- “Falklands hero Simon Weston slams ‘weak’ Keir Starmer on Chagos” – Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is under pressure to call an emergency debate on Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands after Nigel Farage complained that the “damaging capitulation” occurred while MPs were away from Westminster, reports the Mail.
- “James Cleverly overtakes Robert Jenrick in leadership contest survey of Tory members” – A Conservative Home survey of activists conducted over the two days after the party conference in Birmingham showed Mr. Cleverly leapfrogging Mr. Jenrick.
- “Tory leadership race all to play for as Chagos debacle ‘exposes problem’ for dark horse after conference boost” – Critics have tried to pin blame on James Cleverly for his role in the Government’s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands after his speech at the ICC turned heads and threw the 2024 Tory leadership race wide open, reports GB News.
- “Seven million workers to get sick pay from the first day” – Workers will be given rights to claim sick pay from their first day on the job under new laws, says the Mail.
- “PM ‘strings pulled by puppet master Lord Alli on assisted dying vote’” – Keir Starmer has been accused of pressurising Labour MPs into backing new laws on assisted dying – with donor Lord Alli acting as his “puppetmaster” on the issue, reports the Mail.
- “Robert Jenrick calls on Labour to block assisted dying bill” – Robert Jenrick has called on Keir Starmer to block a bill that proposes changing the law to legalise assisted dying, says the Telegraph.
- “How deep is your trough?” – It surely can’t be long before Starmer disowns Lord Alli, especially if his own career is in danger. It’s probably time for Alli to find another trough to fill, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The weeks of dysfunction that led to Sue Gray’s downfall” – In the Times, Oliver Wright, Patrick Maguire and Chris Smyth provide an in-depth analysis of the Sue Gray saga engulfing Downing Street.
- “Are Keir Starmer’s first 100 days the worst for any PM in British history?” – Under our “winner takes all” political system, it ought to be well-nigh impossible to make a hash of governing after being dealt such a hand. And yet Sir Keir has contrived to do so, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “The 11 predators that walked free since Huw Edwards dodged jail” – The MailOnline looks at a snapshot of just some of the court cases around the U.K. in the last three weeks where sexual or violent offenders have walked free.
- “The anguish of mothers whose daughters are still in clutches of Hamas” – In the Mail, the mothers of five young Israeli women held hostage by Hamas for over a year share their heart-wrenching fight for their daughters’ release, as they plead with the world not to let them be forgotten.
- “365 days of October 7th” – The defense of Israel and of Western civilisation are one, writes Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
- “The choice: civilisation or barbarism” – Israel will win this terrible war – whatever the cost – because it knows what it is, loves its Jewish identity and is proud of it. The opposite is true of the West that has abandoned it, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
- “How Mossad boobytrapped Hezbollah pagers in top secret plot” – The Mossad plot to boobytrap more than 5,000 pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah with high-powered explosives was nearly a decade in the making, reports the Mail.
- “Horrifying moment protestor self-immolates outside White House” – A protestor attempted to self-immolate outside the White House during a Pro-Palestinian rally, according to the Mail.
- “Green agenda slams brakes on U.K. growth: car industry warns” – The economy is being hampered by disruption caused by the switch to electric vehicles, which has sent the car industry into reverse, says This is Money.
- “Locals ‘absolutely devastated’ at plans for 87-mile pylon highway” – Officials want to install a vast new network of pylons snaking from Grimsby down to Tilbury in Essex as part of a plan dubbed ‘The Great Grid Upgrade’, reports the Mail.
- “It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake interviews Prof. Jim Skea, who warns that the world risks 3°C of global warming by 2100 unless it changes course.
- “The green deindustrialisation of Britain” – The end of the era of coal is nothing to celebrate, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Great Hurricane of 1780 remains the worst” – The deadliest hurricane in history, with 22,000 dead, happened before the internal combustion engine was invented, notes John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “Are any killers in our jails guilty?” – Rumblings about Lucy Letby’s ‘innocence’ are getting louder – though true-crime aficionado Paul Sutton, on his Substack, reckons she’s guilty.
- “Covid booster jab offered to thousands as variant looms” – Thousands more people in the U.K. will be offered the latest Covid booster vaccine over fears that immunity levels are waning, reports the Mail.
- “The Darzi review of the NHS” – Lord Darzi’s NHS review offers little more than a plea for more taxpayer cash and a tech upgrade, completely missing the mark on the real issues plaguing the system, says Dr. Gary Sidley on his Substack.
- “The week in numbers (to October 6th)” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan take a numerical look back over the week’s top health-related stories.
- “What is the point of this menopause campaign?” – October is now Menopause Month – a fact women in war-torn Beirut and flooded North Carolina will be pleased to know, says Alexandra Shulman in the Mail.
- “Finding a cure for psychology” – Ever wonder why ‘unhappy’ has almost been replaced in common use by ‘depressed’? asks Theodore Dalrymple in Quadrant.
- “Russia considering law to fine people who choose not to have children” – Russia is considering outlawing “a conscious refusal to have children” and is even encouraging millions to have sex at work, writes Jamie Seidel in the NY Post.
- “EU uses Digital Services Act to probe YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat algorithms for censorship compliance” – The EU is demanding tech giants reveal how algorithms handle so-called “hate speech”, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Hillary Clinton calls for stricter online censorship as establishment fears losing ‘total control’” – Hillary Clinton has stepped up as the latest voice in the Democratic Party warning about online information control, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “Social media goes into overdrive as SNL destroys ‘drunk’ Harris” – Saturday Night Live fans declared the show destroyed Kamala Harris with a hilarious sketch of her drinking wine as she watched the Vice Presidential debate, reports the Mail.
- “Melania Trump reveals she was debanked and banned from her business email provider” – Melania Trump claims her political ties led to a post-White House purge from her bank and email provider, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Universities must recommit to excellence and reject political loyalty oaths” – In Presser, Abhishek Saha critiques mandatory DEI statements in academia, arguing they serve as ideological litmus tests that undermine academic freedom and inhibit the pursuit of truth.
- “The many faces of Christian persecution” – In TCW, Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack distinguishes between the different types of hostility faced by Christians worldwide.
- “Teens could be banned from giving lifts to friends after passing test” – Under new “restricted licence” proposals, teen drivers may have to leave their friends behind for the first six months on the road, reports the Mail.
- “Durham Uni free speech shutdown” – On Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle, the Free Speech Union’s Stephen O’Grady explains the “insidious” behaviour of Durham University after a debating society was barred from the university’s freshers’ fair.
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