News Round-Up

• “Parliament ‘could delay Christmas break amid workers’ rights law row’” – Keir Starmer has vowed that his workers’ rights overhaul will pass Parliament by Christmas despite suffering another humiliating defeat in the Lords, according to the Mail.
• “Teenager stabbed to death in Islington came from devout Christian family” – A keen Bible reader and skateboarder has been killed near his school, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farage’s former school says racism claims ‘profoundly distressing’” – Dulwich College says allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are “profoundly distressing” and “entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today”, according to Sky News.
• “Taking down the past” – The ahistoricism of Labour’s leaders is worse than ignorant, says Alex Story in the Critic. It is deliberate.
• “Ex-marine banned from coaching after calling Southport killer a ‘creature’” – A former Royal Marine has been banned from working with children after describing the Southport killer as a “creature”, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Army Captain in dock for defending his girlfriend by tackling man who groped her at Army Christmas bash” – An “exceptional” Army Captain has been court-martialed after he “defended” his girlfriend by tackling a civilian who groped her at a military Christmas party, reports the Mail.
• “Nothing to do with either law or justice” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan argues that Britain has strayed into extrajudicial punishment.
• “Thought for the Day is Left-wing propaganda dressed up as Christianity” – The BBC Today programme wears the skin of tradition while promoting radical open borders ideology, says Stephen Pollard in theTelegraph. Turn it off.
• “Primal Scream merge swastika with Star of David at live show” – Primal Scream have been reported to police over antisemitic imagery displayed at the Roundhouse, says the Sun.
• “EU poised to reverse ban on petrol cars” – The EU is set to push back its ban on new petrol and diesel cars by five years, reports Carwow. With manufacturers already struggling to meet EV targets, will the UK reconsider its own deadline too?
• “Revenge of the climate realists” – In the Free Press, Peter Savodnik says those who doubted climate catastrophe narratives are finally being vindicated.
• “The climate cult’s dissolution is inevitable” – The climate cult declared war on the very engines that lifted humanity from hunger and hardship, writes Vijay Jayaraj in the Hill. But the spell is breaking.
• “EV mandates threaten entire European car industry” – The boss of Ford has sounded the alarm over EV mandates, says Paul Homewood on Not A Lot Of People Know That.
• “Media outlets shill for climate risk firm, despite no evidence showing climate change threatens homes” – Multiple outlets claim that First Street’s climate risk analysis for homes is essential, but the company’s analysis misses the mark, writes Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “Why progressives are ditching climate laws and dooming the planet” – Progressives are quietly backing away from their own climate laws as the costs and chaos mount, report the Energy Bad Boys on their Substack.
• “The Christmas gift that climate Grinches can’t abide” – Rising CO₂ is greening the Earth, boosting crops and feeding a growing population – proof that modern warmth can be a gift, not a curse, says Vijay Jayaraj in American Greatness.
• “Covid face masks were dehumanising and manky. Wear them again?” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts asks whether we must really heed Mr Elkeles and the officials rushing to demand a return to masking.
• “Now the truth can be told: media acknowledges Covid vaccines may have caused deaths of children” – On Substack, Ian Miller claims the media continues to gaslight the public even as outlets admit possible vaccine harms.
• “The puberty blocker trial is nothing less than the state sanctioned chemical castration of children” – Claire Coutinho says that Labour is pushing a dystopian plan to test puberty blockers on healthy children, reports the Mail.
• “Has the British Medical Journal lost its scientific credibility?” – On the Wry Observer, Dr Andrew Bamji argues that recent BMJ coverage has uncritically embraced the Hallett Inquiry.
• “Gaza doctor murdered Israeli hostage by injecting air into her veins” – Footage appears to show a medic injecting air into a 19 year-old Israeli hostage at Shifa Hospital, says the Mail.
• “Hamas ‘hoarded baby milk to manufacture hunger crisis’” – Hamas has been accused of hoarding tonnes of baby food to heap diplomatic pressure on Israel by worsening hunger in Gaza, reports the NY Post.
• “Leaked document shows US wants to pull four countries away from the EU as part of Make Europe Great Again strategy” – A US defence website claims to have seen a leaked document unveiling a dramatic US proposal to prise four countries away from the EU as part of a bold new ‘Make Europe Great Again’ strategy, says the Mail.
• “I wouldn’t do Doge again” – Elon Musk has suggested he would not repeat his time at Doge if he had the chance, according to AP.
• “Will Australia’s social media ban work?” – Australia has slapped age limits on social media to protect kids, but teens are already plotting workarounds, writes Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
• “Magistrate punished for sharing gender-critical video on WhatsApp” – A magistrate who has campaigned to protect single-sex spaces has been reprimanded for sending a “transphobic” video on a parish council WhatsApp group, according to the Mail.
• “My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O’Hanlon – that includes you” – In the Telegraph, Graham Linehan says he expected more from old friend Ardal O’Hanlon who he argues has chosen to condemn rather than defend women’s rights.
• “Reaction to my Charlie Kirk comments was racist, claims former Oxford Union President-Elect” – George Abaraonye says he has been subjected to racist abuse after his remarks about Charlie Kirk, according to the Telegraph.
• “How ‘racist’ became a meaningless accusation” – A generation raised on woke dogma now treats the ‘racist’ label as a badge, not a condemnation, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Waste product” – Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, ‘Enshittification’ prolongs its squalid past, says Andrew Orlowski in the Critic.
  “Prince Harry’s phone hacking case suffers another blow” – A private investigator has cast serious doubt on Baroness Lawrence’s claim that the Daily Mail bugged her, reports the Telegraph. 
• “British greatness has nothing to do with Paddington” – The Left used to abhor tweeness – but now they claim it is at the heart of our national identity, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “It is striking that Keir Starmer has produced a list of 25 people which basically come from inner London” – On GB News, Lord Hayward says Starmer’s “truly staggering” 25 House of Lords Labour appointments are overwhelmingly London orientated and “not representative of the nation”.

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