News Round-Up

• “UK should pay slavery reparations, says UN” – The United Nations has voted for the UK to give up trillions of pounds in “reparations” for the transatlantic slave trade, reports GB News.
• “We are fools to indulge the UN’s nonsense on slavery” – Why did Britain abstain on the partisan reparations resolution, not vote against it? asks David Shipley in the Telegraph.
• “The $2.5 trillion shock that risks bankrupting Britain” – As war in the Middle East wipes trillions off global bond markets, City traders are being fired on the spot, reports Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer struggles to quell new Mandelson ‘cover-up’ crisis” – Keir Starmer is struggling to contain a fresh ‘cover-up’ row after a Labour MP openly accused one of his top aides of lying about having his phone stolen, according to the Mail.
• “Former spy chiefs criticise Starmer over failure to proscribe IRGC” – Retired chiefs from MI6, MI5 and GCHQ have slammed Starmer for refusing to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports the Conservative Post.
• “Now is not the time to oust Starmer, says Streeting” – Wes Streeting has told Labour MPs that now is not the time to get rid of Keir Starmer, according to the Telegraph.
• “Starmer is just the robotic face of a more dangerous British rot” – An obsession with rules and a refusal to see that procedure is not just an algorithm – the PM is a reflection of how the state functions, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Mayor of Bath sorry for posts about Jewish ambulance arson attacks” – The Mayor of Bath has apologised “unreservedly” after retweeting a post on X which called the burning of four ambulances run by a Jewish charity an “Israeli false flag operation”, according to the BBC.
• “The real reason the Left hates Israel” – The Left’s hatred of Israel has more to do with antisemitism than any actual policy disagreement, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “Why is Labour so eager to give Muslims special treatment?” – The new “anti-Muslim hostility” definition is an insult to those of all other faiths and none, writes Hardeep Singh in the Spiked.
• “How the Green Party abandoned its environmental roots” – In the Spectator, Angus Colwell exposes how the Green Party abandoned its original concern for the environment and overpopulation in favour of shrill, extreme identity politics.
• “Tech boss is ‘disastrous’ choice to lead BBC” – Veteran broadcaster John Sergeant has slammed the choice of a former Google chief as BBC Director-General, saying he knows nothing about journalism, according to the Telegraph.
• “How to brainwash the British public” – BBC’s The Capture paints scepticism about migration as dangerous while soft-pedalling Islamic threats, continuing a long pattern of gaslighting the public, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “NS&I boss sacked over savings scandal” – The boss of National Savings & Investments (NS&I) has been sacked following a major £476 million savings scandal at the state-owned savings bank, reports the Telegraph.
• “New NS&I boss is career civil servant who failed to fix HMRC” – Ex-HMRC boss Sir Jim Harra has been brought out of retirement to head NS&I after a Telegraph investigation revealed chronic failings at the taxpayer-backed bank.
• “This new HS2 farce sums up the absurdity of modern Britain” – Given HS2’s track record, it comes as no surprise that ministers are campaigning for the ‘high speed’ trains to run slower, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s delays allowed dozens of Russian oil tankers to pass through Channel” – Dozens of Russian oil tankers have been allowed to sail through British waters while Starmer took his time working out a legal justification to stop them, reports GB News.
• “The West’s defeatist elites are making seven deadly errors” – Western elites have made seven deadly strategic mistakes, beginning with their refusal to accept how badly Iran has been defeated since the October 7th attacks, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Denmark’s wealth tax gambit is a warning for Labour” – Denmark’s new wealth tax proposal has served as a timely warning for Labour, especially given how people once dodged Britain’s sky-high tax rates, says James Baxter-Derrington in the Telegraph.
• “How the Danish election backfired for the Left” – The Danish election has badly backfired on the Left, much like the drawn-out disputes seen in past US presidential races, notes James Lewisohn in the Spectator.
• “The Left ruined Paris. Then it bought in new voters” – New Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire has an aggressive social housing policy to thank for the Socialists extending their grip on the city, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “Tucker Carlson’s sickening praise for Sharia tyranny” – The crank Right is joining the woke Left in the toilet of jihad chic, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Criminal research” – European jurists should leave controversial issues to science rather than trying to settle them in court, says Rosalind Arden in Quillette.
• “‘Gentle parenting’ is wreaking havoc at nurseries like mine” – Children don’t need complete freedom to make their own choices, they need to be taught the difference between right and wrong, according to an anonymous nursery school manager in the Telegraph.
• “The great disruption” – Lockdowns and the resulting healthcare crisis have helped drive excess deaths from conditions like gallstones, six years after the first lockdown, according to the HART Substack.
• “The Hallett Inquiry, Module 3 report” – The latest Hallett Inquiry Module 3 report is yet another fatally flawed document, reports Andrew Bamji on his Substack.
• “It’s time to face the AI claims about my new book” – In the Mail, Matt Goodwin hits back at the frenzied Left-wing backlash against his new book on immigration, Islam and identity, including wild claims it was written by AI.
• “How Sadiq Khan made London into a taxi driver’s worst nightmare” – London’s black cab drivers have warned that Sadiq Khan’s traffic schemes have turned the capital into the world’s slowest-driving city and put their livelihoods at risk, writes Kimberley Bond in the Telegraph.
• “What Hope Not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values” – Hope Not Hate has released yet another paper-thin investigation that wrongly labels Net Zero scepticism as hate, revealing how little it understands real liberal values, says Andrew Gilligan in the Spectator.
• “Next warns shoppers to brace for price rises” – Next has warned shoppers to expect higher prices as the war in Iran sends oil and gas costs soaring, according to the Mail.
• “M&S accuses Labour of driving up energy bills” – M&S has accused the Government of driving up energy bills as Britain faces one of the biggest hits to growth from the war in Iran, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s energy nightmare is of our own elites’ making” – Britain has been left facing another major energy crisis because of decades of self-harming policies pushed by its own elites, writes Fraser Myers in the Spiked.
• “The soldier’s song the Army doesn’t want you to hear” – A British Army captain is facing punishment for recording a satirical song that ridicules the decrepit state of the armed forces, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trans woman who stalked surgeon held in female prison” – A trans woman who stalked a surgeon has been held in a female prison after developing an unhealthy fixation on the doctor, says GB News.
• “Breast hypnosis was good for business – but I drew the line at penises, says Polanski” – The Telegraph has dug out a 2019 blog post by Green Party leader Zack Polanski in which he admits breast-enlarging hypnosis was a great money spinner, but claims he drew the line when men started asking for penis enlargements.
• “TfL refuses to mention women in ‘baby on board’ badge update” – TfL has come under fire for refusing to mention women in its ‘baby on board’ badge publicity, calling pregnant women “expectants” and “parents” instead, says the Telegraph.
• “Queen becomes first royal woman to be accepted into Garrick Club” – The Queen has become the first royal woman accepted into the Garrick Club, two years after the club finally allowed female members, according to Town & Country.
• “The awful truth is that ‘toxic’ men might just have a point” – A more equal society comes at a cost and it’s no surprise there is a backlash from those left behind, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “This is an attempt to shut down free speech” – On GB News, Jacob Rees-Mogg and his panel discuss Ofcom’s decision to investigate broadcasters for featuring climate sceptics.

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