News Round-Up

• “Israel-Iran latest: Israel launches attack on Iran” – Live updates on the Telegraph‘s website of Israel’s retaliatory strike against Iran.
• “Workers’ taxes will rise, admits Rachel Reeves” – The Chancellor grudgingly admits that, in fact, taxes on working people will rise, as they will for everyone else, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ultra-wealthy Britons face ‘double whammy’ tax raid” – High net worth individuals will be taxed 100%, says the Telegraph. Good luck persuading them to remain in Britain, Rachel.
• “First Labour MP backs fuel price freeze – as Brits pay more than mega-rich firms” – British motorists pay a higher rate of tax than multi-billion-pound firms, reports the Sun.
• “‘My parents came here illegally, but I’m voting for Trump’: The immigrants rejecting Harris over migration” – Even illegal immigrants are voting for Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer’s wrong – we are working people, say furious landlords” – The Government has been asked repeatedly to define the term “working people” in a bid to establish which taxes Chancellor Rachel Reeves could hike next Wednesday. But we are none the wiser, according to the Mail.
• “Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’” –The PM has got himself into an awful pickle by trying to define “working people” for budgetary purposes, says the Telegraph.
• “‘I work 50 hours a week as a landlord. It’s an insult to say we aren’t working people’” – Buy-to-let owners hit back at the Prime Minister’s suggestion that they are not ‘working people’, says the Telegraph.
• “Fury at PM saying shareholders and landlords aren’t ‘working people’” – Keir Starmer fuelled alarm ahead of the budget by Rachel Reeves as he suggested those with assets do not count as ‘working people’ and will by targeted by Labour, says the Mail.
• “Britain’s black history has never just been a story of oppression” – Inaya Folarin Iman says in the Telegraph that Black Britons are very far from a victim group.
• “Asylum seeker hotel worker, 27, ‘stabbed to death with screwdriver by teen’” – A woman working at a hotel for asylum seekers was stabbed to death by a teenage illegal immigrant, reports the Sun.
• “Woman in her 30s boy, two and girl, eight, stabbed in horror attack as man arrested” – A woman in her 30s, a two-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl have been stabbed in a horror attack yesterday evening, according to the i.
• “Mother posts heartbreaking picture after daughter was fatally stabbed” – Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, died in hospital on Wednesday with her family by her side, three days after being injured at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall, West Midlands, reports the Mail.
• “No wonder crime is soaring – this week proved that British policing is definitively broken” – Morale is hitting rock bottom, with officers prosecuted for simply doing their job, says the Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey. Is it any surprise that order is breaking down?
• “Why David Lammy is a problem for Starmer – and risks becoming an even bigger one” – The Foreign Secretary has been accused of undermining Britain abroad as his past social media comments come back to haunt the Government, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s regulator will destroy English football” – Starmer’s Government has taken a bad Tory proposal and turbocharged it, says David Frost in the Telegraph. The fans will pay the price
• “The West is sleepwalking into Trudeau’s woke nightmare” – Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives, says Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
• “Three Tory councillors defect to Reform U.K. after Farage urges them to join party” – Reform celebrates the defection of some Tory councillors to Reform, reports the Telegraph.
• “We’re witnessing American democracy in all its glory – not the rise of fascism” – The U.S. political system is facing challenges, but it is robust enough to overcome them, argues Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Billionaire GB News backer awarded £6 million in ‘Russian spy’ defamation case” – Christopher Chandler, one of the backers of GB News, secures huge damages in long-running dispute that involved several MPs, reports the Telegraph.
• “The climate scaremongers: Jiggery-pokery at the weather headline factory ” – Paul Homewood reports on Jiggery-pokery of climate reporting
• “Get your Progress Pride poppy” – Even the Royal British Legion can’t resist the pull of wokeness, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Mercedes-Benz electric car sales plunge 30% amid ‘intense’ competition” – EU’s higher tariffs on Chinese-made EVs are not stemming the tide of cheaper models flooding the market, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why saying ‘loo’ instead of ‘toilet’ no longer means you’re posh” – Vocabulary has always been a marker of social class in British society – but the way we speak now is becoming much more fluid, according to the Telegraph.
• “Doctors’ pensions should be raided more, not less” – The British Medical Association, which has recommended a pay cut for Doctors, appears to be forgetting how generous the current arrangement is, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
• “Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop empire crumbling?” – As the wellness brand plans to cut 18% of its workforce, the actress looks ready to ditch the woo-woo and return to her roots, reports Laura Clark in California, reports the Telegraph.
• “Clown Show performance by Donald Trump” – Watch an AI creates a rock video featuring all our favourite characters on the world stage – kinda good and kinda bad.

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