News Round-Up

• “Protester jailed after chanting at police” – A 67 year-old man has been jailed for 20 months after chanting “You’re not English any more” at police officers during a demonstration in London, reports the BBC
• “London imam claims ‘Zionists’ were behind far-Right riots” – An imam at a London mosque, led by an extremist preacher, has claimed that Zionists were behind the recent riots, says the Times.
• “The police can’t be impartial while discriminating against white men” – Police chiefs must reject the divisive identity politics that has torn our nation apart, writes Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
• “England’s prison crisis grows after influx of rioters into jails” –The prisons crisis has deepened, as the number of available places for adult male offenders has dipped below 300 for the first time, reports the Mail.
• “Nearly 2,000 prisoners to be released on single day” – About 2,000 prisoners are to be released early on a single day next month in an attempt to tackle the jail overcrowding crisis, says the Telegraph.
• “This rush to define Islamophobia will harm free speech” – Any definition of Islamophobia must have genuine legal value that protects individuals and is free from the invidious blanket term “Muslimness”, writes Fiyaz Mughal in the Times.
• “Tory members back Cleverly but Tugendhat is public’s favourite” – James Cleverly leads the pack among Tory members in the first major poll since all six candidates declared (a poll commissioned by Cleverly), but Tom Tugendhat wins the public’s vote, reports the Mail.
• “Boris Johnson memoir will be unleashed in heat of Tory leadership battle” – Boris Johnson’s eagerly awaited memoir, Unleashed, will be released just weeks before Tory party members vote on their next leader, reveals the Times.
• “More than half of Brits believe U.K. is heading in the wrong direction” – According to a new poll, Keir Starmer’s favourability rating has dropped to zero and more than half of Britons believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, reports the Mail.
• “Labour’s misogyny review won’t help women” – Censorship will not solve society’s woman problem – citizens will, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s pound shop populists are now heading for a humiliating fall” – The real calamity is not that the new Government is socialist, but that it hasn’t got a clue what it’s doing, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s pothole-ridden roads so bad ‘they are damaging the economy’” – Factory bosses say that the appalling state of the country’s infrastructure is adding to manufacturing costs, according to the Telegraph.
• “Post Office scandal: understanding computer evidence in cases” – Speaking to the British Computer Society, Dr. Sam De Silva explores what part the legal assumption that “the computer is always right” could have played in the Horizon scandal.
• “Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in fraud trial dies after being hit by a car” – Mike Lynch’s former colleague and co-defendant in his U.S. fraud trial has died after being hit by a car, just days before the billionaire tech tycoon vanished off the coast of Sicily when his superyacht was caught in a freak whirlwind, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer backs working from home as ‘culture of presenteeism’ is bad for productivity” – Keir Starmer has backed more working from home after No.10 warned that a “culture of presenteeism” is bad for productivity, says the Telegraph.
• “Public fears GPs would encourage assisted dying to ease NHS pressures, poll finds” – A new survey reveals that more than four in 10 members of the public fear legalising assisted suicide could lead doctors to encourage patients to end their lives to ease pressure on the NHS, reports the Telegraph. 
• “MPox/monkeypox: summer 2024 update” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone separates the hard facts from the self-interested noise surrounding monkeypox.
• “Merck MMR case ruling: ‘You can defraud the American people when government agencies go along with it’” – A recent Appeals Court ruling has huge negative implications for whistleblowers, says Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
• “COVID-19 vaccines cause far more myocarditis than infection, overall risks greatly outweigh theoretical benefits” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr. Peter A. McCullough discusses new analysis that challenges the prevailing narrative that SARS-CoV-2 infection poses a higher risk of heart damage than being vaccinated against it.
• “More evidence that the Covid shots did not reduce mortality” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch counters the Lancet’s claim of 20 million lives saved by Covid vaccines with two public data sources that indicate the vaccines carried only downside risk.
• “Far more flu tests were given in 2019-2020” – The absence of a death spike despite rising flu or Covid symptoms before Covid was officially recognised suggests the virus was likely not very deadly at all, writes Bill Rice Jr. on his Substack.
• “Rachel Zegler derails Snow White trailer with another woke comment” – According to the Mail, Snow White remake star Rachel Zegler has sparked further outrage while promoting the long-delayed Disney film, saying, “And always remember, free Palestine.”
• “IS attacks erase Christian cultural heritage for Assyrians and Iraqis” – Premier Christian News marks the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State’s genocide, which saw thousands from Iraq’s marginalised communities, including Christians, slaughtered in Mosul.
• “Der Spiegel sets out to ‘identify evil’ and asks which of our Right-populist politicians might be ‘secret Hitlers’” – On Substack, Eugyppius savages Der Spiegel’s recent cover story, ‘The Secret Hitlers’, dismissing its claim that modern leaders like Trump and Orbán are comparable to fascists.
• “Energy bills to surge by £150 as Reeves prepares to scrap winter fuel payments” – Energy bills are forecast to rise by nearly £150 later this year in a move that will pile further pressure on millions of pensioners set to lose their winter fuel payments, says the Express.
• “LTNs could be forced on Bath with no say for residents” – The installation of low traffic neighbourhoods could proceed in Bath, despite a petition signed by 250 locals opposing them, reports the Telegraph.
• “Price gouging is a nonsense narrative” – On the Bad Cattitude Substack, El Gato Malo explains why price controls never work.
• “The funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe” – According to the Guardian, U&Dave announced the winner of its Funniest Joke of the Fringe award, with Mark Simmons taking the prize for his one-liner: “I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it.”
• “LBC presenter is sick of the far-Right scum…” – On X, Andrew Lawrence channels his inner James O’Brien with a cheeky spoof of the LBC host railing against anyone vaguely patriotic and critical of mass immigration.

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