News Round-Up

• “I want more refugees to come to Britain legally” – Shabana Mahmood says she wants more refugees arriving through safe and legal routes once Labour has “fixed” the broken asylum system, reports the Telegraph.
• “Unchecked Muslim migration is the blueprint for a Balkanised Britain” – The failure to manage Muslim migration is creating parallel communities that threaten social cohesion and ultimately British national identity, warns Alp Mehmet in the Conservative Woman.
• “Starmer could cost us election, says Welsh Labour leader” – Sir Keir Starmer could cost the Labour Party the Senedd for the first time in its 27-year history, the First Minister of Wales has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Reeves’s mansion tax has backfired before it’s even kicked in” – The real scandal is that Reeves did not realise in advance that a mansion tax would turn into a fiasco and pressed ahead anyway, says Matthew Lynn the Spectator.
• “Labour is not ‘the party of the workers’. It is the party of those who leech off them” – Far from championing workers, Labour has become the party of welfare dependency, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Poll: Three in five Muslim voters would vote for Gaza independents to stop Labour” – Gaza ranks above the economy in determining how Muslim voters in Britain will vote, according to polling conducted by JL Partners for Policy Exchange, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “Will Downing Street name the ideology behind antisemitism?” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti notes that ministers – and key agencies – are saying surprisingly little about which ideology is responsible for the upsurge in one of the oldest forms of hatred.
• “We all know who is to blame for the rise in antisemitism – and it is not Israel” – Only the Right will do what’s required to lance the boil of Islamic extremism, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “To tackle antisemitism, take on alliance of far left and Islamists” – The pro-Palestinian marches have uncorked something ugly, writes Robin Simcox, the government’s former independent advisor on extremism, in the Times.
• “Why the pro-Palestine marches must stop” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill says the Left’s moral unravelling is now out of the bag following the Golders Green attack.
• “Palestine Action activists guilty of criminal damage over Elbit Systems raid” – Four Palestine Action activists have been found guilty of criminal damage in a retrial over a raid at the UK base of the Israeli-based defence company Elbit Systems, reports the Times.
• “Starmer attacks Arts Council for funding ‘antisemitism’” – Sir Keir Starmer has slammed the Arts Council for funding organisations that promote the work of “antisemitic artists”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Will Arts Council England finally stop funding hate?” – Is it too much to ask that money extracted from working people’s wallets be spent on art that inspires rather than indoctrinates? asks Lara Brown in the Spectator.
• “Google UK staff vote to unionise in protest against Israeli military contract” – Google’s British workforce have voted to unionise in protest at the tech giant’s contracts with the Israeli and US militaries, reports the Telegraph.
• “Zack Polanski’s popularity slumps amid Golders Green backlash” – Zack Polanski’s personal ratings have tumbled 14 points in a week, leaving him with a net score of minus 27, says the Mail.
• “Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman” – The Green Party leader falsely claimed to be a spokesman for the British Red Cross while crowdfunding his campaign for deputy leader of the party, reports the Times.
• “The Green candidate who thinks Iran should bomb the White House” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reveals that a Green council candidate in Bournemouth said Iran should “hit the White House”, denied that anyone was raped on October 7th and called Jewish hostages “filthy”.
• “Greens Deputy Leader shared conspiracy theory over Golders Green attack” – Green Party co-Deputy Leader Rachel Millward has been caught sharing a conspiracy theory about the Golders Green attack, according to the Telegraph.
• “Green Party prints ‘sectarian’ leaflets with six different languages” – The Green Party has been accused of sectarianism after printing election campaign leaflets with six different languages, says the Mail.
• “Is Nigel Farage stealing my ideas?” – In theTelegraph, Michael Deacon says that a plan he floated two months ago for dealing with illegal immigration – put detention centres in areas where the Greens won elections – has now been adopted as Reform party policy.
• “What really terrifies me about Reform in No.10” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts says the real fear of a Reform government is not fascism but the sheer scale of what it would need to undo – and the ferocity of the progressive establishment’s resistance.
• “Sir Ed Davey’s henchmen would make Chairman Mao proud” – In the Telegraph, long-serving Lib Dem member David Campanale reveals how, as a Christian, he was subjected to a “Spanish Inquisition” by party activists.
