News Round-Up

• “Coronation for Harris as rivals step aside” – Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Donald Trump, according to an AP survey.
• “Kamala Harris descended from a ‘notorious’ slave owner, historian says” – A British historian claims that Kamala Harris is descended from an owner of more than 120 slaves who ran a Jamaican plantation and fought against the abolition of slavery, reports the Mail.
• “Kamala Harris more popular than Donald Trump, new poll shows” – Kamala Harris has opened up a marginal two-point lead over Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
• “Kamala Harris ‘lacks star power’ say British officials who worked with her” – According to the British people who’ve worked with her, Kamala Harris is “underwhelming” and lacks “star power”, says the Telegraph.
• “Calamity Joe” – The Democrats are turning this race into a self-inflicted defeat, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Brandon has gone” – On Substack, Dr. Hugh Willbourn gives his take on the Joe Biden saga.
• “The curious case of the missing President” – Where is Biden and when will he address the country? wonders Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
• “Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle ‘resigns’” – Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has dramatically announced her resignation in the wake of the colossal security failures that led to Donald Trump being shot, reports the Mail.
• “After Biden, the deluge” – When Biden was bad, he was bad. But with Kamala Harris waiting in the wings, we may miss the old man when he’s gone, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
• “The era of the noble lie” – Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example, writes Bari Weiss in the Free Press.
• “Starmer suspends seven Labour MPs over child benefit rebellion” – Seven Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, reports the BBC.
• “Nigel Farage warns sectarian voting in England is ‘very dangerous’” – Sectarian voting in England is “very dangerous”, Nigel Farage has warned after a General Election in which pro-Palestinian MPs effectively became the sixth-largest party, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farage in diversity stand-off with Commons bosses” – Nigel Farage seems to be showing as much interest in the Commons’s inclusion and diversity training as in joining the ‘Rejoin the EU’ movement, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “James Cleverly confirms Tory leadership bid” – The former Home Secretary is the first candidate out of the traps in the forthcoming Conservative leadership contest, with the other candidates due to declare later today, says the Times.
• “Meet ‘high-carbon’ Coban, named as Sadiq Khan’s eco chief” – A 32 year-old Labour councillor has been appointed Sadiq Khan’s climate tsar, despite concerns about his flying habits, reports the Times.
• “The stars you won’t see on BBC earnings list” – Claudia Winkleman, Michael McIntyre, Graham Norton and Alex Jones are among the BBC stars who do not appear on the corporation’s annual pay list thanks to a loophole, reports the Mail.
• “Joey Barton calls on Elon Musk as he is charged with alleged crime” – Joey Barton has called on Elon Musk to “step up to the plate” to protect freedom of speech after the former footballer is charged with “malicious communications” towards pundit and former England star Eni Aluko, says the Mail.
• “Ireland’s Sinn Fein toughens immigration stance after election drubbing” – Ireland’s Sinn Féin has toughened its immigration stance after performing poorly in local and European elections, reports Reuters.
• “The Pentagon wants to spend $141 billion on a doomsday machine” – The U.S. Department of Defence wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilisation. Such a weapon, most experts agree, is pointless, writes Matthew Gault in Wired.
• “A brave German soldier imprisoned in 2024 for refusing Covid vaccinations” – On Substack, Igor Chudov salutes Jan Reiners, a Bundeswehr soldier and modern-day hero, who has been imprisoned for several months after refusing Covid vaccinations.
• “Dementia cases hit record of high of nearly half-a-million” – New NHS figures reveal that 487,432 people had a diagnosis of some form of dementia in June, according to the Mail, up 12% on last year.
• “My Soviet A&E ordeal shows there’s no compassion left in the dead-eyed NHS” – We cannot say we live in a ‘civilised’ country when our health service is so broken and so deficient in basic kindness, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, who had a torrid time in A&E recently.
• “GPs threaten to see fewer patients in pay row protest” – GPs will cut the number of appointments they offer each day, under plans to protest over pay, reports the Telegraph. 
• “The degrowth movement is antihuman, and its advocates are fine with that” – The assimilation of degrowth ideas into the mainstream portends dire consequences for economic well-being, warns Lipton Matthews for the Mises Institute.
• “Don’t blame climate change for killing British butterflies” – Clive Aslet in the Telegraph says the disappearance of butterflies has nothing to do with climate change.
• “Mother of JSO activist jailed says she ‘will miss brother’s wedding’” – The mother of a Just Stop Oil activist jailed for disrupting thousands of people by scaling the M25 gantry has complained she “will not be present at her brother’s wedding”, reports the Mail. 
• “Tesla reports 45% profits slump” – Tesla has reported a second consecutive drop in quarterly profits as the world’s biggest electric car maker cut prices in an attempt to boost falling demand, says the Telegraph.
• “Chinese turbines in North Sea ‘threaten security of Europe’” – The CEO of the lobby group WindEurope has warned that security in Europe is at risk as Germany nears a deal for Chinese wind turbines in the North Sea, according to the Express.
• “Offshore wind whale deaths indicated by statistical analysis” – The long-standing conjecture that offshore wind kills whales may be confirmed, says David Wojick for CFACT.
• “New Culture Secretary steps into controversy over trans athletes in women’s sports” – Lisa Nandy supports transwomen athletes, claiming most sporting associations have got the balance right, according to the Telegraph.
• “Transgender athletes win clean sweep at Virginia women’s cycle meet” – Transgender athletes swept the board in a 1-2-3 at a recent prestigious U.S. women’s cycle race, infuriating fans and leaving female competitors in the shade, reports Reduxx.
• “Elon Musk makes bombshell claim about his transgender child” – Elon Musk claims he was “tricked” by the “woke mind virus” into allowing one of his sons to become a trans woman, reports the Mail. 
• “Mattel launches first blind Barbie” – Six decades after the original Barbie hit shelves, Mattel is launching its first blind Barbie doll in an effort to make its range more inclusive, says the Guardian.
• “Communism, why no one actually believes in free speech and doing what works” – Triggernometry’s Konstantin Kisin speaks with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit about his upbringing in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia, his love for Western values and why he thinks they can save the world.
• “Missing person alert!” – An alert has been raised on X to locate the missing President. Reward: Choco chocho chip ice cream.

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