News Round-Up
- “Donald Trump launches massive air strike on 70 terror targets in Syria: Defence secretary brands it ‘a declaration of vengence’ as US vows to keep bombing” – The US has launched a wave of strikes on dozens of targets in Syria after an attack by a suspected IS member killed two US troops and an American civilian interpreter last week, reports the Mail.
- “Andrew took Ghislaine Maxwell to Royal family’s inner sanctum, Epstein files reveal” – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor took Ghislaine Maxwell to the inner sanctum of the Royal family’s Sandringham retreat, the Epstein files have revealed, according to the Telegraph.
- “See every shocking photo from Epstein files” – A fresh batch of Epstein files has been released featuring photos and other material linked to high-profile figures, notes the Mail.
- “US Government criticises UK prosecution of pro-life campaigner” – The Trump administration has criticised the prosecution of a UK pro-life campaigner over silent prayer near an abortion-clinic buffer zone, reports the Telegraph.
- “SpaceX poised to launch Elon Musk’s wealth into the stratosphere” – SpaceX has been preparing a potential flotation that could turbocharge Elon Musk’s fortune, notes the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch is closing in on Nigel Farage, poll finds… but Reform and Tories combined are still only level with horror coalition of parties on the Left” – A new survey has suggested Kemi Badenoch has narrowed the gap with Nigel Farage, suggests the Mail.
- “The Hit Job on Farage: Handing Him the Keys to Number 10” – Nigel Farage’s critics have mounted a coordinated smear campaign that has backfired and boosted Reform, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “EU students owe Britain £5 billion in loans” – EU students owe Britain more than £5 billion in unpaid loans, the Telegraph reports.
- “Despairing Labour MPs tell me the party is ‘forming a circular firing squad’ – with Starmer right in the centre. This is the moment things fell apart” – Labour MPs have turned their frustration inwards as doubts about Keir Starmer’s leadership have grown, writes Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “Motorists face new parking space ban” – Labour has been planning new rules to limit parking bays on housing developments as part of a wider crackdown on drivers, according to the Telegraph.
- “Byrne & Storm’s UK Online Safety Act Year in Review for 2025” – The US legal fightback against the UK Online Safety Act has gathered momentum heading into 2026, says Preston Byrne.
- “‘Offensive’ Christmas song lyrics could be banned by Labour law” – Labour has been warned that proposed workplace harassment changes could curb festive singalongs over lyrics deemed offensive, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tender – the charity behind Netflix’s Adolescence – received over £1 million of taxpayers’ money in 2025” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill digs into Tender, the charity behind Adolescence, and its links with the Government’s controversial new ‘misogyny lessons’.
- “Miliband ‘pitching himself as next chancellor’” – Ed Miliband’s allies are plotting to depose Rachel Reeves and install him as the next chancellor, the Telegraph has been told.
- “You’re barred! Furious landlord bans Rachel Reeves from her local pub over Chancellor’s tax hikes crippling the hospitality industry” – Rachel Reeves has been barred from her local pub because of her crippling tax rises bringing the hospitality industry to its knees, says the Mail.
- “Sandie Peggie reveals friends turned against her in transgender legal battle” – Nurse Sandie Peggie has said friends and colleagues turned against her as her transgender legal battle escalated, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gun-toting illegal boat migrant who called for ‘death to all Jews’ is freed to roam British streets… only days after Bondi Beach massacre” – A Palestinian man jailed after entering the UK illegally has been released despite allegations he called for “death to all Jews”, says the Mail.
- “Left-wing activists target the King’s throne in House of Lords” – Campaigners have disrupted a House of Lords tour by climbing barriers and unfurling a “Replace the Lords” banner near the King’s throne, reports the Mail.
- “Boxing champ Tyson Fury moves much of his £160 million net worth abroad following Labour’s ‘cash-grab’ budget” – Tyson Fury has reportedly shifted much of his wealth abroad and relocated his family after Labour’s Budget, says the Mail.
- “No council elections? Even I didn’t expect this much gerrymandering” – Ministers have been accused of “gerrymandering” after plans to postpone council elections were unveiled, says the Times.
- “Britain shouldn’t rely on foreigners to guard our prisons” – Visas for thousands of foreign prison officers have been extended as staffing shortages have worsened, setting a worrying precedent. But the real problem is that Britain relies on foreigners to keep its prisons safe, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “We need a Churchill to tackle our gravest problems. Instead we have Starmer” – In Starmer’s Britain, problems are to be ineffectually dealt with by training checklists, behavioural courses, tick boxes and impact assessments, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Moment migrants use Nike trainers to bail out their sinking dinghy” – Channel migrants have been filmed bailing out a sinking dinghy with Nike trainers as crossings have surged again, reports the Mail.
