News Round-Up

• “Epstein paid Mandelson’s husband $4,000 a month” – According to the Epstein files, Lord Mandelson’s husband was paid $4,000 a month by the paedophile financier through a standing order set up while the peer was Deputy Prime Minister, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mandelson quits the Lords after Starmer threatens to change law to force him out – and Cabinet Office calls in cops over leaks of secrets to Epstein” – Lord Mandelson has declared he will quit the House of Lords after Sir Keir Starmer threatened to change the law to kick him out, says the Mail.
• “Jeffrey Epstein helped Russian spies collect blackmail ‘kompromat’ on western elites for decades says former MI6 agent Steele” – Fresh claims have linked Epstein to long-running Russian intelligence blackmail operations, reports the Mail.
• “Was the KGB involved? Poland sets up team to examine Epstein scandal” – The Polish Government has formed a special task force to examine links between Poland and the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, as well as a potential connection to Russia’s KGB, says TVP World.
• “The internet is awash in metric tonnes of shallow Epstein bullshit” – On Substack, Eugyppius rails at the flood of lazy Epstein commentary online.
• “Labour mayor helped hide evidence when her son, 41, was arrested for raping 15 year-old girl” – A court has heard claims that a Labour mayor put family loyalty ahead of the law, reveals the Mail.
• “Migrant who told girl, 12, to ‘cover her head’ before sexually assaulting her on way home from school is spared jail” – A convicted migrant has been spared jail for sexually assaulting a 12 year-old girl, reports the Mail.
• “Judicial recklessness” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan lays out how the rule of law has been steadily hollowed out by activist judges.
• “Roald Dahl’s grandson attacks Met after being assaulted in Westminster” – Roald Dahl’s Met officer grandson has slammed the Metropolitan Police over its investigation into a “gang” attack on him in London, according to the Standard.
• “Reform vows to ‘end the rot’ of thousands of pub closures” – Nigel Farage has unveiled Reform UK’s plan to save pubs with £3 billion of tax cuts funded by cutting child benefit, reports the Mail.
• “Reform would scrap Labour plans to cut drink-driving limit” – Nigel Farage says Labour’s plans to lower the drink-driving limit would be a “further unnecessary hammer blow” to pubs, according to the Telegraph.
• “Pressure grows on Musk as ICO launches official investigation into xAI’s Grok over sexual images of children” – Britain’s information regulator has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok amid allegations it created sexualised images of children, reports the Mail.
• “Yes, there is a Mexican state-cartel alliance” – Mexico’s drug war cannot be understood without confronting state complicity, argues Joshua Treviño in the Spectator.
• “Migrants should leave South Africa, says Zulu king” – South Africa’s Zulu king has called on migrants to leave amid rising tensions, reports the BBC.
• “Are we overdiagnosing a generation with ADHD?” – A diagnosis of depression, anxiety or neurodivergence does not necessarily mean a disability, the GP and author Gavin Francis tells Damian Whitworth in the Telegraph.
• “Universal repeated mRNA boosting was (and is) bad policy” – Endless mRNA boosters never made much medical or policy sense, says Dr Robert W. Malone on Malone News Substack.
• “DisInformation Chronicle podcast with virologist and former CDC Directory Robert Redfield” – On the DisInformation Chronicle podcast, Paul D. Thacker is joined by virologist Robert Redfield to discuss Covid vaccines, bioweapons and whether trust in medical authorities is over.
• “Miliband’s battery subsidies are the next Net Zero gold rush” – In theTelegraph, Jonathan Leake flags Ed Miliband’s battery subsidies as the next costly Net Zero flop.
• “European PM rips EU green energy dogma” – Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has delivered a blistering critique of the EU’s so-called “green energy” agenda, according to the Daily Caller.
• “‘Climate change’ was supposed to make DC winters ‘more Southern’ – and it’s colder than it’s been in three decades” – Washington DC has just recorded its coldest spell in decades despite years of warming predictions, notes Thomas Catenacci in the Free Beacon.
• “More on the Federal Judicial Center and the attribution scam” – On the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton takes aim at the climate attribution ‘science’ now being relied on in US courts.
• “World cereal output hit record high in 2024” – World cereal outputs have hit yet another record high, giving the lie to the climate scamsters’ constant misinformation, writes Paul Homewood on Not A Lot Of People Know That.
• “How to write an ‘anti-racist’ church sermon: my helpful guide” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon takes aim at the Church of England’s woke politics.
• “Leave the ‘white’ British countryside alone” – In the Telegraph, Mercy Muroki urges politicians to stop meddling with rural Britain.
• “Sussex University launches judicial review against £585,000 fine” – Sussex University is appealing a £585,000 fine for adopting a transgender policy which led to Prof Kathleen Stock feeling she had to resign, reports the Mail.
• “Hollywood still hasn’t got the memo: JK Rowling won” – Hollywood has continued to miss the public mood on Rowling and the gender debate, says Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “Netflix HQ is overrun with unsold jars of Meghan’s jam” – Netflix’s Hollywood offices are apparently overrun with Meghan Markle’s unsold jam jars – and company employees are helping themselves, reports the Mail.
• “Closing schools to ‘protect’ children from COVID-19 was the lockdown’s worst mistake” – In the Lords, Toby urges the Government to amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to make it harder for future governments to close schools in the event of another pandemic.

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