News Round-Up

• “At least three killed in knife ‘terror attack’ at festival as cops hunt killer” – At least three people have been killed in a ‘terror attack’ at a festival in Germany after a suspect stabbed passersby, reports the Sun.
• “Crack down on racist hate speech, UN tells UK” – A four-year review by the UN says violence by white supremacists in the U.K is concerning, according to the BBC.
• “Teenager who waved England flag near North Yorkshire Islamic centre jailed” – A teenager has been jailed for two years and two months after saying “Let’s be proud of our flag” in front of an Islamic centre in North Yorkshire, says York Mix.
• “Masked dad waved St George’s flag while confronting cops at Sunderland riot” – Jack Fowler has been sentenced to two years in prison at Newcastle Crown Court after he waved a St George’s flag in front of policeman in Sunderland, reports the Newcastle Chronicle.
• “Luxury watch thief spared prison due to overcrowding” – Walid Raoul, 30, is told by a judge he is “extremely fortunate” not to be serving time behind bars for trying to rip a £50,000 watch from a man’s wrist, according to the Times.
• “Cyprus Proposes Five-Year Prison Sentences for Spreading ‘Fake News’” – An amendment to a bill in Cyprus would reclassify disinformation offences from civil to criminal, with a maximum penalty of five years in jail, says Frederick Attenborough in the European Conservative.
• “Keir Starmer is caving on immigration already” – It should come as no surprise that Keir Starmer has already contracted a severe dose of Boris Johnson disease when it comes to immigration policy, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Keir Starmer is about to become very dangerous” – The spectre of trade union disorder is back, thanks to Labour’s poorly-considered appeasement, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Jeremy Clarkson bans Sir Keir Starmer from his new pub” – The TV presenter, who branded Labour a “merry bunch of ideological nincompoops”, says Sir Keir is banned from his new pub, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s biggest union backer demands wealth tax on the richest” – Unite has put forward a motion at the Trades Union Congress to demand a tax on the top 1% of earners, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour voters would rather back Reform U.K. than Tories” – A poll of more than 1,000 Labour voters reveals many would have picked Nigel Farage’s party ahead of Conservatives at the election, according to the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves’s former adviser handed big promotion at the Treasury” – The latest example of Labour cronyism to come to light raises fresh questions about Civil Service impartiality, says the Times.
• “Labour donors and activists land plum jobs in the Civil Service” – A few months back, when he was chasing your vote, Sir Keir Starmer stood at a lectern, rolled up his sleeves and promised that Labour would “clean up politics” and “restore standards”. That’s not going very well, according to the Mail.
• “Echoes of Cummings as Starmer launches mission control in Downing Street” – The Labour leader is looking to create a nerve centre that can drive his ‘five missions’ through Whitehall, according to the Times.
• “Welcome to Starmer’s Britain… twinned with 1984” – Boris Johnson in the Mail says Starmer’s Britain is beginning to resemble George Orwell’s dystopian satire.
• “Liz Truss was a better PM than Boris Johnson, says Anthony Seldon” – Truss may have traumatised the economy, but Johnson debased public life, says Anthony Seldon in the Times.
• “The energy price cap hike is just the start of Labour’s problems” – We may look back on the present time as an age of affordable energy, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “The downfall of Liz Truss – by those who were there” – Her premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In an extract from his new book in the Times, Anthony Seldon talks to the key aides, allies and civil servants who witnessed the arrogance, the rows, the tears and the meltdowns.
• “Kemi Badenoch well ahead in Tory leadership race” – A YouGov survey shows the shadow Housing and Communities Secretary leading the contest to succeed Rishi Sunak, reports the Times.
• “Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why” – After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the equatorial Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the world, reports the New Scientist. Global cooling?
• “Cycling: 20mph speed limit leads to Junior Tour of Wales reroute” – The Junior Tour of Wales has changed three of its five stages, cutting the length of the race, because Wales’s ubiquitous 20mph speed limit mean that the cars filming the riders would soon be left behind if they were obeying the speed limit, according to the BBC.
• “BBC paid millions to paedophile chauffeur” – In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, Alex Cooke, a victim of the BBC‘s paedophile chauffeur, speaks out.
• “The backlash against self-service checkouts is a case study in why Britain is determined to be poor” – Every time we reject new innovations, we are rejecting the progress that first made us wealthy, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Black student numbers fall by two-thirds at MIT after end of affirmative action” – The admission figures for MIT are the first since a ruling in 2023 that universities are no longer allowed to use diversity criteria in admissions, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Archaic’ terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ scrapped in Massachusetts” – The words “mother” and “father” are being dropped from the U.S. state of Massachusetts’ family law – in order to “be more inclusive to LGBTQ+ parents”, says the Christian Institute.
• “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends presidential bid and endorses Trump” – The maverick third party candidate in the U.S. Presidential election is dropping out and planning to endorse Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “Council quashes Public Spaces Protection Order to be redrafted following threat of legal challenge” – A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) approved by Thanet council in July has now been rescinded following a threat of costly legal action by the Free Speech Union, says the Isle of Thanet News.
• “I absolutely love Rob Henderson’s concept of ‘luxury beliefs’. It cuts right to the core of so much liberal hypocrisy.” – Glen Loury interviews Rob Henderson on his podcast.

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