News Round-Up

• “Mahmoud turns air blue as she blasts liberal critics of asylum reform” – The Telegraph reports on Shabna Mahmouds potty-mouthed defence of her newly announced migration policies.
• “Families to be paid to leave UK under Mahmood’s asylum crackdown” – Under the new plans, migrant families whose asylum claims have been rejected will be deported if they refuse cash incentives to leave the UK, the Telegraph reports.
• “Labour backlash growing over asylum crackdown” – Mahmood’s party colleagues describe her planned overhaul of the migrant system as “cruel” and “divisive”, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s migrant crackdown descends into farce” – Ministers are backtracking on plans to seize migrants jewellery on their arrival into the UK, according to the Mail.
• “The fatal flaw in Shabana Mahmood’s migration plan” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark points out a large hole at the centre of the new migration policy.
• “Denmark’s migration maverick: I created a blueprint for Europe” – The Telegraph meets Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the former prime minister behind Denmark’s tough immigration laws.
• “Liberal Europe is turning its back on the ECHR” – There was uproar when Denmark first passed its migration laws. But, says the Telegraph, they are fast becoming the norm in Europe.
• “Nearly half of Labour voters want Keir Starmer to step down” – A Times poll has found that the Prime Minister’s popularity has reached a new low.
• “The Islamisation of Germany reveals an uncomfortable truth” – “Mass migration is leading to the loss of Europe,” writes James Jeffrey in the Telegraph. “We cannot ignore this any longer.”
• “NHS faces ‘doom loop’ without AI, says Euan Blair” – Euan Blair, the son of the former PM who runs the tech group Multiverse, has warned that the NHS risks falling into a “productivity doom loop” unless its workers start using AI, the Telegraph says.
• “Rapist may get compensation as ‘electronic tag made him depressed’”– Mustafa Taskiran, 48, a rapist who has avoided being deported for more than a decade could receive compensation because an electronic tag made him feel “depressed”, according to the Mail.
• “Tulip Siddiq’s aunt sentenced to death in Bangladesh” – Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death for ordering a crackdown on student protests which left 1,400 people dead, the Telegraph reports.
• “Trump concedes defeat on Epstein files as he orders GOP to vote” – Trump had previously called all attempts to release the files part of a Democrat hoax, the Mail says. But he is now urging the GOP to vote for their release.
• “Epstein, Nothingburger” – Eugyppius regrets that he must once again write a piece on the Epstein files.
• “Sadiq Khan’s £1 million bus lane removed after three months” – A petition calling for the removal of a buss lane in Finchley has been signed by more than 1,700 residents, reports the Telegraph, and it’s now been removed.
• “BBC chairman vows to fight Trump in $5 billion legal battle” – BBC Chairman Samir Shah has told staff that there is “no basis for a defamation case”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Did the BBC kill Diana? This book suggests so” – The Telegraph reviews a new book, Dianarama, the Betrayal of Princess Diana in which author Andy Webb investigates a previous Panorama scandal.
• “Yes, the BBC should apologise – for its Covid fearmongering” – “ The BBC’s doctoring of a Trump speech on a Panorama programme is bad enough,” says Liz Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman, “but it pales into insignificance when you consider its coverage of Covid over the past five years.”
• “Cancel culture comes to Non-League football” – Russell David takes aim at the feminisation and excessive caution that is disrupting non-league football.
• “Inside Your Party’s disturbing Manchester rally” – Israeli Florit Shoihet gives the Spectator an account of her meeting with Your Part, which proudly describes itself as the “only anti-Zionist party in the entire country”.
• “Graham Linehan in trans row with Father Ted star” – Graham Linehan has fallen out with a former Father Ted star over his views on transgender issues, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Poison pill’ risks burdening Telegraph with UAE debt” – The Telegraph reports that it risks being saddled with a multi-million pound shortfall after RedBird Capital Partners pulled out of its bid to buy the paper.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 16” – In Trust the Evidence, Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan tell of an algorithm designed to identify the source of an epidemic outbreak to within a few dozen metres.
• “A novel analysis of the Pfizer trial: Vaccine effectiveness was nowhere near 95%” – Eyal Shahar explains for the Brownstone Institute why he never trusted the Pfizer trial. “That 95% effectiveness against a respiratory virus was too good to be true,” he writes.
• “Debunked! European and Oceanian Covid vaccine studies torn to shreds” – Raphael Lataster of Okay Then News announces the arrival of the third and final part of his meta-critique of influential studies purporting to show that the COVID-19 vaccine are successful.  
• “Monkeypox immunity lasts two years, vaccines last two minutes” – Roger Watson in the Conservative Woman welcomes some good news about immunity to Monkeypox and some bad news for monkeypox vaccines.
• “Hard-working families are being destroyed to pay for the benefits class” – “We are stuck in a compassion trap,” says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph, “where the productive are forced to provide for the rest of society.”
• “Cancel crowd were actually green with envy” – “Modern battle cries that felled the writer Kate Clanchy and others were hiding a more ancient motive for vindictiveness,” says James Marriott in the Times. Namely, envy.
• “Tesco renames Christmas tree as ‘evergreen tree’” – Tesco is under fire for rebranding Christmas trees as “evergreen trees”, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Doge philosophy is working – cutting council waste is just the start” – Richard Tice explains in the Telegraph that after cutting unnecessary local authority spending, Reform’s next target will be the over-diagnosis of neurodiversity in children.
• “Laffer loathing: my love/hate relationship with a napkin” – “Government sceptics must robustly reject socialist goals,” says Isabel Paterson. “We need to frame the debate so we assess the benefits of public spending against the full range of harms caused by high tax rates.”
• “How Maga is being ripped apart by a young far-right influencer” – The Mail profiles Nick Fuentes, the far-right pundit who has plunged the Republicans into a ‘civil war’.
• “Has QAnon been vindicated?” – “The online movement has, obliquely, been the best guide to events over the past decade,” says Travis Aaroe in Spectator World.
• “Thanks to climate change fearmongers, even the air is scary to young people” – “It’s only a matter of time until snowflakes start skipping work because ‘difficult climate emotions’ are impacting their mental health,” says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “Ocean rises, Science sinks” – Willis Eschenbach takes aim at the idea that a tiny rise in sea levels might be responsible for frigid winters in East Asia, for Watts Up With That?
• “Bill Gates memo confirms the climate change agenda is all about power” – Bill Gates’s recent assertion that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” was not the result of his rethinking climate science but his reacting to a new political reality, says W. J. Lee on Amac.
• “El País lies when claiming that climate change ‘threatens the future of food’, it doesn’t” – Spanish-speaking news organization El País claims climate change is threatening food production. “This is false,” says Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “Climate crisis isn’t a con but it’s time for some realism” – Amber Rudd calls for some Net Zero realism in the Times.
• “If professionals are not allowed to take part in political debate… then democracy suffers” – Watch Patrick Lee on Free Speech Nation, the man who was expelled from the IFoA for his ‘Islamophobic’ social media posts but who has won the first leg of his case in the Employment Tribunal.

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