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News Round-Up

by Toby Young
28 March 2025 10:59 PM

  • “Mark Carney accused of plagiarism in Oxford thesis” – Mark Carney has been accused of plagiarising his University of Oxford thesis, reports the Telegraph.
  • “A quarter of Britons now disabled” – Two million more people than before the pandemic say they struggle to function because of poor mental health as a quarter of Britons now identify as disabled in an official survey, reports the Times.
  • “Labour capital gains tax raid blows £23 billion hole in public purse” – The Chancellor’s decision to raise capital gains tax will leave a £23 billion hole in the public purse, the budget watchdog has warned, after the measure dramatically backfired by pushing investors to sell up, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Rayner’s workers’ rights Bill set to be watered down” – Angela Rayner’s flagship workers’ rights package is set to be watered down over concerns that it will hinder economic growth after a backlash from businesses, the Telegraph reports.
  • “One of Britain’s richest men prepares to quit UK after Reeves’s non-dom raid” – Lakshmi Mittal may leave the country in a blow to the Government’s attempt to attract investment, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Why Prevent’s boss had to go” – The head of the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, Michael Stewart, is to carry the can for failures exposed by the Southport attack, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
  • “Labour launches Net Zero crackdown on boats” – Maritime bosses have warned that “nonsensical” green measures could sink the British fishing industry overnight, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Harry Redknapp should not be cancelled for anti-German joke” – Jim White defends ex-Spurs manager Harry Redknapp after he called England Head Coach Thomas Tuchel “A German spy… sent over to f— us up” in leaked video, reports the Telegraph.
  • “How the age of emotion gave us the mental-health crisis” – Our therapeutic, feelings-obsessed culture has made us more miserable, anxious and helpless than ever, says Patrick West in Spiked.
  • “Why Gazans are rising up against Hamas” – The Islamist terror group is the enemy of the Palestinians, says Kunwar Khuldune Shahid in Spiked.
  • “This isn’t a ‘young men’ problem. This is a class problem” – The ‘crisis’ among men and boys is another symptom of the elite’s neglect of the working class, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “Abu Dhabi fund digs in on Telegraph price a year after pledge to sell” –The Abu Dhabi fund marketing the Telegraph has signalled it is “not willing to entertain” offers lower than its asking price, despite having promised to sell almost a year ago, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Kathleen Stock case shows the rising bill for denying sex is real” – Janice Turner praises Kathleen Stock in the Times.
  • “Another kick in the teeth for the North East of England” – Whilst desperately needed infrastructure projects are cancelled in the North East, the South gets a new £9 billion Thames crossing, complains C.J. Strachan on Substack.
  • “School counsellor sacked after telling girls ‘make your husband your king’” – A tribunal has rejected an appeal against dismissal by Gozen Soydag, who said it was “God’s design” that “wives are to submit to their husbands”, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Safeguarding courses for flower arrangers? The Church of England is heading for oblivion” – Are you a charitable parishioner offering to help your church and community? Thou shalt first log on to the online learning portal and undertake safeguarding training, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
  • “Police arrest parents who complained in school WhatsApp group” – A young girl’s parents were detained in front of their daughter and kept in a cell for eight hours over their WhatsApp messages and complaint emails sent to the school, reports the Times.
  • “The Vanishing Mother – thoughts before Mother’s Day” – It feels like some would like us to reimagine a world in which motherhood is optional, commercialised and, in some cases, an inconvenience to be circumvented, says Laura Dodsworth on the Free Mind.
  • “Youth (non-Covid) deaths exploded post lock-downs” – Many of us thought this would happen and the CDC’s own data seem to confirm it did, says Bill Rice Jr on Substack.
  • “Inside the Right-wing anti-Semitism summit causing turmoil in the Jewish world” – Jordan Bardella’s appearance at a conservative conference in Jerusalem has triggered outrage and boycotts from the Left, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Xi’s Message in Rare Meeting With Global CEOs: Defend Trade” – Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged foreign business executives to defend trade and said globalisation was unstoppable, drawing an implicit contrast between Beijing’s policies and President Trump’s tariffs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  • “A proud day for the Free Speech Union! (and the Daily Sceptic!)” – Free Speech Union founder and General Secretary, and our very own Lord Young of Acton, delivers his maiden speech in the House of Lords – in case you missed it as yesterday’s edition had a broken link.
  • “Smashing the gangs” – Sir Keir Starmer shows his true feelings about the small boats, courtesy of AI and X.

Smashing the gangs. pic.twitter.com/hiruxTfrZi

— Richard Taylor (@RWTaylors) March 28, 2025

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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago

Just ignore the ruling, what they gonna do? Invade?

