News Round-up

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic

“Keir Starmer accused of snubbing grooming gangs scandal whistleblower” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of snubbing Jayne Senior, the whistleblower responsible for exposing a major grooming gang in Rotherham, the Mail reports. Senior resigned as a Labour councillor the following year saying that she had been “the subject of ceaseless harassment and intimidation”.
“How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up” – The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society, say Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters in the Telegraph.
“The real reason Labour refuses to order an inquiry into grooming gangs” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges wonders what would be the reaction of the political establishment if the Rochdale grooming gangs had been white paedophiles preying on black and Asian children.
“There must be a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal” – Addressing the rape gang travesty deserves the full attention of the state, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
“We need more than an inquiry to end the gruesome injustice of grooming gangs” – In the Telegraph, Guy Dampier suggests some concrete steps that could be taken to address the enormity of the crimes committed over decades and the official negligence and complicity that enabled them.
“Keir Starmer’s role in grooming gangs scandal should be investigated, says Farage” – Keir Starmer’s alleged role in failing to tackle grooming and rape gangs who targeted thousands of young girls must be part of any public inquiry into the scandal, Nigel Farage has said, according to the Telegraph.
“The Rotherham cover-up” – Why did so many turn a blind eye, asks Louise Perry in the Spectator.
“When will Keir Starmer realise how unpopular he is?” – While the Commons arithmetic says Keir Starmer is Tony Blair without the charisma, popular reservoirs of support are already depleted, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
“Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics” – Other prime ministers seem to have had a little more skill in turning their holidays into PR triumphs rather than disasters, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
“Keir Starmer urged to scrap controversial Islamophobia definition in wake of grooming gangs scandal” – In the wake of the grooming and rape gangs scandal, Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to shelve plans for an official government definition of Islamophobia that critics say would curtail free speech and make it harder for whistleblowers to point out wrongdoing, reports the Telegraph.
“Labour’s wretched incompetence may be the key to Britain’s salvation” – Only a total breakdown of the old Blairite order will wake our complacent politicians, says Jon Moynihan in the Telegraph.
“Labour giving the vote to five million more immigrants would be a gift to Nigel Farage” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon says the latest leftist plan to give foreign UK residents the vote will backfire on Labour if the party goes through with it.
“Reform just six points off becoming biggest party, says election predictor” – Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is just six points away from becoming the biggest party in parliament, an election predictor from Electoral Calculus has found, reports the Telegraph.
“Labour accused of misleading public over private school tax” – Billions of pounds raised from Labour’s private school raid will not be ringfenced to improve state schools, despite Rachel Reeves’s promises it would, says the Telegraph.
“Labour is about to destroy schools like it ruined universities” – Now nobody is safe from sinister, loony left identitarianism, not even children, says the Telegraph’s Zoe Strimpel.
“Revealed: Tulip Siddiq, her ‘despot’ aunt and another freebie property” – Labour MP and anti-corruption Minister Tulip Siddiq spent several years living in a Hampstead flat gifted to her family by an ally of Sheikh Hasina, the deposed Bangladeshi ruler, reports the Times.
“A young child died of cardiac arrest after being jabbed during Moderna’s key Covid vaccine trial” – Moderna has not reported the death of a young child during its booster trial to a public trial registry or published results that show the death, effectively hiding it for years, says Alex Berenson on Substack. What did the FDA know and did it respond? The agency won’t say.
“Welcome to the year of the ‘Quad-demic’” – Attempts by our public health masters to terrify us into submission with the latest ‘demic’ are just that: attempts to terrify us, says Roger Watson in TCW.
“Biden gives a Medal to Moderna and Pfizer – 10 reasons that was a bad idea” – The incestuous relationship between politics and Pharma continues, says Dr Vinay Prasad on Substack, with President Biden this week awarding the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Moderna and Pfizer.
“Net Zero fines ‘set to drive up price of petrol cars’” – The auto industry has warned that it is poised to raise prices to pay for steep discounts on electric vehicles, reports the Telegraph.
“Net Zero ‘flight tax’ will raise cost of holidays” – A new Net Zero ‘flight tax’ on airlines risks adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of family holidays, the Government’s own analysis shows, according to the Telegraph.
“The price of Net Zero is now too high to bear” – Time and time again, we find the state adopting an approach that wilfully destroys value in the name of environmental progress, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
“Asylum seekers ‘drain money from Dutch state for generations’” – A study has found that asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands become a burden on the state for generations, bolstering arguments that failure to curb migration puts pressure on public services, the Telegraph reports.
“The News Agents podcast maker struck by mounting losses” – The losses of Global Media and Entertainment – the company behind the New Agents podcast – have hit £1.3 billion, says the Telegraph.
“The young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity” – Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the ‘masculine’ Christian religion through online influencers, with new parishes planned across US to accommodate the ‘tsunami’ of men who have converted since the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
“Elon Musk, undeterred by days of German political hyperventilation, continues to promote fascism and undermine democracy by tweeting things and scheduling interviews with people” – For days, the German establishment has been in an absolute uproar over Elon Musk’s, er, words, says Eugyppius on the Plague Chronicle Substack.
“Why Britain could face ‘Babygeddon’: Experts’ warning over birth rates” – Britain is running out of babies, and this is predicted to lead to catastrophes, including the collapse of the NHS and pension system, and the atrophy of education, writes Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
“Coups Do Not Wrap Up for Dinner” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley contrasts the January 6th riot to an actual coup.
“Bill Maher, an ‘Old-Fashioned Liberal’ Scourge of the Woke” – The comedian thinks the far left isn’t “nearly as crazy as the crazies on the right” – but these days he focuses as much fire on the former, says Tunku Varadarajan in the Wall Street Journal.
“Starmer’s Britain is like North Korea if it was run by David Brent” – On The Brendan O’Neill Show, Toby suggests Starmer’s Britain most resembles a cross between North Korea and The Office.