News Round-Up

• “UK will have to follow EU rules, says minister” – The EU has threatened to derail Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset with eleventh hour demands over fishing rights, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour revolt over Starmer’s Brexit ‘betrayal’” – Labour rebels have turned on Sir Keir Starmer over his “reset” deal with the EU, says the Telegraph.
• “Fury rises over Labour’s Brexit ‘capitulation’” – Brexiteers warn that Labour is set to “surrender control of our country” and accept EU rules on food, reports the Express.
• “Labour will never be forgiven for this appalling Brexit betrayal” – No phrase, however slick, can mask what this really is: a surrender of sovereignty dressed in the garb of diplomacy, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Brexit – the scapegoat for everything” – Brexit has become a convenient scapegoat for bad government policies that have undermined UK exports, says Catherine McBride in Briefings For Britain.
• “The tragedy of Sir Keir? Even he doesn’t believe what he’s saying” – Our contortionist Prime Minister has only one obsession: keeping himself in Downing Street, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
• “Is Keir Starmer about to cave to Labour benefit rebels?” – Keir Starmer could pour money into tackling child poverty and row back on winter fuel payment cuts as he seeks to see off a Labour rebellion on benefits, reports the Mail.
• “Rebellion is in the air. Starmer will struggle to calm it” – Parliamentary discipline is vital to the PM’s survival – but the current crop of MPs will be hard to control, says James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
• “Even Karl Marx respected the rich more than Rachel Reeves” – Labour’s attack on wealth reflects a secularised, bastardised version of Christian morality, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “Why more grandparents are tearing up the inheritance rulebook” – Retirees are choosing to skip a generation in the great wealth transfer – and swerve death taxes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain must take a chainsaw to public spending” – The UK needs its own Elon Musk to counter fiscal incontinence, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “The countries where asylum claims have rocketed 200-fold” – The “absurd” reality about asylum claims in Britain is laid bare in extraordinary detail by the Mail.
• “Should Kemi Badenoch go?” – On the Spectator’s Coffee House Shots podcast, James Heale presides over a debate about Kemi Badenoch with Michael Gove, William Atkinson and Lara Brown.
• “Mother battles for changes to the Government’s Data Bill” – A bereaved mother is battling to amend the Data Bill to force tech giants like Snapchat and Meta to release digital evidence she believes could explain her son’s death, reports the Mail.
• “‘ I don’t think children should have unfettered access to internet’” – On the Daily T podcast, Sophie Windsor speaks out about the pernicious influence of education technology and mobile phones in schools.
• “Britain’s soaring minimum wage takes the shine off university degrees” – Stagnating salaries and a mounting pile of student debt are destroying young people’s career prospects, warns Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “BBC Verify – publicly funded Hamas propaganda” – On his blog, David Collier slams BBC Verify as a publicly funded vehicle for pro-Hamas propaganda.
• “Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt Gal Gadot’s new film in London” – Pro-Palestine protestors in keffiyehs, clanging saucepan lids and shouting through megaphones, have once again disrupted filming of Israeli-born Gal Gadot’s new film in London, reports the Mail.
• “Ministers told to proscribe Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist group” – More than 550 MPs and peers have signed a letter calling for the 125,000-strong Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp to be outlawed in the UK, says the Mail.
• “Huw Edwards dossier: BBC paedo had complaint made about him in 2012” – A dossier of emails has revealed that BBC bosses were warned that a complaint was first made about Huw Edwards as far back as 2012, according to the Mail. 
• “Reform UK launches war on LTNs in all 10 of its newly-won councils” – Having seized a number of councils in May’s local elections, Reform UK has declared war in those areas on low-traffic neighbourhoods, reports the Mail.
• “Families in a village protest against 300 homes earmarked for the area” – Locals in Wharncliffe Side, Sheffield, say they are “traumatised” at the prospect of hundreds of homes being built on their green belt land, according to the Mail.
• “E-bike hit-and-run kills pensioners” – Two pensioners have been killed after being hit by electric bikes in 48 hours, reports the Mail.
• “Is diesel dead? We reveal which used cars are rocketing in value” – The biggest second-hand car stockist in Britain says the average value of diesels has grown 1.6% in the last 12 months – more than any other fuel type, according to the Mail.
• “Britain’s biggest gas storage facility faces closure unless ministers step in” – The UK’s largest gas storage facility could be closed if the Government does not help support a redevelopment of the site, the boss of the company which owns it has told the BBC.
• “Welcome to Britain’s biggest building site. There’s a ‘fish disco’” – Hinkley Point C power station will power a fifth of British homes if it can pull off an audacious plan to protect wildlife, says Ben Spencer in the Sunday Times.
• “Renewables are more expensive than gas” – Claims of cheap renewables are industrial-scale gas-lighting of the public and Parliament, writes David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “‘I was branded pushy by hospital that killed my father’” – A woman has been branded “pushy” by an NHS hospital whose failings led to her father’s death, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel begins ‘extensive ground operations’ in Gaza” – Israel says it has begun “extensive ground operations” in Gaza as part of an expanded campaign to control large swathes of the Strip, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Russia is strong enough to end what we started in Ukraine’” – Vladimir Putin claims that Russia has the “strength and resource” to finish what it started with the invasion of Ukraine, according to the Telegraph.
• “The outrageous cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline” – In Spiked, Jenny Holland rails against the American media elite for trying to cover-up the biggest scandal of the decade, namely, Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
• “Meloni in bitter feud with Macron over Trump call snub” – Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, has warned about “egotism” amongst European leaders after she was left out of a phone call between European leaders and Donald Trump, says the Telegraph.
• “Robots are the new soldiers in China’s tech race against the West” – Beijing’s early push for bot dominance should sound alarm bells in America and Europe, warns Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
• “‘I’ll unite Church and not rule like an autocrat’” – Pope Leo XIV has pledged to unite the Catholic Church and not rule “like an autocrat” in his inauguration mass, reports Sky News.
• “How losing God made Britain miserable” – In the Telegraph, Emily Retter reveals that Britain’s decline in faith has fuelled its widespread misery, showing that religion’s true gift is community and connection – not just belief.
• “Trans woman allowed to run for female seat by UK’s biggest trade union” – A biologically male trans woman has been allowed to run for a female seat at Britain’s biggest trade union, despite the recent Supreme Court gender ruling, reports the Mail.
• “Ads are filled with bodily functions for our incontinent culture” – To watch TV is to be assailed, every minute of the day, by too much information, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
• “Elton John brands ministers ‘losers’ in row over AI ‘theft’ of work” – Sir Elton is among hundreds of creatives who have urged the Government to protect copyright law after it was discovered that companies were using their material without paying for it, reports the Mail.
• “Hackers have ruined M&S’s incredible comeback” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn says it’s now up to M&S boss Stuart Machin to lead the retail war on cybercrime or risk losing it all.
• “Meet the schmucks trying to kneecap the anti-woke alliance” – In Blaze, Yarom Hazony takes aim at the anti-Marxists who were once members of the anti-woke coalition in good standing but who’ve betrayed the cause by branding nationalist conservatives ‘the woke Right’.
• “Those darn lip readers!” – On X, il Donaldo Trumpo comically reimagines Pope Leo XIV’s greeting of J.D. Vance after the inaugural Mass in Rome.

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