News Round-Up

• “India strikes Kashmir” – India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani ‘terror camps’ in Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer signs ‘two-tier’ tax deal for Indian migrants” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of implementing a two-tier tax system after signing a trade deal that exempts Indian migrants from paying National Insurance, says the Telegraph.
• “Those on the Right should be taking credit for the India trade deal, not sniping at it” – In the Telegraph, Dan Hannan argues that the Conservatives should be taking credit for the trade deal with India, not criticising it.
• “The real reason Starmer can’t sack Lucy Powell over the grooming gangs” – According to Michael Deacon in the Telegraph, Sir Keir can’t sack Lucy Powell over her grooming gangs remark because he’d made an even more inflammatory one himself.
• “Britain needs to grow a spine and ban the IRGC” – The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has posed a significant national security threat to our nation for years, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic” – The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face, writes Luca Watson in the Critic.
• “Starmer’s Britain is not worthy of the sacrifice our soldiers made 80 years ago” – How did we go from a titan like Churchill to the managerial nonentity that is our current PM? asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Non-dom exodus threatens to cost Reeves billions” – Rachel Reeves’s crackdown on non-doms threatens to cost the Treasury billions of pounds rather than raising money, according to City A.M.
• “Ofcom’s ‘jailer’ mentality is harming Starmer’s growth plan” – Regulation by collaboration, rather than opposition, can deliver the investment Britain craves, argues Angelos Frangopoulos in the Telegraph.
• “Retired NHS workers on six-figure pensions reaches record high” – The number of retired NHS workers picking up six-figure pensions has reached a record high after increasing tenfold in the last decade, reports the Express.
• “Reform’s economic agenda is an unworkable fantasy” – If Reform UK is serious about Downing Street, then it will have to do something fairly drastic about its economic policies, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Reform councillor attacks Farage as she quits party” – The Spectator’s Steerpike reports that Donna Edmunds, a newly elected Reform UK councillor, has quit the party in a dramatic fashion after her suspension for planning to defect.
• “Teaching in the English culture war” – On his Substack, Paul Sutton exposes the absurdities and ideological battles within English education.
• “Drill oil if you want growth, City grandee urges Labour” – The boss of Britain’s biggest long-term savings firm has warned that Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive will damage growth while making “no difference” to overall carbon emissions, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband’s solar panel drive threatens to derail 1.5 million housing target” – Builders are warning that “unrealistic” Net Zero proposals will delay new homes, according to the Telegraph.
• “Mass immigration means the water will run out and we are not prepared” – Our leaders are ignoring the looming water crisis, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “UK councils’ Net Zero blowout” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill exposes the runaway spending of local councils on Net Zero schemes, revealing tens of millions blown on green gimmickry.
• “Billionaire former Tory donor to build solar farm on 18th Century manor” – A billionaire former Tory donor is aiming to build a solar farm on his 18th Century manor estate in Wiltshire to provide power for his 100-bed mansion, reports the Telegraph.
• “Covid deaths: due to or with?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson reveal how a lack of clarity in defining COVID-19 deaths has inflated the death toll.
• “President Trump issues Executive Order on gain-of-function studies” – On Substack, Dr Meryl Nass hails Trump’s new Executive Order as a long-overdue, hard-hitting crackdown on dangerous gain-of-function research.
• “‘Capturing’ Gaza could backfire spectacularly” – In the Spectator, Limor Simhony Philpott warns that Israel’s plan to retake Gaza risks escalating tensions, undermining military morale and leaving it mired in a quagmire without a clear exit strategy.
• “Houthis agree to stop bombing, claims Trump” – Donald Trump says the US will stop bombing Yemen’s Houthi rebels after he struck a deal with the Iran-backed terror group, according to ABC News.
• “Xi Jinping can’t survive Trump’s tariff pain” – The current trade war is putting the Chinese regime under intense pressure, says Gordon Chang in the Telegraph.
• ‘The old Australia is never coming back’ – On YouTube, Sky News host Andrew Bolt discusses what “killed” the Liberal Party in key seats during the federal election.
• “Devastating new blow for Greens leader Adam Bandt as final result looms” – Green Party leader Adam Bandt’s political career is over after it’s all but confirmed that he’s lost his seat in the Australian federal elections, reports the Mail.
• “US Government warns Australia to stop censoring free speech” – The United States Government has warned Australia to halt its crackdown on free speech following the election of a Left wing Government for a second term, according to the Catholic Herald.
• “Gen-Z’s Christian revival is an act of rebellion against nihilism” – The New York Times might think the crucifix is a ‘hot accessory’, but it’s ignoring the deeper roots of why the young are embracing religion, says Caroline Downey in the Telegraph.
• “Hate not hope” – On the Restoration Substack, Helena Stone unpacks the recent landmark Supreme Court ruling that reasserts biological sex as the legal basis for women’s rights.
• “Gay railway station volunteer banned over gender-critical views” – A gay volunteer has been banned from working at a railway station by West Midlands’ Trains after asking whether the LGBTQ+ livery of the company’s trains would just be for Pride Month or last all year, reports the Telegraph.
• “The National Theatre just gets worse and worse” – Of the National Theatre we must again ask, ‘Whose nation?’ writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Why the Left won’t learn when the Right is right” – From trans to Net Zero, one side of the political spectrum is evidently talking sense, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph. Why won’t the other side listen?
• “BBC admits lapse after not challenging Prince Harry’s stitch up claims” – The BBC has admitted that it failed to properly challenge Prince Harry’s claim he is the victim of a “good old fashioned establishment stitch up”, calling it a lapse in “our usual high editorial standards”, according to the Mail.
• “These are not isolated towns and cities dealing with this crisis. These are interlinked organised criminal gangs” – On GB News, Charlie Peters reveals the links between grooming gang networks that show just how widespread the crisis is across the UK.

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