News Round-Up
- “Why should any of us care about a terrorist’s ‘human rights’?” – When an Islamist plotter can take legal action over being isolated in prison – and win – we must ask whose interests the law is defending, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging PM amid Labour plotting” – Andy Burnham has stopped short of ruling out a return to the Commons to challenge Sir Keir Starmer, reports the Mail.
- “BBC investigated by US watchdog for ‘deceptive’ Trump edit” – The BBC is being investigated by the US broadcast regulator over its editing of a speech by Trump, says the Mail.
- “How the BBC covered up the Bashir scandal” – In the Spectator, Tom Mangold exposes how the BBC covered up Martin Bashir’s deceit in the Diana interview, revealing a tangled web of lies, cover-ups and institutional cowardice.
- “The greatest threat to the economy? The Employment Rights Bill” – The Employment Rights Bill could allow one to start a job at 9am and claim unfair dismissal an hour later, warns Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “Channel Tunnel owner blames tax rises as it scraps UK investment” – The owner of the Channel Tunnel has suspended all UK investment following a Government decision to increase its business rates by tens of millions of pounds, according to IndexBox.
- “From the river and across the sea: taxpayers fund PhD on ‘Queer Palestinians in the diaspora’” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill returns with another example of woke nonsense.
- “Fly-tipping is out of control and gangs have spotted an opportunity” – Fly-tipping gangs are cashing in while weak enforcement lets them trash Britain with impunity, reports Patrick Galbraith in the Telegraph.
- “Four LTN cameras rake in £1.4 million from drivers in just one month” – Labour-run Merton council has raked in £1.4 million in fines from new low-traffic neighbourhood cameras in just one month, according to the Telegraph.
- “Activists were given scripts on how to promote the London ULEZ expansion” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill exposes how activists, posing as ordinary Londoners, were given scripts by NEON and the Clean Cities Campaign to promote ULEZ.
- “It’s official – Mad Miliband’s plan will push up electricity prices by £265 a year” – It seems the media are finally waking up to Miliband’s lies, says Paul Homewood on Not A Lot Of People Know That.
- “Britain’s national security must not be sacrificed to Net Zero” – We are furnishing our enemies and our competitors with a permanent and unnecessary economic advantage, warns ex-SIS head Richard Dearlove in the Spectator.
- “Did a battery fire just kill the COP30 climate conference?” – A fire has erupted at COP30 just as talks were closing, sending delegates fleeing and disrupting negotiations, reports Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Warmists feel a growing chill” – In Climate Scepticism, Tony Thomas takes a sceptical look at mainstream climate science.
- “Green depression: German companies fight for survival – insolvencies reach peak in October” – Germany serves as an example of how not to manage energy supply and economics in a country, writes P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
- “Is it really the end of climate cancellation?” – Benjamin Zycher, writing for the American Enterprise Institute, cuts through the spin to argue that climate cancellation isn’t over – just evolving.
- “Sturgeon misled Scottish public with zero-Covid claim” – The COVID-19 Inquiry has found that Nicola Sturgeon misled the public by claiming her plan to eliminate coronavirus in Scotland was achievable, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Covid Inquiry, shockingly, has endorsed the destructive madness of lockdown” – Almost five years after the crisis, Hallett and her crew have run up a monstrous tab and come up with a giant nothingburger, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “What’s the point of Stephen Cottrell, the woke archbishop who’s silent when Christians are slaughtered?” – Why is the Archbishop of York so keen to criticise Israel but deafeningly silent on the mass slaughter of Christians by Islamists in Nigeria? asks Julian Mann in TCW.
- “Northern Ireland’s Christian RE crackdown should trouble us all” – This is a story about teaching materials in a Northern Ireland school, but it’s also a story about more than that, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “UK holds talks with LinkedIn on clamping down on Chinese espionage” – The Government is holding talks with LinkedIn on how it can clamp down on Chinese espionage activity after a rare interference alert was issued by MI5, reports the Guardian.
- “Who can stop Europe’s Right-wing Mamdani?” – Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen’s “lion cub”, has taken a commanding lead in the polls, writes Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “Trump and Putin’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine” – The Telegraph reveals the entire 28-point plan put forward by Trump to end the war in Ukraine.
