News Round-Up
- “Dozens of mentally ill offenders go on to kill after secret release” – A Telegraph investigation has uncovered repeated failures in the release of dangerous psychiatric patients.
- “Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to sexually assaulting two women” – A migrant defendant has admitted serious sexual offences in a Southampton court, reports GB News.
- “Asylum seeker exploits ECHR to try to bring adult children to Britain” – A Pakistani asylum seeker has used human rights laws to attempt to reunite her adult children with nine of their siblings already in Britain, says the Telegraph.
- “Home Secretary refuses to use powers to deport ‘extremist’ ” – Shabana Mahmood has rejected calls to ban an Egyptian “extremist” from the UK despite having the powers to do so, reports the Telegraph.
- “Deaths to outnumber births from now on, Resolution Foundation warns” – Britain has been warned that deaths have begun to exceed births, raising long-term questions about growth and public services, says the Mail.
- “Collapsing birth rates may be the biggest challenge of our era” – In the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard frames falling fertility as a global problem driven by economics and culture rather than policy alone.
- “Mosques consulted on Israeli fan ban ‘hosted antisemitic preachers’” – West Midlands police are alleged to have spoken to Muslim organisations that had welcomed extremist preachers before the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban, reports GB News.
- “Hindus warn Labour against ‘chilling’ Islamophobia definition ” – Hindu community leaders have warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour’s new Islamophobia definition will have a “significant chilling effect” on freedom of speech, says theTelegraph.
- “Starmer dealt enormous blow as patriot peers defeat Chagos surrender four times ” – Patriotic peers have defeated the Government four separate times in crucial votes on the Chagos Islands surrender deal, reports the Express.
- “Starmer invites influencer who called Johnson ‘mentally ill’ to press conference ” – Sir Keir Starmer has invited TikTok influencer Chris Chandler, who called Boris Johnson “mentally ill”, to a press conference, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer claims he is ‘driving down bills’ in desperate New Year relaunch – despite figures showing struggling Brits turning to credit card borrowing” – Sir Keir Starmer has insisted households are better off despite data showing rising reliance on credit, reports the Mail.
- “Reeves blocks support for pubs despite Starmer acknowledging sector’s struggles” – Rachel Reeves is blocking new financial support for pubs despite Sir Keir Starmer admitting that many “will struggle” with new business rate changes, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why 2026 will be the year Britain’s jobs market collapses” – Employers have begun slashing vacancies as higher costs and burdensome regulations squeeze hiring, writes Benedict J. Smith in the Telegraph.
- “One address and 85,000 companies: welcome to Shelton Street” – The number of firms linked to one address in Covent Garden is giving fraud experts pause, says Ben Lucas in the Times. A surprisingly large number of them are Left-wing lobby groups.
- “Ireland proves you don’t need Jews for antisemitism to take hold ” – The existence of fewer than 2,000 Jewish people in Ireland has not deterred hatred, writes Barry O’Halloran in the Telegraph.
- “Migrant father who tied up his daughter, 18, and drowned her in a swamp because her ‘Western behaviour’ shamed the family is found guilty of honour killing in Holland” – A fugitive father who tied up and drowned his daughter in an honour killing that shocked the Netherlands has been sentenced to 30 years in jail, reports the Mail.
- “Ten people who spread false claims France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron was born a man are found guilty of cyberbullying in Paris” – A French court has convicted a group accused of targeting Brigitte Macron with online abuse, says the Mail.
- “Was the US intervention in Venezuela legal?” – Washington’s actions in Venezuela have tested international law and revived old doctrines of power, writes David Charter in the Times.
- “Maduro’s capture wasn’t about oil” – Washington’s move against Maduro was strategic positioning rather than resource politics, says Doug Stokes in the Spectator.
- “As fraud allegations spiral, Minnesota governor Tim Walz quits his reelection bid” – Minnesota governor Tim Walz’s withdrawal from re-election is a stunning demonstration of the power of X and citizen journalism, argues Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Hilton Hotels ‘cancels ICE agents’ bookings’” – The Department of Homeland Security has accused Hilton Hotels of “siding with murderers and rapists” as part of a “coordinated campaign” against deportation enforcement in Minneapolis.
