News Round-Up

• “Badenoch vows to scrap death duties on family homes and cut jobs tax” – Kemi Badenoch has pledged to exempt all family properties from inheritance tax and introduce a £1 million allowance free from the levy, reports the Mail.
• “Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party conference speech” – The Telegraph‘s grandees deliver a verdict of “a significant step towards No 10” on Kemi Badenoch’s conference address.
• “Badenoch’s new Tories are unashamedly pro-wealth” – Kemi’s plan to cut taxes for middle-class voters shows the party’s roadmap to the next election, writes Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t tell me my kids aren’t English! Badenoch lashes out at Reform UK” – Kemi Badenoch has lashed out at Reform UK as she warned the party’s senior figures to not “debate whether my mixed-race children are English”, reports the Mail.
• “Kemi’s best speech yet with a powerful anti-racism message” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges argues that Badenoch’s conference speech was her strongest yet.
• “Kemi Badenoch doesn’t care what the BBC thinks, and that changes everything” – Badenoch’s willingness to defy the BBC – pitching cheap energy, citizenship-stripping for criminals and tax cuts in her conference speech – signals a decisive break with the defensive politics that has long hamstrung the Conservative Party, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi’s a mother on a mission” – The Conservative leader projects a grip of intent that her rivals conspicuously lack, writes Quentin Letts in the Mail.
• “There is now a clear path to Tory recovery” – Badenoch’s conference speech has opened a credible route back to power for the Conservatives, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “The Left doesn’t understand just how much inheritance tax is hated” – Because the Left insists on viewing all taxation through the prism of “fairness”, it has consistently failed to grasp the visceral public loathing of inheritance tax, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Widdecombe murder suspect ‘tried to batter down Nigel Farage’s door’” – The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe tried to break into Nigel Farage’s home in a terrorist plot one year earlier, according to the Mail.
• “Shabana Mahmood has said the quiet bit out loud” – In the Spectator, Ameer Kotecha says the Home Secretary’s admission that virtually every woman making the illegal Channel crossing will have been raped en route exposes the trafficking networks’ role in mass sexual violence – and demands a much more urgent response.
• “Benefits claimants handed taxpayer money to visit relatives in prison” – Welfare recipients can claim travel costs including up to £40 towards car hire, food and drink and overnight stays when visiting relatives behind bars, reports the Telegraph.
• “Boots sold for £7 billion to family behind Primark” – The high street pharmacy giant Boots has been acquired by the billionaire Canadian Weston family in a deal worth nearly £7 billion, says the Telegraph.
• “Senior academics set out key questions Cambridge must answer over Jason Arday’s death” – Senior Cambridge academics have slammed the university’s plans to investigate Jason Arday’s death as inadequate, and said those responsible for “serious failures of leadership” should face consequences, reports the Guardian.
• “US threatens Britain with tariffs over Israel sanctions” – A Trump administration official has branded European boycotts of Israeli goods as discriminatory and warned Britain it faces punishing tariffs if it presses ahead with sanctions, says the Telegraph.
• “Israel hijack suspect learnt to fly in Britain” – The Omani pilot behind an attempted jihadist attack on an Israeli aircraft received his flight training at one of the UK’s biggest aviation schools, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Eleven arrested at pro-Palestinian marches in London on October 7th” – Eleven people have been arrested after several pro-Palestinian demonstrations were held in London on Wednesday, reports the BBC.
• “Israel marks 3rd anniversary of October 7th with mourners across nation” – Families across Israel have gathered at intersections, bomb shelters and the site of the Nova music festival to mark the third anniversary of the Hamas-led massacre, according to the Mail.
• “The horrors of October 7th are still seared into my mind. Why won’t the world acknowledge them?” – If the blinkered pro-Palestine crowd want to talk about ‘genocide’, they should start with Israel’s murdered mothers and mutilated children, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “How the West failed the test on October 7th” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill writes the West’s educated young sympathised more with a Gazan death cult than with the Jews it targeted, exposing a profound moral failure at the heart of liberal culture.
