News Round-Up

• “Donald Trump has got what he wanted” – The conventional narrative is that Trump has blinked, but Matthew Lynn in the Spectator thinks he simply got what he wanted.
• “I want to discriminate against white candidates, says police chief” – The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, John Robins, has called for discrimination against white British candidates to be legal, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer faces grassroots rebellion over grooming gangs” – Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from the influential Blue Labour group over his refusal to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. “This is a national evil that requires a national response,” it said.
• “Ex-police chief: Officers have failed white working class girls – we need a grooming gangs inquiry” – He was once the face of progressive policing, but Neil Basu says political correctness in Rotherham was a “fundamental” mistake and there must now be a national grooming gangs inquiry, reports the Telegraph.
• “Mass immigration has resuscitated hatred of women across Britain” – Many feminists don’t want to confront the reality of the racist and sexist attitudes that have been imported into Britain, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Deporting migrant would ‘stress’ him out, judge rules” – A Somali criminal seeking asylum in the UK has avoided deportation after a judge ruled that returning him to his home country would cause him too much “stress”, the Telegraph reports.
• “The BBC expected contrition from Kemi. It owes us an apology instead” – Instead of pushing the Tory leader to talk about the fictional Adolescence, it should look closer to home with its show about grooming gangs, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Immigrants in US to be classified as dead to pressure them to ‘self-deport’” – Immigrants in the US without legal status will be classified as dead as part of plans to stop them accessing benefits, according to the Telegraph.
• “The case for uniting the Right” – However distasteful the prospect may be Reform and the Tories, if they ‘do the math’ they will see that without a pact Keir Starmer will remain in power for a long time to come, warns Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
• “Let’s not forget the mass casualties of the Covid response” – Gary Sidley sets the record straight about pandemic deaths on Substack.
• “Chemical hated by RFK Jr linked to 500% increase in child autism risk” – A new report finds a disturbing link between fluoride in water and autism, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer to pass emergency law to ‘take control’ of British Steel” – British Steel is to be taken into Government control as Keir Starmer prepares to pass emergency legislation which paves the way for nationalisation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is Britain finally going nuclear?” – On the news that Sizewell C may finally be approved, Sam Dumitriu in the Spectator looks at why Britain has the most expensive nuclear power in the world (Spoiler: it’s because we throttle it with over-zealous regulation).
• “Inside the Controversial Decision to Rid the UK of its Plutonium Stores” – The UK has the largest stockpile of plutonium in the world that could potentially power the country for hundreds of years. So why has the Government decided to get rid of the valuable nuclear material, asks Tali Fraser for PoliticsHome.
• “Free Zone Communiqué – Episode 19” – Daily Sceptic Energy Editor Tilak Doshi talks green scams on the Free Zone Communiqué.
• “Pro-Palestinian protesters pelted with eggs while blocking traffic” – Pro-Palestinian protesters Youth Demand – described as ‘Just Stop Oil 2.0’ (why does climate fanaticism so often melt into pro-Palestine activism?) – were pelted with eggs as they blocked traffic in central London, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fury at ‘hypocrite’ Prince Harry’s secret trip to war-torn Ukrainian city bombed 30 times by Putin as he demands more taxpayer-funded security in ‘unsafe’ UK” – Prince Harry has been accused of hypocrisy today after he went rogue and flew to war-torn Ukraine despite claiming he and his family cannot be safe on the streets of the UK, says the Mail.
• “Massacre of the Lane Swimmers” – Read the next instalment of Paul Sutton’s Drenching Arms.
• “Will Hamas’s human rights challenge succeed?” – British lawyers, acting on behalf of Hamas, are threatening an ECHR legal challenge to end the group’s proscription under terrorism legislation. Will they succeed, asks Alexander Horne in the Spectator.
• “Drop preferred pronouns for sex offenders, judges told” – Judges have been warned by the Judicial Office (another quango!) against using preferred pronouns for transgender offenders who commit violent or sex crimes, reports the Telegraph.
• “LAHSA Oopso” – Is the LA homelessness industry on the verge of collapse, asks Thomas Buckley in the Point.
• “Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke” – Bluesky, the social media refuge for Lefties who don’t like reading alternative opinions, has a serious sense of humour problem, says Ashwin Rodrigues in Wired.
• “Sleeping on the job: New NHS boss Sir Jim Mackey tells MPs at 11.53am he’ll ‘pick up the pace’ of reform – then at 3.23pm falls asleep watching Netflix hit The Diplomat in a first-class train carriage to his home 300 miles away” – Snoozing in first class in the middle of the working day, this is the new head of the NHS hired to tackle “inefficiency”, reports the Mail – and he even left his laptop unlocked when he went to the loo!

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