- “The Chagos deal reveals this poisonous truth about modern Britain” – In the Telegraph, Dan Hannan laments the Chagos deal and what it tells us about Britain today.
- “These Afghan sex attacks cannot be ignored” – Afghanistan is the most misogynistic nation on Earth, and now those attitudes have been brought to Britain, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “Ben Shapiro: Only Cowards Tolerate Conspiracy Theorists” – In the Free Press, Ben Shapiro urges conservatives to confront conspiracy-minded influencers with clarity rather than cowardice.
- “A gun crackdown is easier than confronting Australia’s Islamist menace” – Australian PM Anthony Albanese is determined to focus on cracking down on firearms after the Bondi Beach attack, but he’s ignoring the Islamist elephant in the room, says Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
- “‘Donald Trump has given white South Africans hope’: Refugee fleeing the country for new life in US details horrific torture being inflicted in farm attacks as president is hailed for ‘fighting evil’” – A South African refugee has said farm attacks and torture have driven him to seek a new life in the US as Trump is praised for “fighting evil”, according to the Mail.
- “Doctor behind notorious Sarco euthanasia pod shows off new ‘suicide collar’ that kills patients by applying ‘pressure’ to the neck” – The doctor behind the Sarco euthanasia pod has unveiled a new strangulation ‘suicide collar’ concept that would kill by applying pressure to the neck, reports the Mail.
- “Sea Levels Were 30 Metres Higher in East Antarctica 8,000 Years Ago, Study Finds” – Radiocarbon evidence from abandoned penguin rookeries has suggested East Antarctic sea levels were far higher about 8,000 years ago, writes Kenneth Richard in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “The Record Hot UK Summer of 2025: Validation of the UKMO Methodology, but the Record Was Only in Tmin” – The Met Office’s ‘record’ hot UK summer of 2025 was driven mainly by unusually warm night-time lows rather than daytime highs, notes Dr Roy Spencer.
- “Scientific Report or Legal Brief? The Hunga Tonga Assessment and the Anatomy of Narrative Closure” – The comprehensive new scientific report on the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcano eruption and its impact on the climate is technically competent, but gives the strong impression it always knew where it was going, says Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That?
- “BP is drowning in debt. Its new boss has four ways forward” – BP’s incoming chief faces stark choices over debt reduction, buybacks and a possible strategic shake-up, according to the Times.
- “The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history” – The BBC’s choice of Reith lecturer, Dutch historian and activist Rutger Bregman, declared himself a social democrat in his first lecture. Yet again we get history as a tendentious Left-wing morality tale, says Professor Lawrence Goldman in the Spectator.
- “Founder of anti-capitalist group Take Back Power – who dumped manure at the Ritz and threw custard over the Crown jewels – is privately educated son of megayacht insurance executive” – The founder of protest group Take Back Power has been exposed as a privately educated activist with family ties to a megayacht insurance executive, reports the Mail.
- “Journey of the Deliveries” – Read Paul Sutton’s bleak Christmas-season poem about a country that increasingly feels unrecognisable.
- “Watch me doing a review of the year at the Free Speech Union comedy night at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green” – Toby takes the stage at the FSU Christmas Comedy Benefit to take a humorous look back on 2025.
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“Doctor behind notorious Sarco euthanasia pod shows off new ‘suicide collar’ that kills patients by applying ‘pressure’ to the neck”
Strangulation by machine doesn’t seem like a peaceful ending to a life. Maybe the good Doctor would like to demonstrate it for us.?
“Pass the Soylent green please”
Wasn’t this called “hanging” in the old days?
Not much profit to be made from the sale of rope, however…
“Founder of anti-capitalist group Take Back Power – who dumped manure at the Ritz and threw custard over the Crown jewels – is privately educated son of megayacht insurance executive”
Of course he is. How many times do we see these young activists enjoying the fruits of capitalism, apparently reject its virtues from their luxury lifestyle.
Twas ever thus. I remember a group of “anarchists” on one of David Frost’s programmes, around late ‘sixties/early ‘seventies. Trashing the set, they were avowedly anti-establishment. (Frosty enjoyed it, knowing that it made for memorable TV). A few years later they were found in highly remunerated positions…
https://transdiffusion.org/2020/10/05/the-frost-freakout/
As a young man, I joined the Anarchists, but left after no-one ever turned up for meetings…
“We need a Churchill to tackle our gravest problems. Instead we have Starmer”
What Zoe doesn’t seem to get is that the enemy is not just at the gate. It is within our walls, embedded in our institutions, and the hearts and minds of a large percentage of the population. All of our problems are ‘intended’ by forces outside our nation, and cheered on by half our people who cant conceive of any other way to think. Starmer just enables this. He has no intention to tackle anything. Its all going nicely to plan.
