- “Musk deepens grooming gangs attack on Starmer saying PM ‘complicit’” – The multi-billionaire X owner launched a tirade against the PM and the U.K. Government on Friday about their failure to do more about the grooming gangs scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk’s many jabs at Sir Keir Starmer and Labour” – Following Labour’s election, and Musk’s appointment to a key White House role, the world’s richest man has become one of the U.K. Government’s harshest critics, says the Times.
- “Elon Musk says the King should order a new general election” – The billionaire X owner and Donald Trump adviser shared a post demanding the monarch step in to dissolve Parliament and trigger a General Election, as he clashed with the government over grooming gangs, according to the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting accuses Elon Musk of being ‘misjudged and misinformed’ over grooming scandal” – The Health Secretary has come to Sir Keir Starmer’s defence after Musk accused him of not doing enough to prosecute grooming gangs as the Director of Public Prosecutions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Musk’s love-in with Tommy Robinson presents a problem for Nigel Farage” – The Reform U.K. leader may have to warn his new billionaire friend that the jailed far-Right activist is bad news, says the Telegraph.
- “Reform doesn’t need Tommy Robinson, says Nigel Farage” – Reform U.K.’s leader has distanced himself from backer Elon Musk’s support for the jailed former head of EDL, according to the Telegraph.
- “Victims of grooming gangs demand public inquiry” – The row began on Thursday after Jess Phillips rejected a request by Oldham Council for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation, reports the Mail.
- “How men pursued me when I was nine: Life in a town with grooming gangs” – In the Mail, a Telford resident describes how she narrowly escaped becoming the victim of a grooming gang.
- “Starmer ‘guilty as anyone I know’, says grooming gang whistleblower” – Ex-detective Maggie Oliver thinks the PM must bear some responsibility for widespread failure to bring members of grooming gangs to justice, says the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer has lost control of our borders” – Ever since he has led the Labour Party, the Prime Minister has done everything in his power to encourage migrants to our shores, writes the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp in the Telegraph.
- “How migrants are smuggled from the Afghan desert to Britain – and crossing the Channel is the easiest part” – A people smuggling network has been infiltrated by the Telegraph and its secrets are revealed.
- “Why Labour can’t afford to lose more Muslim votes” – The re-emergence of the grooming scandal raises further issues between Labour and its key voter bases, according to the Telegraph.
- “Inside the ‘priority’ NHS services for migrants” – Asylum seekers are receiving “preferential medical treatment” despite increasing wait times for Britons, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers considering Islamophobia definition” – With characteristically bad timing, a Labour Cabinet minister has said it may be time for the Government to embrace the APPG on British Muslim’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’, according to the Spectator’s Steerpike.
- “Politicians are too cowardly to defend free speech in the face of Islamism” – In the Telegraph, Tom Harris says politicians of every hue are too cowardly to defend free speech from Islamic fundamentalists.
- “Trump: UK raising windfall tax on North Sea oil ‘a big mistake’” – The President-elect, who has pledged to increase U.S. oil and gas production, criticises the U.K. Government’s levy on North Sea oil after an American firm announced plans to withdraw from the area, reports the Times.
- “Starmer faces free speech row with Trump” – Prime Minister has also come under attack in the U.S. over plans to ban social media content that is harmful even if it is not illegal, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: What Trump really said to Keir Starmer” – The American President-elect kept going off on tangents in his first official phone call with the PM, at one point suggesting wind turbines kill so many birds that the coyotes who eat them are getting dangerously fat, according to the Times.
- “I was wrong to call Donald Trump a would-be tyrant” – The historian Niall Ferguson was once a critic of the President-elect, but now says he is glad that Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris — and has already visited him at Mar-a-Lago, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s plan for the Lords is a socialist attack on Britain’s glorious past” – I would rather have hereditary peers than an upper house full of Keir Starmer cronies, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “The PM’s Chagos deal is craven and defeatist” – There are many reasons for despising Keir Starmer ‘s botched attempt to sell out our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands – and Boris Johnson lists some of them in his Mail column.
- “Bridget Phillipson wants no alternatives to expose her education mistakes” – England’s schools’ educational performance stands as a personal affront to Labour, which is trying to undo the improvements in schools thanks to 25 years of education reforms, writes Iain Mansfield in the Spectator.
