News Round-Up
- “Free TV licences for benefits claimants under Labour plans” – Labour is considering giving free TV licences to benefit claimants, reports the Telegraph.
- “Public sector pay rises at fastest pace on record” – Wage growth in the public sector has now exceeded the private sector, notes the Telegraph.
- “Illegal migrants to receive ‘gold star’ NHS dental care” – Home Office Ministers have come under fire over a policy to prioritise dental treatment for illegal migrants, reports the Telegraph.
- “Grooming gangs will find plenty to love in Labour’s watered-down definition of ‘Islamophobia’” – I weigh in against Labour’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ on the GB News website.
- “Trump pulled UK trade deal over AI clash” – Donald Trump has frozen a major UK trade agreement after concerns emerged over Britain’s AI and online safety regime, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves and Starmer see personal ratings plunge to new record lows” – Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Chancellor has collapsed to record lows, according to Mail.
- “Labour tells Vince: apologise for linking Bondi attack to Israel” – The Labour Party has demanded an apology from Dale Vince after his remarks blaming Israel for the Bondi Beach attack, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bondi gunmen in Philippines for ‘military-style training’ weeks before attack” – Australian police have revealed that the Bondi Beach attackers travelled to an Islamist training camp in Indonesia weeks before the massacre, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tragic hero’s last act of bravery: Bondi Beach victim throws a brick at gunman during massacre… before ISIS-supporter coward shoots him dead” – Witnesses have described how a synagogue volunteer confronted an armed attacker in a final act of courage during the Bondi Beach killings, says Mail.
- “Pictured: The heroic couple gunned down by the Bondi Beach terrorists” – A married couple on Bondi Beach died while trying to stop the attackers, according to Mail.
- “To all those anti-Semitic morons who march through London chanting ‘Globalise the intifada’, the Bondi bloodbath is where it leads” – Anti-Israel rhetoric responsible for fuelling extremism, writes richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “Aussies demand Pauline Hanson be PM over fiery Bondi Beach message” – A blunt response to the massacre by an Australian politician has reignited debate over immigration, reports the Mail.
- “France is becoming a nation of sexless puritans” – Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator says French politics is engulfed by a clash between sexual libertines and moral prudes.
- “Why I pity the liberals being mugged by reality” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts says he feels sorry for liberals who are experiencing a brutal reality check.
- “The Left’s delusion about diversity isn’t just naive – it’s dangerous” – Western progressives should rethink multicultural dogma following the Bondi Beach killings, argues Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Zipcar’s demise is another victory for Sadiq Khan’s war on motorists” – There is hardly any form of motor transport the London Mayor does not want to fine, tax or regulate out of existence, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Drivers incorrectly fined by faulty speed cameras” – Thousands of motorists may have been wrongly penalised after technical faults triggered cameras in error, reports the Telegraph.
- “SNP abandons 50mph blanket speed limit after public outcry” – The Scottish Government has scrapped its flagship speed-limit policy after consultation responses turned hostile, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oxford student charged with stirring up hatred at pro-Palestine demo” – The Oxford University student who urged people to “put the Zios in the ground” has been charged with stirring up racial hatred, says the Mail.
- “New study exaggerates covid vaccine safety” – A new paper overstates vaccine safety while understating unresolved risks, notes the Conservative Woman.
- “The £10 million experiment that proves nothing – and was designed not to” – Britain has committed vast sums to puberty-blocker trials that have been structured to avoid clear conclusions, argues the Rationals Substack.
- “BBC could scrap licence fee, show adverts and put hits behind a paywall under Labour reform” – Radical funding changes have been floated as licence-fee income continues to fall, says the Mail.
- “Has Reform’s support peaked? Not even close” – Polling trends have suggested Reform’s rise goes on, despite Westminster scepticism, writes the Telegraph.
- “Key Letby witness accused of flawed evidence in shaken baby conviction” – A jailed father has challenged expert testimony used in a separate conviction linked to the Lucy Letby case, reports the Telegraph.
- “Female genital mutilation is abuse. Suggesting otherwise isn’t progressive, it’s racist” – A medical journal has been accused of downplaying abuse through euphemistic language, says Nimco Ai in the Telegraph.
- “Public relations employee with ADHD sacked for being ‘disorganised’ wins disability discrimination case” – An employment tribunal has ruled in favour of a worker accused of being ‘disorganised’, reports Mail.
- “Caesareans become more common than natural births” – Surgical deliveries have overtaken natural births for the first time, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hero stopped Liverpool rampage… then went for a pint” – An Army veteran stopped the car attack in Liverpool and then calmly resumed his evening, says the Telegraph.