- “Hammer-wielding maniac, 26, arrested over raid on JD Vance’s $1.4 mansion” – A hammer-wielding trans activist who smashed four windows at J.D. Vance’s Cincinnati home has been arrested by the Secret Service after an overnight break-in, reports the Mail.
- “Iran and the selective outrage of the West” – The refusal to condemn a murderous theocracy reveals the hypocrisy of Left-wing activists, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “The reality of forced marriage in Pakistan” – Official reports have confirmed that forced marriage and conversion remain widespread in Pakistan, writes Michael Cook in the Catholic Weekly.
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – part 13” – Evidence on airborne transmission has been reassessed in the light of accumulated data, say Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on the TTE Substack.
- “Gloomy outlook for solar power!” – The economics of subsidised solar is being questioned amid rising costs and grid pressures, writes Paul Homewood on Not A Lot Of People Know That.
- “Is that the sound of a penny dropping?” – On Cliscep, Mark Hodgson exposes the reality of energy shortfalls during low-wind and solar periods.
- “Will climate change really make us poorer?” – A disputed economic paper has reignited debate over the true costs of climate change, writes Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Media continues to ring climate alarm, but 2025 saw the fewest deaths from extreme weather ever” – In Just the News, Kevin Killough notes that despite media alarmism, 2025 has seen the fewest deaths from extreme weather in recorded history.
- “Child, 5, killed as electric car ‘accelerates of its own accord’” – The Old Bailey has heard that a parked electric car accelerated uncontrollably, killing a five year-old child, according to the Mail.
- “Federal appeals court blocks Hawaii’s new cruise ship climate tax” – A federal appeals court has blocked Hawaii’s new cruise ship climate tax just hours before it was due to take effect, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
- “The English church protects us all, yet is mute” – In the Times, Maurice Glasman slams the Church of England for retreating from public moral leadership.
- “The one benefit of anti-white discrimination” – Talent rebuffed does not vanish – it migrates, says Sean Thomas in the Telegraph.
- “Lewis Goodall’s car-crash phone-in exposes the smug ignorance of liberals” – Every now and then the cry of a normal person pierces the skin of dinner party opinion, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
- “Hugh Bonneville should pipe down about Israel” – Hugh Bonneville should heed Claire Foy’s advice and not think his status as a celebrity actor gives him any special insight into the Israel-Hamas conflict, nor moral authority, writes Stephen Pollard in the Spectator.
- “Keep children out of politics” – In the Spectator, Ed West decries the modern fashion of using children to advance various Left-wing causes.
- “Three cheers for CO2! ” – The Climate Scam is built on lies, and the demonisation of CO2 is the Daddy of them all, says Martin Durkin in the Gorilla Science Guide to CO2.
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Maduro’s capture wasn’t about oil The atmospherics around the Venezuela coup are simply that. Britain has, within the last fifty years or so, intervened in Oman, Kuwait (twice), the Falklands, Sierra Leone, Libya, Iraq, Afghsanistan, Serbia/Kosovo. Consider this quote from ‘The Guardian in April 2012 ‘For far too long, dictators and warlords who have inflicted extensive atrocities on the African people have gone unpunished. But this record of impunity is changing, thanks to the long arm of international justice’ As a consequence of Britain’s successful war in Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor’s regime in Liberia was fatally weakened and Taylor himself brought to justice. Taylor had been trained and supported by Libya but intervention in Libya did not meet with the capricious approval of ‘The Guardian’ Who wrote the 2012 article referred to above? Mwangi Kimenyi is senior fellow and director, and John Mbaku is non-resident senior fellow, The Brookings Institution The authors also made this point: ‘Taylor’s conviction reinforces the fact that no one, even those elites who serve in the government, including the executive and members of the judiciary and legislature, is above the law…..that justice had to come from international courts does not reflect well on Africans and… Read more »
Guardian approval depends who was the policeman and who the dictator railed against. In Maduro’s case the Guardian would have preferred him to co time making life difficult for the US and the wider west.
Was the US intervention in Venezuela legal?
