News Round-Up

• “Starmer trying to ‘kiss goodbye to Brexit’” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of trying to drag Britain back into the EU under his ‘reset’ deal with Brussels, reports the Telegraph.
• “Macron thwarts UK over fish – and this is only the beginning” – Brussels has landed a whopper of a “Brexit reset deal” on fish, writes James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “An unnecessary and costly EU ‘reset’” – Starmer’s new alignment with the EU is more sinister than it may appear, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “How much Starmer’s Brexit deal might cost you” – Britain could have to pay Brussels about £16 billion as part of Sir Keir Starmer’s reset, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘This EU ‘reset’ deal is far worse than even I feared. Tories must now start unravelling it’” – Starmer has betrayed Brexit comprehensively, says David Frost in the Telegraph; this country will pay the price for it.
• “Starmer’s Brexit betrayal is a national humiliation” – Quietly, shamefully, deliberately we are being dragged back into the EU, writes Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph. A future Conservative government will not let this stand.
• “Why fishing matters” – There is something more than a little irksome about letting foreign fishermen into our waters in return for faster passport gates, especially when it’s going to make this declining industry worse off, says Gus Carter in the Spectator.
• “Fishermen slam Starmer’s ‘raw deal’ giving EU fleet access to UK seas” – Furious fishermen have branded Sir Keir Starmer’s “raw deal” to hand EU trawlers access British waters for 12 years an “absolute disaster”, according to the Mail.  
• “Starmer succumbs to the EU hook, line and sinker” – We’ve returned to paying Brussels for the opportunity to follow its rules, laments Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson brands Keir Starmer the ‘gimp of Brussels’ over EU deal” – Boris Johnson has branded Sir Keir Starmer the “orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels” and says the PM’s “hopelessly one-sided” deal with the EU should not be signed, reports the Mail.
• “All the times Starmer showed his true colours on the EU” – The Telegraph looks at all the times Sir Keir has shown his true colours on the Europe question.
• “The Soros-funded Brexit betrayal” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill explains how pro-EU lobby groups have crushed democracy.
• “Foreign criminals to be deported as soon as they are convicted” – Foreign criminals could be deported immediately or after serving just a fraction of their sentences under new proposals to free up space in overcrowded jails, reports GB News.
• “Britain ‘needs anti-subversion laws to save democracy from itself’” – A Government watchdog has warned that Britain may need anti-subversion laws to counter threats from states determined to undermine democracy, says Sky News.
• “Stop Labour’s ‘banter bouncers’ before it’s too late” – Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill would turn everyday conversation into a legal minefield, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “Reforms put child protection in danger, ministers warned” – The architect of past child protection reforms has warned that government changes to social services risk more children dying from abuse or neglect, says the Times.
• “Protesters rally against Government’s ‘insane’ Schools Bill” – Hundreds of teachers, parents and children gathered in Central London on Sunday to demonstrate against the “insane” Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, reports the Guardian.
• “Bridget Phillipson’s education Bill is an abuse of state power” – We should trust parents and teachers over the ideological meddling of the Labour Party, writes Katharine Birbalsingh in the Telegraph.
• “Bridget Phillipson is destroying Britain’s education system” – Bridgette Phillipson set out to destroy the best English schools – and she is a long way to achieving her goal, says Stephen Pollard in the Spectator.
• “The private school exodus has begun” – In the Spectator, Arabella Byrne charts the scale of the private school exodus triggered by Labour’s VAT hike on fees.
• “Do schoolchildren need to ‘advocate for Palestine’?” – By attempting to bring the Palestinian ‘struggle’ into the classroom, the National Education Union is grossly overreaching, says Joanna Williams in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s money-printing experiment turns into a £150 billion taxpayer ‘disaster’” – The Bank of England isn’t the only one counting the cost of quantitative easing, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “You’d have to be mad to start a business in Labour’s Britain” – The threat to entrepreneurs in the UK is not imaginary – it’s already being felt, says Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
• “Under Labour, Britain is living beyond its means” – The Government is only fishing around in the shallows when it comes to trying to rein in public spending, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Why Reform voters are more likely to get a date than a Tory” – According to a new study, Reform UK voters enjoy more success on dating apps than Conservative voters, reports the Conversation.
