News Round-Up

• “Iranian terror suspects ‘targeted Israeli Embassy in London’” – Police believe that a group of suspected Iranian terrorists were planning a deadly attack on the Israeli Embassy in London, according to the Mail.
• “Downing Street says grooming gangs scandal is being ‘weaponised’” – Sir Keir Starmer’s Downing Street has been condemned by victims of rape gangs after he supported Lucy Powell’s suggestion that the scandal was being ‘weaponised’, reports the Mail.
• “Lucy Powell’s dismissal of the rape gangs horror exposes Labour’s monstrous cover-up” – Why in the name of God hasn’t Lucy Powell been sacked? wonders Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Only some victims get the sympathy of the Left” – Lucy Powell is not alone, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph. Too many imagine that only the rich and powerful can truly be sexual predators.
• “Immigration judges accused of pushing ‘activist’ views” – Immigration judges have been accused of potentially breaching the judicial code of conduct by advocating highly charged political views, reports the Mail.
• “Two-tier Keir is making Labour’s annihilation more certain by the day” – Starmer declared that he “gets it” after his party’s thrashing at the ballot box. But a recent series of unforced errors, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph, suggests otherwise.
• “Four times Rachel Reeves got her maths wrong” – From winter fuel to private schools, the Chancellor’s calculations are on track to backfire, says Charlotte Gifford in the Telegraph.
• “This Indian trade deal could be a disaster for Labour” – By clumsily exempting temporary Indian workers from National Insurance contributions Sir Keir Starmer has blown it, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Starmer’s ‘thought police’ turning off working class voters, says Labour peer” – The founder of Blue Labour Lord Glasman has called for the party to allow “those who created the movement” to speak their minds on subjects like immigration, reports the Telegraph.
• “The delicious media meltdown over Reform’s success” – The media elites’ hissy fit over the local-election results is a hilarious rage of the entitled, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Calling Reform ‘far-Right’ won’t work in Britain” – In the Telegraph, Gavin Mortimer slams Europe’s media for lazily branding Nigel Farage’s Reform party “far-Right”.
• “Are the Tories mad enough to bring back Boris Johnson?” – Boris Johnson’s groupies have very selective memories, says William Atkinson in the Spectator.
• “Keir Starmer squirms over winter fuel allowance and Net Zero at PMQs” – During a bad-tempered PMQs, Kemi Badenoch said the Government was “balancing the books on the backs” of the older generation, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer defying his own MPs over winter fuel cut, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has urged Sir Keir Starmer to reverse Labour’s cut to winter fuel payments amid growing pressure on the PM to backtrack on the policy, according to the BBC.
• “Scientists to brighten clouds above Britain to fight global warming” – Four-mile-long cloud brightening experiments could take place in Britain within the next five years in an attempt to slow global warming, reports the Telegraph.
• “Massive North Sea wind farm development halted over soaring costs” – Work on a huge UK wind farm has been halted in a body blow to Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive, says the Mail.
• “‘Hollow Mountain’ hydro power plant expansion put on hold” – Drax has shelved plans for a major expansion of its underground hydro-electric facility at Ben Cruachan, citing rising costs and a decision not to bid for UK Government support, according to the BBC.
• “Shocking Antarctica discovery sends climate deniers into celebration” – Scientists have made a shocking discovery in Antarctica that has climate change deniers claiming there’s now proof global warming is just a hoax, reports the Mail.
• “A very different interpretation of the Keeling curve carbon dioxide data” – On his Substack, Stephen Andrews challenges the mainstream climate narrative, arguing that ocean temperatures – not human activity – are the dominant driver of atmospheric CO₂ levels.
• “Nurse-led open letter raises concern about Letby conviction” – The Nursing Times reports on an open letter sent by 19 nurses urging health unions to support their call for a review of the Lucy Letby case.
• “FBI investigating alarming incidents amid ‘poor culture of safety’ at NIH’s high security pathogen lab” – On his Disinformation Chronicle Substack, Paul D. Thacker reveals the FBI is probing serious safety lapses at a National Institutes for Health germ lab.
• “RFK Jr. just made his best hire yet (and that’s saying something)” – Dr Vinay Prasad will make sure new drugs actually work before the Food and Drug Administration approves them, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Pakistanis in London to protest outside Indian Embassy as Asian conflict reaches Britain” – Pakistanis in London have scheduled a protest outside of India’s Embassy in London, following Tuesday’s missile attack, reports the Mail.
• “A war between India and Pakistan could soon spill onto British streets” – Our overstretched police are already dedicated to maintaining civic peace between our diaspora populations, warns James Snell in the Telegraph.
• “France is quietly tightening its citizenship rules” – France is reviving the principle that nationality is not a right, but a privilege, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
• “New Merz government orders the pushback of all illegal migrants at the German borders, effectively abolishes asylum as a path into Germany” – On his Substack, Eugyppius argues that Merz’s clampdown on illegal immigration is a far greater threat to the AfD than Germany’s intelligence services classifying it as an enemy of the state.
• “Biden’s attempt to rewrite history is fooling no one” – Joe Biden’s record on NATO and Ukraine is shameful, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Biden interview reminds us why Americans elected Trump” – We shouldn’t be taking lectures from the former US President after his betrayal of Israel, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Is Pride dead? Big brands keep distance from LGBT celebrations” – In the Washington Post, Taylor Telford reports that US corporations are scaling back their sponsorship of LGBT Pride events amid a broader rejection of diversity initiatives under President Trump.
• “Rolls-Royce ditches LGBT+ group amid pressure from Trump” – Rolls-Royce has announced that it will ditch its LGBTQ+ and other diversity groups after pressure from the US government, according to the Derby Telegraph.
• “Disney to open theme park in Abu Dhabi after abandoning diversity push” – Disney is to open its first Middle Eastern theme park in a country where homosexuality is illegal after the US media giant watered down its diversity policies, reports the Telegraph.
• “Councils hiding DEI roles behind different titles to avoid scrutiny from taxpayers” – Critics claim that DEI officers at councils are being given different titles to hide their existence from irate voters and campaign groups, according to Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Taxi racism row forces youngest Labour councillor to quit” – One of Britain’s youngest councillors claims she was bullied into quitting the Labour Party after she was branded a racist for calling for CCTV security cameras to be put in minicabs, reports the Mail. 
• “This heavy-handed regulator will harm English football” – In the Times, Oliver Dowden argues that Labour’s new football regulator will mean needless interference in the management of football clubs and the operation of the EFL.
• “Scholars of Britain’s cultural revolution” – In Country Squire, Niall McCrae explores the West’s cultural revolution, tracing its roots to Maoist strategy and the rise of woke ideology.
• “What’s the point of VE Day?” – In UnHerd, Mary Harrington reflects on how the fading memory of VE Day mirrors Britain’s diminished sense of purpose.
• “Watch this. Then take action” – On X, Toby and Andrew Griffith MP are booted from a pub while discussing Labour’s chilling Employment Rights Bill, which could turn every pub into a ‘safe space’ if Clause 20 passes.

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