- “Starmer skips grooming gangs vote in latest sign Government wavering on inquiry” – Keir Starmer and members of his Cabinet failed to vote on an amendment calling for the Government to set up a national inquiry into rape gangs, despite ordering his MPs to vote against it, reports the Independent.
- “Andy Burnham says there should be national inquiry into grooming gangs” – Labour’s stance on a national inquiry into rape gangs has descended into chaos after Andy Burnham insisted that there should be one, says the Mail.
- “Grooming gangs survivor urges Government to launch national inquiry” – A grooming gang survivor has called for a national inquiry and demanded action from Keir Starmer in an interview on the Telegraph’s Daily T podcast.
- “What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims” – If our politicians could finally imprison, punish, deport and expel, we might just stop being the laughing stock of America, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “MPs must discuss rape gangs’ ethnicity, says whistleblower’s aide” – A former aide to Ann Cryer, the MP who raised the alarm about grooming gangs in 2002, says that the “vacuum” left by politicians not talking about the attackers’ ethnicity has been filled by Elon Musk, according to the Times.
- “How Rotherham bosses have reinvented themselves since grooming scandal” – Rotherham council bosses who were criticised in the fallout from the rape gangs scandal now hold positions as government advisers and executive coaches, reveals the Times.
- “‘Who’ll join my war against liberalism?’” – We do not need a public inquiry to inform us that we have been consistently lied to for decades, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator. What we need is an implacable determination to identify the liars and remove them from office.
- “The ultimate immigration taboo has just been broken” – It is time to admit that, indeed, not all cultures are equally valid, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk tweets probed by counter-extremism unit amid fears over risk to U.K.” – The Government’s counter-extremism unit has been assessing the risk posed to Britain by tweets shared by Musk in recent weeks, reports the Mirror.
- “Reeves flies to China as U.K. braces for further market turmoil” – Rachel Reeves was accused of having “fled to China” rather than explain how she will help the U.K.’s “flatlining” economy after borrowing costs hit a 27-year high, says the Standard.
- “Labour Britain is the new ‘PIGS’ of the global markets” – The U.K. has carelessly exposed itself as the weakest link in the G7 at a perilous moment, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Britain should scrap Chagos Islands deal, former Navy chief says” – The former head of the Navy says that the deal to give sovereignty over a vital military base to Mauritius is “irresponsible”, according to the Times.
- “Time is running out to heal the scars of ‘Boriswave’” – A wave of low-skilled migration is about to become eligible for indefinite leave to remain – and crush the public finances, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Downing Street ‘considering candidates to replace Tulip Siddiq’” – Senior allies of Keir Starmer are considering candidates to replace Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq if she is forced to quit over links to her aunt’s ousted Bangladeshi regime, reports the Times.
- “Truss sends Starmer cease and desist letter over claim she ‘crashed the economy’” – Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer, threatening him with a defamation suit if he doesn’t claiming she crashed the economy, says BBC News.
- “Starmer’s rule has barely begun and already we’re on the verge of blackouts” – Power cuts or a run on sterling? Myriad disasters could destroy Keir. But who will pick up the pieces? wonders David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “How does Keir Starmer sleep at night?” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson paints Keir Starmer as a conscienceless opportunist.
- “Keir Starmer, school harmer” – This government is seeking to destroy the policies that have given children the best education possible, writes Michael Gove in the Spectator.
- “Huge mistake to weaken academies in schools bill, warns Labour MP” – A Labour grandee has blasted her party’s attempts to overhaul the school system, accusing ministers of prioritising political wrangling over children’s welfare, reports the Times.
- “Dr. Magnus Jones at PAU!” – On Substack, Alain Wolf lampoons academic bureaucracy, following Dr. Magnus Jones as he clashes with Paine Anglia University’s obsession with acronyms.
- “Net Zero is driving up energy prices, admits Bank of England official” – The Bank of England’s Deputy Governor says that households and businesses are paying more for energy because of so-called carbon permits, which require power plants to pay for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit, according to the Telegraph.
- “Fake it until you break it” – On Substack, David Turver slams the delusional energy elites, showing how their reckless reliance on unreliable wind power almost plunged us into blackout chaos on Wednesday.
- “The case against a ‘climate emergency’” – Scary climate predictions are made by the same kind of computer models that brought us the Covid hysteria, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “The truth about the LA wildfires ” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark reveals that Hollywood’s wildfire drama is fuelled more by suburban sprawl and disrupted natural fire cycles than climate change.
- “Farewell Justin Trudeau, the last of the lockdown tyrants” – In the Spectator, Toby Young says that the Canadian PM’s departure is due to the collapsing authority of the global technocratic elite.
- “The MHRA papers – part six” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan expose how the Expert Working Group scrambled to manage Dr. Mike Yeadon’s vaccine comments while secretly discussing the Comirnaty vaccine’s troubling spread.
- “U.S. health chiefs admit jab is bad for under-fours – but keep on pushing it” – In TCW, Sally Beck reveals U.S. health chiefs still push Pfizer’s Covid jab for under-fours, despite data showing it raises infection risk.
- “How Moderna hid the death of a child in a Covid vaccine clinical trial – even as it seemed to disclose the trial’s results” – On Substack, Alex Berenson reveals how Moderna buried the death of a child in its KidCOVE trial, selectively publishing data to keep the truth hidden and protect its vaccine’s image.
- “Italian journalist, 29, is freed after spending weeks in Iranian jail” – An Italian journalist left to languish in an Iranian prison for three weeks has returned home amid speculation she was released in exchange for an Iranian engineer held in Italy and accused of terrorism, reports the Mail.
- “We are not Nazis, AfD leader tells Musk” – Elon Musk has urged German voters to get behind Alternative for Germany in next month’s national election during a broadcast with the party’s leader, says the Telegraph.
- “SNP Government could boycott Twitter, FM warns” – The Spectator’s Steerpike reacts to hints from SNP’s John Swinney that they might quit Twitter over Musk’s antics.
- “Left-wing economists were wildly wrong about Javier Milei and his libertarian agenda for Argentina” – On his International Liberty blog, Dan Mitchell highlights how Left-wing economists, including Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, predicted economic ruin under Javier Milei’s libertarian policies in Argentina, only to be proven wrong.
- “Leading journalist calls Zuckerberg’s free speech announcement ‘an invitation to genocide’, EU parliamentarians petition for actions to mitigate the ‘systemic risk’ of Elon Musk and other lunacies” – Germany in particular and the EU in general are losing their minds about American social media and it isn’t funny anymore, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “It’s OK to say trans people are mentally ill, says Facebook” – Facebook will allow users to say trans and gay users are “mentally ill” as Mark Zuckerberg rewrites his social media empire’s moderation rules, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tyranny of woke censorship is finally over – and it’s all thanks to Donald Trump” – Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to ‘restore’ free speech on social media is a bid to please the President-elect, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “How claims of Left-wing bias threaten to crush the fact-checking machine” – Social media’s “arbiters of truth” face an uncertain future, writes James Warrington in the Telegraph.
- “Zuck amok?” – Zuckerberg’s move to ditch biased third-party “fact-checkers” is a final blow to an industry that has long served as a paid mouthpiece for the powerful, says CheckMate on Substack.
- “Don’t mourn the fact-checkers” – Misguided decisions and the superiority of crowdsourcing mean Zuckerberg was right to change direction. But he must also keep Trump at arm’s length, warns Jacob Mchangama on the Persuasion Substack.
- “‘It’s always the ‘we know best’ attitude that is the problem’” – Addressing the Lords, Jon Moynihan warns that the coming years of Labour government will be one long, failed experiment in ’industrial strategy’.
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