- “Gove told to stop funding interfaith charity that failed to condemn Hamas attack” – Michael Gove faces calls to stop public funding for an interfaith charity that has received millions from the taxpayer and has ties to a group barred from Whitehall, reports the Telegraph.
- “How UNRWA grooms terrorists” – It is high time for the international community, and those who actually want a better future for the Palestinians, to liquidate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, says Bassam Tawil for the Gatestone Institute.
- “Britain is no longer safe – and few police chiefs care” – Too many police forces view appeasing social justice activists as a worthy substitute for fighting crime, says Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak faces backlash from Tory MPs over Cummings meetings” – Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash from furious Tory MPs over claims by Dominic Cummings that he had secret meetings with the PM, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s remarkable downfall” – Political downfalls, such as Nicola Sturgeon’s, are rarely so precipitate or dramatic, observes Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “Why the Spectator didn’t cancel Karol Sikora” – In the Spectator, Fraser Nelson explains why he didn’t cancel Karol Sikora at the behest of an NHS sponsor of a Spectator debate at the Tory Party Conference.
- “‘Beginning of the end’ for EU as we know it after surge in hard-Right support” – Polls are predicting that Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban will lead their Right-wing parties to victory in next year’s European Parliament elections, reports the Telegraph.
- “Councils are hiking car parking prices by up to 54% next year” – Local authorities across England have proposed a slate of increased car parking fees for the new year, says the Mail.
- “Professor claims Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg tweet got him sacked” – An Australian academic was sacked over a tweet responsing to eco-zealot Greta Thunberg and influencer Andrew Tate, according to the Mail.
- “Why did it take so long to give Tim Martin a knighthood?” – Wetherspoons is more than a successful business. It is almost a charity, says Christopher Snowdon in the Spectator.
- “The year in review” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth presents the personal, political, pretty, painful and published in 2023.
- “Sunday strip: Fasten your seatbelt!” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone reflects on the past year through a carefully curated collection of satirical cartoons.
- “The New Conservative Alternative Honours List” – The New Conservative’s Frank Haviland honours the movers and shakers who laboured night and day to make 2023 the unmitigated disaster it was.
- “Woke crime guidelines and questioning branded ‘ludicrous’” – Police are being told to ask suspects and crime victims whether they are male, female or ‘intersex’, reports the Mail.
- “Police tsar: Trans activists trying to force me out over gender views” – A Tory police tsar claims transgender activists and Left-wing rivals are trying to oust her over her anti-woke views on sex and gender, according to the Mail.
- “Woke corporatism has started to implode” – 2023 has turned out to have been the year when so-called ‘woke corporatism’ keeled over and died, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Mission to planet Woke! NASA plans ‘diverse’ new lunar adventure” – Critics are castigating NASA’s commitment to ‘diversity’ and gender balance among astronauts as it plans a new lunar trip, according to the Mail.
- “A new age of prohibition” – Rishi Sunak’s tobacco ban is a sign of things to come, warns Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
- “Will we worship the AI?” – AI will eventually be better than us in ways we do not yet understand, says Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Google settles $5 billion lawsuit over allegedly spying on people using Chrome’s Incognito mode” – Google has settled a $5 billion privacy lawsuit that alleges it spied on people who used the ‘Incognito mode’ option in Google Chrome, reports Complex.
- “South Park was right once again” – On X, Collin Rugg shares a prophetic clip from South Park, following the news that USA Boxing will now allow biological males to compete with females starting in 2024 under their new “Transgender Policy”.
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