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Withholding of funds is generally. the preferred method of enforcement.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
7 months ago

Many lawyers claim the courts do not engage in legal activism or the invention of new laws where none existed before. Yet there has been no Treaty among member states to recognise novel ideas about gender and much else.

Lawyer activism it is and it is practiced here too.

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Hester
Hester
7 months ago

you think there were more important things to focus on, instead the forcing of the majority to accept lies, is the ultimate tyranny

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Grim Ace
Grim Ace
7 months ago

So, basically , we have to warp our societies outnof shape, ans pretend biological sex is not true, so that some manly lesbians and odd, homosexual men can feel good about themselves whilst they prance around on the world stage shouting ‘look st me! Look at me! Aren’t I self indulgent and totally narcissistic ‘

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

I don’t think this is so much about accommodating a minuscule part of society as it is about the radical transformation of society as a whole into, I don’t know what really, something very odd, very disorienting and deeply unsettling for most people.

It seems to me that that is what is being sought here, to keep people off kilter and confused. It makes people lose confidence in themselves which ultimately makes them much easier to manipulate and control.

I’m pretty sure that’s why it’s being done.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Indeed – the idea that powerful people care about “trans” people or any other fashionable “victim” group they claim to worry about is quite farcical.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I wholly heartedly agree 👍

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

Isn’t it amazing how a law intended to bolster trade can be twisted to undermine social values.

Lawfare.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago

It isn’t happenstance that the world is drifting this way. Whenever I read of anything like this, or the many other agendas being pushed, I always straightaway suspect the UN ( we’re familiar by now with their Agenda 2030 ) and/or WEF are behind it, those collectively referred to as the ”Globalists”, basically. We half joke about the ”woke mind virus” as a social contagion but it clearly is being orchestrated by these shady but mega-powerful ‘powers that be’.
This author has put together this amazingly comprehensive essay on the UN and their plan for global governance. It’s the first I’m hearing about this weird ‘one world religion’, mind. Anyway, here’s an excerpt from section 5, ESG and the Social Credit System;

”As I explained in this article I did for Jennifer Bilek’s 11th Hour Blog, another way ESG is being pushed is through Collaberative initiatives, like those housed at consultancy groups like Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). An example of one such collaborative is the PGLE, or Partnership for Global LGBTIQ+ Equality, which is a coalition of 29 organizations committed to leveraging their individual and collective advocacy to accelerate LGBTIQ+ equality and inclusion in the workplace globally and in the communities in which they operate. In discussing its formation at the BSR19 Conference, former head of Ernst & Young, Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak said that a few years back she and some other businesses involved in forming PGLE had a private meeting at Davos with (at the time) Vice President Joe Biden to discuss their role in pushing this agenda.

According to her, Biden sat down with these companies, looked them in the eye and said, “You companies can do what we – government – cannot, and will never do. You have to change the world on this issue.” Heeding his words, that same group of companies supported by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and operating in direct collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), launched PGLE in 2019.
Because their combined wealth exceeds that of most countries, the 14 companies that started the PGLE and the ones that have joined since are able to use their financial prowess as a powerful tool to:

·        advance the LGBTIQ+ agenda by working together to “operationalize the United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business” produced in 2017 in collaboration with the Institute for Human Rights and Business. PGLE’s role is to provide tools and resources for the 400+ companies that have signed onto the UN Standards of Conduct to self-assess how they’re doing in combating discrimination against LGBTQI+ persons through scoring systems that identify gaps in their implementation of the 5 standards.

·        recommend, based on the information provided through their tools, how to close the identified gaps that exist in their implementation of the UN’s 5 Standards by strengthening policies, processes, and methodologies to support LGBTQI+ inclusivity. That may mean encouraging businesses to proudly feature a transgender person in their marketing, carrying clothing on their website or storefront that supports transgenderism, or changing their governance practices to allow men who believe that they are women into restrooms and changing spaces meant for actual women.”

https://lisalogan.substack.com/p/the-uns-master-plan-to-destroy-us?r=1hon7w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

https://x.com/AlanJones16178/status/1842405321610043903

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs, many thanks for a very interesting link.👍

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It’s a bit of a behemoth, isn’t it? Not something most could sit and read all in one go, especially if you were to follow all of those hyperlinks, but fair play to Lisa Logan for spending a considerable amount of time and effort putting such a well-researched piece together. Had you heard of that strange New Age religious thing though? Perhaps that’s more pertinent to the U.S, as they have strange religions and cults over there.

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JXB
JXB
7 months ago

Debauched.

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