News Round-Up

• “Is British civilisation really being erased?” – Mass migration risks making the UK and its neighbours unrecognisable – and America could one day cut us loose, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Hundreds of migrants make break across Channel” – Nine boats set off for Britain on Saturday after storms stopped crossings for 28 days, notes the Telegraph.
• “Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK” – British Jews are growing increasingly concerned about multiculturalism and immigration, writes Samuel Rubinstein in UnHerd.
• “The great Polish exodus: The arrival of 100,000s of Poles changed the face of Britain, but now they’re returning home in droves for a better life in their low-tax, booming homeland. Could there be a more damning indictment of our decline?” – New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000, according to the Mail.
• “Jeremy Clarkson becomes the latest publican to ban ‘all Labour MPs’ from his boozer” – The Clarkson’s Farm star immediately banned Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer from his pub when it opened last year. Now, he has taken the next step, reports the Mail.
• “Tories to scrap ban on petrol cars” – Kemi Badenoch has said the Tories will ditch the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars if the party wins the next election, calling it an “economic act of self-harm”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Climate Concerns? Zuckerberg’s Diesel-Chugging, Carbon-Spewing Megayacht Says Otherwise” – Zuckerberg talks climate doom, but his diesel-chugging megayacht burns more fuel than hundreds of households — and sinks his credibility, writes John Nolte in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Khan to be stripped of Net Zero powers that block housebuilding” – Mayors and council leaders, including Sir Sadiq Khan, will be stripped of powers to make ‘gold-plated’ Net Zero demands under plans to boost housebuilding, says the Telegraph.
• “Moron Miliband Hands £1.5 Million of Taxpayer Money to Make Vegan Supplements” – Ed Miliband has bankrolled plans to make vegan supplements on the site of the former Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland. This is completely crazy, says Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “The renewables trap” – The truth is, any government that is serious about reducing electricity prices faces economic, legal, diplomatic, political and constitutional chaos, perhaps for years, laments Andrew Montford in Net Zero Watch.
• “China’s ‘Climate Hero’ Image Crumbles — Coal Still Powers Most Electricity” – China’s renewable hype fades as coal still fuels the majority of its electricity, exposing the gap between perception and reality, says Andrew Stuttaford on Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Meat sales soar as health-conscious Britons ditch plant-based food for protein” – Concerns about ultra-processed vegan products are fuelling consumer demand for chicken and fish, according to the Telegraph.
• “Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other?” – In UnHerd, David Paton cuts through the flu hysteria.
• “Injected Vaccines, Mucosal Immunity and Incoherent Estimates of Effectiveness” – After reassessing the trial data, Professor Eyal Shahar writes on Medium that it’s time for the FDA to implement a major revision in the approval of the Covid vaccine and the flu vaccine.
• “‘I dared to question gender theory at Cambridge. Students carved Terf into my door’” – University of Cambridge students allegedly carved the word ‘Terf’ into a fellow undergraduate’s door after she showed interest in gender-critical books, reports the Telegraph.
• “Baroness Falkner: Delay on single-sex guidance skewed Peggie judgment” – The former equalities watchdog chief said the tribunal judge lacked crucial EHRC guidance after months of Government delay, according to the Times.
• “New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing” – The Pathways puberty blocker trial is the institutional repetition of a mistake we already made, suggests Josephine Bartosch in UnHerd.
• “Sadiq Khan spends £500,000 on rare birds for one of London’s poorest boroughs” – Sir Sadiq Khan has been criticised for spending £500,000 of public money on releasing rare birds into one of London’s poorest boroughs, says the Telegraph.
• “Bishops hit out at Tommy Robinson’s ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ demo today – saying Christian symbols should not be used to ‘justify racism and anti-migrant rhetoric’” – Church of England bishops said they had “grave concerns” about Christian beliefs being “weaponised” by the Right ahead of Tommy Robinson’s central London open air carol service on Saturday, reports the Mail.
• “Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent” – The NATO Secretary General is wrong to scaremonger, argues Anatol Lieven in UnHerd.
• “Israel kills Hamas second-in-command in Gaza City drone strike” – Israel has said it killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saed – believed to have helped plan the October 7th attacks – in a strike on a car in Gaza, says the Mail.
• “John Lewis defies demands that it stop selling Israel’s SodaStream” – John Lewis has defied pressure from pro-Palestine campaigners to stop selling products made by Israel’s SodaStream, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why was a teacher sacked for calling Britain a Christian country?” – A man’s career has been destroyed for enforcing his school’s secular policies and stating facts to students, writes Connie Shaw in Spiked.
• “Fly-tipping lorries roar past from 7am to midnight. No one stops it” – Every year enough waste to fill Wembley Stadium 35 times is illegally dumped, but almost nothing is done to stop it, reports the Times.
• “Labour really doesn’t like tall poppies” – Free schools are better performing than other state-funded ones. Labour can’t be having that, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “UK Lords propose ban on VPNs for children” – An amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would force VPN providers to age-gate their services, according to TechRadar.
• “Rayner joins biggest mutiny against Starmer yet” – Angela Rayner is backing a growing rebellion against Labour’s court reforms after MPs claimed they would play into the hands of Nigel Farage.
• “The United Kingdom has fallen” – US X account RealRobert clips Harry Miller telling Julia Hartley-Brewer: “I now have a criminal record because I wrote in the Critic magazine that my stalker was a man — because he is a man. But the police said that misgendering him was contrary to the Online Safety Act, because it was spreading false information.”

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