News Round-Up

• “Farmers want to be ‘militant’ in response to IHT raid, NFU warns” – Ministers have been warned that they face a “militant” backlash from farmers over the so-called tractor tax, reports the Independent.
• “James Dyson isn’t helping farmers” – James Dyson has criticised changes to inheritance tax rules in Labour’s Budget, but his intervention won’t help farmers, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Ryanair ‘worried for U.K.’ as it tells airports to slash fees or lose flights” – Ryanair says U.K. airports must slash landing fees to hang on to flights after Rachel Reeves hiked airline departure taxes in the Budget, reports the Express.
• “Keir Starmer to raise university tuition fees” – Keir Starmer has been accused of breaking his promise on university tuition fees after the Government announced that it would raise them for the first time in eight years, says the Express.
• “Labour have taken the art of political lying to a whole new level” – Starmer took his party members for fools, and now he is doing the same to the rest of us, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Insubstantial men” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple eviscerates the current crop of mediocre, intellectually unserious, Left-wing bureaucrats managing (the formerly Great) Britain’s rapid decline.
• “Kemi Badenoch appoints Robert Jenrick as Shadow Justice Secretary” – Robert Jenrick has accepted the role of Shadow Justice Secretary in Kemi Badenoch’s new Shadow Cabinet, reports the Telegraph.
• “The worst thing that could happen is that you could die” – That we now have a Leader of the Opposition prepared to speak in defence of genuine truth-telling is grounds for hope, writes Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack
• “Finally, a leader who’s willing to fight the culture war” – Kemi Badenoch is the anti-Kamala, just the breath of fresh air the Western world needed, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Why Kemi Badenoch’s rise riles the identitarian Left” – The U.K.’s first black party leader marks real progress on race – but far too many on the ‘progressive’ Left are determined not to see it that way, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “‘MP should not have shared post saying Badenoch represents ‘white supremacy in blackface’’” – Keir Starmer has slapped down Dawn Butler for sharing a post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in blackface”, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Is Dawn Butler Britain’s most ridiculous MP?” – The Labour MP for Brent East is living proof that identity politics rots the mind, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Decades of bad ideas have led to stagnation – it’s time for a change” – The Budget showed that we are reaching the limits of tax and spend in this country, says George Trefgarne in CapX.
• “Small boat smugglers to face fast-track justice like rioters” – People smugglers are set to face fast-track justice through U.K. courts as part of the Government’s latest crackdown on Channel crossings, reports LBC.
• “Starmer’s plan to stop the boats is a comical gimmick” – For Starmer it is an unconscionable sin to acknowledge that the migrants themselves have agency and are the key drivers of this trade, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Woman ‘pressured into marriage for visa’ faces death by stoning” –A British woman and her Pakistani uncle, whom she married and had a child with in a suspected illegal immigration plot, could face death by stoning, reports the Mail.
• “Lammy rules out ‘transfer of cash’ to countries demanding slavery reparations” – David Lammy has ruled out the “transfer of cash” to other countries in a row over slavery reparations, arguing it would not be appropriate during a cost of living crisis, says the Telegraph.
• “Why Britons fear flying the flag: national pride, partisan politics and the rise of ‘cuckoo flags’” – In the Free Mind, Laura Dodsworth delves into the curious complexities and tensions around flying the British flag.
• “Eight on trial in Paris over murder of teacher Samuel Paty” – Eight people have gone on trial in Paris on terrorism charges in connection with the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in an RE lesson, according to the Times.
• “How Germany became the sick man of Europe” – A poisoned cocktail of massive over-regulation, high energy costs and a lack of skilled workers has again made Germany the sick man of Europe, notes Leon Mangasarian in the Spectator.
• “Dear Professor Lawton” – In an open letter on Substack, Dr. Clare Craig tells vaccine advocate Prof. Julia Lawton that her mother’s hundreds of tiny lung clots may be linked to her Covid vaccines.
• “Who will win the U.S. election? Our experts’ final predictions” – With election day upon us, Trump’s campaign has hit its stride. But do the Telegraph’s experts think that’s enough to clinch the race?
• “Women are fuelling Kamala Harris’s late poll surge. They’re in for a nasty surprise” – Kamala Harris is worse than a far-Left extremist. She’s a hollow opportunist who has flirted with radical views on trans, warns Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
• “Fired CBS reporter Catherine Herridge reveals how network killed Hunter Biden story: ‘I felt sick’” – In the NY Post, Alexandra Steigrad reveals how CBS News went to great lengths to squash correspondent Catherine Herridge’s reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop just weeks before the 2020 election.
• “Who’s the fascist?” – The 2024 election is painted as a battle to save America from fascism – but who’s leading us there, and what does ‘fascism’ even mean anymore? asks John Tierney in City Journal.
• “Kamalamania, Trump and the vibes election” – Nick Dixon chairs a discussion from the recent Battle of Ideas festival about the upcoming U.S. election.
• “If Donald Trump wins, it’s over” – Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence, says Titania McGrath (a.k.a. satirist Andrew Doyle).
• “Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has XY chromosomes and ‘testicles’: French-Algerian medical report admits” – A bombshell medical report from a French journalist has revealed that boxer Imane Khelif has “testicles”, months after his gold-medal win in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics, according to Reduxx.
• “Why are the Scouts brainwashing our children with woke nonsense like Billy the Non-Binary Butterfly?” – In the Telegraph, Celia Walden argues that the Scouts are sacrificing their core mission by indoctrinating kids with “woke” gender ideology.
• “Russell Brand’s cryptic tweet after police hand evidence to the CPS” – Russell Brand tweeted cryptically about “forgiveness” just hours after it emerged detectives investigating historical sex offence allegations against him had passed a file of evidence to British prosecutors, reveals MailOnline.
• “The Free Speech Union has been given permission to apply for judicial review, which means they’ve got an arguable case — and that’s something that I think should give the Education Secretary pause” – Akua Reindorf KC on LBC tells Andrew Marr about the FSU’s legal challenge against Bridget Phillipson.

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