Errr……
Oh for heaven’s sake! This is the 1950s all over again….you know….when the U.S. thought it was in a unipolar world and then found out that it wasn’t.
Now the U.S. has rediscovered the fact that there is not a unipolar world, never has been….
So, what to do if other countries don’t pay you the respect that you fancifully believe that you deserve?
Kidnap a dictator?
That’ll do it.
Legal…schmegal….!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/05/collapsing-birth-rates-may-be-biggest-challenge-of-era/
Says the left leaning Resolution Foundation.. the solution will be of course mooooor immigrants.
“Hammer-wielding maniac, 26, arrested over raid on JD Vance’s $1.4 mansion”
i say, to suggest a trans activist might be a maniac is surely blatant transphobia? After all, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,.”
The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – part 13 ‘The problem with the proponents of airborne transmission is that they see it as obvious’ I wonder why? ‘In recent careful experimental work, manual transmission in a group playing poker was prevented by using splints or large plastic collars; yet rhinovirus infection was freely transmitted, so the airborne route must have been of major importance in those circumstances (Dick et al., 1987).’ ‘In volunteer studies with coxsackievirus A21 it was shown that colds could be transmitted from one end of a long room to the other when only air contact was possible (Couch et al., 1970). We demonstrated how Coxsackie A21 virus, which is very like a rhinovirus, is shed as drops and droplets into the air by a subject with a cold and that similar droplets infect the nose efficiently when inhaled (Buckland et al., 1965). However, there was very little virus in saliva and so little became airborne when talking.’ ‘Water treatment and food hygiene have had a profound effect on water and food-borne diseases. It seems unlikely that anything as successful can be developed for respiratory virus infections but, nevertheless, good ventilation and hand hygiene should be encouraged and are… Read more »
I’m glad you mentioned the Common Cold Unit, which was set up near Salisbury, Wilts (not far from Porton Down, which had (and has) a different purpose). They were responsible for the invention of the term “coronavirus”, based on the apparent structure of it under electron microscopy, which was a novel technique at the time. It looked a bit like a crown. Might have acquired a different name under a republic – “trumpvirus”, perhaps!
Porton Down has saved many lives. ‘Sunday (March 4, 2018) Late afternoon Paramedics called to attend two patients collapsed on a park bench in the Maltings area of Salisbury’ ‘Tuesday (March 6, 2018) Early morningTelephone call from DSTL: ‘severe cholinesterase inhibition, consistent with organophosphate toxicity’ ‘Thursday (March 22, 2018)Discharged from hospital’ ‘…an attempted murder using a Soviet-era Novichok class of chemical warfare nerve agent that would reach the front pages of newspapers around the world with international and tragic individual ramifications. This chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) incident would involve collaboration between many agencies… For the Salisbury and Amesbury incidents, expert members included representation from DSTL Porton Down, the UK major repository for CBRN experience and expertise All three patients were later determined to have had exposure to a Novichok class of nerve agent by DSTL, with the analysis confirmed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ….although suspicious ‘white powder’ events are dealt with on a regular basis, the Salisbury and Amesbury incidents were some of the few real-life CBRN incidents that had direct patient, local community, and international implications. The lessons identified here have since helped international colleagues achieve a positive outcome in a very similar… Read more »
You report a child being killed by an electric car, the owner of which said the car moved by itself while he was in the driving seat. If this had happened with a petrol car, you would not have reported it. This is yet another example of the anti-EV propaganda spewed out by this site. The success of this site, and the reason I subscribed, came from its search for the truth and its sceptical approach to received opinion. It seems that it cannot have an objective attitude where electric vehicles are concerned.
Yes well since EVs are part of the unaffordable and ironically unsustainable climate scam being perpetrated on consumers and taxpayers, along with heat pumps, carbon capture, wind farms, solar farms, cow killing methane inhibitors and uncle Tom Cobley etc, a high degree of scepticism on the topic is welcome. That downvote is not mine incidentally.
I’ve no idea about the prevalence of this kind of accident in any kind of car. I would agree that unless it’s significantly more common in EVs then reporting on it is not useful. But in general the case against EVs and government EV related policies makes itself.
