News Round-Up

• “Far-Right and Muslims clash in fresh riots” – Violent clashes have broken out between white protestors and Muslim counter-protesters in a sixth day of unrest on Britain’s streets, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police commissioner blames illegal immigration for riots” – A policing chief has suggested that “mass uncontrolled immigration” is one of the reasons behind rioting which has spread across the U.K., according to the Telegraph.
• “SNP calls for vigilantes to defend Glasgow’s streets from far-Right ‘thugs’ if riots reach city” – Senior SNP officials have been accused of undermining police after they called for pro-independence vigilantes to confront far-Right “thugs” in Glasgow, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s honeymoon period over as approval rating plummets” – Keir Starmer’s honeymoon period in Downing Street appears to be over after his approval rating plummeted by 16 points in a fortnight, says the Telegraph.
• “New crime of Islamophobia in wake of riots ‘would threaten free speech’” – MPs have warned that making Islamophobia a new crime in response to the rioting would threaten free speech, reports the Telegraph.
• “When is violence ‘mindless’ and when is it not? ” – On Substack, Paul Sutton calls out political double standards in the handling of the riots.
• “Is Britain falling apart?” – As in 1974, a hopeless Tory government has been replaced and the new one is already out of ideas, says Ed West in the Spectator.
• “Keir Starmer accused of worsening antisemitism after Israel arms embargo plans exposed” – Jewish Labour members say that the Prime Minister’s stance towards Israel is resulting in “domestic fallout” for British Jews and he has “failed to acknowledge” how antisemitism has become “normalised” in the U.K., according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s naivety is now a danger to Britain” – The Government appears more concerned with mollifying the anti-Israel Left than taking a hard line on Iran, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Labour drops Tory plans to cut Civil Service numbers” – The Government has quietly scrapped the last government’s plans to cut 66,000 Civil Service jobs, according to the Telegraph.
• “Brexit and democracy are now directly endangered by a cabal of arch Remainers” – In the Telegraph, Bill Cash warns that Starmer’s Government cannot be trusted on Brexit after the European Scrutiny Committee, which he used to chair, was abolished on the last day before the summer recess.
• “Do universities need a free speech law? The cases for and against” – A Tory Act designed to fight cancel culture on campus has been ditched. In the Sunday Times, Kathleen Stock, who quit her university job after protests, argues in favour of the Act while Sami Berkoff of the Union of Jewish Students claims it would have endangered minorities.
• “Labour’s plan to silence Britain” – Toby returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss Labour’s cancellation of the Free Speech Act, Keir Starmer’s hostility to the press and the new hate-speech laws coming down the track.
• “Vaccine cheerleader calls for deploying police and military to beat back ‘anti-vaccine aggression’” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker covers MSNBC’s favourite pandemic expert Dr. Peter Hotez and his recent comments calling for military action to combat “anti-vaccine aggression”.
• “The risk of ‘loaning’ the Elgin Marbles to Greece” – The argument that the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece because they represent “the essence of Greekness” is nonsense, says Nigel Biggar in the Spectator.
• “U.K.’s Horniman Museum Benin repatriation re-examined” – In Cultural Property News, researcher Mike Wells reviews Nick Merriman’s Returning the Benin Bronzes: A Case Study of the Horniman’s Restitution.
• “Police in Baden-Württemburg break up a perfectly legal private political meeting and ban Martin Sellner from an entire town in this, the best and most democratic Germany of all time” – On Substack, Eugyppius discussess the recent suppression of author Martin Sellner in Germany and what it ominously portends for the future.
• “Why Ed Miliband’s Net Zero idealism is about to hit cold, political reality” – It wouldn’t take much to derail Labour’s resurgence in Scotland, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph. Miliband’s wanton destruction of Scotland’s oil and gas industry might just do it.
• “Polar bear ‘boom’ reported in East and Southwest Greenland comes with the usual problems” – Recent reports of a polar bear surge in Greenland have been linked to an over-abundance of sea ice, according to Polar Bear Science.
• “Flight shamers are stifling human progress, says boss of Concorde successor” – The founder of the company seeking to build a successor to Concorde has hit back at “flight shaming” activists who are demanding an end to mass air travel, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour backs Greens’ call to end ‘emotionally harmful’ Edinburgh Tattoo flypasts” – The Edinburgh Military Tattoo flypasts have come under attack over claims they cause environmental damage and inflict “emotional harm” on residents, writes Daniel Sanderson in the Telegraph.
• “Defeated Bulgarian fighter ‘makes female chromosomes gesture’” – A fresh Olympics gender boxing row has erupted after a defeated female Bulgarian fighter made a ‘female chromosomes gesture’ in the ring following a loss to a biological male at the Paris Games, reports the Mail.
• “Transgender civil servant wearing ‘fetish gear’ sparks Whitehall row” – A Whitehall spat has broken out over whether employees can wear “fetish gear” following complaints about a transgender civil servant, according to the Mail on Sunday.
• “The hills we choose to die on: an interview with women’s rights activist Graham Linehan” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett sits down with Graham Linehan to discuss why he chose women’s rights as his hill to die on.
• “Well said, that man” – On GB News, Sunil Sharma of Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth offers a sensible analysis of the causes and solutions to the ongoing riots in the U.K.

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