News Round-Up

• “Watch: Trump and Zelensky’s White House row in full” – The Oval Office meeting between the two presidents descended into an extraordinary shouting match, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump tells Zelensky: ‘Come back when you’re ready for peace’” – White House meeting descends into shouting match as US president demands ceasefire agreement “or we’re out”, says the Telegraph.
• “Trump vs Zelensky shouting match was ‘great television’. Was that the point?” – JD Vance joined in the President’s berating of the Ukrainian leader at a White House press conference that unravelled almost instantly, according to the Times.
• “Emmanuel Macron throws support behind Zelensky following Trump spat” – Responding to the spat, French president Emmanuel Macron, who himself met Donald Trump last week, reiterated that Russia was the aggressor, reports the Mail.
• “The United States is appeasing evil” – Valerii Pekar in Persuasion says the shouting match in the White House brings us one step closer to appealing Putin.
• “Trump gives verdict on Starmer after PM’s five-month campaign to woo him” – The Telegraph’s political editor joins the press pack in Washington as Trump reveals his “surprise” at how well he got on with Sir Keir, says the Telegraph.
• “The big mistake Starmer made with Donald Trump” – Keir Starmer did almost everything right when he met President Trump, according to Irwin Stelzer in the Spectator. But he did make one big mistake.
• “Good riddance to Anneliese Dodds, the minister without sense” – In a Government of non-entities, Dodds was perhaps the most invisible of all, writes Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Is Anneliese Dodds’s resignation the moment the soft left grows a spine?” – By quitting over a principle many Labour MPs agree with, she may be giving a voice to the silent ranks of the party who have accepted humiliation for years, says Patrick Maguire in the Times.
• “Rachel Reeves eyes cuts to nuclear in spending review” – Energy industry insiders fear the Chancellor could target Britain’s mini-nuke programme in her effort to stay within her spending limits, reports the Telegraph.
• “It’s astonishing how Gary Lineker can be so wrong about everything” – The outspoken presenter is only good for one thing – whatever he says, everyone knows to take precisely the opposite view, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Podcasts rakes in profit of £1.4 million” – Business is taking off for former England striker’s company, which publishes podcasts including ‘The Rest Is Football’, as retained earnings soar from £590k to £2.03m last year, according to the Times.
• “How EDI, cancel culture and bad boards are killing our universities” – With British institutions copying the likes of Harvard in stifling free speech, the only way back to reason is explicit guarantees for academic freedom, writes Niall Ferguson in the Times.
• “Exclusion, Not Exploitation” – Frederick Attenborough writes about the suicide of Alexander Rogers, a third-year undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Cafe American Mag.
• “Goldman Sachs drops black bankers hiring target for London office” – The CEO of Goldman Sachs says scrapping the company’s diversity goals “reflects developments in the law in the US”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Wire’s Clarke Peters on ‘absurd’ colour-blind casting: ‘I wouldn’t want to see Dominic West play Idi Amin’” – Back on our screens in a major new Agatha Christie adaptation, Clarke Peters talks race, Trump and whodunits in the Telegraph.
• “Mixing up names of non-white colleagues is racist, tribunal rules” – A Jaguar Land Rover engineer was discriminated against after being confused with a “very different” co-worker, an employment panel has found, says the Telegraph.
• “Don’t offer a chair to a 66-year-old (and other rules to avoid being sued by your colleagues)” – Even something as simple as leaving someone out when making cups of tea could land you in hot water, reports Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph, writing about recent Employment Tribunal rulings.
• “Left-wing theatre managers who invited 200 migrants to a free show will abandon the building and face bankruptcy as refugees still refuse to leave after three months and spark wave of sex-related violence” – Left-wing managers of a Paris theatre occupied by hundreds of homeless African migrants are set to abandon the building because of sex-related violence, says the Mail.
• “The BBC can’t brush aside the Gaza documentary scandal” – The BBC’s admission of serious editorial failures in its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is not just a scandal – it is a moment of reckoning, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “BBC faces potential criminal investigation over Gaza documentary” – Corporation admits to “unacceptable” mistakes after disclosing it paid son of Hamas minister for his role in film, reports the Telegraph.
• “This week of shame proves the BBC can no longer be trusted to clean up its own scandals” – Had GB News made as much of a mess of things as the BBC over it’s Gaza documentary, it would have been closed down, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “The CofE is dealing with its safeguarding crisis badly” – The Church has applied to arraign 10 other clergy, including an ex-Bishop of Durham, under the Clergy Discipline Measure, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “GPs to ‘bring back the family doctor’ after 7% funding boost” – All practices will also be required to offer online bookings for appointments under a new Government deal, according to the Telegraph.
• “SNP summit to lock out Reform is ‘hysterical’, says Richard Tice” – Reform’s deputy leader accuses John Swinney of being “terrified” of common sense policies that resonate with the Scottish people, reports the Telegraph.
• “China finds ‘limitless’ energy source that could ‘power the country’” – China has discovered an “endless” energy source that could supply enough fuel to power the country for 60,000 years, geologists in Beijing have claimed, says the Mail.
• “Francis Collins caught sending false and misleading information to Congress” – Another prominent federal researcher breaks the law and lies to Congress about scientific evidence, says Paul D Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicles.
• “The scandal that could ruin Mark Carney’s bid to rule Canada” – The former Bank of England Governor is facing a scandal that could derail his surging campaign, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “The meeting between President Trump and Zelensky didn’t go so great” – With the magic of AI, Wall St Mav has recreated the shouting match in the White House between Trump, Vance and Zelensky, only this time with fisticuffs.

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