News Round-Up

• “Rayner plots move against Starmer” – Angela Rayner is laying the ground for a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer, with reports that she has been offering Cabinet roles to MPs in exchange for support, according to the Telegraph.
• “First Labour MP calls for Starmer to step down” – Clive Lewis has said Andy Burnham should return to the Parliamentary Labour Party and “become the next Prime Minister”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Chancellor looks haunted, distraught, even helpless. This is why I now believe there’s every chance of a financial crisis – perhaps even before Christmas” – Rachel Reeves must know her second Budget is likely to be her last, says Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “White House fury at Trump ‘monster’ jibe in showpiece BBC lecture” – The BBC commissioned Dutch author Rutger Bregman to deliver its flagship annual lectures – and Bregman used the events to compare Trump’s America and the rise of fascism in the 1930s, prompting fresh White House ire, reports the Mail.
• “Don’t use BBC licence fee cash to settle with Trump, bosses warned” – Keir Starmer has been accused of failing to stand up for the broadcaster after the US President’s threat to sue for up to $5 billion, says the Times.
• “The BBC needs unconscious bias training” – Deep down – or perhaps not so deep – many BBC staff are biased against those not dining from their smorgasbord of progressive, identity-politics ridden claptrap, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “How smug Nick Robinson led the BBC’s brazen defence of its own mendacity” – In TCW, David Keighley is unimpressed with Nick Robinson’s conspiratorial ravings about a “Right-wing coup” on the Today programme.
• “Government ‘withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths’” – The UKHSA has been accused of a cover-up after refusing to publish data that could link the Covid vaccines to excess deaths, with the Information Commissioner backing the agency after a two year battle, the Telegraph reports.
• “Public Support Net Zero – But Don’t Want To Pay For It!” – A new YouGov poll once again shows that, while the public supports Net Zero in principle, there are large majorities against banning gas boilers, banning petrol cars, new taxes on meat and taxing gas bills, while most also oppose closing gas power stations, notes Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism Is Crumbling” – Climatism, the ideology pushing for a global transition to Net Zero energy, faces a rising tide of opposition across the world, says Steve Goreham on Real Clear Energy.
• “Labour faces a choice: AI or net zero” – New technology requires data centres whose energy needs are likely to increase emissions, says Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
• “Aussie Mainstream Opposition Formally Abandons Net Zero” – The centre-Right Australian Liberal Party has formally abandoned Net Zero by 2050 – but has said reaching the target would still be a “welcome outcome” and has not committed to withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, according to Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “COP30 Dispute Erupts over the Legal Definition of a Woman” – One of the goals of the COP30 climate conference is helping women allegedly affected by climate change, but a row has broken out over whether men in a dress should count, says WUWT.
• “Nature Claims its Circulation Is Decreasing” – In WUWT, Willis Eschenbach dismantles the latest fear porn from Nature about the ‘collapsing’ Gulf Stream and its underlying ocean currents.
• “Exposed: The Hoax That Targeted Health Freedom” – In Brownstone Journal, Jeffrey Tucker exposes a scam carried out by undercover climate activists targeting US health freedom supporters.
• “Revealed: The 14,000 foreign criminals let off for saying sorry – with sex offenders, drug traffickers and violent thugs all escaping charges” – 14,000 foreign criminals have been let off with an apology, the foreigners being among more than 412,000 offenders who escaped receiving a criminal record because they were handed ‘community resolution orders’ instead, reports the Mail.
• “The Government wants more criminals out in the streets” – The Government is bringing in a pile of arcane new rules about selling knives but failing to do the one thing that actually cuts crime: locking criminals up, says James Lachrymose in the Critic.
• “Report: UK grooming gangs and Islam by Mark Durie” – In a detailed report for Christian Concern, Dr Mark Durie argues that the religion of Islam is more connected with grooming gang criminality than ethnicity is.
• “The shady BMW driving ‘Mr Fixit’ who sets up mini marts across Britain for asylum seekers to rake in £150k a year selling illegal cigarettes” – While his true identity is unknown, he operates under the names Shaxawan Jamal and Kardos Mateen; to others he is simply referred to as ‘the accountant’, says the Mail.
• “Why I weep for my country. For more than 20 years, I’ve warned mass migration risks undermining our way of life. Now I fear the nation we love is slipping away from us” – In the Mail, Sue Reid worries that the Britain we know and love is disappearing for good.
• “The EU’s new censorship machine” – As part of its new ‘Democracy Shield’, the EU Commission proposes the creation of a Monitoring Centre that would identify and remove “false content” and “disinformation” from the internet, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “I know a way to destroy the woke Blob. But you won’t like it” – In the Telegraph, Dan Hannan owns up to being the inventor of Police and Crime Commissioners, arguing that, while they failed, the principle of direct democracy is the only one that can tame the Blob.
• “Men ‘portrayed as either frightening or pathetic in film and TV’” – Men are being portrayed negatively in popular culture as either pathetic or frightening, most people believe, according to a new survey for the Centre for Social Justice, the Telegraph reports.
• “NHS wants to fly trans Pride flags opposite Parliament” – The NHS is under fire over plans to fly transgender flags from a hospital in direct sight of the Houses of Parliament, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Islamic world is astonishingly silent on its gruesome history of slavery” – Any talk of reparations that doesn’t include the Arab countries and Turkey is dishonest, says Justin Marozzi in the Telegraph.
• “Trump withdraws support for ‘ranting lunatic’ Marjorie Taylor Greene” – Donald Trump has withdrawn his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene in a social media tirade, accusing the controversial Republican congresswoman of having “gone far Left”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Caribbean nations to press Britain for trillions in slavery reparations” – Caribbean nations will press Labour MPs for trillions of pounds in slavery reparations in a meeting next week, the Telegraph reports.
• “How woke and anti-woke erase blackness” – We must see race, but not be ruled by it, argues Glenn Loury in UnHerd.
• “Genetically enhanced babies are a vision of a dark new future” – In the name of scientific progress we are drifting towards a worldview in which children’s bodies become raw code to be rewritten and human limits are treated as problems to fix, says Stella O’Malley in UnHerd.
• “Sally Rooney’s regime literature” – Irish novelist Sally Rooney has cornered the market in predictable bourgeois Leftism, says Hugo Timms in Spiked.
• “James Watson and the cancellation of genius” – If we don’t completely overturn and reverse woke and everything it stands for, geniuses will be suppressed, innovation will be stifled and problems will not be solved, writes Professor Edward Dutton in TCW.
• “Army using Chinese company to make weapons despite security concerns” – The British Army is using Chinese-made 3D printers to build weapons despite national security concerns, the Telegraph reports.
• “President Trump went full West Coast and dropped a rap video so effective the BBC panic-bought traffic cones and declared martial law in Salford” – Watch the Crewkerne Gazette’s latest satirical rap video marking Trump’s legal threat against the BBC.

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