of Deception” – Graham Majin, aformer BBC journalist, explains in Quillette how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
• “The real reason centrists are crying over the BBC crisis” – They love the Beeb not because it stands up for truth, but because it shares all their high-status opinions, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “How smug Nick Robinson led the BBC’s brazen defence of its own mendacity” – Smug Nick Robinson did his employer no favours when he mounted a brazen defence of its own mendacity on the Today programme.
• “Sky News Arabia accused of whitewashing genocide” – Sky News Arabia has been accused of whitewashing genocide in Sudan, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fear of respiratory viruses this winter” – On Trust the Evidence, Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan explain why the NHS isn’t facing a tidal wave of flu patients this winder.
• “The Diana scandal should have cost four BBC bosses their jobs” – For 30 years, Directors-General have repeatedly escaped due accountability for one of the worst debacles at the corporation in recent memory, writes Andy Webb in the Telegraph.
• “Abortions based on sex of babies could be legalised under plans considered by SNP”– Women could abort babies based on their sex under reforms being considered by SNP ministers, campaigners have claimed, says the Telegraph.
• “Woolly mammoths a step closer to ‘de-extinction’” – Woolly mammoths are a step closer to coming back from extinction after scientists made a key genetic breakthrough, according to the Telegraph.
• “Speeding driver ‘who could not see 40mph sign’ convicted” – A motorist who complained that new road signs indicating the speed limit had falled from from 70mph to 40 has lost his case, reports the Telegraph.
• “EV drivers swerved £30m of road tax this year” – Electric vehicle drivers dodged an estimated £30 million of road tax this year, Government figures show, says the Telegraph.
• “Nearly half a million speeding fines on 20mph roads” – Nearly half a million speeding fines have been issued on roads with 20mph speed limits, according to new data, reports the Telegraph.
• “How do we keep the lights on with 12 GW net firm capacity at risk of retirement by 2030?” – With 12 GW of CCGTs and 5 GW of nuclear capacity at risk of retiring by 2030, and long lead times for replacements, how will we meet demand? asks Watt-Logic.
• “BBC ‘indoctrinating children with pro-trans agenda’” – The BBC has been accused of “indoctrinating” children with pro-trans programmes, says the Telegraph.
• “Is there anyone who thinks the Terminally Ill Adults Bill is safe and workable?” – The chief executives of leading charities MIND and Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse condemned the assisted dying bill as unworkable in the Lords, reports Politics Home.
• “China hijacks AI to launch automated cyber attacks against the West” – Chinese hackers duped a platform to hunt for spying targets, write malicious code and harvest sensitive data, says the Telegraph.
• “German police raid a libertarian’s home for the crime of calling civil servants ‘parasites’, advise him to ‘Think carefully about what you post in future’” – A new insane German speech crime investigation just dropped, reports Eugyppius on his Substack.
• “Lucy Letby is in prison. But her hospital is still a nightmare for patients” – The Countess of Chester Hospital remains mired in chaos, with patients and inspectors alike damning its standards of care and cleanliness, according to the Telegraph.
• “Financing Woke” – Why the ‘vibe shift’ won’t be enough to end corporate progressivism, according to the Pimlico Journal.
• “The Guardian’s Matthew Goodwin hit job doesn’t add up” – It was only a matter of time before the Guardian went for Professor Matthew Goodwin, says Laurie Wastell in the Spectator. But couldn’t they have done better than this?
• “The Jewish blood libel is back. It’s return should trouble us all” – Alleged comments at UCL – Jews drink the blood of gentiles, apparently – were not a departure from frenzied Israelophobia, but the logical conclusion to it, says Brenadn O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Green Deputy Leader jeered for saying small boat migrants are ’Surgeons’ and ’Engineers’” – The Deputy Leader of the Green Party has been publicly mocked for claiming that asylum seekers due to be housed in the local barracks were “doctors, engineers, scientists”, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “The Deputy leader of the Greens comes face-to-face with real people for the first time” – Jake Wallis Simons is revelling in the attack on Rachel Millward following her claim that the asylum seekers to be housed in ex-army barracks are “doctors, engineers, scientists”.

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