- “Britain cannot sustain these immigration levels” – We’ve all got a huge interest in reliable migration figures, neutrally and fairly presented. At the moment, we have neither, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights” – The SAS’s real enemy isn’t armed with a gun, but with the European Convention on Human Rights, writes Paul Wood in the Spectator.
- “Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name” – Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the Government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying attention, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Woman faces police interview after calling man she says threatened her family a ‘pikey’” – A woman has been summoned for an interview under caution by the police after calling a man she claims confronted and threatened her husband and teenage daughter a “pikey”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hague demands end to cancel culture in defence of free speech” – The new chancellor of the University of Oxford says cancel culture is “absolutely wrong” and urged Labour to bring back free speech laws, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer attempting to rush through Chagos handover before Trump enters White House” – Keir Starmer is trying to rush the controversial Chagos Islands treaty through before Donald Trump takes office, amid concerns that the deal could collapse, reports GB News.
- “Pay languishes below 2008 levels as Britain lags behind rich world” – The financial crisis, Covid pandemic and the cost of living squeeze have combined with dire productivity and weak economic growth to give British workers one of the worst blows to living standards, says Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Farmer tax row risks hitting food supply, warns outgoing Asda chairman” – Lord Rose has warned that the row between farmers and the Government could disrupt supplies into supermarkets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Private school VAT raid will raise ‘tiny amount of money’, IFS admits” – The head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies admits that Labour’s private school tax raid will not make “any real difference to the amount of money available” for state schools, according to the Telegraph.
- “This simple fact about tax rises is always overlooked” – Rachel Reeves has apparently failed to grasp a basic economic reality – raising taxes often fails to increase the overall tax take, says Andrew Craig in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves faces fresh embarrassment over unearthed winter fuel pledge” – Unearthed leaflets show that Rachel Reeve’s made protecting the winter fuel allowance central to her early election campaigns, reports the Telegraph.
- “Louise Haigh has fraud conviction over stolen mobile phone” – Transport Secretary Louise Haigh was convicted of fraud after a police investigation involving stolen and missing mobile phones, reveals the Times.
- “How Alan Rusbridger and Left-wing luminaries plunged the Observer into crisis” – In the Telegraph, James Warrington describes Alan Rusbridger’s role in the Observer’s decline, accusing him of laying the groundwork for the paper’s crisis.
- “Once again, a BBC star is investigated only after journalists get involved” – Gregg Wallace has stepped down from MasterChef following allegations of inappropriate behaviour revealed by a Telegraph investigation.
- “No welcome in the hillside” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson dissects Wales’s economic missteps, cultural erasures and the dangerous implications of its anti-racism policies.
- “Meritocracy and the Startup Party” – On Substack, J’accuse examines Dominic Cummings’s Startup Party, weighing its bold vision of meritocracy against the pitfalls of entrenched elites.
- “Met Office apologises after ‘severe’ hot weather alerts sent to phones by mistake” – The Met Office has apologised for accidentally sending weather alerts to people’s phones warning of “severe high temperatures” and a “significant threat to life or property”, reports Wales Online.
- “Why Donald Trump’s fracking revolution will leave Starmer’s Britain behind” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake warns that the U.K.’s green policies are forcing it into energy dependence on the U.S.
- “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade interrupted by pro-Palestinian protest” – Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, leading to the arrest of 21 people, reports the NY Post.
- “Can Ukraine’s army survive its deserter crisis?” – In the Spectator, Svitlana Morenets unpacks Ukraine’s deepening deserter crisis.
- “Introducing the Vaccine Files” – On Substack, Isabell Oakeshott releases the first in a series of revelations about the jab based on Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages that he handed over to her so she could ghost write his pandemic memoir.
- “Secret WhatsApp leaks expose Downing Street’s vaccine cover-up” – On X, Dr. Aseem Malhotra highlights the vaccine-related WhatsApp messages released by Isabel Oakeshott, which reveal that Downing Street instructed the U.K. regulator to “knock down” concerns about the vaccine due to its poor efficacy.
- “‘Tate’s finances are on the skids and I think I know why’” – The problem with Tate’s reinvention as the gallery wing of social justice activism is the public isn’t turning up, says J.J. Charlesworth in the Spectator.
- “The diversity cult is imploding – Jaguar is just the first casualty” – The point of inclusive policies was not to do the right thing but to be profitable, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “What is “the woke Right”?” – A faction of “anti-woke” campaigners are now embracing their own form of identity politics, notes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Sorry, but woke isn’t dead – and the BBC has just proved it” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon exposes how the BBC giving its Women’s Footballer of the Year award to Barbra Banda proves woke ideology is alive and thriving in Britain’s institutions.
- “‘I was ousted as a charity trustee for saying biological men shouldn’t join our breastfeeding meetings’” – In the Telegraph, Ruth Lewis, ousted from La Leche League for opposing biological males in breastfeeding groups, warns the charity is being “destroyed from within” by gender ideologues.
- “America is in open revolt against DEI extremism. Walmart has only just noticed” – Walmart isn’t changing its DEI policies because of Trump, but because people have turned against radical cultural progressivism, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “Transgender ideology has weakened the U.S. military — it’s dangerous to pretend otherwise” – Trump would be right to scrap Biden’s rules that put gender dogma over military lethality, writes Caroline Downey in the Telegraph.
- “Trump and the academic cocoon” – A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention, says Heather Mac Donald in Quillette.
- “Kamala Harris looks exhausted – and nowhere close to understanding why she lost” – A bizarre video released by the Democrats demonstrates the extent of the party’s delusions, writes David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
- “Zuckerberg dines with Trump – four years after banning him from Facebook” – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago – after reportedly requesting the meeting with the President-elect to discuss “the incoming administration”, reports the NY Post.
- “Millions of Britons ditch X as Elon Musk triggers Left-wing backlash” – The number of U.K. adults visiting X’s website or app has dropped from 26.5 million in 2022 when Musk bought the company to 22.2 million this year, according to the Telegraph.
- “Australia has shown the way on free speech” – Australia’s defeat of a draconian counter-disinformation bill signals a revival of free speech values, says Andrew Lowenthal in UnHerd.
- “No, Digital ID will not be required to access social media under Australia’s new age limit laws… probably” – Australians will not have to present a Digital ID to use social media under new laws setting the minimum age of social media access to 16, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “‘Jobs don’t just fall from the sky’” – On X, entrepreneur Luke Johnson (and director of Skeptics Ltd., the company that owns the Daily Sceptic) tells its straight about Labour’s job killing employment Bill.
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