- “Britain braces for -10C Arctic blast after ‘severe’ warning” – The Met Office has warned that up to 1ft 4in (40cm) of snow could blanket parts of the U.K. this weekend, with fears of rural communities being cut off amid widespread travel chaos, according to the Mail.
- “Turn your heating on this weekend, Streeting says despite winter fuel cuts” – The Health Secretary is under fire after telling pensioner to heat their homes during this cold snap in spite of the Government’s decision to strip 10 million pensioners of their annual fuel payment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pressure grows on minister over flat linked to deposed Bangladesh PM” – Tulip Siddiq, who was given a flat in King’s Cross flat in 2004 by by a developer with links to Bangladesh’s ousted former prime minister, has been accused separately of helping her family embezzle up to £3.9 billion from an energy project, says the Times.
- “Reeves expenses £10,800 council tax bill for second home” – The Chancellor is among several MPs who’ve been criticised for “morally questionable” expenses claims amounting to £500,000, according to the Telegraph.
- “The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans” – Is Labour right to think that lowering the voting age to 16 would increase its support? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “It’s not the Conservatives who have most to fear from Reform – it’s Labour. Here’s why” – Look at Britain’s electoral arithmetic and see where Nigel Farage’s party is now faring best – it’s Keir Starmer who should be scared, says Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch is right to bide her time” – Kemi Badenoch has only been Conservative leader for two months. Yet there have been persistent rumblings that she must set out clear policies. Not so fast, says Eliot Wilson in the Spectator.
- “Nick Clegg banked £24 million from Facebook owner before exit” – Britain’s former Deputy PM has benefited from Meta’s soaring share price in recent years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Apple to pay £76 million over claims Siri eavesdropped on iPhone users” – Millions could receive payouts after Apple settles claims that conversations triggered adverts for certain products, says the Telegraph.
- “Jon Sopel book title at centre of non-crime race-hate row” – Wiltshire Police recorded an NCHI against a man who gave a copy of Jon Sopel’s book, If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Note From Trump’s America, to an American neighbour in his village, according to the Telegraph.
- “Car theft ‘decriminalised’ in London – how do police do in your area?” – Less than one in 100 investigations into London car thefts result in a charge against the perpetrator – the lowest figure of regional police forces in the entire country, reports the Mail.
- “How Alastair Campbell’s son oversaw a £5 million betting syndicate disaster” – The Times has more details about Rory Campbell’s multimillion-pound football betting firm and how it collapsed, leaving debts of £5 million and a truckload of very angry investors.
- “Why cancel culture is on the brink of being cancelled” – As the New Year begins, culture warriors on the Right are in a buoyant mood, writes Leo Mckinstry in the Mail. After years of being stuck on the defensive, they now sense that wokery is in retreat.
- “Rapper sues Arts Council for racism after putting takeaways and driving licence on company card” – Corynne Elliot, better known as Speech Debelle, has been ordered to pay £9,870 towards the Arts Council England’s costs after her Employment Tribunal claim was dismissed as “vexatious”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Refusing Justin Welby’s Christmas donation may prove costly for Children’s Society” – The decision by a children’s charity not to accept Welby’s Christmas donation has divided opinion, writes Julian Mann in Christian Today.
- “Why isn’t the Children’s Commissioner interested in abuse of independent school kids?” – On her substack, Isabel Paterson says the Children’s Commissioner should stop ignoring the mistreatment of children at private schools.
- “New poll shows Musk effect: AfD at new high, Free Democrats in collapse, Christian Democrats and Greens too weak for a coalition” – Musk’s recent op ed backing AfD has given the party a boost in the polls, says Egyppius on his Substack.
- “Mystery disease outbreak in China overwhelms hospitals” – Social media posts alleged to be from China show crowds of patients overwhelming hospital wards, and parents holding sick children, reports the Mail.
- “‘Experts’ running the Covid playbook again as mask mandates return” – On his Substack, Ian Miller cautions against following the advice of so-called experts in response to the flu epidemic.
- “Federal Judge rules for Pfizer in lawsuit over company’s COVID-19 vaccine” – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer, alleging the company misrepresented the vaccine’s efficacy. But lost in federal court, according to the Epoch Times.
- “If the media had done their jon, there’d be no need for Tommy Robinson so speak out” – In an interview on Spectator TV Douglas Murray holds forth on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain.
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