News Round-Up

• “How migrants who faced deportation are still in UK and still committing crimes” – Foreign crooks who faced deportation after serving their jail terms are instead committing murders, rapes and break-ins across Britain after being released, reveals the Sun on Sunday.
• “Pakistani man jailed over child bride migration scam fights to return to Britain” – A Pakistani asylum seeker, who was jailed for using a sham marriage with a schoolgirl to gain British citizenship, has remarried her in a fresh attempt to live in the UK, reports GB News.
• “First-cousin marriage linked to terrorist financing, experts warn” – The storm over first-cousin marriage has deepened after experts linked it to terrorist financing, money laundering and people trafficking, says the Mail.
• “The small boats get the attention but legal immigration is the big problem” – Everyone’s shouting about small boats, but as Alp Mehmet points out in TCW, it’s legal migration that’s quietly reshaping Britain.
• “How diverse is your street?” – In the Mail, extraordinarily detailed maps lay bare the demographic make-up of every neighbourhood in England and Wales.
• “The UK’s secret ‘sin city’ where knife-wielding maniacs prowl at night” – Just below the surface Camden Town, one of London’s most visited tourist attractions, a plague of daylight drug deals, fights, drunks and phone thieves is making life unliveable for residents, writes Douglas Simpson in the Sun.
• “Homeless veteran took his life after being refused house by council” – A broken system failed veteran Rob Homans, who took his own life after Worcester council refused him housing despite his service, says Chris Matthews in the Mail.
• “Two-child benefit cap ‘to go’ as Chancellor ‘soaks the rich’ at Budget” – Bridget Phillipson says she is “confident” the Government will “do the right thing” to tackle poverty amid a clamour from Left-wing MPs and Reform, according to the Mail.
• “Chancellor Rachel Reeves set to tax the rich” – With Treasury sources saying borrowing won’t rise and spending won’t be cut, Rachel Reeves plans to tax the rich to plug a £30 billion hole in public finances, reports the Mail. 
• “Britain’s wealthy head for the exit” – Rachel Reeves’s first Budget sent the rich reeling; now she might be lining up a second blow, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “RMT demands four-day week and £100 million in pay rises” – Trade union bosses are demanding a four-day working week for tens of thousands of Network Rail staff along with £100 million worth of pay rises, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bridget Phillipson ‘delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid’” – Bridget Phillipson has been accused of delaying guidance on single-sex spaces until after Labour’s deputy leadership race over concerns that she could lose support from some MPs, says the Times.
• “Badenoch poll bounce as she is rewarded for bold Tory stamp duty vow” – Kemi Badenoch has seen a much-needed bounce in her ratings following her bold Tory conference pledge on stamp duty, reports the Mail.
• “I have seen the three graphs that will chill Badenoch to her core” – Thatcher famously said “the facts of life are Conservative”, but it seems voters no longer agree, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
• “Labour and the Tories are now reaping the whirlwind” – The votes of the working class are up for grabs, but none of the mainstream parties can speak to the masses, says Lisa McKenzie in Spiked.
• “Andy Burnham accepted tickets and hospitality worth £12,000 in two years” – The Greater Manchester mayor has become the latest senior Labour politician to admit accepting lavish freebies, reports the Sun.
• “Tony Blair met paedo Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street during his time as PM” – Ex-PM Sir Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while he was in office after lobbying from Lord Mandelson, says the Sun.
• “Billionaire scraps plans to make Net Zero truck motors in Britain” – Australian iron tycoon Andrew Forrest is planning to make components in China to keep costs down, according to the Telegraph. 
• “I’ll lie down in front of Miliband’s Net Zero bulldozers, says Reform council leader” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake profiles the man trying to defend Lincolnshire from a green energy assault.
• “Fury over plans to build 195 new homes on green belt land” – Developers have made a third attempt to build on Hertfordshire green belt using Labour’s ‘grey belt’ policy, reports the Mail. 
• “Greencoat flapping in the wind” – Despite huge subsidies, Greencoat UK Wind is warning about profits, says David Turver on Substack.