- “Russia welcomed back to G7 under Trump peace plan” – Russia will be freed from Western sanctions, rejoin the G7 and take back the majority of its frozen assets under Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Zelensky agrees to negotiate on Trump’s peace plan” – Volodymyr Zelensky has agreed to negotiate on the basis of Trump’s controversial 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse” – Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the most difficult, and probably the last, winter of the war, warns Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Zelensky cannot agree to the Witkoff peace deal” – If Zelensky signed this deal, Ukraine would become instantly ungovernable, writes Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s Epstein gamble” – Trump’s haters hope the Epstein files will take him down, but with the House now backing full disclosure, the fallout may hit others harder than the President, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “CDC recognises studies supporting link between childhood vaccines and autism” – Three weeks after the McCullough Foundation published ‘Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder’, the CDC has finally acknowledged studies supporting a vaccine-autism link, writes John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
- “Autism and vaccines” – RFK Jr’s CDC answers common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
- “Excess deaths and hidden data: Dr Clare Craig on her landmark case against the UKHSA” – On YouTube, Sonia Elijah talks to Dr Clare Craig about her landmark case against the UKHSA.
- “How are home abortions ‘progress’ when they’ve hospitalised 50,000 women in five years?” – True progress is not measured by how efficiently we can end a life, but by how faithfully we defend it, writes Michael Robinson in TCW.
- “There’s no easy way to manage single-sex spaces” – The EHRC’s draft guidance tries to juggle biology, perception and practicality on single-sex spaces but ends up pleasing no one, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “I was drawn to Prince Harry’s ‘childlike wonder’” – The Mail reports on a yet another eyebrow-raising interview by Meghan Markle.
- “British politicians are prioritising their political careers over the lives of their own citizens” – Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff exposes the uncomfortable truth that politicians are too afraid to admit: the British Government has effectively joined the global jihad agenda.
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Apropos of nothing, I remember reading in the Arabian Nights all about African slaves held by I guess the Arabs. Are they going to be paying reparations too?
Expanding on this theme, weren’t the Neanderthals the original inhabitants of Europe? We then got colonised by Africans. I’m calling for reparations for anyone with Neanderthal DNA. You heard it here first.
Indeed.
And for centuries the Ottoman Empire kidnapped people from Eastern Europe and enslaved them – please can I have some compensation too, as I’m from that part of Europe.
As an example with British connections, see the story of Florence (Lady) Baker. She was sold as a slave in 1859. Only she was lucky enough to be “bought” (and then of course freed) by a decent English gentleman.
What a fascinating historical snippet— I’d never heard of Lady Florence Baker before, so thanks for drawing attention to her remarkable life.
The Romans colonised Britain. I feel a bit of trauma coming on when I think of the brutal treatment my ancestors suffered under the Romans. Who do we apply to for reparations? The Italian government? The Pope?
I share your trauma. Especially when you mention reparations.
Ireland took thousands of young, usually male, slaves from the west coast of Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries, at 16 years old St Patrick was one of them!
Reparations Mehole Martin?
Speaking of human rights for dangerous criminals, I totally agree with Frank Haviland here. What I find incredulous, and more than a bit messed up and hypocritical, is that there are more MPs in favour of decriminalizing killing a baby up to full-term than there are in favour of bringing back capital punishment for the most heinous of crimes. Make that make sense. I’m glad Rupert Lowe brought this up in Parliament, but he got the response that you’d fully expect from the morally bankrupt goons; ”I have written previously in favour of a reintroduction of the death penalty in Britain, and before you accuse me of being an unmitigated blowhard, let me say from the outset that I am genuinely sympathetic to both sides of the argument; it is a deeply problematic issue. While, as an atheist, I am not persuaded by religious opposition, I am absolutely on board with the imperative to eradicate bias, human error, and bad faith actors from the proceedings. Nonetheless, for the most egregious crimes—particularly the murder of children—I maintain that purely on moral grounds, those who deny victims their fundamental right to life should immediately forfeit their own. By robbing victims—and their families—of birthdays, milestones,… Read more »
What religious opposition? From Judeo Christian perspective the death penalty was instigated with Noah after the flood story, as a deterrent to the anarchy which had lead up to the flood. In particular it needs to be handled by the state to stop blood feuds , and so it’s not something to be requested by the victims family. I agree there are certain cases where there is absolutely no doubt and the penalty can be safely applied, and in doing so it maintains human dignity because it properly punishes those who absolutely deny it. The command is do no murder not, not to kill
We need to remember that the Ten Commandments handed down by Moses were first for Hebrews only, not to commit adultery with or murder their fellow Hebrews, for example. They were free to do all those things to Gentiles, as Moses himself proved when the first thing he did as an adult, by way of showing his gratitude to the Egyptian Princess who had adopted him as a baby and raised him in royal luxury, was to MURDER AN EGYPTIAN MAN, after Moses saw the Egyptian slap his own Hebrew servant. Moses then helped the Egyptian’s Hebrew servant BURY THE EGYPTIAN’S BODY IN THE SAND.
