News Round-Up

• “How BBC news reader Huw Edwards was unmasked as a paedo” – Huw Edwards was only exposed as a paedophile after Welsh detectives investigating another sex offender uncovered the BBC’s number in a depraved WhatsApp chat, reveals the MailOnline.
• “BBC admits it knew Huw Edwards had been arrested” – The BBC has admitted it knew that Huw Edwards had been arrested on “suspicion of serious offences” last November, but kept paying his £479,999-a-year salary until he resigned in April, reports the Mail.
• “Objects thrown at riot police in protest outside Downing Street as officers make multiple arrests” – A protest has erupted at the gates of Downing Street in the wake of the fatal stabbing of three children in Southport, according to GB News.
• “Violence erupts in Southport after child killings” – Violent protests broke out in Southport as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police following the deadly knife attack on children attending a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club, reports the Telegraph.
• “Social media companies urged to act on misleading Southport posts” – Government officials have raised concerns with Twitter/X and Meta, the owner of Facebook, over the spread of the false claims about the murder of three children in Southport, says the Telegraph.
• “Protesters throw ‘bricks and metal beam’ at riot police in Hartlepool as hundreds gather in town centre” – A huge protest has broken out in Hartlepool as demonstrators throw bricks and other objects at riot police, says GB News.
• “Southport and the inescapability of politics” – In the Critic, Ben Sixsmith says we need to have an open conversation about immigratin.
• “Iran’s mortification proves that Israel is quietly winning the war” – The name Netanyahu strikes fear into the heart of the Ayatollah once again, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Iran’s Government orders direct attack on Israel in retaliation for killing of Hamas leader in Tehran” – According to Iranian officials, Iran has issued an order to strike Israel directly after Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed, reports GB News.
• “Labour’s socialist education tax will backfire spectacularly” – Parents who can afford to educate their children privately are already doing a great service to the strained state sector, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “It’s nonsense that there’s no room to build in the countryside, says Rayner” – Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says that it is “nonsense” that there is no room for housing in the greenbelt, according to the Telegraph. 
• “Migrants would be paid less benefits than German citizens” – The Christian Democratic Union has proposed that migrants receive fewer benefits than German citizens, advocating for a two-tier system where foreigners who refuse to work face reduced allowances, reports the Mail.
• “No, Ursula, it’s not the Right that will ‘destroy our European way of life‘” – From the EU Parliament to the Leeds riots, a cordon sanitaire aims to silence national conservatives – and the millions of Europeans they represent, writes Mick Hume in the European Conservative.
• “The dark future of free media in Europe” – In a sign of things to come, a French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “Lammy slammed by former U.S. ambassador over calling Trump a ‘neo-Nazi’” – Billionaire businessman Woody Johnson, who served as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the U.K., says Labour will have to work hard to repair relations if Trump wins a second term, according to the Mail.
• “White House calls Trump ‘repulsive’ for Harris ‘black person’ comment” – The White House has slammed Donald Trump for his comments on Kamala Harris’s race, saying his allegation she “became a black person” after first having claimed to be Indian was “repulsive”, reports the Mail.
• “Biden isn’t fooling anyone with his partisan rigging of the Supreme Court” – Proposing reforms for the Supreme Court in the midst of a Presidential election further politicises the administration of justice, says Alan Dershowitz in the Telegraph. 
• “Gavin Newsom has declared war on satire” – A parody of Kamala Harris has inspired the California Governor to launch an outrageous crackdown, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Telling jokes in private can now land you in prison” – We wouldn’t put people in prison for swapping obscene remarks in private, would we? In England, at least, the answer to that question is sadly yes, says Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
• “Ofcom drop Dan Wootton investigation” – After putting Dan Wootton through the wringer, Ofcom has finally dropped its investigation, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “Once more on the awesome, terrifying power of the press, the purpose and function of their fictions and why they can be so effective even when everybody sees through them” – On Substack, eugyppius explores how media propaganda works and why it is so effective.
• “NewsGuard strikes again, threatening free speech” – In the California Globe, Katy Grimes updates on the continued strong-arm tactics of the news rating system NewsGuard against conservative media sites.
• “Austerity may kill Labour’s green superpower ambitions at the first hurdle” – Time is running out for Ed Miliband to find the investment needed for his renewable goals, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “On carbon dioxide” – The demonisation of carbon dioxide can be seen as a political construct which is being used by unscrupulous megalomaniacs to alarm, control and manipulate people for nefarious ends, says Iain Hunter in Free Speech Backlash.
• “Woke Olympics” – The Paris Olympics may be the most diverse and inclusive ever, but they will undoubtedly prove one of the worst in history, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
• “On France’s sordid Olympic spectacle” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple scrutinises the degraded debacle that was the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics.
• “BMA calls for trans teenagers to be prescribed puberty blockers” – The doctors’ trade union has passed motion criticising the Cass Review and called for teenagers to be prescribed puberty blockers, according to the Telegraph.
• “A.I. is Left-wing and biased against conservatives, study confirms” – A new study has found evidence that most AI systems, including Google’s Gemini and X’s Grok, lean to the Left, reports the Mail.
• “The most important speech of the decade?” – Thomas Fazi on his Substack praises a recent foreign policy speech by Viktor Orban about the future of Europe.
• “David Starkey on Labour’s contempt for free speech” – On X, David Starkey reveals that a covert government organisation tracks social media, collects anonymous accusations and builds files on you. And Sue Gray set it up.

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