News Round-Up

• “Britain has lost control of its borders, admits Defence Secretary” – Britain has “lost control” of its borders over the last five years, the Defence Secretary has told Sky News after the highest number of migrants this year crossed the Channel.
• “Suspend EU fishing deal until France stops Channel migrant crossings, Starmer told” – Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to suspend Britain’s fishing deal with the EU until France stops migrant Channel crossings, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour won’t be forgiven for failing to tackle immigration” – Between mass Channel crossings and a spiralling benefits bill for households containing foreign nationals, public patience is wearing thin, warns the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Stopping the boats is only half the battle. We must also restore British values” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Johnson argues that only Kemi Badenoch has the courage to tackle mass migration and revive British values.
• “Dangerous Islamist terrorists should be imprisoned on military base, says report” – A report by one of Britain’s leading experts on extremism has recommended that dangerous Islamist terrorists should be detained in a specially created high-security unit within a military base, according to the Telegraph.
• “Lord Hermer declined to review ‘unduly lenient’ sentences for rapist and paedophile” – Lord Hermer declined to review “unduly lenient” sentences given to a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist fundraiser despite signing off on the prosecution of Lucy Connolly, reports GB News.
• “Troop numbers won’t increase for at least four years, says Defence Secretary” – John Healey says he doesn’t expect the number of people in the Army to rise until the next parliament, according to the Telegraph.
• “This is the opportunity the Tories have been waiting for. Can they take it?” – Someone needs to counter Labour and Reform’s big-spending plans, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “Reform to unleash ‘Doge’ unit on first council” – Nigel Farage’s party has assembled a team of software engineers, data analysts and forensic auditors to look at ways Kent County Council can save cash, reports the Standard.
• “Junior doctors’ union ‘fiddling figures to justify pay strikes’” – Junior doctors are better off now than they were a decade ago, an analysis has found – despite union claims that they’re 22% poorer, according to the Telegraph.
• “Calls grow for union leader to quit after it’s revealed she has five houses” – A union boss who criticised second home ownership turns out to own five properties herself, reports the Mail.
• “Who cares what Full Fact thinks?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill slams Full Fact as a self-appointed truth police with questionable credentials and dodgy funders.
• “French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones” – Franch MPs have voted to scrap Low Emission Zones in a major blow to President Macron’s environmental goals, reports the BBC.
• “How Covid broke Britain” – The pandemic has done more to destroy this country than the Luftwaffe could have dreamed, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “Cancer patients live 40% longer after experimental treatment” – A new cancer treatment that involves using white blood cells to attack foreign cells has been heralded as “groundbreaking”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Shooting the Breeze” – On Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson introduce TTE’s new YouTube channel.
• “America will no longer tolerate Ireland’s war on free speech” – In the Telegraph, Michael Murphy warns that Ireland’s role in enforcing Europe’s sweeping new censorship laws has put it squarely in the US crosshairs.
• “‘Ominous winds are blowing in the West’ – incredible data shows massive demographic transformation in Austria” – New data showing the percentage of people not speaking German at home in Austria underlines just how massive the demographic transformation has been in the country, says Remix.
• “‘The two-state solution is over. We are no longer willing to jeopardise our security’” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley sits down with Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, who declares the two-state solution dead.
• “Greta Thunberg sets sail for Gaza to ‘break Israeli blockade’” – Activist Greta Thunberg and 11 others have set sail for Gaza aboard a flotilla, aiming to deliver some aid and raise “international awareness”, reports the Times of Israel.
• “Multiple people injured in ‘terror attack’ at pro-Israel rally” – A screaming, shirtless man hurled Molotov cocktails at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Colorado, injuring several in what FBI Director Kash Patel has called a “targeted terror attack”, according to the Mail.
• “A conservative case for Palestine” – Conservatives should sympathise with the right of Palestinians to a homeland, writes Noah Carl in the Critic.
• “Medical report leaked that ‘proves Imane Khelif is biological male’” – Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male, reports the Telegraph.
• “Racism re-education has shaky foundations” – In the Times, Libby Purves blasts the National Theatre of Scotland’s whites-only ‘anti-oppression’ training, as exposed by the Free Speech Union, as patronising, divisive and pointless.
• “Andrew Doyle’s book launch” – Andrew Doyle discusses his new book The End of Woke in conversation with Jan Macvarish of the Free Speech Union.
• “The war on normality” – Claiming to inhabit an exotic zone in-between male and female is no different from claiming to be a tree… or fish, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “Happy Pride in Palestine” – A mischievous Lego tableau sums up why Queers For Palestine is such a bone-headed protest movement.

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