News Round-Up

• “Mourners gather at vigil for three girls killed in Southport rampage” – Thousands of heartbroken mourners gathered for a vigil to remember the three young girls who were killed in the Southport rampage, reports the Mail. 
• “Moment Sir Keir Starmer is heckled on his visit to Southport” – The Prime Minister was repeatedly asked “how many more children will die?” as he placed flowers at the scene of the Southport knife rampage, says the Mail.
• “In praise of Southport’s heroes” – The extraordinary courage of ‘ordinary’ people should never cease to inspire us, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Huge crowds clash with police in Southport as activists throw bricks” – Rioters chanting “English till I die” have clashed with police outside a mosque in Southport, near to where three girls were killed in a horrific knife rampage, reports the Mail.
• “Southport: the end of the line” – Southport is the end of the line, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative. Let’s hope our politicians break the habit of a lifetime, and start prioritising the safety of the British people. If they do not, things are going to get real ugly very soon.
• “Legislation for the taxation of education – let your MP know what you think” – Labour have put the accelerator down on Corbyn’s education tax, and never mind the collateral damage. Please write to your MP, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
• “Are Labour scared of hearing things they don’t like?” – Like any freedom, freedom of speech has to be defended and maintained, writes Eliot Wilson in CapX.
• “Labour’s radical new maternity leave proposal will do more harm than good” – They may have good intentions, but Labour’s proposed maternity rights, which extend protections from day one, might backfire, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick is the Thatcherite the Tories need” – We need a patriotic party that believes in small business, entrepreneurship and the family, say Lord Bellingham and Lord Murray in CapX.
• “‘Why Robert Jenrick has my support to be Tory leader’” – Not only is Robert Jenrick speaking honestly about Britain’s problems, but he has the courage to act on his views, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch is the straight-talking conservative who will maximise our chances of victory” – After 14 years in government, the Conservative Party needs a leader like Kemi Badenoch who will attract new voters as well as winning back those who have abandoned us, writes Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph.
• “They lie to us, all of us, and nonchalantly admit they lie” – On the OTN Substack, Dr. Raphael Lataster slams the hypocrisy of branding vaccine safety sceptics as conspiracy theorists while the U.S. Government itself ran an anti-vax campaign.
• “How an asylum NGO, Pakistani authorities and the German Foreign Office collaborated to secure German entry visas for literal Pakistani spies” – The visa scandal rocking Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs just gets weirder and weirder, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Can Elon Musk beat the EU censors?” – Brussels’s war on ‘disinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ is an affront to free speech and democracy, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “European politicians reject re-election of Maduro in Venezuela” – MEPs have signed a statement rejecting the results announced by Venezuela’s Electoral Council that officially proclaimed Nicolás Maduro’s re-election as President, reports Brussels Signal.
• “In Venezuela, fighting for freedom ‘until the end’” – Across Venezuela, the people are rising up over a contested election – and tearing down statues of Chávez, says Jonathan Jakubowicz in the Free Press.
• “Kamala Harris reverses liberal positions as Republicans launch attack ads” – The presumptive Democratic nominee appears to have adopted new stances on fracking, border control, healthcare and policing after her previous liberal views were attacked by Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘White Dudes for Harris’? Kamala is the queen of cringe” – The Democratic elites cannot help but racialise everything, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “Illinois’s equity illusions” – When Democrats meet in Chicago next month, they need only venture outside the convention hall to see the dismal results of the progressive agenda, says Paul G. Vallas in City Journal.
• “Google’s election interference?” – Do people search for “president donald duck” so much? Or is Google playing games with us? wonders Igor Chudov on his Substack.
• “Biden’s Supreme Court reforms are unconstitutional” – There’s nothing wrong with Biden’s Supreme Court proposals – beyond, you know, being unconstitutional, says Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
• “Just Stop Oil poster girl who threw soup on Van Gogh painting sprays paint at Heathrow” – Protesters from Just Stop Oil, including an activist awaiting sentencing for throwing soup over a Van Gogh painting, have sprayed orange paint around Heathrow airport, reports the Mail.
• “‘Refineries will shut across Europe as West abandons fossil fuels’” – The boss of oil giant BP says that oil refineries across Europe will be forced to shut as the West abandons fossil fuels in the race to Net Zero, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Ed Miliband needs to scrap Britain’s gas network but experts fear it will cost billions” – Achieving Net Zero by 2050 relies on a shift that risks being as complicated as it is costly, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “How climate catastrophists at NOAA mislead without lying” – In WUWT, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner explains how NOAA’s global warming graph exaggerates temperature changes.
• “Someone could get killed: why are boxers who failed gender tests fighting women at Olympics?” – Why have two boxers, who failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests only last year, been given a free pass by the IOC to face female opponents? asks Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “Darts star forfeits event as she refuses to face another trans player” – British female darts star Deta Hedman has refused to face another transgender opponent after she withdrew from a tournament, reports the Mail.
• “Dear England? Dear God!” – Gareth Southgate made me hate the England team – because I’m English, says Steven Tucker in Taki’s Mag.
• “The real reasons why pornography is wrong” – Pornography is more than just a harmful influence; it fundamentally degrades human values, writes Dr. Frank Palmer in the Free Speech Backlash.
• “Keep crypto free” – Efforts to regulate the crypto industry out of existence – or to create a government-controlled digital currency – are deeply misguided, says Corbin K. Barthold in City Journal.

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