News Round-Up
- “Asylum seeker charted trip to Britain on TikTok where he raped girl” – An Afghan asylum seeker jailed for brutally raping a 15 year-old British schoolgirl in a park charted his journey across Europe on TikTok, reports the Mail.
- “A horror is unfolding before our very eyes” – Enough is enough, says Sarah Vine in the Mail. The jailing of two Afghan migrants for raping a schoolgirl exposes truths politicians have tried too hide for too long.
- “Afghan migrant who said ‘I don’t know’ 158 times when quizzed about his background is allowed to stay in Britain” – An asylum seeker who arrived in 2022 has been granted leave to remain despite repeated gaps in his account, reports the Mail.
- “It’s time to tell the truth about how many people really live in Britain” – Proper migration and crime policy depends on accurate population data, says Katie Lam in the Telegraph.
- “The truth about crime and illegal immigration is even worse than you imagine” – Despite the clear risk to public safety, the state is still letting in large numbers of fighting-age men, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. And yet, too often, its real priority seems to be keeping voters in the dark.
- “Are Muslims Britain’s future? An assertive new generation puts faith first” – A growing cohort of young British Muslims is placing religious identity at the centre of public life, notes Rakib Ehsan in UnHerd.
- “Rachel Reeves admits Budget leaks were ‘unacceptable’” – Rachel Reeves has admitted there were “too many leaks” about the Budget and that they were “very damaging”, reports the Mail.
- “Found another black hole, Chancellor? Reeves says she ‘reserves the right’ to hammer Britain with more taxes” – Rachel Reeves has declined to repeat past guarantees that she won’t raise taxes, says the Mail.
- “Rachel Reeves has put an expiry date on this Government” – Labour is staking Britain’s economic future on an unidentified recovery miracle, warns James Baxter-Derrington in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is about to prove that Britain is ungovernable” – Our country’s last chance may be a Reform-Tory coalition after a 2027 election, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. If that fails, all bets are off.
- “Fifty pubs and restaurants ban Labour MPs after Reeves’s latest Budget” – A grassroots boycott against Labour MPs is spreading through pubs after the Winter Budget, reports Guido.
- “Kemi Badenoch brutally mocks ‘caretaker’ leader Starmer at PMQs” – The Tory leader has taken aim at Labour’s infighting and Starmer’s authority at PMQs, says the Mail.
- “Badenoch is right on masks” – Fresh mask mandates would demand yet more sacrifice from an already overburdened public, says theTelegraph in a leading article.
- “Mask mandates in the news” – Disastrous pandemic-era policies are quietly returning, note Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson on the Trust the Evidence Substack.
- “Government makes offer to call off doctors strikes amid ‘superflu’” – Ministers have moved to avert industrial action as hospitals report unprecedented winter flu pressure, reports the Mail.
- “Barry Young’s criminal trial continues” – Barry Young, who leaked anonymised New Zealand health data said to show the Covid vaccines were killing people, goes on trial on December 11th at 9am at Wellington District Court. On Substack, Steve Kirsch talks through the case with him and encourages supporters to turn up in person.
- “Die another day: the peers who refuse to let the euthanasia Bill pass” – A small group of Lords are insisting the assisted dying Bill is fundamentally unsafe, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “More than 40% of Scottish children classed as special needs” – Pupils in Scotland are now twice as likely as those in England to be recorded as having additional support needs, reports the BBC.
- “The special needs racket is out of control” – The expansion of SEND is diverting resources from genuine special needs pupils as well as from classrooms in general, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Gerry McCann, it’s press freedom not tabloid excess that is the issue today” – Tougher regulation will only hobble print media and deprive the public of reliable sources of news, argues Toby in the Telegraph.
- “David Olusoga is misrepresenting British history” – David Olusoga’s new BBC series on the empire brushes over facts which might confuse its black-and-white narrative, says Nigel Biggar in the Critic.
- “I am an unapologetic Zionist” – The Chancellor has told a Labour Friends of Israel event that there is “nothing inherently wrong” about believing Jews have the right to self-determination, reports the Telegraph.
- “Claim: childhood exposure to tropical heat and climate change makes people stupid” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall takes on a new study claiming childhood heat exposure stunts development.
- “African Energy Chamber to G20: fossil fuel future” – The African Energy Chamber has urged the G20 to prioritise responsible fossil fuel development to meet the energy needs of millions still without power, writes Robert Bradley Jr. on Master Resource.
- “Aussie climate scientists demand their own energy guzzling supercomputer” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall is shocked that Aussie climate scientists want their own energy-guzzling supercomputer, especially with Australia struggling to supply low-carbon electricity to data centres.
- “Astrophysicist Dr Willie Soon challenges the climate consensus … it’s the Sun, not CO2” – On NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin flags a candid interview with astrophysicist Dr Willie Soon, who asserts that the Sun is the overwhelmingly dominant force driving Earth’s climate, not human-emitted CO2.
- “Past global warming more rapid than today’s: the Younger Dryas” – On Clintel, Ralph B. Alexander illustrates how the Younger Dryas ended with a natural warming surge far quicker than current trends.
