News Round-Up

• “Two die after attacks at deadliest Notting Hill Carnival in more than 20 years” – Two people have died after separate attacks at the Notting Hill Carnival, making this year’s event the deadliest in more than two decades, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer dealt hammer blow as voters label Labour ‘dishonest’ over PM’s tax raid” – A new poll reveals that 56% of voters believe Starmer’s Labour Party was dishonest about its tax plans during the General Election, says GB News.
• “Stop testing children on times tables, unions tell ministers” – Ministers are being urged to cut down the number of tests in primary schools, which teaching unions say lead to high levels of anxiety in children, reports the Telegraph.
• “Employers will have to fight pernicious pay controls to the bitter end” – Matthew Lynn warns in the Telegraph that a recent court ruling forcing Next to equalise pay for different roles means judges are now setting pay levels.
• “Labour opens door to handing Chagos Islands back to Mauritius” – The Government has met with the Prime Minister of Mauritius to discuss handing back the Chagos Islands, reports the Express.
• “Defending an outdoor smoke” – There is no rational argument for the prohibition of tobacco, says Charles Amos in the Critic.
• “Letby hospital’s ‘inexplicable spike’ in baby deaths not unusual” – According to a mathematics professor, the baby death rates at the Countess of Chester Hospital were not an outlier when compared with other poorly performing trusts, reports the Express. So hardly conclusive proof Lucy Letby was a killer.
• “From Brexit to Trump: Brazil uses rise of populism to justify X ban” – Justice Moraes’s shutdown of X ignites fears of digital censorship ahead of Brazil’s 2024 elections, writes Dan Frieth in Reclaim The Net.
• “The world just took a giant leap toward totalitarianism” – Since 2018, Brazil has been a laboratory for the censorship that U.S., European and other Western leaders want, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “A Brazillian reasons to support free speech” – Most U.S. media outlets and celebrity fascism aficionados are favouring – and even cheering on – Brazil’s decision to turn off Twitter/X and Starlink, writes El Gato Malo on the Bad Cattitude Substack.
• “Brazil’s ban on X is a taste of things to come” – The global crackdown on free speech is getting more aggressive by the day, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Elon Musk warns censorship of X ‘is a certainty’ if Kamala Harris wins” – X owner Elon Musk has warned Americans that if the Democrats win the election in November, censorship of his platform is a “certainty”, according to Modernity.
• “Proton CEO slams France for arresting Telegram founder” – Proton CEO Andy Yen warns France’s arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov could spell “economic suicide” for its tech industry, says Reclaim The Net.
• “French newspaper claims Macron tricked Durov with dinner invite to facilitate his arrest” – French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine claims that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was invited for a dinner by President Emmanuel Macron in order to trick him into being arrested, reports Modernity.
• “As Europeans are arrested for what they say, how ‘free’ is Europe’s speech?” – Across the continent of Europe, genuinely frightening cases of speech restrictions are becoming increasingly commonplace, notes Anthony J. Constantini in Brussels Signal.
• “The state of Britain by a former Red Guard” – Speech in Britain is no freer now than in China, says Zhang Yingyue in Free Speech Backlash.
• “Master stroke or folly? Ukraine could pay high price for its Kursk incursion” – Ukraine’s audacious incursion into Kursk has left cities in Donbas exposed to a rapid Russian advance, write Roland Oliphant and Inna Varenytsia in the Telegraph.
• “EU declares Maduro ‘de facto’ President of Venezuela” – The EU has declared that the Left-wing strongman Nicolás Maduro is the “de facto President” of Venezuela despite vote tampering concerns, reports Brussels Signal.
• “UCSF researchers identify major driver behind Covid and Long Covid, with potential treatment” – Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have identified fibrin, a natural protein involved in blood clotting, as a major driver of the COVID-19 disease, says the Epoch Times.
• “Fighting Goliath by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil” – On the Where Are the Numbers? Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil discuss their new book, Fighting Goliath, exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event.
• “Adolescent gender dysphoria is a temporary diagnosis for most teens” – New evidence underscores that a gender dysphoria diagnosis in adolescence is an unreliable basis for medical interventions, writes Leo Sapir in City Journal.
• “Funding for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth goes to LGBT migrant campaign group” – The Mayor of London’s funding for transgender-themed artwork on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth has gone to a group that campaigns to release detained migrants, reports the Telegraph.
• “How Scotland’s woke £96 million arts quango lost the plot” – Creative Scotland remains in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, but this time it seems that its political masters are fast losing patience with its bosses, says Graham Grant in the Mail.
• “University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum” – The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from the University of Nottingham’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Does the U.S. need to ‘queer’ its nuclear arsenal?” – A newly hired expert in the Biden administration wants to bring wokeness to the field of nuclear weapons, says Rosie Norman in Spiked.
• “Kamala is worse off in polls than Biden, Hillary at same point in 2020, 2016 elections: Real Clear Polling” – Kamala Harris is in a worse position in terms of her polling numbers stacked up against Donald Trump than both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were in the 2020 and 2016 election, according to the Post Millennial.
• “Black women saying ‘I’m not with her’ have gone viral. Kamala could be in real trouble here” – The Democrats can’t take black women for granted, says David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
• “Inside the tension in Harris’s ‘Frankenstein’ team” – The upbeat tone of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign conceals underlying tensions between Harris loyalists and Obama alumni, writes Alex Thompson in Axios.
• “I’m releasing these prisoners in the interest of public safety” – @NotFarLeftAtAll has posted a funny AI-generated video of Sir Keir Starmer talking about his crackdown on “inflammatory content” on social media.

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