News Round-Up

• “Highest number of migrants since Starmer became PM cross Channel in a day” – A total of 703 migrants crossed the English Channel on Sunday – the highest number on a single day since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, reports the Express.
• “Labour decision to drop plan to ban terrorists from social housing branded ‘disgraceful’” – Labour has been accused of putting the interests of violent criminals above those of “hard-working British families” after dropping Tory plans to ban terrorists from social housing, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sellafield worker jailed after sharing ‘offensive’ Facebook posts” – A 51 year-old Egremont man has become the latest person in the county to be jailed for an online social media posts objecting to immigration, reports the Cumberland News and Star.
• “White riot: anarchy in the U.K.” – It has been obvious that the recent riots have been brewing for some time now – obvious to everyone, that is, except the blind men who actually rule us, says Steven Tucker in Taki’s Mag.
• “Here comes the free speech crackdown – which we must resist” – On his Substack, Matt Goodwin explains how Labour and the Left plan to erode our right to free speech.
• “State of free speech in the U.K. is worse than Russia” – Joe Rogan has claimed that more people get arrested in the U.K. for “thought crimes” on social media than they do in Russia, according to Modernity.
• “EU threatens Musk over ‘harmful’ speech ahead of Trump interview” – The EU’s top digital official has warned Musk to do something about “harmful content” on X, according to Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “Our friend, Douglas Murray” – Nothing will stop Douglas Murray from telling the truth. The more they try to silence and intimidate him, the more they prove him right, says the Free Press in a powerful editorial.
• “The pitiful death of John Bull” – On his Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake decries the arrest of Englishmen in their homes for posting ‘inaccurate’ information on Facebook.
• “Why did ‘anti-fascists’ go after football fans at a Wetherspoons?” – So much ‘anti-racism’ is just class hatred by another name, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Britain is being pushed to the brink by official neglect of the white underclass” – It would be a mistake to interpret the riots as merely a backlash against immigration, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. Britain’s white underclass has more to grumble about than just immigration.
• “Labour MP accused of blaming Israel for far-Right riots” – Clive Lewis MP has blamed “rising Islamophobia” on “the daily inhumanity being metted [sic] out to Palestinians”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel accuses BBC presenter Mishal Husain of pro-Palestinian bias” – Israel has accused Mishal Husain, the BBC presenter, of pro-Palestinian bias in a row over the broadcaster’s coverage of the Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer warns Iran: Do not attack Israel” – Sir Keir Starmer urged the Iranians not to attack Israel last night in a rare telephone call with Tehran’s President, according to the Telegraph.
• “Justin Welby ‘plainly wrong’ over blacklisting of gender-critical chaplain” – The Archbishop of Canterbury was “plainly wrong” to dismiss concerns about the blacklisting of a gender-critical chaplain according to a leading lawyer in the church, says the Telegraph.
• “The Archbishop of Cant” – Justin Welby is siding with those who have abandoned civilisation and surrendered to barbarism, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
• “Islamist majorities terrorise Hindus and Christians, but the West looks away” – The persecution of Hindus in South Asia is a bit like the purge of Christians in the Middle East or Africa. We all agree it is wrong and then we look the other way, writes Konstantinos Bogdanos in Brussels Signal.
• “In defence of Labour’s ‘communist land grab’” – No society – not even one committed to free markets – can allow itself to be held to ransom by landowners, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Self-checkouts have been a self-inflicted disaster for Britain” – Having ruthlessly replaced cashier staff with self-checkout terminals to speed up purchases and save on wages, boardrooms now want the humans back, writes the Telegraph’s Lucy Burton.
• “Dr. Fauci infected with Covid for third time” – Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed that he has been infected with Covid for a third time despite having been “vaccinated and boosted six times”, according to Modernity.
• “Labour’s energy policy is economically and environmentally illiterate” – The greatest irony of abandoning North Sea oil is how much it will hurt the transition to Net Zero, writes Andrew Bowie in the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s extreme Left policy team” – SpAds are often relied on to temper the barmy ideas of their Cabinet Minister. No chance of that in Ed’s team, says Guido Fawkes.
• “The top 10 inconvenient facts about climate change” – Climate Discussion Nexus’s Dr. John Robson examines 10 facts about climate change that activists, politicians and journalists won’t talk about.
• “Covid is still causing chaos for learner drivers” – The post-pandemic backlog is causing misery for learner drivers, writes Ellen Pasternack in CapX.
• “Tim Walz’s Covid policy as Minnesota Governor” – On Substack, Prof. Vinay Prasad examines Democratic Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz’s pandemic record.
• “Take two Lefts” – Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate confirms the impression of a Democratic ticket far more progressive than the median voter, writes Lexi Boccuzzi in City Journal.
• “Why Trump is winning outside of America” – Trump’s support base extends from China to Gaza, says Lily Lynch in UnHerd.
• “An interview with Graham Linehan” – Graham Linehan joins Andrew Doyle on GB News’s Free Speech Nation to discuss his cancellation and the ongoing gender wars.
• “Why don’t women actually want equality?” – The well-publicised case of the WASPI women (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is far more intriguing for what is not being said, than for what is, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
• “We must fight for the right to ridicule ‘Raygun’” – Australia’s farcical breakdancer should not be shielded from internet mockery, says Simon Evans in Spiked. She deserves it all.
• “Google’s chokehold must be broken – here’s how to do it” – Google’s monopoly faces a reckoning as antitrust cases and global scrutiny threaten Silicon Valley’s unchecked power, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer intends to use the riots as an excuse to clamp down on free speech” – On X, the Free Speech Union has compiled alarming headlines and social media posts from politicians, journalists and academics cheering on Keir Starmer’s authoritarian crackdown on free speech.

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