- “Liz Truss announces her ‘trimmed’ honours list of 11 people” – Liz Truss announced her resignation honours last night, nominating three close associates for peerages and eight for honours, reports the Mail.
- “Aviva boss who vets senior white male recruits awarded damehood” – Amanda Blanc, the Aviva boss who was ridiculed for declaring she discriminated against white men, has been made a Dame in the New Year’s Honours for her services to business, gender equality and Net Zero, according to the Telegraph.
- “Giorgia Meloni named ‘Man of the Year’ by Right-wing Italian newspaper” – Libero says country’s first female PM has won “the war of the sexes” and “not only broken the glass ceiling, [but] dissolved it”, says the Telegraph.
- “David Hume was no racist, academics tell Edinburgh University” – The philosopher was actually an implacable and vocal opponent of slavery, according to David Ashton and Peter Hutton, reports the Times.
- “Lineker’s Star is Fading” – In Country Squire, Jack Watson predicts Gary Lineker will disappear from our screens in 2024.
- “We Don’t Like Children Anyhow” – In his latest Substack post, Dr David McGrogan sets out the conservative case for reducing parents’ reliance on the state for childcare.
- “The West may now have no option but to attack Iran” – In the Telegraph, John Bolton says the only way to rein in an increasingly out-of-control government in Tehran is to punish it, ideally with rockets.
- “Slash funds to sports bodies pushing gender ideology, report says” – A new Policy Exchange reports urges the Government to cut funding to sporting bodies that promote gender identity ideology, reports the Mail.
- “Rishi Sunak is brutally snubbed by Southampton boss” – Rishi Sunak was present as the Saints extended their unbeaten run to 17 games, but the manager ignored him, says the Mail.
- “Reform U.K. support climbs to 10% as Tories fail to turn tide” – A poll of nearly 2,000 voters shows Labour heading for a Commons majority if an election was held today, with the Tories support ebbing away to Reform, according to the Telegraph.
- “Let 2024 be the year we champion true democracy” – In his Mail column, Boris Johnson asks: “How can we claim moral superiority over autocracies when judges here and in America seek to take power from the people?”
- “Women raped by Hamas ‘found with nails driven into thighs and groin’” – New devastating accounts of sexual violence and torture enacted on defenceless Israeli women by Hamas terrorists amid their brutal October 7 attacks have emerged, reports the Mail.
- “UN sends more asylum seekers to Rwanda – despite opposing UK scheme” – Officials in Rwanda announced they had welcomed 153 people who had been evacuated from Libya under a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) programme, according to the Mail.
- “Europe on alert for jihadist attacks on New Year’s Eve” – The Hamas massacre in Israel and war in Gaza have fuelled a new wave of radicalisation, intelligence experts warn, reports the Times.
- “Boris Johnson wishes GB News viewers a Happy New Year” – The former Prime Minister has issued a New Year’s message to GB News, where his new programme will debut shortly.
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