“The success of this site, and the reason I subscribed, came from its search for the truth and its sceptical approach to received opinion.”
You are not the first person to make such observations about this place, pertaining to various topics, and I 100% concur. This site is highly curated to follow certain narratives and therefore operates as an echo chamber, where group think reigns supreme and freethinkers who might have opinions which deviate from the vast majority ( ‘hive mind’ ) are not exactly welcomed.
The comments sections are like the site’s very own experiment into conformity and group dynamics, interestingly. And now I shall predictably get a deluge of 👎👎👎, which will only support my hypothesis.🤓
A lot of people (not me) add to their X profiles ‘Retweets are not endorsements’ or similar. This is the daily news aggregation, I wouldn’t read too much into it.
FWIW, I inherited an EV, but sold it after a year. I like to drive manual cars. I don’t fantasise about driverless vehicles or want my car to drive itself.
If you read the article itself, experts found nothing wrong with the car at all. You will see that it was most likely a deliberate act on the part of the angry Muslim man sitting inside it, who had just called out to a neighbour boy to come to his car to get a sweet treat from the Muslim man, but when the boy’s mother refused to let her son approach the car, explaining to the Muslim man that she was trying to reduce his sugar intake, the Muslim man angrily stomped on the accelerator in a fit of rage, and mowed down the boy and even his own son, to show the women not to ever defy the will of a Muslim man.
The proposition that only a growing population can sustain “growth and public services” is nonesence.
we are short of capacity in all “public services” (aka state provided and rationed services) so a gently declining population might help bridge the gap.
As to “growth” presumably the author meant aggregate GDP as if that was of any interest other than to a Ponzi manager. I’m interested in individual prosperity.
If we changed benefits, regulations and tax rates we could have millions more available for work to sustain an ever more efficient and prosperous country. Governments over several decades have chosen different policies.
– A fugitive father who tied up and drowned his daughter in an honour killing that shocked the Netherlands has been sentenced to 30 years in jail, reports the Mail.
it used to be called murder and infanticide.
Yes, and it used to be punished with either death or life imprisonment.
The Evil B*stard knows he will be out in 15 years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15434913/Worrying-experts-predict-deaths-outnumber-births-time.html
So why are we building all these new houses?
Someone please explain.
Correction: Pakistani Muslim Home Secretary refuses to use powers to deport Egyptian Muslim El-Fattah who advocated the murder of Jews, said that British People were “Dogs & Monkeys”, and boasted of his hatred for White People,
saying: ‘I SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY HATE WHITE PEOPLE, especially those of English or Dutch or German descent.’
Since the Pakistani Muslim Home Secretary has also railed against “WHITE MEN”, and since the the Koran is riddled with “dogs & monkeys” insults toward infidels, one can only assume that she agreed with him, and is protecting him as a fellow Muslim.
“Starmer dealt enormous blow as patriot peers defeat Chagos surrender four times ” – Patriotic peers have defeated the Government four separate times in crucial votes on the Chagos Islands surrender deal, reports the Express.” Once again this proves the real value of The House of Lords, which should themselves pass a law limiting the number of Lords to the number of SEATS available, which is only 400, thus preventing successive governments from stuffing the House of Lords with political placements. “Critics argue the House of Lords is the second largest legislature [IN THE WORLD] after the Chinese National People’s Congress, and dwarfs Upper Houses in other bi-cameral democracies such as the United States (100 senators), France (348 senators), Australia (76 senators) and India (250 members). The Lords is also larger than the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea (687 members).” “More importantly, however, it is considerably larger [now 832 Lords] than its sister Chamber. The House of Commons, colloquially known as the “other place”, has 650 MPs.” “Peers grumble that there is not enough room to accommodate all of their colleagues in the Chamber, where there are only about 400 seats, and say they are constantly jostling for space – particularly… Read more »
May I add this to the Round-Up:
Dozens dead in South Africa circumcision initiation rite
This Barbaric Ritual Genital Mutilation must be banned forever worldwide, with no religious or cultural exemptions.
Oh I forgot, it doesn’t matter to feminists— it’s only boys dying pointlessly, so that’s alright then…