News Round-Up

• “Teacher banned after telling Muslim child that Britain is Christian country” – A teacher was banned from working with children after telling a Muslim child that “Britain is still a Christian state”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Channel migrants smuggling heroin for gangs” – Asylum seekers are being used as drug mules in cut-price crossings, reports the Mail.
• “Migrants granted asylum without face-to-face interviews” – Migrants are being granted asylum without face-to-face interviews as the Home Office tries to clear a backlog of claims, says the Express.
• “Algerian migrants snatching designer watches from black cab passengers” – The Mail reports on a crime wave targeting late-night travellers.
• “Migrants, migrants everywhere – and not a drop to drink” – In TCW, Alp Mehmet blames mass migration for the growing pressure on water supplies.
• “Grooming gangs and Islam – with Mark Durie” – A new report on grooming gangs and religious factors is discussed on the Christian Concern YouTube channel.
• “Churches using pro-migrant posters to challenge Tommy Robinson” – A Christian campaign is trying to reclaim religious imagery from Right-wing protests, reports the Telegraph.
• “New media guidelines for reporting on Muslims and Islam published” – A new report setting out media guidelines for reporting on Muslims and Islam has been published by the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia, in conjunction with Newcastle University and the National Union of Journalists, says the Asian Image.
• “The never-ending punishment of Jamie Michael” – For Jamie Michael, an ex-Royal Marine who was acquitted by a jury but has been labelled a ‘safeguarding risk’ by the Welsh FA, the process is the punishment, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “University student, 18, stabbed to death on night out” – Henry Nowak, an 18 year-old university student, has died after suffering multiple puncture wounds in Southampton, reports the Sun.
• “Employment slumps to 14-year low as Labour hammers jobs” – Uncertainty and rising staffing costs are weighing heavily on recruitment activity, says the Telegraph.
• “Entrepreneur who backed Labour shuts business over ‘economic uncertainty’” – An ice cream shop owner says soaring labour and energy costs have destroyed profitability, according to the Telegraph.
• “Pubs outraged as Selfridges and Harrods see business rates slashed” – Smaller businesses are facing hikes while luxury stores are seeing big cuts under business rates reform, reports City A.M.
• “Take a week off work if your distant uncle dies, says Labour” – Workers will be entitled to a week off work to mourn the death of a distant family member under proposals being considered by ministers, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Starmer’s union Bill risks dragging Britain back to the 1970s” – The Government’s pro-union reforms put Labour interests before the country’s, says the Times in a leading article.
• “Barristers vow to ‘bring courts to their knees’ in strikes against David Lammy’s jury trial reforms” – Criminal barristers are threatening industrial action over plans to slash jury trials, reports the Daily Mail.
• “‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries” – The Guardian speaks to a range of people who have seen juries’ work close up about their experiences and David Lammy’s sweeping proposals.
• “Labour’s abolition of our ancient liberties is putting us on the road to tyranny” – The Justice Secretary is ditching long-standing protections for short-term gains, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Strip Sadiq Khan of power to run Met, report says” – A new report recommends that Sir Sadiq Khan be stripped of responsibility for overseeing the Met Police after a slump in public confidence in the force, says the Telegraph.
• “The danger of civil service overreach” – Rigid bureaucracy is undermining lawful and proper government conduct, argues Baroness Amanda Spielman in the Critic.
• “The dirty truth about Britain’s waste incinerators” – Mountains of rubbish that could be recycled are instead being burnt, with mostly foreign firms profiting from it, writes Martin Fletcher in the Telegraph.
• “Polar bears and Arctic sea ice status” – This year shows no reports of starving bears, notes Polar Bear Science.
• “Greenpeace asks Dutch court to overturn multi-million-dollar US verdict” – After a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $667 million over its rogue campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the group is now trying to get a Dutch court to wipe out the award, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
• “The West vs the rest” – Developing nations are reshaping global climate negotiations, writes Robin Guenier in Cliscep.
• “Blue states backtrack on green agenda as energy costs bite” – Rising prices and grid instability are forcing policy reversals in Dem strongholds, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Wrong, Financial Times, the Arab region faces no climate emergency” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken dismantles the FT’s latest climate-doom sermon.
• “How universities have corrupted climate science” – In TCW, Dr Shane Fudge blames academic incentives for distorting climate research.
• “Europe isn’t alone in getting tough on refugee policy” – Far from being exceptional, mass deportations are becoming an increasingly common global tool, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
• “US vs EU: how Trump is gunning for Europe’s woke policies and mass migration” – Washington’s new security strategy is rattling Brussels and delighting European populists, reports the Daily Mail.
• “Chancellor Friedrich Merz has filed more speech crime charges than anyone in German history” – Germany’s toughest censor is also the German with the thinnest skin, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Schools plunged into lockdown as ‘super-flu’ sweeps nation” – Experts are warning of a tidal wave of infections disrupting education, reports LBC. Again? Have we learned nothing?
• “The BBC should check its facts” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan accuse the BBC of touting “90,000 deaths” over Hep B with no data.
• “Prof Robert Scragg tries to show the Covid vaccines are perfectly safe” – Prof Robert Scragg fudged raw data to defend Covid vaccines and criminalise a whistleblower, claims Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
• “The hidden contradictions of Operation Talla” – Ethical Approach UK conducts a forensic analysis and challenges key assumptions in a major operation established to coordinate the policing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• “BBC sparks ‘woke’ fury over new Doctor Who spin-off” – Viewers have denounced Russell T. Davies’s The War Between the Land and the Sea as heavy-handed virtue signalling, reports GB News.
• “The National Lottery funded a transgender group called ‘Squirrel Friends’” – On substack, Charlotte Gill reveals how the The National Lottery Community Fund recently funded “a gender identity support group” called “Squirrel Friends”.
• “The trans craze aftermath” – What happens to those caught up in the social contagion, once it has passed? asks Helen Joyce in the Critic.
• “The Left is aggressively secular and atheist, and what they really like is any tradition except our own” – On Talk Women, journalist Allison Pearson voices concern over fading Christmas traditions.

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