News Round-Up

• “Running scared: Starmer ‘cancels’ PMQs to avoid Mandelson scrutiny” – Labour is reportedly plotting for Prime Minister’s Questions to be cancelled next week, meaning Sir Keir Starmer will avoid scrutiny over the Mandelson scandal, according to the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer has been brutally exposed” – Sir Keir Starmer has come across like a boss from hell, determinedly throwing his team under the bus for trying to implement a terrible decision he himself made, says Ameer Kotecha in the Spectator.
• “Cabinet loyalists turn against Starmer over Mandelson scandal” – Cabinet loyalists have turned on Sir Keir Starmer in a growing backlash over his handling of the Mandelson scandal, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer and Olly Robbins deserve each other” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson blasts Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Olly Robbins as masters of the politics of process.
• “Labour has abandoned home ownership and sealed its own fate” – Labour’s housing promises have all but fallen apart, says Sam Brodbeck in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves urged to raise taxes to avoid letting ‘a good crisis go to waste’” – The war in Iran has blown a £16 billion hole in Rachel Reeves’s plans, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves is using Iran as an excuse to get closer to the EU” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark accuses Rachel Reeves of seizing on the Iran war to push Britain back towards Brussels.
• “UK employment tax rises are biggest in developed world, says OECD” – Britain has been identified as having the steepest rise in employment taxation among advanced economies following changes to employer contributions, reports the Times.
• “Britain to hand French another £500 million under new migrant deal” – Labour is set to give France another “astonishing” migrant payday, according to GB News.
• “If the fire-bombed synagogues had been mosques, the Government would respond very differently” – This Government’s failure to confront antisemitism is shameful, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Police need new powers to tackle antisemitic attacks, says terror watchdog” – According to the Government’s terror watchdog, the current law is too weak to tackle antisemitic attacks, reports the Telegraph.
• “Greens branded ‘idiots’ for wanting to discuss terrorism in schools” – The Green Party wants to teach children about the “triggers of terrorism” in a move described as “dangerously naive” by counter-extremism experts, says the Telegraph.
• “What do the Greens have against Haifa?” – In the Spectator, Florit Shoihet accuses the Greens of turning their backs on Haifa, a city built on coexistence.
• “Reform on track to win Welsh Senedd election but be shut out of power” – A new poll suggests Reform UK could top the vote in Wales but fall short of forming a government, according to the Mail.
• “Is it any wonder young people won’t fight for Britain?” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams argues that Britain’s weakened defence and political drift have left young people unwilling to serve.
• “Half-baked protests won’t silence free speech” – In the Telegraph, Lottie Tredgett describes a recent attempt to shut down free speech at King’s College London.
• “The serial shoplifter who cost Morrisons manager his job” – The Sun has revealed the prolific shoplifter who has cost a long-serving Morrisons manager his job.
• “If you believe non-stun slaughter isn’t cruel, visit an abattoir” – Most people are unaware about the gruesome reality of the butchering process, says Jenny Hatton in the Telegraph.
• “I will arrest Netanyahu” – Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar says he would enforce an ICC warrant against Israel’s leader if he visits Hungary, according to Sky News.
• “Putin to close major oil pipeline to Germany” – Vladimir Putin is attempting to squeeze Europe’s energy supplies further by closing a major oil pipeline into Germany, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is Russia’s economy really on its last legs?” – In the Spectator, Alexander Kolyandr challenges the claim that Russia is on the brink of collapse.
• “SPLC caught funding an array of ‘white supremacist’ groups, proving once again that Right-wing extremism has never been in such great demand and such low supply” – On Substack, Eugyppius marvels at the hypocrisy of the SPLC funding the very groups it claims to fight.
• “Britain at risk of mobile signal rationing as energy costs soar” – Telecoms firms warn they may have to ration mobile signal to save energy, according to the Sun.
• “Ed Miliband’s green energy is going to waste, says EDF boss” – The CEO of EDF has warned that green energy generated by Ed Miliband’s renewables drive is going to waste, says the Telegraph.
• “Net Zero: bin it or back it?” – The Spectator has scheduled a debate on whether Net Zero should be scrapped.
• “The climate litigation swindle” – A flood of lawsuits utilising junk science is seeking to bankrupt energy companies and undermine the basis of American power, warns Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
• “Stop protecting insurance profiteers, San Francisco Chronicle, climate change is not responsible for California’s high cost of living” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken slams the San Francisco Chronicle’s claims that California is suffering from the impacts of climate change and that oil companies should “pick up the tab”.
• “IT consultant husband accused of driving wife to suicide is cleared” – Christopher Trybus has been cleared of driving his wife to suicide through a “tsunami” of abusive and controlling behaviour, says the Times.
• “Angry young women are driving men into the arms of cougars” – Gen Z dating tensions are pushing men towards older women, reveals Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “There’s always a clip” – A clip on social media of Sir Keir Starmer slamming Boris Johnson for proroguing Parliament hasn’t aged well in the face of claims he’s doing the same to dodge PMQs.

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