• “October 7th was a jihad against Jews” – In the Spectator, Florit Shoihet, who grew up within rocket range of Gaza, says that October 7th must be understood not merely as a terrorist attack but as an explicitly jihadist assault on Jews as Jews.
• “Jew-hatred has returned to Europe – under the guise of Gaza solidarity” – The ‘Nazification’ of Israel and equating military action with the Holocaust is morally squalid and historically preposterous, argues Simon Schama in the Telegraph.
• “Gaza: the most lied about war in history” – On the third anniversary of October 7th, the Left’s empire of falsehoods against Israel is finally starting to crumble, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “French police to stop firing stun grenades at student protesters” – A schoolboy has had his hand blown off by a projectile as demonstrators clashed with officers during nationwide protests, reports the BBC.
• “Elderly woman whose eviction has sparked riots in Spain has died” – An 87 year-old pensioner whose eviction became a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis and sparked nationwide unrest has died, according to the Mail.
• “The ACIP case gets stranger” – On his Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone says a troubling pattern is emerging from the court record in the ACIP case, which challenges Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping overhaul of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel.
  “A user’s guide to blackouts” – On his Substack, Richard Lyon writes about how Britain’s grid works, how grids fail and why Net Zero is removing the machinery that keeps the lights on.
• “Green Party fails to suspend ‘good friend’ of al-Qaeda terrorist” – The Green Party has refused to act against a member who told the Telegraph she was friends with a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist.
• “There is no coming back for the Green Party” – The Green Party activists who gathered in Brighton last week appeared to care little for the environment, notes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
• “The ex-Corbynistas who staged a Green Party putsch” – A radical cadre of hard-Left activists has infiltrated the Green Party to advance anti-Israel aims – and may now set its sights on ousting Zack Polanski, says Lauren Shirreff in the Telegraph.
• “M&S accuses Chris Packham of ‘misleading’ salmon claims” – Marks & Spencer has hit back at Chris Packham over claims that its factory-farmed salmon is covered in lice and chemicals, reports the Telegraph.
• “Latest European green energy debacle: Portugal’s largest flagship solar park insolvent” – Portugal’s largest flagship solar park has collapsed into insolvency in the latest blow to Europe’s green energy ambitions, notes P. Gosselin at NoTricksZone.
• “Fiji pre-COP31 climate conference panic: ‘Is anyone listening?’” – Green campaigners gathering ahead of COP31 are gripped by panic that they have lost their audience, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Wrong, LA Times, climate change is not turning nature into a horror movie” – The Los Angeles Times claim that climate change is the common denominator behind rabid bat attacks, mosquito-borne illnesses, rattlesnake bites and flooding in California is “pure hyperbole”, says Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
• “Climate model software” – The programming standards underpinning climate models are a damning examination of where good software practice goes to die, writes John Ridgway at Climate Scepticism.
• “Climate crazy articles (please add your own)” – At Master Resource, Robert Bradley Jr rounds up some of the craziest climate alarmist predictions ever made.
• “Jaguar ditches pink for new electric car after ‘woke’ backlash” – Jaguar has finally launched the electric car that thrust the marque into a storm of controversy – but this time a pink version was nowhere in sight, notes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Jaguar’s new electric car is a terrible mistake” – In the Spectator, Matthew Lynn argues that the relaunched all-electric Jaguar is a catastrophic error of judgment that no amount of rebranding can rescue.
• “Jaguar has wasted a golden opportunity with its new electric car” – Jaguar’s long-awaited new EV has squandered what should have been a triumphant moment, says Paul Burke in the Telegraph.
• “BBC pays white staff less in almost every pay band” – The BBC pays white staff less on average than their ethnic minority colleagues in every pay band bar one, reports the Telegraph.
• “I write dystopian thrillers, and modern Britain is too insane even for me” – In the Telegraph, thriller author Sean Thomas warns that contemporary Britain has grown so bizarre and authoritarian that it now exceeds even the darkest fictional scenarios.
• “The British Government is preparing an apparatus of internet censorship without parallel in the modern era” – On the latest Free Speech Union podcast, Toby talks to David Rose about Andy Burnham’s sinister plans for even more online censorship.

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