News Round-Up

• “Britain loses £120 billion as billionaires flee under Labour” – More than $160 billion has left the UK since Labour came to power as the collective wealth of departing billionaires continues to drain from the country, reports the Telegraph.
• “Two men dead and two women severely burned after fire on mega-dinghy” – Two men died and two women suffered severe burns after a fire broke out on an overcrowded mega-dinghy bound for Britain, says the Mail.
• “Green stance on Zionism is threat to Britain” – Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has condemned the Green Party’s anti-Zionist policy as a “threat to British Jews and to Britain”, notes the Telegraph.
• “Polanski backs attack on Green critics of ‘antisemitic’ Gaza policy” – The Greens’ antisemitism crisis has deepened after the party was reported to police and the human rights watchdog over events at their conference, says the Mail.
• “A vote for me is a vote for Israel, Polanski said” – Zack Polanski is facing accusations of ‘betraying his principles’ over 2016 remarks in which he reportedly said voting for him was a vote for Israel, reports the Telegraph.
• “Villagers threaten to ‘sell up’ over the arrival of 1,000 migrants” – Homeowners in Linton-on-Ouse face huge losses on their properties if plans to accommodate up to 1,200 male asylum seekers at a former military site there go ahead, says the Mail.
• “Migration costing British workers outside London £1,000 a year” – Migration is costing some British workers £1,060 in annual pay, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mosque praised by Andy Burnham just held terrorist’s funeral” – The Manchester Central Mosque, which Andy Burnham visited and praised during his time as mayor, has come under scrutiny after hosting the funeral of a Taliban terrorist, notes the Mail.
• “Conversion Practices Bill is a licence for trouble” – Banning so-called “conversion practices” threatens the rights of women and parents, warns Sonia Sodha in the Times.
• “Tories vow to build £10 billion ‘Iron Dome’ to stop drones and missiles” – Kemi Badenoch has announced plans for a £10 billion air defence system to protect UK cities, power plants and military bases from drone and missile attacks, according to the Mail.
• “Reform supporter arrested after comparing Tory councillor to ‘rent boy’” – In the Telegraph, Robert Mendick tells the grimly familiar story of a 15 year-old Reform activist arrested over Facebook posts mocking a Tory councillor.
• “US pulls B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford over suspected terror plot” – A dozen B-1 bombers have been withdrawn from RAF Fairford following a suspected security breach, says the BBC.
• “America has just handed Britain a humiliating vote of no confidence” – By pulling its bombers from RAF Fairford, the US has delivered a stinging signal that it no longer trusts British intelligence services to protect its assets, writes David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “Flydubai hijacker avoided vetting at British university” – A loophole in Foreign Office vetting procedures allowed the Flydubai hijacker to study aviation at a British university unchecked, reveals the Telegraph.
• “France lycée protests: hundreds of schools shut as chaos engulfs country” – Up to 500 lycées are closing as French ministers prepare legislation to force rioters to pay for the damage they cause, reports the Times.
• “The nihilistic far-Left is pushing France to the brink” – France’s school riots are the product of a broken education system and far-Left provocateurs bent on destruction, writes Agnes Poirier in the Telegraph.
• “France’s school riots offer a bitter taste of what will happen if Le Pen wins” – In the Spectator, John Keiger argues that France’s school riots represent an ominous opening shot in the 2027 presidential campaign.
• “Fake news on French riots rips away façade that the media ever cared about ‘real-world harm’” – Reporters who spent a decade demanding censorship of Right-wing populists are now promoting the Left-wing misinformation driving street violence across France, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “Lisa Nandy delays publication of critical report on UAE” – The Culture Secretary has further delayed the publication of a critical report on the failed UAE bid for the Telegraph, two and a half years after it was completed.
• “Manchester City’s disgrace proves Britain is in hock to the UAE” – The scandal engulfing Manchester City lays bare just how deeply Britain’s institutions have become entangled with UAE money and influence, says Christopher Williams in the Telegraph.
• “Pedro Sanchez gambles on snap election in Spain” – Pedro Sanchez has called a snap election after his measures to relieve Spain’s housing crisis were rejected by parliament, reports the Telegraph.
• “European Left on verge of collapse” – Sanchez’s decision to call a snap election – following his earlier 2023 defeat in regional and local polls – points to a wider crisis engulfing the European Left, argues James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “Brazil election: the Bolsonaro comeback that has stunned the world” – Flávio Bolsonaro secured an against-the-odds triumph in the first round of Brazil’s General Election on Sunday, reports the Telegraph.
• “Russian researcher ‘dies of plague released by lab accident’” – Russia has been accused of covering up the death of a laboratory technician from a suspected plague leak, says GB News.
• “Russia suspected plague outbreak: how worried should we be?” – A researcher has died, possibly from pneumonic plague following a lab accident, though experts say the disease is treatable and far less likely to spread than COVID-19, writes Rhys Blakely in the Times.
• “Covid hospitalisations up five-fold in a month, while cases double” – Figures reveal that Covid admissions surged from 950 in August to 4,939 in September, with diagnoses now at their highest level since October 2025, reports the Mail.
• “‘Hot mess’ paper questioning CO₂ and climate change gets retracted” – A paper that challenged the link between CO₂ emissions and climate change, and mischaracterised NASA satellite temperature data, has been pulled from publication, notes Retraction Watch.
• “Texas climate bombshell? New report challenges ‘climate crisis’ claims on extreme heat, hurricanes and tornadoes” – A new Texas climate report finds no sustained rise in 100-degree days, no upward trend in hurricane or tornado frequency and no increase in wildfires – directly challenging claims that climate change is driving ever-more extreme weather across the state, according to Katy Christian Magazine.
• “Democratic Socialists want a Green New Deal” – At CFACT, Craig Rucker writes that the Democratic Socialists of America are openly pushing for a Green New Deal – and a great deal more besides.
• “COP31: Oh not another one!” – On the Right Times Substack, Ivor Williams argues that COP31’s move to Turkey marks a damning ‘progression’ story for the climate conference – with delegate numbers, hot air and emissions all rising by billions.
• “Digger digs its own grave: Hollywood finally produces something truly shovel-ready” – In Watts Up With That?, Anthony Watts says the climate-crisis film Digger arrived with a shovel, found its hole and – judging by its opening-weekend box office – immediately began digging its own grave.
• “Tom Cruise’s climate screed Digger opens to $8 million, deadly C+ Cinemascore” – Warner Bros poured around $250 million into Digger, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, only for the film to land as a historical flop, writes John Nolte in Breitbart.
• “Disney sends Margaret Thatcher to Hell in the most tasteless TV scene of the year” – A new Disney production has incredibly branded Margaret Thatcher a “union-busting b—h” and consigned her to Hell, according to Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “Jeffrey Archer, novelist and former Tory MP, dies aged 86” – Lord Archer, the bestselling novelist and former Conservative MP, has died “peacefully” at home on Monday at the age of 86, says the Telegraph.
• “The next arrival is more important than you” – An AI parody song takes the mickey out of the Government’s handling of Channel migrant boat arrivals.

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