- “Archbishop ‘lied’ about John Smyth child abuse scandal” – The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of lying after he claimed to be unaware of the severity of child abuse by evangelical Christian John Smyth, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bishop calls on Archbishop of Canterbury to quit over sex abuse scandal” – One of the clergy members who launched a petition to get Justin Welby to step down says that the Archbishop was aware of “really horrific” abuse of “significant sadistic nature”, according to Sky News.
- “Welby must resign. It’s a matter of trust” – As the symbol of authority and teaching in the church, Justin Welby surely has no option but to resign, says the Rev. Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Why Archbishop is now paying the price for years of silence over child abuse scandal” – As calls mount for his resignation, the Archbishop of Canterbury appears unwilling to recognise his own alleged failings, writes Janet Eastham in the Telegraph.
- “From steady hand to neck-deep in scandal: how Justin Welby fell from grace” – With pressure mounting on the Archbishop to resign, his apparent hypocrisy and inaction could make his position untenable, says Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Will the latest bid to remove bishops from the House of Lords succeed?” – Under Labour’s House of Lords shake-up would the CofE bishops be keeping their hereditary places if they had consistently stood up for traditional, orthodox Christianity? wonders Rev. Julian Mann in Christian Today.
- “Blair’s Human Rights Act must be reformed to stop it overriding Parliament” – Lord Howard has called for reform of the Human Rights Act, arguing it undermines Parliament by shifting power to the courts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Treasury admits new farm tax is based on research from only one academic” – The groundswell of support for Labour’s tax hikes is being entirely manufactured, says Guido Fawkes.
- “VAT raid forces 3,000 pupils out of private school” – Labour has badly underestimated how many pupils will be forced out of private schools as a result of its VAT raid, reports the Mail.
- “Labour has abandoned standards in public life – and children are the first victims” – Bridget Phillipson should know better than to accept the new culture of excuses in schools, says Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
- “School head of English and Labour adviser wants Shakespeare GCSEs axed” – The head of English at Harris Westminster has called for William Shakespeare to be sidelined in GCSE exams – and suggested Instagram and TikTok posts be studied instead, reports the Mail.
- “County lines gang leader avoids deportation to Nigeria after ECHR claim” – A gang leader who has dealt drugs since he was a teenager has avoided deportation to Nigeria after claiming it would breach his rights to a family life under the ECHR, says the Telegraph.
- “Mourning in silence” – In Britain, you can mourn your murdered children with flowers and silence, but don’t dare ask why they died, writes Alex Story in Country Squire.
- “Police foil ‘Jew hunt’ in Belgium amid fears of copycat attacks” – Belgian police have arrested six suspects who were allegedly planning an Amsterdam-inspired ‘Jew hunt’ in Antwerp, reports GB News.
- “Shocking moment Syrian asylum seeker pushes widow, 91, down stairs” – A Syrian asylum seeker is set to be deported from Sweden after a shocking video showed him pushing a 91 year-old woman down a flight of stairs in an attack that is set to reignite the country’s debate over immigration, says the Mail.
- “Labour’s global strategy is imploding – that’s where Starmer needs a reset” – The Left’s hopes for a cosy White House, a benevolent EU and worldwide Net Zero zealotry are all shattered, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Virtue-signalling Britain must adapt to Trump’s re-industrialisation” – Trump is a genuine force of nature, dragging the world along behind him. Our hostility to industry may be one of the first casualties, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Trump ‘could save Chagos Islands from Starmer’s sneaky deal’” – The leader of a Chagos citizens’ group says that Keir Starmer’s decision to give up the Chagos Islands is a “sneaky agreement” that Donald Trump must block, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump Jr. warns Zelensky ‘you’re 38 days from losing your allowance’” – Donald Trump Jr. has shared a mocking video warning Zelensky that he will “lose his allowance” when his father returns to office, sparking Ukrainian concerns over future U.S. support, says the Mail.
- “This is our last chance to back Ukraine for real” – U.S. support for Ukraine has been undecided, and may soon evaporate altogether, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Trump appoints loyalists as he prepares to expel 20 million migrants” – Policy advisers are drawing up dozens of executive orders for Trump to sign on his first day in office, including the biggest mass deportations in American history, reports the Times.