You are wrong about it only applying to how they treat each other. Do I dedect some anti-Semitism there? Cain was condemned for murder before any Jewish law existed. The law to Noah was before any Jew or Jewish law existed. Why are you making it about the Jews with a negative spin. I am not sure what you mean by ‘free to’. We are all potentially free to transgress any law, and then it’s a case of do you get away with it or not. King David Israel’s greatest ever king was also a murderer and an adulterer. So what do you mean he wasn’t free to if it was against fellow Jews? You completely miss the point of the Jews being chosen and hate them for it, because you think it is meant to mean they are better, when it most emphatically doesn’t. They were chosen as a people to bring forth the Christ and the cultural context for his work to make sense, and the fact that they seemingly made every effort not to is part of the story.
When what constitutes an actual ‘crime’ has been redefined over the years, this is what you end up with; ”According to Home Office data, only six per cent of victim-based crime resulted in a charge last year. So, yes, reports of domestic burglary may be down – but in half of the country, not a single burglary has been solved in the past three years. In more than 160 parts of London, the Met Police failed to solve a single neighbourhood crime over the same period. For some crimes, the police have stopped bothering altogether. Two months ago, the police announced they won’t investigate bike thefts at train stations if the bike has been left for more than two hours. It’s effectively waving the white flag to thieves. That’s why ‘crime’ is down. It’s why you also get the same fake ‘crime is down’ stats in New York City or Chicago. Crime isn’t down. Police simply aren’t responding, investigating, or taking reports, and in many cases, people are no longer bothering to call the police. Crime, under the Starmer regime, is simply the new normal. It’s all part of being enriched by Pakistan. Snatch theft, for instance, rose a whopping… Read more »
Not strictly to do with this specific post but following on from stuffed dummy Starmer failing to walk and talk at the same time – his [hysterical] stumble walking into the G20 grift gathering – No 10 are apparently asking broadcasters to remove the footage!!!!!!! As Guido says: sounds like North Korea.
“The greatest threat to the economy? The Employment Rights Bill”
No, the Labour, Greens, liberals and Tory parties!
“Almost five years after the crisis, Hallett and her crew have run up a monstrous tab and come up with a giant nothingburger…”
Gosh, really? I certainly didn’t see that coming.
Took five years to find a carpet big enough to sweep the whole sorry mess under.
May I add this to today’s Round-Up: Troubles legacy legislation not a national security threat, Benn says – BBC News “New legacy bill passes next stage at Westminster” “Last week, nine senior former military officers raised concerns over the bill and warned that “lawfare” had become a “direct threat to national security”.” It IS a “National Security Threat” !!! THIS is the whole crux of the matter: “THE MEASURES WERE AGREED IN A JOINT FRAMEWORK WITH THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.” WHAT ???!!! Why on earth is our own UK government COLLUDING WITH A FOREIGN POWER to prosecute our own British Army veterans, just to please that FOREIGN POWER? This is TREASON. There is no public demand for this lawfare. No British citizens want our own British Army veterans to be hounded by money-grubbing lawyers and bent judges and “investigation committees” staffed by Catholics motivated solely by REVENGE. Ireland is a HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER, which fomented and encouraged IRA CATHOLIC TERRORIST ATTACKS on the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom for decades, partially funded by Catholics in foreign countries, in which thousands of British citizens were murdered and grievously wounded, including elected British politicians in the 1984 Brighton Hotel Bombing, a direct… Read more »
Good, in a way. The more the government turn the Armed Forces against them, the better. 👍
All we need now are senior Officers with the backbone to do what needs to be done.
You do have a point, but it will be no comfort to those brave military veterans who are now, and will continue to be, if this outrageous bill passes, dragged through the courts for decades to come, in order to satisfy the Endless Vindictive Bloodlust of Catholic Terrorists.
This bill must be thrown out, and Boris Johnson’s Legacy Act restored in its entirety.
Unlike most other politicians, HE KEPT HIS PROMISE to the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, and he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for it.
It doesn’t have to continue for decades, there is a solution.
Yes. The House of Lords can throw it out, without amendments or anything. Just chuck the whole thing in the bin, and restore Boris Johnson’s Legacy Act.