News Round-Up

• “Asylum hotel shame as taxpayer-funded rooms used as brothels” – Taxpayer-funded migrant hotels are being used as brothels with men travelling to them to pay for sex, reveals the Express.
• “‘I fear Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it’” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley argues that the spectre of fascism is a greater concern than the prospect of open sectarian conflict.
• “Everywhere you look under Starmer, we have a two-tier country” – We are now seeing the balkanisation of parts of our major cities and the proliferation of groups lobbying for ethnic and religious interests, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “Are Islamist gangs in control of Britain’s most secure prison?” – HMP Frankland is said to be so overrun with Islamists that inmates who refuse to join their gangs are being forced into separation units, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Immigration is not the answer to low birth rates” – On the Maiden Mother Matriarch Substack, Tom Jones explores solutions to Britain’s fertility crisis.
• “One thing Keir Starmer really believes in: giving up British territory” – The consequence of Hermer-ism is that we will be the first country ever to sacrifice sovereign territory due to an advisory ICJ opinion, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Wealth exodus from UK speeds up over Labour’s non-dom tax raid” – The exodus of wealth from Britain has accelerated since the turn of the year, fuelling fears that the abolition of the non-dom tax regime will wipe billions of pounds from the economy, reports the Times.
• “The results are in for Labour’s private school experiment: a giant F” – One term in to Labour’s VAT raid on private schools and the vindictiveness of this tax grab is now plain to see, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s skills adviser founded failing school” – Appointing the founder of a failing school as skills adviser is just another of the baffling decisions made by Starmer’s army since they came to power, writes the Spectator’s Steerpike.
• “Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages” – Civil liberties groups say that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using vague laws, according to the Times.
• “‘I heard the full story of the woman jailed for two years for a tweet. Her injustice shames Britain’” – A social media post landed Lucy Connolly with a 31-month sentence, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph; her treatment is a testament to our ‘injustice’ system.
• “Prison chiefs accused of blocking mother jailed for social media post from seeing daughter” – A woman who was jailed for two years after she tweeted about the Southport riots has been denied temporary leave to see her 12 year-old daughter and sick husband, reports the Mail.
• “Liberal democracy was once a form of government – now it has become a shallow civic religion and it really sucks” – On Substack, Eugyppius takes aim at pedantic debates over political labels.
• “Miliband pours £2.7 billion into nuclear power plant after EDF cuts stake” – Ed Miliband has thrown another £2.7 billion of taxpayer money at Sizewell C, bringing the UK’s total spend to £8 billion on a nuclear project still awaiting final approval, reports the Telegraph.
• “Just Stop Oil 2.0 is already here – and frothing at the mouth to destroy our summer” – In the Telegraph, William Sitwell charts the rise of Youth Demand, a new group of unwashed eco-activists intent on crippling the capital.
• “Iran abandons Houthis under relentless US bombardment” – Iran has ordered its military troops to abandon Houthi terrorists and leave Yemen amid relentless airstrikes from the US, reports the Sun.
• “The truth about Israel’s ‘bloodlust’ in Gaza” – It increasingly seems that we are being lied to – or at the very least, misled – about what’s going on in Gaza, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?” – You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men that young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists, laments Douglas Murray in the NY Post.
• “Is Hungary right to quit the ICC?” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn weighs up Viktor Orbán’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.
• “Four in ten fear civil war in France amid spread of Islamism” – Concerns about the breakdown of social cohesion, increasing violence and the rise of Islamism have reached an “unprecedented level” in France, reports Breitbart.
• “Could France’s GB News be shut down?” – With C8 gone and CNews now under formal investigation, the attack on freedom of expression in France is escalating, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
• “The martyrdom of Marine Le Pen” – A French court’s banning of Marine Le Pen from presidential elections for five years may have the opposite effect of its apparent intention, writes Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
• “Trump has finally ditched Macron for Marine Le Pen” – The bromance between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is officially over, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “EU ‘prepares to hit Elon Musk with potential $1 billion fine for breaking disinformation laws’” – EU regulators are ready to slap Elon Musk’s X platform with a huge fine for breaking disinformation laws, reports the Mail.
• “Trump can’t afford to lose Musk. He can’t afford to keep him either” – The real story isn’t the Tesla chief’s potential departure, says David Christopher in the Telegraph – it’s that his bromance with the President has lasted this long.
• “Starmer to rush through watered-down electric car rules in wake of Trump tariffs” – Keir Starmer is preparing to rush through changes that water down EV targets as carmakers brace for Trump’s tariffs, reports the Telegraph.
• “China launches major trade war response with 34% additional tariffs” – China will soon impose an additional 34% tariffs on all US imports in a retaliatory move that could cause prices to skyrocket for American consumers, says the Mail.
• “There’s method to Trump’s tariff madness” – Political considerations are just as important as the drive for economic gain, as Trump knows very well, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Trump can’t ignore the stock market carnage forever” – You can’t ‘make America great again’ in a bear market, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ gives us the chance to now realise the dream of Brexit” – Now is the perfect time to slash EU-style regulation and become a prosperous, low-tax nation, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Trump’s new union friends can’t save him from a collapsing approval rating” – There is a political constituency for the President’s trade policy, says Dan McLaughlin in the Telegraph, but his allies are failing to make a coherent argument for it.
• “Misuse of a museum – naked Covid propaganda masquerading as science” – In TCW, Richard Ennos slams the National Museum of Scotland’s ‘Injecting Hope’ exhibition as shameless pharma propaganda.
• “‘I’m a teacher and mother of white British teenage boys – Starmer’s Adolescence plan is a mistake’” – The PM’s plan to screen Netflix’s drama Adolescence in classrooms has met fierce resistance, reports Melissa Twigg in the Telegraph.
• “Universities review trans policies after Sussex’s record fine” – Universities are reviewing their trans equality policies after the University of Sussex was handed a record fine from the higher education regulator, according to the Times.
• “Young women have no role models” – We have become just as confused about the nature of female virtues as the masculine ones, argues Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “Russell Brand is charged with two counts of rape” – Comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape and multiple sexual assaults, according to the Mail.
• “Russell Brand breaks his silence as he is charged with rape” – Russell Brand has spoken out after being charged with rape and sexual assault against four women, reports the Mail.
• “Model Bri Stern details her shocking accusations against Andrew Tate” – In the Mail, Brianna ‘Bri’ Stern gives her account of life with ex-boyfriend Andrew Tate.

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