• “Gary Lineker is condemned as ‘egotist’ as he prepares to quit BBC” – Gary Lineker has been branded “an egotist who mistook celebrity for moral authority”, according to the Mail.
• “Gary Lineker’s social media controversies as he is set to step down ” – The Mail looks back at Gary Lineker’s long list of social media messes.
• “Gary Lineker and the truth about toxic centrism” – Many good men have been lost to the religion of centrism – Gary Lineker is the latest, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Lineker’s exit is the start of the BBC’s redemption” – The job of highly paid presenters on a publicly-funded broadcaster is not to opine on social media about their personal obsessions, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “How virtue-signalling rots the soul” – Gary Lineker’s embrace of Israelophobia reveals the useful idiocy of the centrist dads, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “The West’s next mass blackouts might be ‘made in China’” – Ed Miliband’s gamble on Chinese solar may not deliver cheap power or energy security after all, says Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s EU sellout deal on carbon pricing to hike electricity bills ‘by £200 million per year’” – Starmer’s sellout deal with the EU on carbon pricing is set to hike electricity bills by an estimated £200 million per year, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Chris Packham is no saint. He’s an environmental extremist to us country folk” – Likening Chris Packham to St Francis of Assisi has made his holier-than-thou attitude worse than ever, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Princess of Wales champions six months’ paternity leave for new fathers” – Princess Kate has inspired Deloitte, one of Britain’s leading businesses, to offer new fathers six months of fully-paid paternity leave, according to GB News.
• “Six months’ paternity leave is ridiculous – not all things have to be equal” – Until men can bear children and breastfeed, you can give them all the time off in the world – it will still be Mum left holding the baby, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “GPs ‘should not have to report illegal child sex’” – The BMA has raised “serious concerns” about Government proposals that could require doctors to report every case of underage sexual activity where one partner is aged over 18, reports the Telegraph.
• “Heart disease deaths rise for first time in 50 years” – The UK’s heart health has declined more quickly at the start of the 2020s than in any other decade for over 50 years, warns the British Health Foundation.
• “‘FDA and US Government aware of my debunking of huge Watson et al Covid vaccine study’” – On Substack, Raphael Lataster debunks the famed Watson et al Covid vaccine study and warns the FDA and US Government: you’ve seen the evidence – now do something.
• “Why won’t western scientists condemn Wuhan?” – On his blog, Matt Ridley calls out Western scientists for condemning He Jiankui’s gene-editing while protecting Wuhan’s far deadlier virus experiments.
• “Democracy dies in Romania” – We routinely criticise other countries for sham elections, but aren’t we in the ‘democratic West’ at least halfway there already? wonders Neil Clark in the Spectator.
• “Biden’s cancer diagnosis is very strange, and a medical cover-up is the least of it” – On Substack, Eugyppius claims Biden’s cancer isn’t the scandal – it’s the cover-up by a shadowy inner circle that ran the presidency while hiding his decline from the world.
• “Does America have a Muslim problem?” – Unless something changes, it is only a matter of time before America starts to experience what Europe, several decades further down the road, is starting to go through, warns Douglas Carswell on the Restoration Substack.
• “Half of Labour voters back Supreme Court ruling on biological sex” – Polling shows that the majority of Britons back the Supreme Court’s ruling on gender, reports Georgina Mumford in Spiked.
• “Pride is now anti-gay” – On GB News, Andrew Doyle argues that Stroud Pride’s ban on those with “LGB views” reveals how the gay rights movement has been hijacked by gender ideology.
• “Britain’s first transgender MP ‘harassed ex-wife as he transitioned’” – A court has heard how Britain’s first trans MP harassed his ex-wife by sending her unwanted text messages and voicemails while experiencing the “emotional, physical and medical” effects of transitioning, according to the Mail.
• “The Mars vanity project” – Elon Musk’s Mars plans are not just illusory, they are dangerous, warns Lawrence M. Krauss in Quillette.
• “Dilbert creator Scott Adams reveals same cancer diagnosis as Biden, says he has months to live” – Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasised to his bones, reports the Hill.
• “Literary festival for free speech” – On Free Speech Nation, Peter Whittle tells Josh Howie that the UK publishing world has been captured by woke ideology. His answer? A new literary festival from the New Culture Forum that actually celebrates free speech.

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