- “Foreign Office to open talks on slavery reparations” – The Foreign Office is to open talks on slavery reparations with Caribbean officials demanding trillions of pounds from the UK, Caribbean sources have told the Telegraph.
- “Labour Minister sacked for vile jibe about pensioners and the election” – Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked after the Mail on Sunday found racist and sexist social media messages, including one post saying he hoped a pensioner who didn’t vote Labour would die before the next election.
- “Labour ‘trying to rig elections’ by giving 16-year-olds vote” – Labour will give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote before the end of the year in a move decried as an attempt “to rig future elections”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Keir Starmer’s flimsy excuse for the Chagos deal” – The Government has defended its controversial decision to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius with an excuse so far-fetched it could be mistaken for a plot from a spy novel gone wrong, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s Chagos betrayal is the first step in destroying the last vestiges of British greatness” – The self-hatred of our legal elites goes a long way to explaining why Starmer is embarking on the worst deal this century has seen so far, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer tried to stop BBC revealing he earned less than Sue Gray” – The PM enlisted Britain’s most senior civil servant to keep his Chief of Staff’s pay rise quiet, reports the Times.
- “Overpaid university bosses show what is wrong with Starmer’s Britain” – Labour preaches about growth, but hasn’t the foggiest what that really means, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “‘A Marxist who hates academies’ – is that why Phillipson abhors excellence?” – Why on earth would the Education Secretary pit herself against a headteacher most parents in Britain wish was in charge of their children, asks Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The coming 10 million: How unprecedented immigration will reshape Britain” – With the UK population set to balloon to 72.5 million by 2032 due to a further vast influx of migrants, the Telegraph examines the potential consequences.
- “Why we shouldn’t trust the Tories on immigration again” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin offers his thoughts on Kemi Badenoch’s latest policy offer.
- “US foreign aid funded legal advice for trans asylum seekers in Britain” – US foreign aid funded legal advice for transgender asylum seekers in Britain as well as a raft of diversity initiatives in the UK, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Trump: I’ll revoke Biden’s security clearance and stop his intelligence briefings” – Donald Trump has announced that he will revoke Joe Biden’s security clearance and stop him receiving daily intelligence briefings as he claimed his predecessor could not be trusted with sensitive intelligence because of the 82 year-old’s “poor memory”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Is Ed Miliband giving up on the Net Zero dream?” – Governing is about choices, and the indication is that this Government is choosing economic prosperity over Net Zero, says John Oxley in UnHerd. If that’s the case it will have to repeal the Climate Change Act.
- “Miliband is in full-scale retreat – and that is good for Britain” – The defeat of the UK’s fanatical green commissar is a desperately needed reprieve for the economy, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Stretched defence budget put towards ‘woke’ rally car mudflaps” – John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has now cancelled a £5 million contract for electric racers with McLaren after being left “speechless” by the “waste”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Lucy Letby inquiry operating on ‘false premise’ of guilt and must be halted, lawyer tells Streeting” – Lucy Letby’s barrister has called on Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, to halt the Thirlwall Inquiry, claiming it is operating on the “false premise” that the nurse is guilty, reports the Telegraph.
- “The devil’s advocates” – In Spiked, Christopher Snowdon restates the case against Letby.
- “I’m a Democrat politician. This is why I sterilised myself after Trump’s election” – Thirty-six year-old Laurie Pohutsky talks to the Telegraph about her mad decision to voluntarily forgo having children rather than raising them under Trump’s new Republican administration.
- “Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’” – Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal, reports the New York Post.
- “Kemi Badenoch has a secret weapon in the fight against Nigel Farage” – Kemi Badenoch’s level of specificity is something that neither Labour nor the Reform party are currently offering, says Robin Ashenden in the Spectator.
- “Lawyer refuses to serve Israeli client” – A lawyer has been accused of “blatant discrimination” after refusing to represent an Israeli client because it conflicted with his Muslim faith and his opposition to Israel, the Telegraph reports.
- “MP’s brother organised pro-Palestine protest during October 7th massacre” – A campaign group run by the brother of a pro-Palestinian MP helped organise a march through London that was planned as the October 7th massacre was taking place, the Telegraph reveals.
- “No one can now deny the evil that is Hamas” – Anyone seeing the pictures of emaciated Israeli hostages surely must finally realise what the Jewish state has been up against, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Sports edict makes Trump a feminist hero” – The man who used to boast about pussy-grabbing is being lauded by women after a commonsense stroke of his pen, says the Times‘s Janice Turner.
- “Trudeau caught on hot mic talking about Trump’s plans to annex Canada” – Justin Trudeau suffered an embarrassing hot-mic moment this week as he inadvertently revealed details of his conversations with Donald Trump about the future of Canada, the Mail reports.
- “Dominic Cummings on Johnson’s fall: Obviously I orchestrated it” – Boris’s one-time Chief Adviser gives an interview to the Times in which he claims credit for ousting his old boss.
- “Making things happen – Trump’s lesson for Labour” – The new US administration has a thing or two to teach Britain’s Labour Government, says Darren Gee in TCW.
- “Home Office orders Apple to let it snoop on encrypted files” – Apple is said to be considering withdrawing encrypted storage for UK users rather than break its pledge of privacy after the Home Office ordered the company to allow it blanket access to encrypted files uploaded to the cloud by any user worldwide, the Times reports.
- “Our diversity obsession was killing the West – will Britain wake up in time?” – Trump’s America is doing the ‘undoable’ – reversing the DEI juggernaut. But the UK remains a bastion of wokery, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals” – As Accenture ditches its diversity and inclusion goals, Chief Executive Julie Sweet tells its 799,000 staff that the decision was taken following “evaluation” of the US landscape, report the FT.
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