- “£1 billion blow to Starmer’s push for growth” – The owner of P&O Ferries is shelving its £1 billion investment in the London Gateway port – the centrepiece of Labour’s ‘global investment summit’ on Monday – after the Transport Secretary called the firm a “rogue operator”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s investment summit is dead on arrival” – The event’s chaotic lead-up illustrates everything that’s going wrong for the Starmer administration, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Qatar dumps £300 million Sainsbury’s stake as Reeves prepares tax raid” – Qatar is the latest international investor to pull out of Britain ahead of Labour’s Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves plan to ‘hike CGT to 39%’ would cost £100 million, say HMRC” – The Chancellor is considering hiking Capital Gains Tax, even though the Treasury has warned it would cost billions.
- “Employers made to foot the bill for union ‘diversity pilgrims’ under Rayner’s reforms” – Employers aren’t happy about the Employment Rights Act, according to the Telegraph.
- “Private school exodus could be twice as bad as predicted” – The author of the IFS report used by Labour to claim their VAT raid on private schools will raise £1.7 billion back tracks on his wildly over-optimistic prediction, according to the Telegraph.
- “The NHS: Where does all the money go?” – In part 10 of their ongoing investigation into the NHS’s habit of spunking taxpayers’ money up the wall, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson turn their attention to ‘wellbeing boards’.
- “Labour’s betrayal of free speech has had devastating consequences” – The very qualities that make Cambridge University a world-leading institution have been stripped away, says James Orr, with the Freedom of Speech Act being the only thing that can restore them.
- “‘It’s a disgrace’” – On TalkTV, I condemn the cowardice of the Cambridge students who no-platformed Suella Braverman.
- “Starmer’s Government is blinded by ideology” – In CapX, Mark Sidwell says the reason everything is going wrong for Labour is because it’s driven by a misguided ideology: that they know best.
- “Robert Jenrick faces Tory split over his plan to leave ECHR” – The former immigration minister says if we want to deport dangerous criminals we’ll have to repeal the Human Rights Act, according to the Times.
- “UNRWA implicated in Hamas terror attacks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize” – As the Hamas-infested UNRWA is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the father of a man killed by Hamas in the October 7th massacre says it should receive “a Nobel Prize for Terror”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Global institutions can no longer hide their anti-Western malignancy” – As the example of UNRWA so painfully illustrates, we can’t depend on the post-war framework anymore to keep us safe, says Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “CBS aired Kamala Harris giving two different answers to the same question” – Harris’s word salad in response to a question on Israel during her 60 Minutes interview was edited out, says the Telegraph.
- “Obama admits ‘brothers’ are not coming out to vote for Kamala” – American’s former President appeals to black men to support Kamala Harris’s campaign by giving them spurious reasons, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.D. Vance Is Right About ‘Experts’” – In the Wall St Journal, Sander Gerber and Stephen Miran say J.D. Vance was right to be sceptical about the views of experts in his debate with Tim Walz.
- “Trump aides are holding their breath, as he makes a final risky gamble” – With less than four weeks to go, this is the closest-fought presidential election in modern history, writes Michael Wolff in the Mail.
- “Where did it all go wrong for Justin Trudeau?” – After nine years in office, the Canadian prime minister’s approval ratings have plummeted and voters are calling for his resignation, reports the Times.
- “Authors of a big new paper on Covid’s heart risks presented its results in a misleading way likely to scare people the paper itself shows are not in danger” – Alex Berenson’s latest Substack post is about a misleading write-up of some research into the heart risks of having Covid.
- “Mandatory vaccines considered as part of Stormont consultation” – For once, BBC News has said the quiet part out loud, pointing out that new laws being considered in Northern Ireland would make vaccination mandatory.
- “Princess Twinkletoes Sturgeon’s tougher Covid rules probably useless” – In his memoir, Boris Johnson says Nicola Sturgeon pursued “policy of gratuitous differentiation” during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Trans activists release cockroaches’ during LGB Alliance conference” – An LGB Alliance conference held in Westminster yesterday was thrown into chaos after trans activists released cockroaches, meal worms and crickets inside the venue, reports the Mail.
- “Pro-life buffer zone residents could face £10,000 fines” – John Swinney’s SNP Government have laid out its rules for anti-abortionists north of the border, and the measures are even worse than campaigners first imagined, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The climate scaremongers: BBC suppresses good news on India’s monsoons” – According to Paul Homewood in the Conservative Woman, India’s monsoon season has been wetter than usual, which is great news.
- “Elton Welsby interview: I’m not afraid to say I don’t think lady commentators are as good as men” – In the Telegraph, veteran sports commentator Elton Welsby says he doesn’t think female pundits are as good as men. Shouldn’t he be referred to Prevent?
- “Female British captain’s gender ‘played no part’ in sinking of navy ship” – The sinking of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship in the South Pacific – the first Kiwi ship to sink since the Second World War – had nothing to do with the fact that the captain is a woman, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ron DeSantis absolutely nukes a reporter who tried to tie yesterday’s tornadoes from Hurricane Milton to global warming” – Ron DeSantis shows what real leadership looks like as he debunks claims that Hurricane Milton was caused by climate change.
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