- “What happened to the climate change cult?” – In Townhall, Arthur Schaper provides an analysis of the decline of climate activism and its transformation into anti-Zionism.
- “The European Commission is creating an army of censors” – The EU is splurging billions of euros on new anti-disinformation measures, writes Epp Tuul on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “Elon Musk is right about the EU” – The Brussels bureaucracy now poses a direct threat to liberty and national sovereignty, warns Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Trump to force foreign tourists to provide five years of social media” – Foreign tourists are set to be forced to hand over the past five years of their social media history in order to enter the US, reports the Mail.
- “China would destroy US military in fight over Taiwan, top secret document warns” – According to a top secret Pentagon report, the US would suffer a devastating defeat and lose its biggest aircraft carrier if it tried to stop China invading Taiwan, says the Mail.
- “Final Epstein files are unsealed by judge in dramatic last act” – A Manhattan federal judge has granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking investigation, reports the Mail.
- “Reform UK councillor arrested at LGBTQ festival cleared of wrongdoing” – A Reform UK councillor handcuffed and arrested at an LGBTQ festival after she accused it of being “unsavoury and unsuitable for children” has been cleared of wrongdoing following a six-month legal ordeal, says the Mail.
- “I do not agree with transgender tennis players, it is unfair” – World number one Aryna Sabalenka says it would be unfair for women to face “biological men” in professional tennis, according to Sky Sports.
- “The woke Left can’t see white without seeing red” – Only the terminally online can turn Pantone’s mundane “colour of the year” announcement into a race row, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “There’s no such thing as Human Rights” – In the Mail, Peter Hitchens argues that human rights are an empty modern invention that offer no real protection.
- “‘Men in suits clinging on to a Magna Carta myth’” – In the House of Lords, Toby calls on the Justice Minister to condemn Labour MP Natalie Fleet’s comments smearing defenders of trial by jury as “men in suits clinging on to a Magna Carta myth”.
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Peter Hitchens is correct. The superior entity confers rights onto the inferior one. I recognize the validity of that in the case of God, but in a Democratic system the State is meant to be the inferior entity, much as it likes to pretend otherwise – by conferring rights on citizens, for example.
“Fresh mask mandates would demand yet more sacrifice from an already overburdened public, says theTelegraph in a leading article.”
Not really. “Sacrifice” is not the right word. “Mask mandates” don’t make any medical sense.
“Rachel Reeves admits Budget leaks were ‘unacceptable’” according to the Mail.
But according to the BBC “Too many unauthorised pre-Budget leaks, says Reeves“.
So: Rachel says there were authorized pre-budget leaks.
She made 90% of them in the preceding month…!
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1998340490739986599 ‘During his speech in a public meeting with Putin, Russia State Duma Speaker Volodin referenced a tale about a “corrupt AI minister” in Albania — a story that turned out to be satire from the Croatian outlet Newsbar.’ ‘The speaker, known mostly for his support of the singer Shaman, somehow didn’t even consider that it’s impossible to arrest artificial intelligence. But that’s not even the point. We often talk about problems in Ukraine’s public administration – and rightly criticize the current situation. But just look at how Russia’s public administration has degraded under Putin. It’s not just that the fourth person in the state is an idiot…..This means that everyone around is an idiot. That there is no fact-checking service, no reference department, that the speaker is not prepared for a meeting with the country’s president, who alone decides the fate of all officials. And believe me, as someone who worked in the Russian parliament for decades – it was never like this. And that’s why I am very pleased with what I see. Putin will ruin it after all. Let him dig deeper.’ Vitaly Portnikov, Columnist for Radio Liberty, Member of the PEN Ukraine, a laureate of the… Read more »
“More than 40% of Scottish children classed as special needs”
“Claim: childhood exposure to tropical heat and climate change makes people stupid”
Ain’t climate change a bitch?
Presumably most of these children who are now perceived as having special needs spent their early years under lockdown.
And I don’t think “tropical heat and climate change” are likely to be responsible in Scotland.
I realise that it’s not uncommon for young children to still have the odd toilet accident when they’re just starting school, but personally I don’t think any kids should be starting full time school if they’re still in nappies. This article does make me wonder how many kids are from a different culture and maybe toilet roll isn’t a thing at home. It’s that dreaded shower head ‘douche’ system. 😮 ”More than 1,000 teachers in the German state of Hesse have called for comprehensive changes in an incendiary letter, which has been delivered to the state’s Ministry of Culture. In the letter, they state that many elementary school children are not able to complete simple tasks such as tying their shoes or use toilet paper. “Keeping order, recognizing and adhering to rules, using the toilet independently,“ are all listed as tasks students cannot do in the new resolution, which includes using toilet paper themselves. Students can also no longer “cut, glue, sit (upright), or tie their shoes,“ the report reads, which was reported widely in the German media, including Welt. Citing the letter, Junge Freiheit also reports that “independent personal hygiene is not always a given – colleagues even reported students who did… Read more »
On the subject of personal hygiene: as with all the other cultural differences, we can’t expect to mass import these people who live completely differently to us and just expect them to change their ways organically. This is beyond naive as this short clip illustrates;
”Minnesota Food Plant Worker Exposes Violent, Filthy Third-World Chaos After Mass Somali Hiring
– They urinated and defecated everywhere
– Had to put up signs explaining how to use the bathroom, they ignored them
– Men washing their genitals in the sinks
– Brought in a roach infestation.
