News Round-Up

• “Nowak inquest to examine police role in death” – The inquest into Henry Nowak’s death will scrutinise whether police officers’ actions “caused or contributed” to his death, reports the Telegraph.
• “The lessons from Henry Nowak’s murder” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray argues that the Nowak case exposes a troubling double standard in how Britain responds to racially targeted killings.
• “Why was my son’s murder by the Nottingham killer treated differently?” – In a Telegraph interview with Abigail Buchanan, Emma Webber says her son’s killing by Valdo Calocane and the murder of Henry Nowak raise the same troubling questions – and wants to know why the response to each case has been so different.
• “Why can we rage against George Floyd’s death but not Henry Nowak’s?” – The establishment’s unease at working-class anger over Henry Nowak’s murder reveals a deeply inconsistent approach to racial grievance, argues Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “It’s the police’s job to end racism, says diversity boss” – The former head of policing’s national diversity plan Alison Heydari says forces must help change society to tackle racism, according to the Telegraph.
• “There is no equality before the law – identity politics is hardwired into British justice” – The politics of racial and religious identity have become so entrenched in the British legal system that true equality before the law is now a fiction, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “White House demands end to two-tier policing after Henry Nowak murder” – In an intervention that will fuel a growing rift between No. 10 and the White House, the US State Department says that the Nowak case is a symptom of “civilisational decline” that must be “rejected across the West”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Zia Yusuf’s attack on Kemi Badenoch shows he is a hypocrite” – Reform’s wilful smearing of Kemi Badenoch over her response to Henry Nowak’s murder is brazen hypocrisy, says Stephen Pollard in the Spectator.
• “Kemi gives me hope” – A blistering attack on Labour and Britain’s talent-starved political class gives Rod Liddle in the Spectator a rare flicker of hope that Kemi Badenoch might be different.
• “One in four undergrads believes Hamas’s actions on October 7th ‘are defensible’” – A HEPI survey of 1,018 students aged 18 to 21 found that 28% believe that Hamas’s October 7th attacks were “defensible”, according to the Telegraph.
• “All towns could receive blanket 20mph zones as signage ‘too expensive’” – The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety is calling for a blanket cut to 20mph limits in all towns because the cost of changing individual signs is too high, says the Mail.
• “Chagossians protest Mauritius’s London law firm” – Chagossian activists have staged a protest outside the London offices of Withers LLP, the firm advising the Mauritian Government on Chagos negotiations, demanding that the territory remain under British sovereignty, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Merz humiliated in his attempt to make Germany a world power again” – Germany’s failed bid for a UN Security Council seat has deepened the crisis engulfing Chancellor Merz, writes James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “‘Denier’ and ‘sceptic’ are not the vocabulary of science” – In an interview with Freedom Research, epidemiologist Prof Sunetra Gupta argues that dismissing dissent with labels such as ‘denier’ and ‘sceptic’ is a betrayal of scientific inquiry.
• “NHS warns staff to ‘prepare for Ebola outbreak in the UK’” – NHS staff have been told to ready themselves for potential Ebola cases arriving in the UK as an outbreak of the deadly virus spreads across Africa, reports the Mail.
• “Sainsbury’s ditching brown eggs is damning proof of the Net Zero farce” – Sainsbury’s decision to replace brown eggs with white ones – on the grounds that white eggs carry a 12.7% lower carbon footprint – is a damning illustration of Net Zero absurdity, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “I’m not giving up meat for Miliband, and neither should you” – Net Zero zealots who demand that Britons abandon meat have no credible case – and the public should resist the pressure, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s new Net Zero targets are not credible, warn carmakers” – The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has warned that Ed Miliband’s latest carbon budget – premised on 95% of new car sales being electric by 2030 – is simply not credible, reports the Telegraph.
• “Shouldn’t there be a law against this sort of thing?” – Climate change and Net Zero messaging being passed off as official government press releases raises urgent questions about how far state messaging should go, says Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
• “Oh no, we’re all dead – according to a 2016 climate mass extinction prediction” – A 2016 prediction of climate-driven mass extinction that was supposed to have already killed us all is yet another example of failed climate doomsday prophecy, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Wyoming golden eagles should be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act” – Wyoming’s golden eagle population has dropped 30% in 20 years, notes David Wojick at CFACT. Wind farms are the culprit, and the Endangered Species Act may be the only fix.
• “Fan facing five-year ban for calling Chelsea supporters ‘rent boys’” – In the Lords, Toby Young slammed the weaponisation of Football Banning Orders after an FSU member was prosecuted for calling Chelsea fans “rent boys”, with prosecutors seeking a five-year ban – including public transport restrictions – should he be convicted.

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