- “The Democrat meltdown has only just begun” – Arrogance has infected the Left. Unless they learn the right lessons, they’ll struggle to fully recover, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “No, you don’t have ‘post-election depression’” – When did the liberal Left become so dominated by overgrown children? wonders Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “COP29 isn’t an ‘opportunity’, it’s an embarrassment” – Starmer saying he preferred Davos to Westminster tells you everything you need to know about the globe-trotting exploits of our leaders, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer pushes climate goals as world leaders snub talks” – Keir Starmer will insist this week that it is in Britain’s strategic self-interest to push ahead with rapidly decarbonising the economy even if Trump’s election stalls co-ordinated action, according to the Times.
- “At COP29, we must treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as Covid – history shows it can be done” – COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev demands in the Guardian that private investors step up, as the climate emergency, expected to cost trillions, is beyond the reach of developing nations.
- “Car makers slash EV prices by a third to meet binding sales targets” – Car makers are offering record discounts on new electric vehicles in a desperate bid to invigorate demand as binding end-of-year sales targets loom, reports the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson forced out after media briefed about lockdown parties’” – According to a new book, Boris Johnson was ousted after former aides leaked details of Downing Street pandemic parties, with Dominic Cummings at the heart of the plot, says the Mail.
- “Yay! The WHO’s pandemic treaty: no agreement, no special WHA session next month, negotiations continue until next May” – If there is no agreement on the WHO’s pandemic treaty by the end of May, it dies – or we get a meaningless treaty. Or we leave the WHO, writes Dr. Meryl Nass on her Substack.
- “Anti-vaxxer called for Covid ‘kill squads’ to target Boris Johnson and Chris Whitty” – A Covid denier who suggested “whacking” Prof. Chris Whitty on social media has been jailed for five years, reports Sky News.
- “The BBC and RFK Jr.” – The BBC World Service has become an unreliable den of woke box thinkers, lament Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan on the TTE Substack.
- “J.K. Rowling blasts Alastair Campbell over women’s rights remarks” – Alastair Campbell is in the spotlight over women’s rights concerns and his, er, ignorance of the whole matter, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The West’s feminists are wilfully blind to the realities of Islamism” – Afghan women are risking their lives to express themselves. Privileged activists should take note, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
- “Billions more blown away on woke NHS non-jobs” – When it comes to wasting our money, you can rely on ‘our’ NHS constantly to find new and imaginative ways of inventing non-jobs to squander our taxes, writes David Craig in TCW.
- “Founder of breastfeeding support charity quits in row over trans women” – One of the founders of the world’s oldest breastfeeding support charity has quit in protest at its inclusion of transgender women, reports the Mail.
- “‘We must foster tolerance on toxic University campuses’” – Even in Stalin’s Russia, the rush to judgment was less ruthless and immediate than in today’s British universities, says Prof. Frank Furedi in the Mail.
- “The sexual encounter that led to Oxford student Alex being cancelled” – In the Mail, David Wilkes reveals how a brief sexual encounter and campus cancel culture drove Oxford student Alexander Rogers to suicide.
- “Alexander Rogers wasn’t just ‘cancelled’ – he was bullied to death” – The kind of “shadow justice” that has flourished, unchallenged, at our universities has cost a bright, talented young man his life, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “How Oxbridge’s ‘self-appointed morality crusades’ took cancel culture too far” – Alexander Rogers took his own life after being shunned by his peers – his death highlights the dangers of ‘righteous’ censorship, say Rosa Silverman and Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
- “‘I was sacked after making a stand on pronouns and left with a bill’” – A council worker hit with a £12,000 legal bill following a tribunal battle over preferred pronouns says he has “no regrets”, according to the Mail.
- “Wicked dolls lead children to porn website” – Toy maker Mattel has apologised after inadvertently printing the address of a porn company on the packaging of kids’ dolls modelled after characters from Wicked, a new family film adapted from the Broadway musical, reports the Times.
- “Gary Lineker ‘will quit’ Match of the Day at the end of the season” – Gary Lineker will stop presenting Match of the Day at the end of the season after 26 years, the BBC appear to have confirmed – amid claims of frayed relations with his boss, says the Mail.
- “Gary Lineker became a problem for the BBC by growing bigger than football” – Lineker will leave Match of the Day after a quarter of a century, after which the Corporation can find a presenter who sticks to the football, writes Alan Tyers in the Telegraph.
- “‘Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system’” – On X, Trump outlines his plan to take on the woke thought police in U.S. universities by seizing funds from colleges that refuse to comply with a new accreditation system.
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