– Brought knives into the facility
“There’s no rule of law. How you expect them to integrate within modern society is beyond me. It’s a real problem and it’s a major reason why I left Minnesota.”
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1998954556063977564
”I worked at Supervalu/Unfi in Hopkins MN for 30 years. Largest food distributor in 4 states. It took me to call the MN health department to stop Somalis from washing their genitals in the bathroom sinks. Both the union and company threatened my job because of that call. Fact.” David Shiplet
“Claim: childhood exposure to tropical heat and climate change makes people stupid” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall takes on a new study claiming childhood heat exposure stunts development.
So, people from historically hot areas such as Africa and Middle East are inherently stupid?
So the early (European) anthropologists in the 17th century thought. Funny how climate change has caused researchers to unlearn what the ensuing centuries have discovered.
Of course it’s got less to do with lack of education, no learning habits acquired from parents, facilities to study after the sun goes down, poor health, other demands on the kids’ time? Oh no. It’s got to be the heat.
I wonder if that’s why so many H. Sap left Africa? They wanted a colder climate and better education for their kids in Scotland perhaps?
“Gerry McCann, it’s press freedom not tabloid excess that is the issue today”
Why would anyone listen to parents who left three young children on their own, in a unfamiliar place, with no babysitter whilst going for dinner and drinks?
As a parent, I have never heard anyone in my circle say they would do the same, NEVER is what they all say! you never leave kids that age on their own,not even for a few minutes! If we couldn’t get a babysitter we didn’t go out!
Being Doctors does not allow you to do this!
It is their fault no matter the consequences of the disappearance
Well said! The supposedly responsible doctor parents left their TWO-YEAR-OLD TWINS and THREE-YEAR-OLD Madeleine alone in an unlocked hotel room in a foreign country, when they had plenty of money to hire babysitters, while the doctor parents went swanning off for an evening of dinner & drinks elsewhere, not even in the same building !!!
As you rightly said, no normal parents would ever do this to their own helpless toddlers. Imagine how terrified the little ones were when they woke up, cried for their parents, and found they were all alone in a strange country, with no one to help them, and their parents gone?
The McCanns should both be in jail for CHILD NEGLECT, and their remaining twins should have been taken from them.
God gave them three helpless little children to treasure and protect, and what did they do but shamelessly abandon them to go out wining and dining, as if they had no children at all !
You’ve stolen my words!👍
Use Occom’s razer and this would be the obvious scenario:
Madaline wakes up just after being checked on by her parent, calls out for mummy/Daddy, no response, dark and in tears, wonders around looking for them, falls down the outside steps, breaks neck, parents on next visit find her lifeless, medical training kicks in, doctors, pilots, emergency personnel spend their whole careers dealing with life and death situations, dual consensus convinces reality, if this comes out our carreers and reputations are finished and our two other children go into care! They dispose of the body, gather themselves and cry abduction!
What do you think?
I think that’s a very reasonable explanation of what might have happened, especially since the Portuguese investigator insisted that his police cadaver dog strongly reacted to the area behind the sofa, and he was also convinced they were guilty by their over-the-top display of histrionics in front of police, shrieking and screaming and wailing in an Oscar-worthy performance that raised the suspicions of all the attending police.
Another strange possibility was raised by an anonymous UK intelligence person, if I remember correctly, who said she would never be found, because she had been sold beforehand by her parents as a kind of Illuminati Sacrifice, and taken to a submarine to “entertain” the crew for a few years, as he said stolen children sometimes are in the world’s navies, until they grow older and are no longer of interest.
The anonymous person said all this stuff about Christian Brueckner was just a smokescreen.
“Asylum seeker charted trip to Britain on TikTok where he raped girl”
“Afghan migrant who said ‘I don’t know’ 158 times when quizzed about his background is allowed to stay in Britain” [Of course his British Lawyer told him to say this]
But look at how PAKISTAN & IRAN have already dealt with AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS:
The two countries that have deported 2.5m Afghans in 2025 | World | News | Express.co.uk
“Altogether, it is thought that Iran and Pakistan have OUSTED around 4.5 MILLION AFGHANS IN TOTAL amid economic difficulties and xenophobic rhetoric – 2.5 MILLION this year alone. More than 1,000 people were deported from Pakistan in just 24 hours…”
Pakistan says “it cannot accommodate the Afghan refugee community any longer.”
Isn’t it odd that PAKISTANI SHABANA MAHMOOD NEVER MENTIONS THIS???
This is PROOF that Rupert Lowe is RIGHT to say that Mass Deportations from the UK are entirely possible.