News Round-Up

• “Labour’s latest assault on the constitution is its worst yet” – Only the electorate should decide who becomes an MP, says the Telegraph.
• “Bank of England issues urgent economy warning as employers cut staff at fastest pace since pandemic” – UK unemployment is at 5% as employers cut staff at the fastest pace since the pandemic, reports GB News.
• “Revealed: Streeting, Rayner and the pact for No 10” – Wes Streeting’s allies are said to be offering Angela Rayner a return to Cabinet if she backs him in a future leadership contest, according to the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch is making the Commons her own – Keminism is coming” – The Conservative leader is putting Labour under pressure in Parliament and enjoying every minute, says the Telegraph.
• “Christopher Harborne, the ‘intensely private’ mega-donor bankrolling Reform UK” – A profile of the crypto-rich donor bankrolling Reform UK from his Thai retreat, in the Guardian.
• “Has Reform peaked?” – The Spectator asks whether Reform’s surge is stalling as Labour refocuses and the political weather changes.
• “Why can’t Bridget Phillipson admit she’s wrong about free schools?” – Labour needs to realise that free schools and academies don’t just improve outcomes for their own pupils, reports the Spectator.
• “Keir Starmer could prove to be the unwitting saviour of Brexit” – The Prime Minister’s reverse Midas touch could end up reinforcing Brexit rather than reversing it, says the Telegraph.
• “Liz Truss to present talk show billed as ‘home of the counter-revolution’” – Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister is launching a new talk show as the “home of the counter-revolution”, according to the Telegraph.
• “National Library of Scotland apologises for gender-critical book ban” – The National Library of Scotland has apologised after barring a gender-critical book linked to the Scottish gender law reform row, says the Times.
• “A fifth of private schools slashed bursary funding before VAT fee hike” – Independent schools face a “triple whammy” of costs as bursaries are cut and poorer pupils lose out, reports the Times.
• “Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law goes on trial over ‘extortion and dealing’” – Ramsay El Nakla is on trial alongside three co-accused in a case that also references allegations linked to a death in Dundee, says the Scottish Daily Express.
• “The boycott of Eurovision exposes the racism of the Israel-bashers” – Anti-Israel mania is fuelled by double standards and hypocrisy, argues spiked.
• “Guinness World Records refuses attempts made in Israel” – An Israeli charity says Guinness World Records is refusing attempts made in Israel, according to the Telegraph.
• “Slipping Through Our Fingers: How democracy is being eroded” – There comes a moment when you realise that something has gone seriously wrong, reports the Free Mind.
• “Labour bans trans women from women’s conference” – Trans-identified males will be restricted to fringe events outside the main hall, according to party rules, says the Telegraph.
• “Will Britain Ever Love Free Speech Again? – Hungarian Conservative” – Covid revealed that we are a nation of tutters, conformists and curtain twitchers, said Toby Young in a speech in Hungary, according to the Hungarian Conservative.
• “I Thought Climate Change Would End the World. I Was Wrong.” – My worldview was built on apocalyptic models sprung from faulty assumptions, writes Ted Nordhaus in the Free Press.
• “Labour members want Ed Miliband as leader as half of party predict they’ll lose the next election if Starmer stays put” – A poll suggests deep unrest among Labour members, with Ed Miliband emerging as a surprise frontrunner, reports the Mail.
• “Woman told she can’t sue employer on environmental grounds because she uses planes to go on holiday” – A woman has been told she can’t sue her employer on environmental grounds because she flies on holiday, says the Mail.
• “Hunting foxes is a British birthright – Unesco should protect it” – Labour should recognise fox-hunting’s centrality to Britain’s cultural inheritance, according to the Telegraph.
• “HSBC BANS staff Xmas jumpers over fears they could trigger customers in hardship” – HSBC has reportedly banned Christmas jumpers in branches for fear of upsetting customers facing hardship, reports the Sun.
• “Trump: Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ from migration” – Europe will be “unrecognisable” within 20 years if current migration trends continue, Trump has warned, says the Telegraph.
• “Writer who had ‘affair’ with RFK Jr leaves plum new job at Vanity Fair” – Olivia Nuzzi has left her new Vanity Fair job less than three months after being appointed, according to the Mail.
• “London school is named the best secondary in the country – check to see if yours made the top 10” – The Mail rips the Sunday Times’s guide to the best schools in the country – and the West London Free School, founded by yours truly, has been named the best comprehensive in the country!
• “Germany has effectively committed industrial and potentially political suicide in front of our eyes, and we all commended them for their morality. What morality?” – Watch a clip of Lord Glasman’s Global Warming Policy Foundation Lecture.

“Germany has effectively committed industrial and potentially political suicide in front of our eyes, and we all commended them for their morality. What morality?” Lord Glasman said at our Annual Lecture. pic.twitter.com/wImVbWy0J6

— The Global Warming Policy Foundation (@GWPF_org) December 5, 2025

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