News Round-Up
- “Starmer defends blocking Burnham” – Keir Starmer insists that Andy Burnham is doing a “great job” as the Mayor of Greater Manchester, but that allowing him to seek election as an MP would “divert our resources” from Labour campaigns ahead of May’s local elections, according to the BBC.
- “Tories forced to withdraw Braverman mental health claim” – Conservatives have been forced to backtrack after claiming Suella Braverman quit for mental health reasons, reports Sky News.
- “Mahmood to scrap non-crime hate incidents” – The Home Secretary has moved to drop non-crime hate incidents so police can get back to core policing, says the Mail. Keep the champagne on ice, says Toby. The devil will be in the detail.
- “France arrests two Brits for ‘inciting hatred’ after they ‘tried to take part in banned anti-migrant protest’ near Calais” – Two Britons have been arrested in France after allegedly trying to join a banned anti-migrant protest, says the Mail.
- “Britain is quietly bringing Isis brides back home” – Britain has quietly repatriated Islamic State-linked women and children who were held alongside Shamima Begum in Syria, reports the Times.
- “First charges over ‘intifada’ chants” – Three pro-Palestine protesters have become the first to be charged with racial hatred for chanting “intifada” at a demonstration in December, says GB News.
- “The Nazis were genocidal. Israel is not” – Simon Schama has pushed back against lazy historical comparisons and rising antisemitism, writes Chris Harvey in the Telegraph.
- “The councillors up in arms over Labour’s ‘Stalinist’ reforms” – Councillors are railing against reforms seen as stripping power from local communities, reports Anna Tyzack in the Telegraph.
- “Veterans’ digital ID for UK Armed Forces off to a slow start” – A long-promised digital ID scheme for veterans has barely been taken up, according to the Register.
- “The Right needs to dismantle the New Labour settlement at last” – The Right are guilty of never truly reversing the Blair-era reforms while in power, says Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
- “Sunk cost fallacy territory” – In Country Squire, Sean Walsh explores why Keir Starmer’s political decline feels never-ending.
- “How the bureaucratic state keeps the dead unburied” – In the Telegraph, Charles Moore reveals how funeral delays are leaving grieving families stuck in limbo.
- “‘Today’s junior doctors would rather hold a placard than be at work’” – In the Telegraph, retired cardiologist Liam Hughes explains to Rosa Silverman how the fun NHS he entered in the 1970s has been replaced by joyless staff and risk-averse managers.
- “China hacked Downing Street phones for years” – The Telegraph reveals that Chinese spies have been quietly targeting phones at the heart of Downing Street for years.
- “US faces Chagos Islands nuclear weapons ban” – Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal could leave the US barred from storing nuclear weapons at Diego Garcia, reports the Telegraph.
- “Failing upwards” – On X, Daniel Hannan reveals that the senior civil servant regarded as responsible for the Chagos mess has been rewarded with a top job.
- “Misfire of victim’s gun could have triggered fatal ICE shooting” – The fatal shooting of a nurse by ICE agents may have been prompted by one of the officers “negligently” firing the victim’s gun, reports LBC.
- “Trump dumps Kristi Noem as he orders longtime rival to lead ICE in Minneapolis amid shooting scandal” – Donald Trump has sidelined Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and ordered her longtime rival to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis, reports the Mail.
- “Trump agrees to pull ICE agents out of Minnesota and allow cops to investigate shooting, Gov. Tim Walz says” – Donald Trump has agreed to pull ICE agents out of Minnesota and allow local cops to investigate a protester’s killing by federal agents, according to the Mail.
- “Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds” – Microsoft has quietly given US authorities easier access to encrypted data, notes Thomas Claburn in the Register.
- “How lab leakers covered up a lab leak” – On Substack, Jim Haslam walks through how scientists and officials have quietly closed ranks to muddy the waters around the lab-leak theory.
- “Industry sacrificed over Net Zero ideology, says Siemens Energy boss” – Siemens Energy boss has warned that Germany’s manufacturing base has been badly hurt by rigid climate targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s natural gas crisis escalates… one storage site near empty… Government silent” – It’s the dead of winter and already the first heating gas storage facility in Germany is nearly empty, says P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
- “DC court slams Michael Mann over $9.7 million jury lie, upholds sanctions” – The Superior Court in DC has just nuked disgraced climate scientist Michael Mann again, writes Andy Rowlands for PSI.
- “Mann vs Steyn: finally ready for appeal?” – After more than a decade of legal wrangling, the Mann vs Steyn saga is edging closer to an appeal, says Francis Menton on the Manhattan Contrarian.
- “Climate change presses on” – Data shows that global disaster losses have not surged in line with climate alarmist claims, reveals Roger Pielke Jr on his Substack.
- “Chinese solar companies scramble to hide China ties to keep US green tax credits flowing” – Solar firms have reshuffled their ownership structures to keep US subsidies flowing despite China links, according to the Free Beacon.
- “Class should be ‘protected characteristic’” – The Chancellor of Manchester University says we should make ‘class’ a protected characteristic to help the working class get jobs in the creative industries, reports the Telegraph.
- “I was barred from pub over my views on gender” – A student at Cambridge University has threatened to take legal action after she was banned from a pub over her views on gender, says the Express.