This is the biggest problem and the one that guarantees that the global project will be completed. I had a first hand experience of this when talking to my severely retarded lefty, clever-in-his-own-head, brother. A simple question: “Are you capable of just considering that everything we’re living through is not a catalogue of unfortunate coincidences?”. A long, long pause where I swear I could actually see his brain starting to melt. Honestly, he looked like he’d broken. Then, finally, after absolutely no movement or noise for one whole painful minute (I shit you not) he recovered. The self-healing mechanism overrode his faltering system and he replied. “I suppose I am”, he said, “but not without proof!!”. The machine had taken back control and the machine can’t feel, it can’t think. The machine can only do what it’s been programmed to do.
England is already dead, killed by these machines and the people that program them. We just refuse to accept that we’re trampling on her corpse.
“A gun crackdown is easier than confronting Australia’s Islamist menace”
It’s been interesting to see the parallels of the Australian response with our own governments response to the killing of Sir David Amess.
“‘Offensive’ Christmas song lyrics could be banned by Labour law”
Will shepherds no longer ‘wash their socks by night’..?
Thanks for the memory.
Dont forget the lump of soot!
And the line about Frosty the Snowman having “…two eyes made out of coal”.
In case the word “coal” triggers anyone with climate anxiety 🤣
Of course they will. Their smart meters will award them a lower tariff for doing their washing at off-peak times. (Cue extremely annoying Einstein/Angela Rippon adverts).
‘US government criticises UK prosecution of pro-life campaigner’Maybe, just maybe if someone is dissuaded from going through with an abortion because they see someone silently praying they perhaps shouldn’t go through with it..
“Despairing Labour MPs tell me the party is ‘forming a circular firing squad’ – with Starmer right in the centre. This is the moment things fell apart”
Perhaps I don’t understand the metaphor, but if Starmer is in the centre of a circular firing squad, he should be the only survivor, right?
That same thought occurred to me. Maybe a radial one would do the trick.
A job-lot of self-strangulation collars would be more trendy, I suppose. A firing squad would never get past the firearms legislation.
Maybe leftists will adopt the collar as a virtue signal.
We can but hope.
And throw custard over their suicide collars whilst one hand glued to the M4
(My god, I’d never thought I’d be writing such a sentence, chuck me a suicide collar)
The collars would be far more comfortable wrapped in a keffiyeh…..
I think the idea in mind is that Starmer would be the blindfolded victim at the
centre of a circular firing squad therefore being unmissable by at least one member of the squad the irony is that all the stray bullets would probably kill most of the members of the squad as well (and yes I do understand that a real firing squad only uses one loaded gun so as to alleviate it’s members of guilt)
Trump seems very keen on whacking the little guys but not so enthusiastic on taking on people his own size.
“Miliband ‘pitching himself as next chancellor”
So many pigs yet such a small trough!
Foreign student debtors should be tracked using border control and recovery accordingly.
UK student debtors should not have the obligation waived. They may become wealthy in the future. They might even get a job.
UK students who get well paid jobs do pay the loans back – it’s the large numbers who never earn enough that are the problem. It’s not really a loan, just a graduate tax.
“Sea Levels Were 30 Metres Higher in East Antarctica 8,000 Years Ago, Study Finds”
So sea levels were 100ft higher than now? I’ve never seen water pile up in one place like that! (Sun and moons gravity excepted)
The earth has seen no ice at the poles for epochs longer than ice being there!
Just a few more unsavoury facts for the climate catastrophists to ignore
“BP’s incoming chief faces stark choices over debt reduction, buybacks and a possible strategic shake-up, according to the Times.”
No he doesn’t! Drill for oil, produce lots of it,sell it and pay your debts off, simples
(In other words, do your f-ing jobs!)
Excuse my scepticism over the Mail report of Tories catching up on Reform.
Agreed, they’re trying to talk to into being
“‘Donald Trump has given white South Africans hope’: Refugee fleeing the country for new life in US details horrific torture being inflicted in farm attacks as president is hailed for ‘fighting evil’”
Guess what? The Leftists in the US government have changed the rules to accept NOT ONLY WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS, but also Ethnic Indians, Mixed Race and anyone claiming to be a persecuted ethnic minority, which will of course be mostly Indians: Hindus, Sikhs & MUSLIMS.
How many of the 7500 refugee quota will be actual Ethnic European = White South Africans, or will their applications be shoved to the back of the queue by Leftist “assessors”, in favour of yet more & more Ethnic Indians who could easily return to their OWN VAST HOMELAND OF INDIA?
This is similar to the Marxists controlling the borders of the UK, welcoming Ethnic African Criminals by the boatload, but placing endless objections to an Ethnic Englishwoman born and raised in England, for example, who emigrated to Australia with her husband, but later returned to the UK to care for her 90-year-old mother, and was REFUSED PERMISSION TO STAY.