News Round-Up

• “Riot arrests now top 1,000 with 575 charged as looter swears at judge” – Courts were packed with defendants yesterday as judges continued to hand down harsh prison sentences to punish the violence which erupted across the country, reports the Mail.
• “U.K. riots sentencing: bigots jailed for violence and Facebook incitement” – The Times lists some of the latest sentences given to those involved in the recent civil unrest.
• “Judge suggests rioters could face 10-year sentences” – A judge has urged prosecutors to be tougher on rioters and suggested they should face up to a decade in jail, says the Shropshire Star.
• “Judge jails ‘keyboard warrior’ who wrote Facebook post calling for mosque to be blown up” – A 53 year-old carer for her disabled husband has been jailed after she admitted posting on Facebook “Don’t protect the mosques, blow the mosque up with the adults in it”, according to Sky News.
• “Career criminals walk free in soft justice scandal” – Career criminals with more than 100 previous convictions are being spared jail, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Call for rioters to be locked up is hypocrisy after years of soft touch justice” – Jim Spence in the Courier marvels at the Left’s transformation from being hand-wringing softies on criminals to becoming “lock them up and throw away the key” merchants.
• “No. Nigel Farage didn’t cause the riots. The elite class did” – It wasn’t Farage who decimated the very communities that saw the worst rioting by ushering in policies like hyper-globalisation, mass immigration and deindustrialisation; it was the elite class, says Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
• “No borders, no safe haven” – The ‘anti-racist’ protests are a hypocritical smokescreen by elites to deflect blame for the country’s problems onto ordinary citizens, writes Alex Story in Country Squire.
• “Jess Phillips apologises for tweet that ‘justified’ masked men’s intimidation of journalists” – Jess Phillips has apologised for excusing the behaviour of masked Muslim activists who forced a live television broadcast off air during the riots, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farewell, Leicester Square!” – On his blog, Mark Steyn weighs in on the recent stabbing in Leicester Square.
• “‘Not funny’: Liz Truss says lettuce stunt crosses the line” – Liz Truss has accused activists who ambushed an event to promote her book with a lettuce stunt of suppressing free speech, reports Sky News.
• “It’s time to give Liz Truss a break” – Politicians must expect to take the rough with the smooth, but the way the former Prime Minister Liz Truss is pilloried has gone too far, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “The craft-beer tossers of Led By Donkeys need to call it day” – Political campaign group Led By Donkeys’s dumb stunt against Liz Truss is proof that the anti-Brexit snobs are running out of steam, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Train drivers offered bumper pay rise from Starmer to end strikes” – Train drivers have been offered a 14% pay rise over three years in an effort to bring an end to their crippling strikes, reports LBC.
• “Labour’s real agenda for Britain is far more terrible than anyone imagined” – The new Government has been unleashed, dedicating itself to total victory in both the class and culture wars, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer will let the ‘Blob’ take over Britain” – Britain’s unelected and ineffective quangocrats are already amassing more power under Labour, warns James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Labour’s war on free speech is the real threat to public life” – In promising to toughen up the Online Safety Act, Labour’s crusade against “legal but harmful” content online poses a greater threat to democracy than the targets of its censorship, writes Frank Furedi in the Times.
• “Smug intolerant liberals are about to become even more unbearable” – The insufferably woke residents of Walthamstow have signed a petition to keep the “yummy mummy” bakery Gail’s out, and it’s for more sinister reasons than you’d think, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “We no longer teach children to love Britain” – Attacking one’s country has almost become a national pastime, with disastrous consequences, writes Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Why is the EU trying to censor Elon Musk?” – Thierry Breton’s beef isn’t with Musk. It’s with the millions of Europeans he has dared to give a voice to, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “SNP humiliated as new figures deliver final fatal blow to indepedence dreams” – Scotland’s deficit has surged by nearly £5 billion over the past year, now more than double the U.K.’s, delivering a crushing blow to the SNP and its allies, reports the Express.
• “German federal court temporarily lifts Nancy Faeser’s ban on Compact Magazine, dealing the Interior Minister and her deranged crusade ‘against the Right’ a humiliating defeat” – On Substack, Eugyppius celebrates a rare victory for free speech in Germany.
• “America is turning into the EU” – Democrats are steering the U.S. towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Is the West finally seeing through Hamas’s lies?” – Netanyahu is on the point of eliminating Hamas and its global cheer-leaders are growing ever more quiet, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
• “Arrest warrant for Ukrainian over Nord Stream pipeline bombings” – A Ukrainian diving instructor is the first person to be charged by the German prosecutors investigating the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, according to Politico.
• “Tall climate tales from the BBC, 2023” – Paul Homewood has published his annual review of the BBC’s climate output, detailing more than 30 of the most egregious misrepresentations of the facts for Net Zero Watch.
• “€48 million to be spent ‘decarbonising’ five HSE sites across Ireland” – The Irish Government has announced a €48 million investment in the retrofit of five HSE sites across the country in an effort to “decarbonise” them and reduce their “carbon footprint”, reports Gript.
• “NY Times claims vanilla is ‘disappearing’ due to climate change – as production doubles” – Despite the NY Times’s alarmist claims about vanilla’s impending extinction due to climate change, data reveals that vanilla production has actually doubled since 2000, says James Taylor in Climate Realism.
• “NIWA minister errs in communicating to Centrist” – Centrist reveals that the minister in charge of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand provided false information to the news publisher about how it conducts climate analysis.
• “WHO declares monkeypox public health emergency” – The World Health Organisation has declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, reports the Mail.
• “Trudeau Government tells Canadians to prepare for virus worse than Covid” – The Canadian Government has issued advice warning citizens to prepare for a hypothetical new virus that could be even worse than Covid, says the Mail.
• “ABIM: Follow the consensus, not the science. Saving lives is not a priority” – By revoking the board certifications of Doctors Paul Marik and Pierre Kory, the message the American Board of Internal Medicine is sending to physicians is clear: “All physicians must toe the line,” says Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
• “Civil service expanding diversity teams across the board” – It will surprise no one that, far from cutting EDI officers, the Civil Service is actually increasing their number, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “Apology for gender-critical student expelled from master’s course” – A former barrister expelled from a psychotherapy school for his gender-critical views has warned that higher education establishments will face consequences for punishing dissenting opinions, says the Times.
• “‘I’m thinking about quitting kid’s books over censorship’” – Anthony Horowitz is one of our most successful authors, but he is not sure if he can continue to write children’s books because of attacks on artistic freedom, he tells Anna Davis in the Standard.
• “Imane Khelif’s laughable lawsuit against J.K. Rowling” – The pursuit of Musk and Rowling in the French criminal courts provides an amusing epitaph to the Olympics, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
• “Haters will say this is AI” – Elon Musk has put a video on X of him and Donald Trump grooving to the Bee Gees’s ‘Staying Alive’. Real or not? You be the judge.

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