News Round-Up

• “Sir Keir faces growing pressure after TV mogul given No.10 pass” – Keir Starmer is facing calls to “come clean” about potential “favours” to donors after reports that a millionaire TV mogul, who has donated £500,000 to Labour, was granted “unrestricted” access to Downing Street, reports the Mail.
• “Lord Alli gave £10,000 to local party of Sue Gray’s son” – The millionaire television mogul and Labour donor who was given a security pass to Downing Street also donated thousands of pounds to the constituency party of Sue Gray’s son, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Shock’ minimum wage rise would bankrupt Iceland supermarket, boss warns Labour” – Just months after switching his support from the Tories to Labour, the boss of Iceland has warned the Government that a “shock” increase in the minimum wage would bankrupt his business, according to the Telegraph.
• “Things can only get worse for Keir Starmer” – Running a country in economic decline and with burgeoning social divisions is in general not a recipe for popularity, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Podcast on the riots, Two-Tier Kier” – On Substack, Paul Sutton sits down with Jasun Horsley to discuss the implosion of society under Sir Keir’s new Labour Government and the migration crisis that dare not speak its name.
• “Don’t jail ‘keyboard warriors’ who incited riot race hate, says Bishop” – The Bishop to HM Prisons says that social media users who stirred up racial hatred during the riots should not be jailed, according to the Telegraph.
• “Woman fighting for life in hospital after Notting Hill Carnival stabbing” – A 32 year-old woman stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival – one of three stabbing victims – is in a life threatening condition in hospital, reports the Telegraph. Ninety people were arrested and and 15 officers were assaulted in the “largely peaceful” festival.
• “The next Tory leader should have one focus: the straitjacket on government” – Our political system doesn’t work properly any more, says Kemi Badenoch in the Sunday Times.
• “Tory bad blood like Game of Thrones, recalls Zahawi” – A former Chancellor has likened the bad blood in the party to Game of Thrones, according to the Telegraph.
• “Putin seizes $100 million from Google to fund Russia’s war machine” – Court documents reveal that the Kremlin seized more than £76 million from Google’s Russian accounts and used it to fund propaganda supporting the war in Ukraine, reports the Express.
• “Hezbollah’s long-awaited retaliation struck little more than a chicken coop” – The much-ballyhooed missile and drone attack on Israel by Hezbollah has come to nothing, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour has exposed its real anti-car agenda” – Low-traffic zones are hare-brained virtue-signalling, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “The myth of a ‘green’ Karl Marx” – There is no trace of ‘degrowth communism’ in Karl Marx’s work, says Phil Mullan in Spiked.
• “Mike Lynch planned to investigate Lucy Letby ‘injustice’” – David Davis MP says Mike Lynch aimed to create a U.K. counterpart to the Innocent Project – a U.S. charity dedicated to exonerating those they believe have been wrongfully convicted – with a specific focus on the Letby case before his tragic death in Sicily, according to the Metro.
• “My evidence might have changed Lucy Letby trial, says expert witness” – An expert witness for the defence in the trial of Lucy Letby has said he is “troubled” by not being called to give evidence and he believes the outcome might have been different if he had done so, says the Times.
• “The dishonest booster campaign” – A 2024 autumn Covid booster is being promoted in the U.S. without data, according to Prof. Vinay Prasad on his Substack, and some doctors are being particularly shameless.
• “The sorry state of the NHS” – In Free Speech Backlash, Sandra H. questions whether mental health is being used to persuade the population to accept the unacceptable as normal and not to make too much fuss about it.
• “RFK Jr. suspends campaign; endorses Trump” –On Substack, Steve Kirsch outlines the key points from RFK Jr.’s widely praised speech endorsing Trump.
• “RFK Jr.’s siblings take shot at their brother” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake weighs in on the strangely spiteful message from five of RFK Jr’s siblings in reaction to his endorsement of Trump.
• “The devious art of shutting up” – Kamala’s refusal to talk to the press unscripted is more than just a deft campaign strategy; it is at least a tacit admission that she understands how bad she is at speaking extemporaneously, writes Thomas Buckley on Substack.
• “The Hollywood liberals who rule America” – Are movie stars about to put Kamala in the Oval Office? asks Frederick Kaufmann in UnHerd.
• “Racist buildings are the least of Wales’s problems” – Rather than declare war on ‘racist’ buildings, the Welsh Government must come together and actually have a go at proper governance, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
• “Destroying villages in order to save them” – We are sacrificing health, lives, reason and civilisation on the altars of bizarre secular cults, warns John Leake on the Courageous Discourse substack.
• “Barrister Sam Fowles and Andrew Doyle clash on Free Speech Nation” – On his Sunday night show, Andrew Doyle calls Sam Fowles to account for accusing Maya Forstator and others of attacking trans people.

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