News Round-Up

• “Ex-Bank governor King slaps down Rachel Reeves’ mansion tax plan” – Rachel Reeves’ class war plan to hammer wealthy homeowners with a new mansion tax has been torn apart by Mervyn King, reports the Mail.
• “Angela Rayner’s ‘Unemployment Rights Bill’ will kneecap UK economy” – Britain’s jobs market is teetering and Angela Rayner’s Unemployment Bill will make it worse, warns Andrew Griffith in the Mail.
• “How much would Labour’s plan to increase income tax cost you?” – The Chancellor is said to be considering ripping up the party’s election pledge not to raise income tax paid by millions of Britons, reports the Mail.
• “Councils to rake in £500 million from second homes tax raid” – Councils are on track to pocket half a billion pounds from the second home premium this year, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves plotting brutal tax raid on homeowners” – British homeowners are being warned of a new tax that could cost some up to £10,000 every year, reports the Express.
• “Supermarkets warn Reeves’ tax hike plans will lead to food price rises” – In a stark letter to the Chancellor, nine major grocers have warned Rachel Reeves her tax hike plans will drive up food prices, according to the Mail.
• “Streeting piles fresh pressure on Starmer saying Brits in ‘despair’” – Wes Streeting has piled pressure on Sir Keir Starmer with a warning that Brits are “disillusioned” and “despair” of anyone being able to sort the country out, reports the Mail.
• “I have seen the data that is urging Starmer to go Left – it will not end well” – The soft-Left always finds being righteous easier than being right, says Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
• “Met investigates 9,000 suspected grooming cases in London” – The Met Police is reviewing some 9,000 grooming gang cases in a huge new investigation despite Sir Sadiq Khan previously denying any operated in London, reports GB News.
• “Mum of girl raped aged 12 blasts Sadiq on grooming gangs in London” – In a grim Mail exposé by James Fielding and Jacob Dirnhuber, Finella Mackrodt slams Sadiq Khan for denying London’s grooming gangs, saying her daughter’s death was a direct result of abuse and a failed system.
• “Nine in 10 councils will be housing ‘asylum seekers’ by December” – More than 90% of councils will be housing asylum seekers by the end of the year, says GB News.
• “Rival protesters clash as anti-immigration protesters take to streets” – Rival protesters have collided in Southampton after an anti-immigration march came face-to-face with counter demonstrators, according to the Mail.
• “Jailed illegal migrant’s release shows Britain is broken” – If you want to know what Reform UK mean when we say Britain is broken, just look at the case of Hadush Kebatu, says Nigel Farage in the Mail.
• “Lawless Britain costs taxpayers £32 billion a year” – New analysis reveals crime costs Britain £32 billion a year in treatment for victims, damaged or lost property and preventative measures, reports the Telegraph.
• “The progressive Left has a rule of law problem ” – From ‘direct action’ and vandalism to public officials disregarding the laws under which they’re required to operate, the progressive Left has a rule of law problem, says Edrith on Substack.
• “There must be a cost” – After Louis Theroux gave a soft pass to Bobby Vylan’s calls for violence against Israelis, Dave Rich says on Substack that it’s finally time for antisemitism to carry a cost – political, financial or social.
• “Ofcom hires former Labour adviser as Director of Communications” – Ofcom’s new spin chief is David Chaplin – a former Labour adviser, Remain campaigner and Fabian Society stalwart, according to Guido. Impartial comms, anyone?
• “Charter 88, the secret Fabian plot” – On Substack, J’accuse says the ‘Fabian conspiracy’ isn’t madness but genius – casting Labour’s ‘Charter 88’ roots as proof of a Blairite plot to shackle Britain in a soft dictatorship.
• “The return of the prefab as Britain battles to house migrants” – Budget Portakabin “villages” are set to spring up on brownfield sites to tackle Britain’s worsening migrant crisis, reports the Mail.
• “The UK’s double-box junction that costs drivers £1,000 a day” – The UK’s “most lucrative” double-box junction generates more than £1,800 a day from trapped drivers, says the Mail.
• “Labour plans to chop down forests for solar farms” – Woodlands face being cleared to make way for solar farms and wind turbines under Labour’s latest plans to hit Net Zero targets, reports the Telegraph.
• “High energy bills fuelling revolutionary mood” – The vast majority of the British public are concerned about energy bills and nearly half think the Government has no plan or will make things worse, writes David Turver on Substack.
• “British industry is now in terminal decline, killed by expensive energy” – Britain looks set to become not just the first country to industrialise, but the first to completely de-industrialise, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Energy, emissions and the Land of Make-Believe” – UK emissions may have dropped a bit, but globally it barely registers, writes Ivor Williams in TCW.
