- “Flatlining growth risks another Reeves tax raid, says IFS chief” – Rachel Reeves faces the prospect of a fresh tax raid next year as a growth downgrade leaves Britain teetering on the edge of recession, reports the Sun.
- “Treasury admits it didn’t do basic costings for inheritance tax hike as CBI slams Reeves and recession fears rise” – The Treasury is under fire for seemingly copying its inheritance tax figures from a far-Left report, with the Government slammed for dodging expert consultation and failing to provide basic revenue breakdowns, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Jeremy Clarkson reveals staggering costs of keeping his pub running” – Jeremy Clarkson has revealed the swingeing costs involved in keeping his Farmer’s Dog pub open, blaming “Starmer’s Britain” for pushing up prices, reports the Mail.
- “More than half of winter fuel payment claims rejected” – Since Rachel Reeves’s winter fuel changes, over half of pension credit claims have been rejected, leaving thousands of pensioners without heating this winter, says the Sun.
- “Labour split over Mandelson plan to work with Farage to woo Trump” – Labour is split over Lord Mandelson’s plan to work with Nigel Farage to woo Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “The EU can detect weakness in its dealings with Keir Starmer” – The EU senses that Labour is not very united, and that Starmer’s administration is weak, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Labour is on a quest to erase anything uniquely British” – Silicon Valley is discovering just how big a pushover Starmer really is, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph, with a focus on Labour’s proposed reform of copyright laws.
- “Non-crime hate incidents surge in half of police forces despite government crackdown” – The number of non-crime hate incidents recorded by police has surged in half of Britain’s forces despite attempts by the Government to crackdown on the practice, reports the Telegraph.
- “Blasphemy work on hold despite rise in extremism reports” – The government has shelved work surrounding the issue of blasphemy in Britain at the same time as warnings over extremism are on the rise, according to the Times.
- “Counter-protester who threatened Tommy Robinson and the EDL during riots while holding ‘fake AK-47’ is jailed for 27 months” – A counter-protestor who appeared in a social media video holding a decommissioned AK-47 assault rifle and making threats has been jailed for 27 months, repots the Mail.
- “Reform U.K. set to have more members than Tories within a month” – Reform U.K. hopes to surge past the Tories in membership numbers within a month after publishing figures showing they are only around 11,000 members short, says the Express.
- “Musk would be trying to ‘buy U.K. politics’ with Reform donation, Kemi Badenoch suggests” – Kemi Badenoch says that Elon Musk would be trying to “buy” British politics if he made a multi-million pound donation to Reform, according to GB News.
- “Voters will tell Musk where to put his $100 million” – If Nigel Farage’s party is in hock to a foreign billionaire, Reform will lose all credibility as the people’s champion, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Funding for troops falls by £500m in past five years” – Funding for British troops has plunged by £500 million in real terms over the past five years, analysis shows, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS neurologist who called Hamas leader a ‘legend’ is suspended” – A doctor who praised Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a “legend” has been suspended by the General Medical Council after Jewish News revealed a stream of unhinged antisemitic posts and conspiracy theories on her social media account.
- “BBC’s ‘appalling and sloppy’ reporting caused illegal abortion trial to collapse” – A judge has said that the BBC’s “appalling and sloppy” reporting caused the high-profile trial of a woman accused of illegally aborting her baby to collapse, reports the Express.
- “Guardian axes journalist who claimed Brexit supporter had Russia links” – Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr has had her contract cancelled by the Guardian following the Sunday newspaper’s controversial sale to Tortoise Media, says the Telegraph.
- “Net zero ‘crisis’ prompts £42 billion merger talks between Honda and Nissan” – Honda and Nissan have opened talks to merge as the two Japanese carmakers confront a crisis caused by the shift to electric vehicles, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mass immigration is killing Europe – and the political class just don’t care” – In the Telegraph, Douglas Murray sounds the alarm again on Europe’s immigration crisis, with leaders ignoring the looming cultural and security collapse.
- “Illegal migrant who set woman on fire on subway was deported under Trump but snuck back in” – A 33 year-old man who set a stranger on fire at a New York City subway station was in the U.S. illegally from Guatemala, according to the Mail.
- “The crisis gripping France’s Le Monde newspaper” – The glory days of Le Monde are gone, replaced by a paper that appears more concerned with parroting the ideological consensus, writes James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
- “Former Mossad agents reveal secrets of 10-year exploding pager operation” – In an interview with CBS News, two former Mossad agents describe how Israeli spies spent 10 years on an operation to hide bombs in walkie-talkies and pagers before detonating them earlier this year.
- “Matt Gaetz paid underage girl $400 for sex, U.S. ethics report finds” – According to a House of Representatives report, Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman whom Donald Trump nominated as his attorney general, violated Florida laws by paying a 17 year-old girl $400 for sex, reports USA Today.
- “Baric referenced a 2017 molecular blueprint for COVID-19” – On Substack, Jim Haslam uncovers how Dr. Andreas Martin Lisewski’s breakthrough research links SARS-CoV-2’s unique spike protein to a 2017 MERS clone, suggesting a lab-based origin rather than natural evolution.
- “J.K. Rowling leads feminist backlash against Sturgeon for ‘rewriting history’ over gender self-ID row” – J.K. Rowling has slammed Nicola Sturgeon for inventing a scapegoat to deflect public backlash over her gender self-ID law, according to the Express.
- “Of Mice and Men: classic U.S. novel taken off GCSE course in Wales” – The classic American novel Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales from next September amid concerns about racism and the use of racial slurs, says the BBC.
- “Cadbury’s loses royal warrant for the first time in 170 years” – For the first time in 170 years, Cadbury’s, a favourite of the late Queen, has lost its royal warrant, joining 100 other companies excluded from the prestigious list last week, reports the BBC.
- “Christmas quiz 2024” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan invites readers to decipher AI’s delightfully deranged attempts to reimagine MPs.
- “President Trump announces immediate withdrawal from WHO” – President Trump declares that the United States will immediately withdraw from the WHO, calling it a “corrupt globalist scam” dominated by the Chinese Communist Party and global elites like Bill Gates.
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