• “German energy expert warns of Germany’s energy supply madness… energy security on the line” – Germany is in the grips of an energy madness, reports P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “No, Bloomberg, one chart does not prove the world is getting hot fast” – America’s hottest decade remains the 1930s, writes Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
• “World Bank reduces emissions, not poverty” – The World Bank’s climate-first approach is leaving Africa in the dark – literally, warns Brenda Shaffer in Real Clear Energy.
• “Israel dismisses Britain’s claims to have played a ‘key role’ in Donald Trump’s Gaza peace deal” – Israel has dismissed the UK’s claims to have been involved in the Gaza peace plan as Keir Starmer heads to the Middle East for a “signing ceremony”, reports the Mail.
• “Israel and Hamas locked in last-minute negotiations over hostage release” – Israel and Hamas have held eleventh-hour talks over the hostages-for-prisoners swap, says the Mail.
• “Hamas October 7th memo shows meticulous plan to ‘end the children of Israel’” – An October 7th memo written by the Hamas leader in Gaza instructed members to burn down entire neighbourhoods, stamp on soldiers’ heads and broadcast the attack to the world, reports the Jerusalem Post.
• “The sinister truth about Greta’s selfie ship” – The Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla served primarily as a stage for rampant Israelophobia, says Hugo Timms in Spiked.
• “China hits back at Trump after 100% tariff threat reignites trade war” – Donald Trump has sought to cool tensions with China by claiming Xi Jinping “had a bad moment” when announcing new export controls on rare earths and critical minerals, reports the Telegraph.
• “Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified” – Western executives are returning from China shell-shocked, according to the Telegraph’s Matt Oliver, having seen Beijing’s robot-powered factories.
• “How to save all the lonely people” – In 1996, David Foster Wallace tried to explain how technology could destroy us. No one paid attention. But he was right, says Ted Gioia for the Free Press.
• “YouTube offers limited reinstatement to banned creators” – YouTube is opening a narrow door to some of the creators it previously purged, but many will find it locked, writes Cindy Harper in Reclaim the Net.
• “‘Non-white’ is offensive term, civil servants told” – The phrase ‘non-white’ is offensive and should be avoided, civil servants in Northern Ireland have been told, says the Telegraph.
• “Trigger warnings may only encourage people to keep watching” – A study suggests that telling people they are about to experience offensive content does not seem to change their behaviour – and could even make them want to see it, reports the Times.
• “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson take a numerical look at the week’s top health-related stories.
• “It’s getting harder for scientists not to believe in God” – The majority of Gen Z believe you can be religious and a good scientist, writes Michel-Yves Bolloré in the Spectator.
• “An assault in the dark – Labour comes after our data… again” – Despite all promises, Labour is quietly building the perfect framework to monitor, profile and surveil its own citizens, warns J.J. Starky on the Stark Naked Brief.
• “Telegram boss warns of growing digital repression and decline of online freedom” – Telegram CEO Pavel Durov marked his 41st birthday not with a celebration, but with a stark warning about the future of the internet, writes Cindy Harper in Reclaim the Net.
• “Darlington nurses reported to NMC for speaking out over NHS Policy that forces them to undress in front of a man” – Four Darlington nurses, already at the centre of a high-profile employment tribunal, are now facing professional misconduct investigations after four complaints were made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, says Christian Concern.
• “The EU knows how to define a burger, but not a woman” – Where is the common sense and clarity applied to food labelling when it comes to wanting children to choose their own gender? asks Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript.
• “City official chokes up apologising to trans activists for hosting innocent ‘Harry Potter’ event” – A Canadian official fought back tears while apologising for an innocent Harry Potter event because it hurt trans activists’ feelings, reports the NY Post.
• “Is the Pope a Catholic?” – In TCW, Sean Walsh says Pope Leo XIV’s muddled words on abortion and climate make him sound less like a pontiff and more like a woke professor afraid to offend the faculty.
• “Shock moment man urinates on altar at Vatican in front of worshippers” – Tourists were left stunned after a man brazenly urinated on a Vatican altar during Holy Mass – in full view of hundreds of worshippers, reports the Sun.
• “This council has become the world’s most prolific disinformation laundering facility” – UK Lawyers for Israel’s Natasha Hausdorff tells the UN Human Rights Council what a disgrace it has become.

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