• “In Germany we have the highest electricity prices in Europe and we just blew up our largest-capacity nuclear plant on live television” – Germany’s just blown up its biggest nuclear plant – while Germans pay Europe’s highest energy prices. You couldn’t make this stuff up, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “The Korean conundrum” – The BBC blames South Korea’s rising fishing deaths on climate change, but in Climate Scepticism Mark Hodgson smells something fishy.
• “Scientists deliberately misled public on fires, ice, food, floods, heat, islands, coral, sea level and hurricanes” – On his Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger exposes the careerism, radicalism and secularism behind decades of climate disinformation by Left-wing scientists, journalists and politicians.
• “The Irish village where African asylum seeker raped a 10 year old girl” – Riots have convulsed a quiet Irish village for the past two nights after the alleged sexual assault of a 10 year-old girl by a 26 year-old African migrant who was due to be deported, reports Andy Young in the Mail.
• “Ireland is making a dangerous mistake on immigration” – Failure to resolve Ireland’s broken asylum system will see children pay the price, warns Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
• “Two arrested over Louvre ‘heist of century’ after crown jewels raid” – Two men have been arrested in connection with the £78 million Louvre museum heist in France, reports the Mail.
• “Migrant not deported after rape ruled not ‘exceptionally serious’” – A migrant has been spared deportation in Sweden after a court ruled the length of the attack on his 16 year-old victim did not constitute an “exceptionally serious offence”, says the Mail.
• “The incredible rise of Giorgia Meloni from 19 year-old activist” – Three years have passed since Italian PM Giorgia Meloni assumed office and her Right-wing party is more popular than ever, writes Imogen Garfinkel in the Mail.
• “‘No Kings’ protests largely composed of people from one demographic” – A “No Kings” protest in Washington DC drew thousands of educated white women in their 40s opposing Trump’s perceived authoritarianism, reports Fox News.
• “Putin triggers WWIII fears as he boasts of ‘Flying Chernobyl’ missiles” – Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia now possesses the world’s “highest level” nuclear forces as he unveiled his new “unstoppable” missile, which he is calling “Flying Chernobyl”, says the Mail.
• “Surprise! There are actually 3 types of ‘healthy vaccinee effects (HVE)’, not 2! Why this matters” – There are actually three healthy vaccinee effects, not two, and the third – frailty-driven mortality changes in older unvaccinated people – can totally skew vaccine risk estimates, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
• “COVID-19: Mystery Solved book review” – On Substack, Dr Raszek dives deep into Jim Haslam’s COVID-19: Mystery Solved, fact-checking every claim and unravelling the wild bat-to-lab story.
• “Calling our German-speaking subscribers” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan get a kick out of a German article celebrating their witty, no-nonsense takedowns of pseudoscience.
• “How the Church of England betrayed its loyal flock” – The reason the CofE has lost 80% of Anglicans is that it has put woke politics before faith, says Daniel Jupp in TCW.
• “Reform MP says sorry after complaint about ads ‘full of black people’” – A Reform MP who said “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people” has apologised after facing a backlash over her comments, reports the Mail.
• “The blackwashing of Britain” – On Substack, Frank Haviland argues that Britain’s obsession with diversity has gone beyond inclusion to “blackwashing” – rewriting history, media and politics to erase whiteness.
• “Labour MP claims ‘Turkish’ St George proves multiculturalism is a success” – Luke Charters, MP for York Outer, says it’s insulting to the memory of St George to claim that England needed “one culture” to flourish, according to the Telegraph.
• “Halloween racism row erupts after British schoolboy dressed up as Just Eat delivery driver” – A racism row has erupted after a British schoolboy dressed up as a Just Eat delivery driver in a full black bodysuit, reports GB News.
• “BBC staff can work from home as trans women continue to use women’s toilets” – BBC staff can choose to work from home if they have concerns over biological males using female toilets, says GB News.
• “Did Stephen Fry turn on JK Rowling over Dumbledore role in HBO show?” – He proved himself to be a Faithful as he was kicked off Celebrity Traitors last week – but now Sir Stephen Fry is facing suggestions that perhaps he’s not so loyal after all, writes Grant Tucker in the Mail.
• “We have all lost our minds over Paddington” – Those seeking to censor Spitting Image’s depiction of Britain’s favourite bear can’t take a joke, says Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
• “Producers cut ‘deaf dumb and blind’ line from The Who’s ‘Pinball Wizard’” – Woke producers have cut one of the most famous lines of The Who’s iconic song ‘Pinball Wizard’ from a musical celebrating Live Aid, reports the Mail.
• “Welcome to the omnistory” – Why does one nihilistic narrative dominate all high-quality TV drama? wonders Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
• “Toxic ‘niceness’ shouldn’t stop us calling out the lies” – In Country Squire, Sean Walsh argues that niceness has become toxic in UK public life and that calling out dishonesty, however unpleasant, is a moral duty.
•  “People are not getting jobs because they have committed non crimes” – On GB News, Toby discusses the Met Police abandoning ‘non-crime’ policing as they admit it was a huge waste of resources.

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