- “David Abulafia was a rare, truth-seeking historian” – In the Spectator, Nigel Biggar remembers David Abulafia as a formidable historian who never followed academic fashion.
- “Teach the truth, blood, horrors and all, or watch the cycle repeat with fresh corpses” – On X, LHGrey argues that teaching raw, brutal history – like the horrors of Bolshevism, Stalinism and Mao – would shred the Left’s appeal, warning that today’s schooling breeds a generation of useful idiots.
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“Mahmood to scrap non-crime hate incidents”
Go on then. Its only a memo to all the Chief Constables telling them to dismantle this abomination and get back to proper police work. What are you waiting for..?
Indeed. As always, “scrapping” things actually means replacing them with other things. The direction is always the same – MORE government, never LESS.
Pakistani Muslim Mahmood, the fox in charge of the henhouse…
David Abulafia was a rare, truth-seeking historian”
What price honesty, when race-baiting pays so much better.
“Misfire of victim’s gun could have triggered fatal ICE shooting”
‘may have been prompted by one of the officers “negligently” firing the victim’s gun’. Well, if you turn up to a peaceful protest with a gun in your pocket, then you didn’t really think about the possible consequences. Misadventure.
He did not have the ID required to carry firearms in public and two spare clips of ammunition. What could his intentions possibly have been.
Yes, what kind of “nurse” packs a pistol to a peaceful demonstration?
From the video photos of the ICE officer who disarmed the protester and walked away with the gun, it seems the gun misfired as his arm was swinging backwards, and the sound caused the other officers to return fire upon the protester.
Another protester actually bit off an officer’s finger, showing the horribly ghoulish, demonic nature of these protests. I’m glad the redoubtable Tom Homan has now been brought in to deal with this Marxist Insurrection in Minnesota, which has reportedly been funded by Tamil/Chinese/American Billionaire Neville Roy Singham, based in Shanghai where he collaborates with the Chinese government. I wonder whether his Chinese Professor mother Shirley Hune (real name “Li Hu Ne” from Shanghai?), based at Seattle University, has been quietly helping him funnel money to the Marxist Insurrection in Minnesota.
That’s what schools do and have always done – breed the next generation of useful idiots. It’s what schools have always been for, going back to the time when they were controlled by the church.
…and for producing obedient automatons who can crank out widgets.
Schools are run by useful idiots and have been cranking them out since the educational modernisation of the 1970s.
The Tories unforgivable criticism of Suella Braverman reminds me of insults by earlier Tory leaders against anyone who disagreed with their policies. I believe it was Major who referenced “men in white coats” and Cameron who called us fruitcakes for demanding a referendum on EU membership.
They really do not seem to be pleasant or well balanced people. Perhaps they are suffering a crisis of confidence or lack purpose; that would be understandable.
The Conservatives were called ‘the nasty party’. Nothing changes except other parties have also adopted nasty practices so the Conservatives no longer stand out.
May I add this to the Round-Up:
Rwanda sues Britain for £50m over axed migrant deal
Guess who founded the charity called “Africa Justice Foundation” in 2010 to TRAIN LAWYERS IN RWANDA and other African countries, showing them how to sue the West?
SUELLA BRAVERMAN and CHERIE BLAIR, Tony Blair’s wife. Tories = Labour.
Home secretary accused of failing to disclose Rwanda charity link
“France arrests two Brits for ‘inciting hatred’ after they ‘tried to take part in banned anti-migrant protest’ near Calais”
So they didn’t arrest any ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS or HUMAN TRAFFICKERS then?
To be fair, if they ever started going the other way, we’d be waving them off happily too.
These are the chaff that’s left after anyone capable of really adding any value to the society they’ve ‘adopted’ has already been winnowed out.
It’s our misfortune to be at the end of the line when all that’s left are the dregs, like the fat kid who always gets picked last.
The fact that we make it all so enticing for them is just the icing on the cake, I suppose…
I just found this wonderful 1991 quote on Infowars, from former French President Jacques Chirac, which shows that the French are our brothers, as are all Ethnic European peoples of the West, suffering the same horrible Third World Invasion. Imagine Macron telling the truth and standing up for French people like Chirac did! Never would happen.
“Our problem is not foreigners, it’s that there are too many of them. How can you expect a French worker who works with his wife and together earns around 15,000 francs to accept seeing a family living next door in his social housing block, crammed together, with a father, three or four wives and twenty kids, earning 50,000 francs in social benefits, without working, of course! Add to that the noise and the smell, and the French worker on the landing goes mad. He goes mad. That’s how it is. And you have to understand that if you were there, you would have the same reaction.”
— Jacques Chirac, former President of the French Republic
“Noise And Smell”: Civic Training Requested For ‘Racist’ French Estate Agents Over Alien Tenants
And what does Stalin Starmer, the supposed Labour “Working Man’s Friend” say to British workers in the same situation?
“I will throw you into prison by the hundreds! I will release violent rapists and murderers to make room in the prisons for you, Working Class British Scum! I will put a Pakistani Muslim Marxist Harpy in charge of the prisons & immigration & police, to trample you into Submission! And I will fill up hotels and British Army bases and new council homes with criminal aliens to rape your children, and throw you into prison for protesting! That’s what I will do!”