News Round-Up

• “Nationalist youth throw petrol bombs at police in Northern Ireland” – Ten police officers were injured after petrol bombs, fireworks and heavy masonry were thrown during disorder in Londonderry on Saturday night, reports the Standard.
• “Impact of riots plaguing Britain’s streets will last for years” – Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the impact of the recent disorder would be “felt for months and years to come”, according to the Mail. 
• “‘Our country must take pride in itself – only that can bring communities together’” – A confident nation is best placed to welcome newcomers and build a cohesive home for all, writes Michael Nazir-Ali in the Telegraph.
• “The Road From Wigan Pier” – Are the white working class really ‘far-Right’, or just people reacting to the destruction of their way of life? asks Niall McCrae in the New Conservative.
• “The number of children arrested for terror-related offences has surged – here’s why” – The number of minors arrested for terror-related offences has quadrupled in less than two decades, reaching a record high. The Telegraph examines the reasons behind this trend.
• “Masks could be banned at protests in crackdown on balaclava-clad thugs” – Masks could face a ban at protests as authorities crack down on individuals wearing balaclavas who were involved in the recent U.K. riots, reports the Mail.
• “Labour’s definition of Islamophobia could ‘give oxygen to far-Right’, says Muslim campaigner” – The founder of a project that monitors anti-Muslim hatred has warned that outlawing ‘Islamophobia’, as defined by Labour, would “curtail free speech”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Morlocks come out in London” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple explains the chaos and disorder currently reigning in English cities.
• “‘Think before you post’: Britain’s slide into censorship” – Britain’s almost 60-year experiment in hate-speech legislation is a warning to the world, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Elon Musk calls prison sentences for two rioters ‘messed up’” – Elon Musk has described the prison sentences given to two people over the riots as “messed up”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk vs H.M. Government” – “If I was one of the world’s richest men, I’d probably use it to launch my own one-man war against the British Establishment,” says Ed West on his Substack.
• “How Musk went from Democrat donor who preferred to ‘stay out of politics’ to X owner at the centre of global culture wars” – In the Mail, Perkin Amalaraj traces Musk’s transformation from a discreet billionaire to a vocal champion of free speech.
• “Elon Musk ‘dares’ Humza Yousaf to sue him as race row between pair explodes” – Elon Musk has “dared” Humza Yousaf to sue him after the former First Minister threatened legal action over Musk calling him a “super, super racist” on social media, reports the Scottish Express.
• “No.10 in disarray as Keir’s top advisers go to war with Sue Gray” – Downing Street is in disarray after a power struggle broke out between Sue Gray and Keir Starmer’s top adviser, writes the Telegraph’s Nick Gutteridge.
• “Private schools could force foreign students to pay more for tuition” – Private schools could force foreign students to pay more for tuition ahead of Labour’s plan to impose 20% VAT on fees, reports the Mail.
• “‘We’re living a leftist experiment on immigration, gone wrong’” – The quickest and most effective way to destroy the coherence of any society, short of military conquest, is by mass immigration, says Kevin Myers in Gript.
• “Hatred and division in deep England ” – Labour thinks populism is the enemy. But can they even define what it is? asks Jonathan Rutherford in the New Statesman.
• “London ‘not safe’ any more, says Sir Jim Ratcliffe” – The billionaire owner of Manchester United claims Britain’s cities are no longer safe and he no longer wears a watch in the capital for fear of being mugged, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘White Britons will become a minority by 2070′” – According to political commentator Matt Goodwin, it is not racist to be concerned that white Britons will be a minority by 2070, reports GB News.
• “Tesco introduces ‘passports’ for clothes as EU clampdown looms” – Tesco has agreed to provide shoppers with more info about the digital footprint of its clothing range in anticipation of a looming ‘green’ crackdown by the EU, says the Telegraph.
• “The anatomy of ad boycotts: how world’s biggest companies impose censorship” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv explores the collapse of GARM, the advertising cartel that was curbing free speech by discouraging advertising from buying ads on dissident websites.
• “GARM, globalism and geopolitics” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone looks at the big picture through an X/Rumble – GARM dust-up lens.
• “Pirates, dictators and longing for security” – Why do people root for the rebel resistance in movies but crave paternalistic authority in real life? wonders John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
• “The European Vaccine pass involves nine countries, not five. Looks like it will involve all the EU soon” – They say the European Vaccine pass is totally voluntary. Voluntary while the pilot projects are being rolled out, sure. Then what? asks Dr. Meryl Nass on her Substack.
• “Estonian journalist accused of treason over book ‘designed to divide society’” – Estonian journalist Svetlana Burceva has been charged with treason after writing and publishing a book in Russia, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Neighbours back Jonathan Ross NIMBY war over plans to build homes” – Neighbours of Jonathan Ross have joined forces with him to oppose plans to build almost 100 new homes in one of the most picturesque areas of Britain, says the Mail.
• “‘It’s like all of Britain paying London house prices’: the cost of the U.K.’s unified energy market” – The Telegraph’s Matt Oliver explains how Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans risk pushing up bills in the Home Counties.
• “Miliband urged to save mini-nuke site in Cumbria” – Ed Miliband has been urged to intervene in a row over a mini nuclear power plant in Cumbria, amid fears a Government quango is hoarding land needed for the project, according to the Telegraph.
• “Companies should call time on surge pricing – everyone hates it” – The increasingly pervasive ‘surge pricing’ business model needs to be quashed before it becomes entrenched, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Is the Great Barrier Reef really dying?” – Doom-mongering in the world of conservation often fails to tell the whole story, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “French Left-wing leaders hail boxer Imane Khelif after gold medal” – French Left-wing leaders are hailing Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Olympics, for overcoming “fascist criticism”, reports the Mail.
• “How cancel culture destroyed the campus novel” – Fifty years ago, Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue skewered academic life. Today, our campuses are so close to parody that satire is redundant, writes Lindsay Johns in the Telegraph.
• “Tradwife reveals why she’s ditched the U.K.” – A British woman who became famous as one of the U.K.’s first “trad wives” has moved to Australia after the 1950s-inspired movement “became a monster”, reports the Mail.
• “How we stopped eating together – and why it’s so important” – The dining table is the site of laughter, tears, triumph and failure. If we stop gathering there, we’ll lose more than a place for dinner, warns Claire Finney in the Telegraph.
• “America can’t survive ‘bumbling, communist lunatic’” – Donald Trump told a campaign rally audience in Montana that the United States cannot withstand a Kamala Harris Presidency, according to Newsmax.
• “What we should be allowed to do on social media is to speculate, ask questions” – On Fox News, Nigel Farage explains why he thinks Keir Starmer poses the biggest threat to free speech we’ve seen in our history.

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