News Round-Up

• “Arsonists shouting ‘f*** off foreigners!’ storm Ballymena house” – Two masked men have filmed themselves attempting to burn down a house in Ireland, after two Romanian-speaking men were charged with the attempted rape of a local schoolgirl, reports the Mail.
• “Blame game breaks out over Northern Ireland riots” – Stormont minister Gordon Lyons, accused of “inflaming tensions” with a social media post over recent trouble in Northern Ireland, says he has no intention of resigning, according to the BBC.
• “Why isn’t the BBC telling us what caused the Ballymena riots?” – In the Spectator, Melanie McDonagh slams the BBC for tiptoeing around the truth in Ballymena.
• “Politicians don’t want to admit the truth about the Northern Ireland riots” – Tensions between natives and Roma immigrants have been bubbling for some time, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph. Pretending they don’t exist won’t make them go away.
• “‘I wouldn’t ban the burka’” – Kemi Badenoch has hit out at Reform MPs for backing a burka ban, saying policing what people wear would be a waste of officers’ time, according to the Mail.
• “Reform’s new chairman has swallowed the migration lie hook, line and sinker” – In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes calls out Reform UK’s David Bull for buying into a migration myth that hides years of costly mistakes.
• “We have to prevent Prevent from undermining freedom” – Plenty of people have been referred to Prevent after lawful views were mistaken for signs of extremism, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “‘My plan for Prevent’” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle suggests scrapping Prevent and replacing it with a new system focused solely on Islamic terrorism.
• “Reeves accused of ‘making up numbers’ in spending review” – Chancellor Rachel Reeves has come under fire for allegedly using questionable figures in her spending review, reports Share Talk.
• “Rachel Reeves only has herself to blame for this recession” – The Chancellor chose to ignore the warnings that her tax raids would crash the economy, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Why Starmer’s homelessness reform could see Britain overrun by rough sleepers” – Critics fear scrapping the Vagrancy Act will lead to a proliferation of ‘tent cities’ similar to that in American cities like San Francisco, reports Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “How to ruin a city” – If you encourage lawlessness you can be seen to be doing it for all the right reasons, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Labour’s ID plans could usher in an Orwellian era” – Covid vaccine passports were a stark warning that we cannot trust politicians with this level of power, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Khanthoods” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland brands Sadiq Khan as Britain’s most undeserving knight.
• “MPs demand inquiry into ‘Chinese links’ to Telegraph takeover” – According to the Telegraph, a group of MPs and peers are calling for an inquiry into potential Chinese links to the funding of its takeover deal.
• “You have no rights” – Hamit Coskum’s prosecution shows that human rights in Britain exist only when the state decides they do, writes Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
• “Laurence Fox wears ‘two tier’ cap to court” – Laurence Fox wore a “two tier” cap as he arrived at court over a sexual offence, reports the Mail.
• “Why are we decarbonising the military?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill updates on the MoD’s Net Zero efforts.
• “Doctor Who star spoke at pro-Palestinian protest” – Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa spoke at a pro-Palestinian demonstration days after pulling out of Eurovision hosting duties, reports the Mail.
• “Is Israel preparing to strike Iran?” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti warns Israel is poised to strike Iran as its nuclear threat grows, while the West turns a blind eye to the harsh realities pushing the Middle East to the brink.
• “LA riots backed by pro-Hamas activists who called for city to burn” – The violent protests engulfing Los Angeles are backed by pro-Hamas activists who called for the city to be “burned”, reveals the Telegraph.
• “‘We’ll flood liberal cities with ICE raids’” – Donald Trump’s border tsar Tom Homan says protesters will do nothing to slow the pace of detentions amid unrest in Los Angeles, according to the Telegraph.
• “Whistleblower raised safety fears over Boeing Dreamliner factory” – A Boeing 787 jet, identical to the one that crashed in India, made four emergency landings in less than a month earlier this year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Passenger’s video ‘shows ‘nothing working’ on doomed Air India jet’” – An Air India passenger has shared a video showing electrical fittings, including air conditioning and TV screens, not working on the jet he was travelling on – just hours before it crashed in a deadly fireball, according to the Mail.
• “Suttee resurrected: when suicide is dressed up as romance” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth warns that today’s push for assisted dying risks reviving suttee’s dark legacy, turning suicide into a “dignified” choice that may hide coercion, especially for vulnerable women.
• “The borough where one in three people has a sick note” – Telegraph research shows Knowsley, in Merseyside, has the highest proportion of people with ‘fitness for work’ statements in the UK.
• “Health Department had evidence of Covid jab risk to kids three years before removing recommendation” – On Substack, Peter Fam reports that Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has finally admitted Covid jabs pose more harm than good to healthy kids.
• “This is why the WHO, GAVI, CEPI, COVAX need to be defunded immediately” – On Substack, Dr Meryl Nass cites WHO chief Tedros’s push for local mRNA production as proof of WHO overreach – and a clear reason to defund WHO, GAVI, CEPI and COVAX now.
• “Equalities watchdog tells trans activists personal attacks ‘have to stop’” – EHRC chair Baroness Falkner has told trans activists that personal attacks on her and her staff have “got to stop”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why OnlyFans has young British women in its grip” – In the Spectator, Louise Perry explores how OnlyFans hooks young British women by feeding their obsession with beauty and validation.
• “Insist on freedom” – In a video on X, Together’s Alan B. Miller demands a Digital Bill of Rights as the Government pushes forced digital ID, CBDCs, constant surveillance, debanking, censorship and two-tier policing.

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