• “UK needs zero tolerance on crimes that make our lives misery” – Kemi Badenoch has pledged crackdowns on welfare, asylum and low-level crime, saying voters are “crying out” for a tougher approach, according to the Mail.
• “Council whose blunders led to Sara’s death refuses to release report” – A report on the abuse committed by Sara Sharif’s father is being kept secret because of the killer’s data protection rights, reveals the Mail.
• “Irish woman who shouted ‘all Britons should die’ convicted of race hate crime” – Cait O’Halloran has been ordered to pay almost £1,000 after drunkenly screaming anti-English abuse at hotel guests in Runcorn, reports the Telegraph.
• “How political chaos engulfed the world’s glitziest art show” – This year’s Venice Biennale is mired in boycotts, pro-Palestinian protests and an en-masse jury resignation. The Telegraph’s Alastair Sooke takes stock of a once-great institution in freefall.
• “Meet the free speech warrior of the Trump administration” – In the Free Press, Madeleine Kearns profiles Sarah Rogers, Trump’s Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who has little patience for Europe’s censors.
• “Obama admits Trump has caused tension in his marriage” – Barack Obama has admitted that his decision to speak out against Trump has put his marriage under strain, reports the USA Today.
• “Islamic State massacres Christians” – Islamic State militants have carried out a massacre of Christians in the DRC but it has attracted little attention in the Western press, notes Ben Farmer in the Telegraph.
• “The wave of violent teenage girls unleashed by Covid” – Since 2019, the number of women and girls aged 20 or under arrested for violent crimes has risen by almost 24%, from 7,885 to 9,755, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hatching a fossil fuel phase-out treaty” – Around 60 countries have gathered to kick off a global fossil fuel phase-out – utterly ridiculous but worth watching all the same, says David Wojick for CFACT.
• “What about Earth’s threatened and endangered people?” – Climate zealots are obsessed with power over poor countries rather than power for them – and their morally bankrupt policies bring death to millions every year, writes Paul Driessen in Watts Up With That?
• “Forty Six IPCC scientists break ranks, publicly challenge long-standing dogmatic climate claims” – Dozens of scientists from inside the IPCC process are now openly questioning the orthodoxy – and the establishment would very much prefer you didn’t know about it, says P. Gosselin on No Tricks Zone.
• “California’s bullet train: from $30 billion promise to $250 billion boondoggle” – California’s high-speed rail has ballooned from a $30 billion project to a $250 billion catastrophe, with lawmakers now calling it illegal and demanding it be scrapped, reports Angelina Delfina in Daily Signal.
• “Quit fearmongering, San Francisco Chronicle, climate change isn’t coming for cabernet” – US cabernet production is actually increasing amid modestly warming temperatures – so put the cork back in the doom-mongering, says H. Sterling Burnett in Climate Realism.
• “Academics given £250,000 to decolonise maths, science and geography” – Researchers at Cambridge and Stirling universities will spend two years exploring how to stamp out “scientific and environmental racism” in secondary schools, reveals the Mail.
• “Nurseries urged to report ‘racist toddlers’ to police” – Welsh nurseries have been advised to report children for “racist incidents” in guidance backed by the Labour Government, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why I invited Tommy Robinson to debate Islam at the Oxford Union” – The Left’s strategy of denying discussion has allowed the influence of far-Right ideas to spread, writes Arwa Elrayess, President of the Oxford Union, in the Telegraph.
• “One million children to claim disability benefits next year” – A record one million children will be on disability benefits by next year amid a sharp rise in claims linked to behavioural issues, says the Telegraph.
• “Two pubs shutting every day this year after Labour tax raid” – Pubs have closed at a rate of almost two every day so far this year after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid piled pressure on the hospitality industry, according to the Telegraph.
• “Angela Rayner quits vaping nine months after dinghy photo” – Angela Rayner has quit vaping nine months after she was photographed using one on a dinghy near Brighton beach, reports to the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch delivers a masterclass in how to respond to Nick Robinson’s whataboutery” – On Radio 4, Nick Robinson tried to equate Tommy Robinson’s marches with the weekly pro-Palestine protests, but Kemi wasn’t having it.

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