News Round-Up

• “Jaguar Land Rover halts US exports worth £6.5bn as Trump’s tariffs bite” – Jaguar Land Rover is pausing all shipments to the US “for two weeks”, as the carmaker grapples with the impact of Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on foreign cars, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump’s tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan” – Donald Trump’s tariffs will tip the world’s largest economy into recession, America’s biggest investment bank, JP Morgan, has warned, the Telegraph reports.
• “Starmer backs down on free speech law that could harm Trump trade talks” – No 10 has shelved plans to force tech companies to take down ‘fake news’ amid fears a free speech row could derail trade talks with Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
• “Singapore-on-Thames is a far better plan than tariff war” – Retaliatory UK action would be the merest self-harming pinprick on the hide of the elephant-sized US economy, says Kwasi Kwarteng in the Telegraph.
• “Almost half of firms to slash recruitment due to Chancellor’s NI raid” – A survey of 254 companies representing more than 260,000 employees found that 46% said they would curtail their hiring as a result of the tax rise, the Mail reports.
• “Almost any MEP in Brussels could be prosecuted. Only Eurosceptics like Le Pen are” – Technical misuse of European funding is difficult to completely avoid in the EU Parliament, and outright corruption scandals are frequent, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “This middle-class moral panic about ‘toxic masculinity’ is growing unhinged” – Liberals gushing over Netflix’s Adolescence are desperate to distract us from certain far greater social problems, like grooming gangs, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP Dan Norris arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences” – Labour MP and West of England Mayor Dan Norris has been arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences and been suspended by the Labour party, the Telegraph reports.
• “Net Zero insulation plan won’t pay off for 100 years, Government admits” – Net Zero insulation could take more than a century to repay in reduced energy bills, a Government-backed study has admitted, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour must rip up its Net Zero plans in this new world order” – In a world dominated by tariffs and trade wars, the Government needs to rip apart its plans and start afresh with proposals that can genuinely boost growth – and that needs to start with scrapping the wealth-destroying Net Zero targets, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Miliband approves wind turbines as tall as Eiffel Tower to be built in Channel” – Ed Miliband has approved plans for a giant wind farm to be built in the English Channel with dozens of turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower, despite hundreds of objections, reports the Telegraph.
• “What really happened to couple arrested over school WhatsApps” – The Mail has the inside track on the latest from police state UK.
• “Mother jailed for Southport X post should be freed, says former Prime Minister” – Liz Truss has said Lucy Connolly was the “victim of the politicised two-tier justice system in Starmer’s Britain”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Inside Britain’s two-tier justice system” – Racial activism is corrupting the law, says M.L. Friend in UnHerd.
• “Half of sick notes are handed out without the patient seeing a doctor” – Millions of sick notes – around half the total – are being doled out without patients having to see a GP or nurse in person, according to a damning Government study, reports the Mail.
• “Lucy Letby’s case has been torn apart by the world’s greatest minds. Yet those who believe she shouldn’t be retried all spout the same old tripe” – Whether Lucy Letby is guilty or innocent, please can we just get on with it and reopen the case, pleads Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Letby barrister: US death row inmates have better shot at freedom than wrongfully convicted Britons” – Lucy Letby’s new barrister Mark McDonald believes that keeping the nurse’s case in the public eye is the only way to beat a system he says is stacked against her, says the Telegraph.
• “Joan of Arc was non-binary, schoolchildren taught” – In the Who We Are anthology published by Collins, which is made up of “representative and inclusive contemporary texts”, a lesson plan for secondary school children includes a biography that reads: “Joan of Arc (1412-31) is today considered by some to have been non-binary”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Another Genuine Turkish Barber” – Read the latest instalment of Paul Sutton’s The Drenching Arms.
• “Fury after riverside hotel is used to house 150 male migrants” – The decision to house 146 male asylum seekers in a luxury hotel located on a Cambridgeshire waterpark long used for swimming and rowing has sparked a bitter row – amid claims that many women no longer feel comfortable there, reports the Mail.
• “GLEICHAUF: Alternative für Deutschland in historic first pulls dead even with CDU/CSU in latest INSA poll” – It has finally happened: Alternative für Deutschland is no longer the second-strongest party in Germany; for the first time ever, it has pulled dead-even with CDU/CSU in a representative poll, says Eugyppius.
• “Transgender athlete Lia Rose wins girls event in Oregon… two years after finishing last against boys” – A biological male, Lia Rose, won a girls’ varsity high jump event in Oregon this week, almost two years after finishing last in a boys equivalent, the Mail reports.
• “BBC accused of ‘Islamist propaganda’ for calling Muslim converts ‘reverts’” – The BBC has been accused of parroting “Islamist propaganda” after describing Muslim converts as “reverts”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Two Labour MPs denied entry to Israel over suspected ‘anti-Israel hatred’” – Two Labour MPs have been denied entry to Israel and deported as they were suspected of plans to “document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred”, according to a statement from the Israeli Immigration Ministry, reports the Telegraph.
• “Civil Service banned from wasting cash on branded mugs” – The Cabinet Office is targeting spending on merchandise including jumpers and ‘fidget cubes’, as well as staff away days, says the Telegraph. Anything except reducing headcount it seems.
• “Surge in diversity bosses ‘plaguing’ public sector” – Britain’s quangos have spent more than £26 million on equality, diversity and inclusion roles since 2021, the Telegraph reports.
• “Harry and Meghan have been out-victimed” – Harry and Meghan are getting a taste of their own race-card medicine, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph. But it’s the AIDS and HIV afflicted children of Lesotho who will suffer.
• “Hordes of huge rats or phone-snatching thugs: what cities get for voting Labour” – Birmingham is overrun by a Biblical plague of monstrous rodents, and run-down London is suffering a reign of terror. That’s what you get for voting Labour, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Edinburgh University lecturers trained on accent bias” – Lecturers at Edinburgh University have become the first in the UK to undertake ‘accent bias training’ to counteract ‘anti-Scottish bullying’ at the institution, reports the Times.
• “Nurse who called transgender paedophile ‘Mr’ is suspended” – Nurse Jennifer Melle, who was previously investigated and disciplined by NHS bosses despite being called the N-word three times by the patient, a convicted sex offender, has now been suspended for a “potential breach” of patient information, reports the Mail.

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