News Round-up

Thursday 6th of February, 2025.

• Following Trump, Argentina withdraws from World Health Organization Milie following Trump out of WHO reports Al Jazeera.
• Argentina to Withdraw From the WHO Will jones covers Argentina and WHO too, at the Daily Sceptic.
• New Zealand unemployment rises to 5.1 percent, highest since 2020 and Chris Lynch has the coverage.
• DON BRASH and MICHAEL REDDELL: By 2025 we were supposed to have closed the gap Done and Michael on NZ's woeful productivity, and the inability of successive governments to address it.
• Met Police REJECTS demands for investigation into Starmer ‘breaking Covid rules’ by meeting voice coach James Saunders at GBNews on selective enforcement and yet more two-tier policing in the UK.
• Prince Harry US visa bombshell as judge hints at unsealing documents Hanisha Sethi opines in The Express on the potential for Trump to deport Prince Harry.
• François Bayrou désamorce le piège budgétaire et s’imagine déjà un avenir Frech Prime Minster survives no confidence reports Loris Boichot and Tristan Quinault-Maupoil in Le Figaro.
• Rayner postpones local elections for millions in blow to surging Reform Deputy UK PM suspends local democracy in the UK, outraging Nigel Farage and Reform. Coverage from Daniel Martin and Dominic Penna in The Telegraph.
• Waitangi Day 2025 Dr. Muriel Newman reflects on New Zealand's national day of discontent at NZCPR.
• Maori Party Madness Dr. Michael Bassett reflects on the threat to democracy of the far-left Apartheid extremists at NZCPR.
• Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation Redhat employee Christian F.K. Schaller blogs on the integration of AI into the core of Redhat's offerings, including Fedora.
• ‘I had to take on the party machine’ Australian Liberals MP writes in Spiked on her fight for biological realism within the party machinery.
• Is the horror of child transitioning finally coming to an end? asks Andrew Doyle in Spiked.
• Badenoch must go demands an anonymous senior source within the Conservative party The Critic.
• German Political Crisis Deepens as Suddenly No Party Wants to Govern with Anybody Else as the cordon sanitaire evaporates across Europe and within German, Eugyppius covers the inability of German political parties to form a governing coalition in the Daily Sceptic.
• Police Force Accused of Risking Safety of Man who Burnt Quran by Publishing His Personal Details on Social Media Will Jones on the police reactions to a Quran burning in Manchester at the Daily Sceptic.
• Britain’s illiberal, two-tier justice system is now impossible to deny Poppy Coburn covers the Quran burning for The Telegraph.
• Why Does George Soros Want Britain to Rejoin the EU? Charlotte Gill on the type of billionaire 'interference' the Establishment doesn't disapprove of at the Daily Sceptic.
• Keir Starmer has broken the special relationship Nile Gardener on US enthusiasm for Brexit in The Telegraph.
• Purge begins as DOGE enters FBI to obtain names of 5,000 agents who worked January 6 cases and face firing Geoff Earle on Musk and Trump's scorching of the US civil service in the Daily Mail.
• ‘LGBT’ is over – whether the BBC likes it or not Michael Deacon discussed divorce from the T in the rainbow community at The Telegraph.
• Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules Google quietly removes the self-imposed restriction on supply AI tech for warfare, says Jessica Lyons in The Register.
• Europe can kiss the future goodbye. The bloc is trapped in a neoliberal prison writes Thomas Fazi in Unherd.