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News Round-Up

by Richard Eldred
19 February 2025 12:39 AM

  • “Lord Hermer won £750,000 for heroin-addicted prisoners” – AG Lord Hermer helped secure a £750,000 payout for almost 200 prisoners who had been stopped from taking heroin substitutes behind bars, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Investors bet against Starmer’s Britain as economy falters” – A survey of global fund managers has revealed that Britain is not only the least attractive nation to invest in but is also less popular than bonds, cash, energy and utilities, says the Telegraph.
  • “Farmers attack ‘arrogant Treasury ideology’ behind tractor tax” – Farmers have accused the Treasury of being motivated by ideology and arrogance in its pursuit of the “tractor tax”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The public sector workers whose salaries are ‘bleeding taxpayers dry’” – Public sector workers in Scotland have been awarded bigger pay rises than anywhere else in the UK, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Rachel Reeves’s lies are an insult to high-achieving women” –Let’s go back to a truly radical idea, suggests Annabel Denham in the Telegraph: appointing the best person for the job, regardless of who they are.
  • “Man jailed for sending ‘utterly deplorable’ email to Jess Phillips” – A 38 year-old man has been jailed for 28 weeks for sending an offensive email to Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, reports Sky News.
  • “JD Vance’s courageous lecture on migration has shamed our gutless elites” – The Vice-President’s speech in Munich was a devastating indictment of the Davos-smooching class – and made Keir Starmer look inept, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
  • “Khan to take new swipe at Trump despite Government slapdown” – Sadiq Khan is set to double down on his criticism of Donald Trump despite a slapdown from the Government, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘Net Zero is a complete and utter disaster’” – In an edited Spectator transcript from the 2025 Arc Conference, Jordan Peterson and Nigel Farage call Net Zero a disaster, slam carbon hysteria and urge Britain to reclaim energy independence.
  • “Net Zero will mean higher bills, admit Miliband’s officials” – Britain’s push towards Net Zero will temporarily push energy bills higher, Ed Miliband’s officials have admitted in a contradiction of the Energy Secretary’s own claims, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Gen Z’s hypocrisy on climate change has made Greta Thunberg look a fool” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon slams Gen Z’s climate hypocrisy, revealing that Greta Thunberg’s own generation flies more, recycles less and wastes more energy than their elders.
  • “The Grand Solar Minimum is here” – In Free Speech Backlash, Iain Hunter warns that the Grand Solar Minimum is upon us, bringing a mini ice age with freezing rivers, crop failures and energy shortages.
  • “REMAgate: the tangled web at the heart of REMA” – Inaccurate Government figures, conflicts of interest and a shady network of activists have corrupted the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements, says David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
  • “The British Army’s armoured division does not really exist” – In the Telegraph, Dr Jack Watling warns that Britain’s armoured division is a hollow shell, leaving the Army ill-equipped for modern war.
  • “Peacekeeping in Ukraine would require all our depleted resources” – Keir Starmer’s plan to send British peacekeepers to Ukraine would leave us with no capability, writes Daniel Hannan in the Mail.
  • “We must not forget Russia’s aggression” – President Trump’s determination to see the Ukraine war end has essentially handed Moscow a blank cheque, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
  • “Trump demands Zelensky holds elections” – Trump is demanding Zelensky hold elections that could oust him from office as the price of peace, reports the Telegraph.
  • “What Russia really wants out of the talks with America” – The talks in Saudi Arabia will enable Putin to serve up his list of demands in a bid to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, writes Connor Stringer in the Telegraph.
  • “Rubio says Trump is ‘only’ leader to make Russia-Ukraine peace deal” – According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Donald Trump is the “only leader” who can bring about peace between Russia and Ukraine, reports the Mail.
  • “BBC accused of using Hamas official’s son in documentary about ‘ordinary Palestinians’” – The BBC faces claims that it failed to disclose that a teenager who appeared as the main narrator in a harrowing film on the impact of Israel’s war in Gaza is the son of a senior Hamas minister, according to Jewish News.
  • “It’s women who will pay the price for assisted dying” – Throughout history women have borne the brunt of failed healthcare policies, from lobotomy to euthanasia, says Hannah Shewan Stevens in the Telegraph.
  • “The flawed assessment of VDPS claims” – HART exposes the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme as a rigged system that denies claims, ignores evidence and fails the injured.
  • “More misinformation about myocarditis and the Covid vaccines” – Why did the charity Myocarditis UK recommend the vaccine to children and then ignore the warnings about it? ask Profs Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on the WATN? Substack.
  • “Dear US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan tear into the US CDC’s inflated influenza data and misleading public health interventions.
  • “USDA has spent $1.25 billion on mass culling for H5N1 bird flu – with disastrous consequences” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher reveals how the USDA’s $1.25 billion mass culling scheme for H5N1 has not only failed to stop the virus but has also driven egg prices to a 45-year high, wasted taxpayer money and even increased the risk of human infection.
  • “Why would any woman work for the NHS after this nurse’s experience?” – Sandie Peggie’s failure to stop a trans doctor sharing a changing room with her proves the service is no longer a safe place for women, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “Scottish Labour admit they should not have backed SNP trans self-ID” – The Scottish Labour leader has admitted that his MSPs should not have supported Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender laws, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Diversity jobs die out as Britain passes ‘peak woke’” – Private and public sector employers are turning their backs on progressive hiring policies, says the Telegraph.
  • “We’re infested with diversity grifters” – On Substack, Paul Sutton reveals that his old college has hired a DEI officer who once pushed woke ideology at his former school.
  • “Will the President’s ‘war on woke’ reach British arts too?” – Prompted by Trump’s anti-DEI stance, Disney has toned down the ‘content guidance’ on older films, writes Liam Kelly in the Telegraph. Is this the end of the trigger warning?
  • “‘Transgender vegan cult leader’ arrested in US over six deaths” – The leader of a radical “transgender vegan cult” linked to six deaths across the US has been arrested in Maryland, reports the Post Millennial.
  • “How Star Trek invented DEI” – The Star Trek franchise has been on both TV and film for nearly 60 years, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator. But the values it espouses are now entirely out of date.
  • “Cynthia Erivo divides fans as she’s cast as Jesus in new stage show” – Cynthia Erivo will star as Jesus in a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar this summer in LA – sparking an avalanche of reaction from fans, according to the Mail.
  • “Tom Hanks blasted by ex SNL star over portrayal of MAGA supporter” – SNL alum Victoria Jackson has slammed Tom Hank’s MAGA sketch after the actor reprised his role as a Trump supporter for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special, reports the Mail.
  • “It‘s a crisis of confidence!” – Toby on TalkTV praises Kemi Badenoch’s speech at the opening of Arc.

Founder of the Free Speech Union Lord Young reacts to Kemi Badenoch's speech, appealing to Reform voters with a war on 'ideological nonsense'.

"It's a crisis of confidence! We've become inhibited about telling people what we believe. It's a good strong message!"@ThatAlexWoman pic.twitter.com/tXYxMqeI2M

— Talk (@TalkTV) February 18, 2025

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