News Round-Up

• “Thousands of migrants let in despite failing language tests” – Thousands of migrants may have been given visas despite failing mandatory English language tests following a blunder over marking, according to Conservative Post.
• “Areas where half of pupils don’t speak English” – New figures reveal large parts of the country where English is now a minority classroom language, reports the Daily Mail.
• “The liberal UK city where a raging illegal migrants row over flags and Christmas lights reveals simmering tensions” – A bitter dispute over flags and festivities has exposed deep political divisions in SNP-led Aberdeen, writes Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Daily Mail.
• “Farage takes fight north of border” – Reform has launched its Scottish push in Falkirk as immigration dominates local debate, reports Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Labour pledges to cut massive youth benefits bill with work in pubs” – Ministers have unveiled an £820 million plan to push almost one million young people into work, says the Daily Mail.
• “Labour pay rises will stop young getting jobs, warns minimum wage pioneer” – The founder of the Low Pay Commission has warned that higher wages risk worsening youth unemployment, reports the Telegraph.
• “Wealth inequality is not Britain’s real problem” – Despite what the likes of Gary Stevenson would have you believe, wealth inequality is not a pressing issue, says Kristian Niemietz in CapX.
• “Britain is a neurocracy” – Modern politics is dominated by psychological classification rather than leadership, argues Spaceman Spiff on Substack.
• “Labour’s Islamophobia definition risks ‘harming women’s rights’, ex-equality watchdog chief warns” – The ex-head of the Government’s equalities watchdog has warned a new definition of Islamophobia could be used against women’s rights campaigners, reports GB News.
• “The British crypto billionaire funding free speech battles against the police” – In the Telegraph, James Titcomb profiles BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo.
• “Octopus Energy ramps up electric car charging costs” – Britain’s biggest energy provider is raising the cost of charging electric cars in a fresh blow to drivers, reports the Sun.
• “Death of the plug-in hybrid: why drivers face a triple tax for every mile they drive” – New mileage charges has sparked fears of a fire sale in hybrid vehicles, says Joe Wright in the Telegraph.
• “UK scientists demand free TV time to deliver their emergency climate briefing” – Campaigners have called for a nationally televised climate ‘emergency’ broadcast, reports Eric Worrall on Watts Up With That.
• “Greenland Petermann Glacier gas grown 30kms since 2012” – On NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin shows that Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has grown by more than 30kms since 2012.
• “The welcome demise of climate change catastrophism” – Is the American Left finally waking up from its decades-long climate catastrophism stupor? wonders Josh Hammer in Townhall.
• “New study: temperature-driven CO₂ outgassing explains 83% of CO₂ rise since 1959” – Researchers argue that warming oceans, not emissions, drive most CO₂ increases, says Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
• “Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists” – In the Sunday Times, Hadley Freeman urges the Health Secretary to resist campaigners as he reviews ADHD diagnoses.
• “The winter crisis has arrived” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan report on yet more biased and confused BBC reporting.
• “The winter crisis has arrived – part 2” – The NHS churns out rubbish ‘flu’ data, the BBC hits the panic button and nothing changes, say Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on the TTE Substack.
• “CBS medical correspondent claims 2000 children died from COVID-19” – On the Focal Points Substack, Peter A. McCullough shows that the widely cited “2,000” child Covid deaths are inflated, with genuinely virus-caused deaths likely numbering only in the low hundreds.
• “Study: common vaccines linked to 38–50% increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s” – A study of 13.3 million people links higher vaccine exposure to elevated dementia risk, writes by Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
• “French Government plan to ‘label’ news outlets backfires spectacularly” – Macron’s proposed media accreditation system has stoked fears of creeping authoritarianism, says RMX News.
• “Putin’s ready to fight but UK isn’t, as figures show stark reality of our forces” – Defence chiefs warn Britain’s Armed Forces are too “hollowed out” for a conflict with Russia, reports the Sun.
• “How Ukraine’s corrupt politicians are forcing Kyiv towards a Putin-approved peace deal” – A vast embezzlement scandal threatens to weaken Zelensky’s position in negotiations, says the Daily Mail.
• “The West needs bogeymen (especially Russia)” – The arrest of a Ukrainian detective linked to Zelensky has sparked fresh scrutiny of Western narratives, writes John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
• “What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy” – The Atlantic Council dissects Trump’s newly released, bombshell National Security Strategy.
• “EU fines Elon Musk’s X $140 million amid free speech clash” – Brussels has escalated its confrontation with American tech firms over online speech, reports Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “Welfare fraud in Blue cities: how pervasive is the kleptocracy?” – The Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scandal has reignited a national debate on corruption, writes Francis Menton on Manhattan Contrarian.
• “How Jaguar’s ‘woke’ rebrand turned into a car crash” – In the Telegraph, Matt Oliver asks what on earth is going on at Jaguar? 
• “We’re all Mary Whitehouse now” – Moral censorship is alive and well in today’s cultural battles, says Niall McCrae in TCW.
• “You couldn’t make it up” – EU President Ursula von der Leyen tells a crowd the EU protects freedom of speech – at the very moment a man is arrested for protesting.

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