- “I can’t take issue with any of that” – A caller gives Nick Ferrari a piece of his mind about the Bondi Beach attackers on LBC, leaving the presenter lost for words.
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Has Reform’s support peaked? Not even close
Everyone has had enough of Westminster and Whitehall.
At the next election, all parties will go to the country on a reforming ticket.
But, after Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron/Clegg, May, Johnson, Starmer, which party can the voters trust to implement the promises in their manifesto?
Systemic reform is required.
Listen to (of all people) Nick Griffin on The Delingpod .
I subscribe to Nick Griffin’s newsletter, he writes much common sense.
He does , also a guy called Alex Krainer who has the lowdown on all things Ukraine / Russia is worth a look 👍
Far too many people never even think about what’s in the manifesto before casting their vote.
Very true. But, in my view, less so since the 2020 common cold coronavirus panic. The turnout at the next general election will be interesting. So many are so angry with Westminster and Whitehall (and local government).
“Zipcar’s demise is another victory for Sadiq Khan’s war on motorists”
The article list many other things Khan has done to deter motorists in London and seems outraged at many of them.
Londoners voted for him for a third term as mayor in 2024. It’s obviously what the majority of them want – or deserve.
I’m downvoting this, as a Londoner who most definitely did not vote for him.
Oh it was you who didn’t vote for him?
I apologise. Far too few voted against him.
To be fair I know many who did. I tried to point out the obvious but to no avail. Some do at least have buyer’s remorse.
Of course lots of people “use” London as a place to work, shop and take transport to more distant places, who don’t live in London. They didn’t get a say, but they are affected and they bring large amounts of revenue into the capital, and keep firms going that pay large business rates to London boroughs and the “Mayor of London”.
“Drivers incorrectly fined by faulty speed cameras” I didn’t read the T article, but there are different points of view – if you look at the National Highways entry, that is! “fewer than 2 a day”; so that’s not too bad, from their perspective.
I think everything that he writes about the States can easily be applied to many Western countries; ”There are moments when a civilization reaches a point of vertigo—a moment when it looks over the edge and realizes the ground beneath it has begun to crumble. America is at such a point now. Not because of a recession or a scandal or a political feud, but because of something far older and far more fundamental: the demographic forces that have undone civilizations for thousands of years. For centuries, the American experiment rested on an unspoken assumption—that those who entered the country wished to participate in it. To become part of its civic culture, its legal inheritance, its moral universe. But that assumption is no longer a given, and the evidence grows clearer by the day. We have seen a Somali welfare-fraud empire strip hundreds of millions from taxpayers in Minnesota. We have seen the rise of Islamist enclaves in American cities where the cultural gravity is no longer American but imported. These incidents are not isolated. They are not random. They are signals. They tell us that the civic trust that once bound immigrants to the nation is fracturing—and in some… Read more »
Thanks for posting Mogs. The article is bang on the money.
Imagine if the UK published crime data which included the country of origin and migration status of offenders, what that would reveal. This is Spain; ”A new study highlights the outsized role of foreigners in serious crimes in Spain, which has seen worrying growth in rapes, attempted murders, and other serious crimes in just the last five to six years. The CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime across various demographic groups and geographical areas in the country, and the researchers are warning about “imported crime” due to mass immigration. Some of the key findings indicate that foreigners, who make up 31 percent of Spain’s prison population, commit per capita 500 percent more rapes and 414 percent more murders than Spanish citizens. The highest rates are seen among Arabs and Latinos, with many of them hailing from countries in South America known for their extremely high crime rates. While the murder numbers are stable in Spain at 300 per year, there has been explosive growth in attempted murders. Between 2019 and 2023, a matter of four years, attempted murder cases nearly doubled, going from 836 to 1,507. In just five years, penetrative… Read more »
It would fuel claims that the justice system is biased against non-natives. Cultural differences and all that.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/16/adverts-could-be-shown-on-bbc/
Well, government have to get Al-Beeb’s viewing figures up somehow.
That’s another £200 + in PAYE equivalent to the welfare class.
Oh thank goodness! Now they can afford Netflix!
“Aussies demand Pauline Hanson be PM over fiery Bondi Beach message”
So why in blazes didn’t they VOTE FOR HER when they had the chance?
Just like the Dutch failed miserably to vote for Dutch Patriot Geert Wilders.
It is nauseating to hear Starmer and the rest of the self regarding elites and the BBC talk with dripping voice tone about the Bondi Beach murders. They enabled it.