News Round-Up

• “Kemi Badenoch announces she is standing for Conservative leadership” – Kemi Badenoch has thrown her hat into the ring for the Tory leadership with a promise to trigger a “renewal for capitalism”, reports the Mail.
• “‘People won’t vote for us if we don’t know what we want to be’” – The Conservatives must rebuild their party from top to bottom, says Kemi Badenoch in the Times.
• “‘I’ve been branded mad, bad and dangerous by my own party – so I will not lead it’” – “Our failures on migration, taxes and trans ideology cost us at the election, but my fellow party members refuse to face up to them,” says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph, announcing she won’t be standing for Tory leader.
• “Tommy Robinson ‘arrested under anti-terror laws’” – Tommy Robinson has been arrested under s5 of the Terrorism Act, according to his supporters, after a protest at which a film was allegedly screened in contempt of court, reports the Standard.
• “Male victim of October 7th describes horrific gang rape by Hamas” – A man who was held down and gang raped by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival has told the MailOnline that he was used as their “doll” where they did whatever they wanted to him.
• “Church of England bishop calls Israel an apartheid state” – The female Bishop of Gloucester has angered Jewish groups by publicly calling Israel an apartheid state, reports the Telegraph.
• “Schooled in propaganda” – Why has the U.K. Government reinstated funding to UNRWA? asks Laura Dodsworth on her Free Mind substack.
• “Will we learn anything from the Harehills riot?” – Britain is long overdue a reckoning with multiculturalism, says William Clouston in Spiked.
• “Video of Paris 2024 opening ceremony ‘deleted from Olympics account’” – The official video of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony appears to have been deleted from the Olympics account as viewers’ backlash grows, reports the Mail.
• “Not even France can escape the West’s cultural decay” – Our civilisation is surely doomed when the best Paris can offer is a parody of The Last Supper, featuring an overweight lesbian as Jesus Christ, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “BBC brings in new guidelines on how not to abuse ‘celebrity status’” – BBC staff have been handed guidelines about how to report “potential grooming” and “rumours or evidence of a potential relationship involving an imbalance of power” in the wake of the Huw Edwards scandal, reports the Mail.
• “Kamala Harris is the Meghan Markle of American politics” – The similarities between the Vice President and the Duchess of Sussex are truly uncanny, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Kamala’s Ministry of Truth” – The Democrats’ memory-holing of the Vice-President’s record reveals their contempt for democracy, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “‘White Dudes for Harris’ hold mass online meeting to support Kamala” – A group calling itself “White Dudes for Harris” will hold a mass video call to support the Presidential hopeful’s campaign and end the “culture of masculinity”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Can Kamala’s knitting-obsessed, topless-modelling stepdaughter help her to the Presidency?” – The Telegraph’s Susie Coen profiles Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter and examines her potential impact on the upcoming Presidential election.
• “How Dems staged coup after coup – skirting democracy to hold power” – In the NY Post, Victor Davis Hanson delves into the Democratic Party’s rich history of palace coups.
• “Trump might regret picking J.D. Vance” – Running with another white male who speaks fluent Rust Belt doesn’t give Trump an edge against Kamala, says Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
• “Justin Trudeau’s ruinous agenda” – Canada is disintegrating under the weight of its Prime Minister’s far-Left ideology, writes Michael Bonner in City Journal.
• “Just Stop Oil activists ‘waltzing’ round their jail cells to music” – Two Just Stop Oil activists jailed for disrupting thousands of motorists after they scaled a gantry on the M25 say they have been “waltzing” around their prison cell to music, reports the Mail.
• “Janet Yellen calls for $78,000,000,000,000 to tackle climate change” – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced that the global shift to a low-carbon economy will require $78 trillion in financing by 2050, according to the Daily Caller. Is that all?
• “Whatever happened to ‘women’s liberation’?” – The free-thinking brilliance of the early women’s movement has given way to timid conformism, says Elroy Rosenberg in Spiked.
• “Adverb English” – Why do young people talk almost exclusively in adverbs? asks Christopher Gage on his Oxford Sour Substack.
• “Girling the Boy Scouts” – With the final erasure of “boy” from Boy Scouts of America, the progressive war on American institutions notches up another victory, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
• “Majority of Brits no longer own a home phone” – It could be the end of an era for the landline as data suggests the majority of Brits no longer own a home phone, reports the Mail. 
• “‘Chatbot romances could be the norm for the next generation’” – In the Telegraph, Guy Kelly interviews philosopher and author Nick Bostrom, who has, in recent years, become something of a prophet in the field of AI.
• “Singer Morrissey calls out Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Dr Fauci” – During a recent performance in Las Vegas, Morrissey sang about ‘criminals’ while pointing to images of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci displayed on a screen.

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