News Round-Up

• “Widdecombe murder suspect charged with terror plot against Farage” – Joshua Kerry, 28, the man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, has been charged with plotting a terror attack against Nigel Farage, reports the Telegraph.
• “Iranian small boat migrants charged over Yom Kippur terror plot” – A pair of Iranian migrants are accused of an alleged bomb plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community on the first anniversary of the Heaton Park attack, according to ITV News.
• “Rapist migrant can stay in Britain after claiming he is bisexual” – A migrant jailed for two rapes and deemed a “risk to children” has won a case to stay in Britain because he is bisexual, says GB News.
• “Robber migrant can stay in UK because he ‘goes to local leisure centre’” – An immigrant has avoided deportation after a court ruled that going to fitness sessions at his local leisure centre shows he’s sufficiently integrated into British society after getting out of prison, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tories pledge to end early release with 50,000 new prison cells” – Kemi Badenoch has announced a Tory pledge to build 50,000 new prison places as the party commits to ending the early release of offenders, says the BBC.
• “Burnham is just a people pleaser and Farage is not serious” – The Conservative leader claims she has transformed her party into a more aggressive political force, writes Steven Swinford in the Times.
• “Tories take aim at Labour with 88ft-long ‘Bayeux Tapestry’” – The Tories have launched their latest attack on Labour in the form of an 88ft-long mock-up of the Bayeux Tapestry, reports the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick confronts ‘shoplifter’ in Greggs in Brixton” – Robert Jenrick has filmed himself confronting shoplifters outside a Brixton branch of Greggs in a series of new “vigilante” social media videos, notes the Telegraph.
• “Andy Burnham’s peace-and-love routine is going to leave Britain broke” – With sweeping promises of free social care and nationalised rail and water, Andy Burnham’s agenda poses a grave threat to the public purse, warns William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Burnham’s reforms could cut care home bills by only £3 a week” – Andy Burnham’s plan for a free National Care Service could save families as little as £3 a week on care home bills, according to Telegraph analysis.
• “Have the Greens lost all hope? Burnham has made Polanski irrelevant” – In UnHerd, Aaron Bastani argues that Andy Burnham’s political rise has fatally undermined Zack Polanski.
• “Burnham has killed off the Green Party” – Andy Burnham’s move to the Left has fatally undercut Zack Polanski’s claim to be the only politician taking the fight to the ‘hard-Right’, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “Zack Polanski fights for survival at Greens conference” – Self-described “eco-populist” Zack Polanski insists his leadership of the Greens is not contingent on winning a parliamentary seat, reports the Mail.
• “Polanski urges Brits to ‘vote Green’ to drag Labour even further Left” – Zack Polanski has urged Britons to vote for his Green Party in order to drag Labour further to the Left on rent controls, wealth taxes, fossil fuels and Gaza, says the Mail.
• “Polanski asked candidate to replace him in by-election” – Zack Polanski asked another candidate to stand in his place in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, notes the Telegraph.
• “Green meltdown over ‘Zionism is racism’ motion” – Former leader Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay have condemned plans for Green members to pass a motion defining Zionism as support for “an ethnonationalist Jewish State”, reports the Mail.
• “Pro-Palestine protesters defy police over October 7th march” – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are pressing ahead with a “provocative” march on the anniversary of the October 7th attacks in direct defiance of police, according to GB News.
• “‘I think I smell a rat’: pro-Palestine MP shares plane hijack conspiracy theory” – A Birmingham independent MP has been told to apologise after publicly questioning Netanyahu’s account of the Flydubai hijacking incident, says GB News.
• “Israel investigates why dozens of Omani pilots flew into the country” – Israel is examining how dozens of Omani pilots were able to fly into Tel Aviv in recent years despite restrictions explicitly barring their crews from entering the country, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Brexiteers aren’t prepared for the EU battle to come” – A full re-run of the Brexit argument is fast approaching and pro-Leave voices appear dangerously underprepared, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Hundreds of French schools close as rioters defy Macron’s authority” – Protesters have set fire to bins and school entrances across Paris, forcing 400 schools nationwide to close, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rioter blasts woman in the face with a flamethrower at French protests” – Shocking video footage has emerged of a rioter attacking a woman in the face with a flamethrower as student protests descend into anarchy across France, says the Mail.
• “Media spread false claims about causes of French riots and dismiss Left-Islamist alliance behind them” – The media is glossing over what’s really driving France’s unrest, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “Britain excluded from US talks on NATO’s future” – The US has organised a round of talks on NATO’s future – expected to be held in Poland – from which Britain has been shut out, reports the Telegraph.
• “Putin ‘orders his military leaders to abandon the rules of war’” – Zelensky says intelligence indicates that Putin has eliminated the restrictions governing earlier air campaigns, leading to a surge in attacks on civilians, according to the Mail.
• “UK population growth slumps to lowest in 30 years” – Falling net migration and lower birth rates have pushed the UK’s population growth to its slowest rate in nearly three decades, notes the Telegraph.
• “What doctors and experts say about the wave of Covid sweeping Britain” – The phrase “I think I’ve got Covid” is creeping back into everyday life as a fresh wave sweeps Britain, reports the Mail.
• “Florida’s Attorney General sues Pfizer and Albert Bourla for hiding Covid shot deaths, heart damage, miscarriages and strokes” – On the Focal Points Substack, Nicolas Hulscher writes that a new lawsuit alleges Pfizer used deceptive marketing to drive maximum Covid shot uptake.
• “Trump drops diesel export ban as Europe agrees to release reserves” – Donald Trump has declared that the G7 is releasing “massive” amounts of oil stocks after he pressured allies to bring down energy prices ahead of US mid-term elections next month, reports the Mail.
• “Labour energy policy ‘crazy’, union leader says as he urges drilling” – GMB General Secretary Gary Smith argues that blocking North Sea oil and gas projects will destroy investment and trigger a fresh wave of strikes, according to the Times.
• “Time for climate realism: Net Zero 2030 is only making us poorer” – Wind and solar alone can’t power the future, says Dieter Helm in the Times. There are better options that could actually help curb climate change.
• “UK scraps climate change reporting rules for the City” – The financial watchdog has watered down plans to force London-listed companies to disclose climate risks they face, reports the Telegraph.
• “Thames Water seeks £2.4 billion lifeline after rescue plan stalls” – Thames Water is seeking a fresh multibillion-pound lifeline after rescue talks were effectively halted by political opposition, reveals the Telegraph.
• “The ‘con’ in the Conversion Practices Draft Bill” – In the Critic Magazine, Ben Sixsmith writes that the Conversion Practices Draft Bill poses a grave threat to religious freedom.
• “Suella Braverman is told that she is being ‘racist against herself’” – A Question Time audience member has accused Suella Braverman of being “racist against herself” after she described herself as British of Asian ethnicity rather than English, reports the Mail.
• “Diversity push for lawyers scrapped after backlash” – Plans by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to impose strict diversity targets on law firms have been dropped following fierce industry opposition, says the Telegraph.
• “King will not apologise for slavery on Caribbean tour” – The King will “not shy away” from discussing the historic slave trade during his Caribbean tour but will stop short of offering a formal apology, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pub offers free pint to black Labrador owners” – A Suffolk pub is offering a free pint to owners of black Labradors in a tongue-in-cheek response to a Labour MP’s comments linking warm ale and dogs to a certain type of Englishman, reveals the Telegraph.
• “You are not going to carry a cement mixer on a pushbike” – In an LBC debate, Lib Dem Hina Bokhari proposes that tradespeople switch from white vans to bikes to cut fuel costs and emissions.

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