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by Richard Eldred
5 December 2024 1:18 AM

  • “Farmers will fight Labour’s tax raid ‘for as long as it takes’” – NFU chief Tom Bradshaw has warned that farmers across Britain will continue to “fight” Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax raid until the bitter end, reports GB News.
  • “Public back NFU over Reeves” – The Spectator’s Steerpike sharpens his pen with a poll-driven takedown of Labour’s inheritance tax gamble and the public’s unexpected backing of Jeremy Clarkson over Reeves.
  • “Keir Starmer will not make new immigration pledge in key relaunch speech” – Keir Starmer’s plan for the next phase of his Government will not include a new pledge on immigration, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “Starmer ‘planning to give Sue Gray a peerage’” – Keir Starmer is reportedly planning to award a peerage to Sue Gray as well as a raft of ex-MPs who stepped down from Labour safe seats ahead of July’s General Election, reports the National.
  • “Taxpayers’ footing the bill for Sir Keir’s ideological mire” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty exposes the Government’s £7 million handout to UNRWA, the UN agency mired in controversy because many of its staff took part in the October 7th massacre.
  • “Starmer’s staggering incompetence makes him the worst PM in 50 years” – This is the most dangerous government for generations. Will Nigel Farage be the winner from its collapse? wonders Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
  • “Who fact-checks the self-appointed fact checkers?” – BBC Verify and Full Fact claim to be impartial purveyors of truth. But their biases are all too glaring, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
  • “BBC newsreader Clive Myrie failed to declare up to £145,000 worth of events” – BBC broadcaster Clive Myrie has apologised for failing to declare at least £145,000 for external work he undertook outside his role at the corporation, reports Sky News.
  • “‘I’m a police officer and ‘hate crime’ is a bureaucratic nightmare’” – In the Telegraph, an anonymous police officer reveals how the overuse of the term ’hate crime’ is straining resources, diverting attention from more serious issues and creating a bureaucratic nightmare.
  • “We must fight to save British culture from the self-hating elite” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson sounds the alarm about Britain’s cultural decline, arguing that British culture is under threat from a self-hating elite.
  • “Sadiq Khan admits violence against women is rife under his watch” – The Mayor of London has admitted that there is an “epidemic” of abuse facing women as he launched a new project which aims to teach schoolboys about “healthy relationships”, reports the Mail.
  • “Keir Starmer’s allies scramble to defend PM’s changed stance on Qatar” – Keir Starmer’s allies are scrambling to defend the PM’s shift in stance on Qatar as he prepares to welcome the petro-state’s ruler to Downing Street, says the Mail.
  • “Nuclear plant closures paused amid fear of Net Zero blackouts” – The closure of four of Britain’s oldest nuclear power stations has been delayed over fears Labour’s Net Zero drive could lead to blackouts, reports the Mail.
  • “The six-figure tax problem looming over Labour’s assisted dying law” – Experts warn that terminally ill patients could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones massive bills, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Assisted dying Bill” – On the TTE Substack, Profs. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson explore the problem of predicting the end of life.
  • “MPs’ outrage at ‘bonkers’ Labour junk food ad crackdown” – Ministers have been accused of “losing the plot” with a crackdown on “junk food” ads that covers porridge and crumpets, reports the Mail.
  • “More than 300,000 ‘ghost children’ missing from the school system” – As many as 300,000 “ghost children” are missing from the school system amid a post-pandemic mental health crisis, according to Sky News.
  • “New peer-reviewed study: resolution of refractory COVID-19 vaccine-induced myopericarditis with adjunctive rapamycin” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher and Peter McCullough reveal how rapamycin, combined with the McCullough Protocol, can offer near-complete resolution of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myopericarditis, heart failure and persistent ST elevation.
  • “The hug of hypocrisy” – The British state has lost its mind over Israel, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
  • “Dutch Government backs ‘toughest ever measures’ on immigration” – The Right-wing Dutch Government is eyeing a cap on the population at 20 million to “get a grip on migration”, reports the Mail.
  • “China now a nuclear threat to the West, warns Armed Forces head” – Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has warned that China’s rapid nuclear expansion signals the end of post-Cold War stability, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Cathay Pacific apologises over in-flight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene” – Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific has apologised for airing a Family Guy episode featuring Tiananmen Square on its in-flight entertainment, says the Guardian.
  • “America is defenceless against Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic missile” – In the Telegraph, Rebekah Koffler flags how Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile, capable of evading current Western defences and delivering nuclear strikes in minutes, puts NATO at a stark disadvantage in the escalating arms race.
  • “America’s woke military is in for a radical shake-up — under DeSantis or Hegseth” – In the Telegraph, Joe Barnes explores how Ron DeSantis, who could be Trump’s pick for Defence Secretary, could be a secret weapon in the fight to overhaul America’s woke military.
  • “Marc Guehi escapes FA punishment despite twice breaking rules with ‘Jesus loves you’ armband” – The FA’s handling of the rainbow armband row has sparked accusations of double standards, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The problem with the FA’s Rainbow Laces furore” – Fans don’t give a flying football what players, clubs and governing bodies think about wider social and political issues. It’s a crying shame that those who run the game just don’t get it, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
  • “Marc Guehi has exposed the flaw in football’s Rainbow Laces campaign” – Is the Football Association’s Rainbow Laces campaign about inclusivity or not? The FA doesn’t seem to be able to make up its mind, writes Tom Goodenough in the Spectator.
  • “Church of England spending ‘excessively’ on HR and diversity officers” – A new report warns that the CofE is drowning in HR and diversity officers while parishes struggle to survive, according to the Telegraph.
  • “MasterChef accused of ‘double standards’ after Monica Galetti remark” – MasterChef has been accused of double standards in the wake of the Gregg Wallace saga, after a female judge made a suggestive remark to a contestant on a recent show, reports the Mail.
  • “Jeremy Vine and Dawn Neesom swipe at Mel Sykes’s ‘confusing’ complaints” – Jeremy Vine and Dawn Neesom have criticised Melanie Sykes, admitting they are “confused” by her complaints against Gregg Wallace, according to the Mail.
  • “The Gregg Wallace scandal exposes the BBC’s neurosis about class” – Working class men are few and far between at the BBC. No wonder its middle-class middle managers had no clue how to rein Wallace in, says Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
  • “Who cares about Gregg Wallace?” – Gregg Wallace has been accused of various misdeeds – but who really cares? asks Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
  • “Angela Rayner cannot name a single company that supports Labour’s Employment Bill” – On Politics Live, Angela Rayner cannot name any of the companies that actually support her ruinous Employment Rights Bill.

Wow. Angela Rayner cannot name a single company that supports Labour's Employment Bill.

This is painful to watch. pic.twitter.com/1BuSigo22j

— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) December 4, 2024

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