News Round-Up

• “Iran’s supreme leader facing fury from within” – Iran’s supreme leader is facing growing anger from within the regime’s ruling inner circle following Israel’s attacks on the country’s nuclear infrastructure, with pressure reportedly being brought on him to improve relations with the West amid ongoing economic collapse, reports the Telegraph.
• “Iran launches fresh barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel amid all-out war in the Middle East as IDF strikes oil and gas sites after vowing ‘Tehran will burn’” – The latest escalations come as Britain deploys more jets to the Middle East after Iran threatened the US and UK that it could retaliate if they come to Israel’s defence, says the Mail.
• “A surgical strike against Islamist tyranny” – Israel’s daring raid on Iran has dealt a devastating blow to a barbarous, war-mongering regime, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Iran ‘able to make 15 nuclear bombs’” – Israel says it has intelligence to show that Iran was planning to weaponise its enriched uranium and that it posed an “immediate existential threat”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel knows what we won’t accept: the mullahs want nuclear war” – The death cult in Tehran has never even tried to hide its intentions towards its Middle East enemy, says Matthew Syed in the Times.
• “Revealed: Elaborate ‘deception operation’ orchestrated by Trump and Israel’s Netanyahu to decapitate Iran’s leadership and cripple nuclear programme” – Sources in Israeli and US security have revealed to the Mail more about Trump’s role in the cunning deception.
• “Iran is everything it accuses Israel of being” – The war-mongering, genocidal rogue state of Iran has terrorised the Middle East and its own people for too long, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “No, I do not think Israel’s strike on Iran portends a broader regional war or imminent Armageddon” – Eugyppius is feeling sanguine as he breaks from the gloomy consensus.
• “Labour would reward Hamas by recognising Palestine” – Now is not the time to abandon Israel as it faces an existential threat from enemies of the West, argues Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer set to launch full national inquiry into grooming gangs” – In a major U-turn, the Prime Minister has said that setting up a statutory investigation into the scandal was the “right thing to do” despite previously insisting it would take too long, according to the Telegraph.
• “Officials threw children to the wolves to save their own skins. Now they must pay the price” – In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes welcomes Starmer’s grooming gangs U-turn, saying a generation of politicians and officials abandoned children to avoid ‘tensions’ and it’s time they faced a reckoning.
• “This must end the grooming cover-up for good” – The national inquiry into the scandal must hold to account the politicians and officials who allowed it to carry on for years, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Dominic Cummings may have just blown the grooming gangs scandal wide open” – Ahead of Starmer’s U-turn, the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon suggested that Dominic Cummings’s revelations of witnessing an active government cover-up in train over a decade ago made an inquiry feel inevitable.
• “Manhunt for ‘Tim Walz appointee’ after ‘assassination’ of Democrat politician” – Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot dead at their home in Minnesota by a man believed to be a Tim Walz appointee carrying anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ flyers in his car, reports the Telegraph.
• “The map that shows how Britain gave up on fighting crime” – From a city plagued by vandalism to motorway services blighted by petrol theft, the Telegraph visits the hotspots that reveal a lawlessness epidemic.
• “Britain is turning into a Third World country” – One of the best aspects of the UK is social capital, but it is ebbing away, and the state is struggling to protect us from crime, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Reform is Corbynism with a flag: the Tories stand for economic freedom” – In the Telegraph, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warns that Reform is veering sharply to the Left on economics, as she makes the case that growth comes from embracing the private sector and it’s not possible to tax ourselves to prosperity.
• “I’m a GP, and I’m sick of the NHS always winning” – In the Telegraph, GP Katie Musgrave suggests that patients should be required to make some kind of payment for medical appointments, noting that despite healthcare expenditure continuing to increase, productivity in hospitals has fallen.
• “Ballymena may be a taste of things to come” – We can no longer ignore the simmering tensions in our midst, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Controversial mandarin and border chief on list to scoop top honours” – Contentious Whitehall honours this year include Sarah Healey, who infamously boasted that Covid-era lockdowns meant she could see more of her children as well as giving her longer to ride her Peloton exercise bike, and border chief Phil Douglas, on whose watch well over 100,000 people have arrive illegally on small boats, says the Mail.
• “Think petrol-powered cars are dead? Tell that to investors” – EVs have failed to win over consumers but hybrids could be here for the long haul, suggests Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Cargo Ship With Electric Vehicles Burning is Abandoned in Pacific Ocean” – In WUWT, Leslie Eastman reports on the Morning Midas, a cargo ship which caught fire in the Pacific while carrying approximately 3,000 vehicles, of which up to 800 were electric or hybrid.
• “Celebrate – CO₂ Levels Just Hit 430ppm” – The gas of life is greening the deserts, contributing to rising agricultural yields and making the far North more habitable – but you would never learn this from mainstream media, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say” – A study for Ofcom has found that authorities may have over-egged the manosphere scare as only a minority of men engaged in it are consuming “extremely misogynistic content”, according to the Guardian.
• “BBC Arabic apologises for claiming Jews spit on Christians in ‘holiday ritual’” – The BBC has been forced to apologise following a string of dubious claims about Jews in its Arabic service, says the Telegraph.
• “UK taxpayer funds gay porn studies and music therapy for pregnant Africans” – The Government has spent nearly £30 million on fringe research projects such as exploring gay porn after the Second World War and recording Syrian harvesting songs, reports the Telegraph.
• “The danger of Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment” – Stella Creasy’s latest campaign to ‘decriminalise’ abortion is not about minor tweaks or supposed modernisation; it’s so radical it’s even met opposition from pro-abortion campaigners, says Fleur Meston in the Spectator.
• “Hate crime probe into ex-Labour MP dropped in two-tier policing row” – A fresh two-tier policing row has erupted after a force failed to bring charges against former Labour MP Chris Williamson, who said Israel has forfeited any right to exist, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s latest freebie: British sovereignty in exchange for nothing” – Labour is yet to reveal how many billions are being squandered on a reset that has already prompted another big fat ‘non’ from Paris, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP accuses families hit by private school tax raid of ‘crying to the courts’” – Labour MP Jonathan Hinder has called those who brought the private school VAT raid case to the High Court “crazy” after judges dismissed the legal challenges, the Telegraph reports.
• “Cambridge University ‘discriminates’ against white job seekers” – The University of Cambridge has been accused of discriminating against white job seekers after guidance advised departments to “try to ensure” that at least one candidate from “under-represented groups” is invited for every interview, reports the Telegraph.
• “Joe Rogan says two Presidents complained to Spotify to censor him” – Star podcaster Joe Rogan has said two former Presidents tried to get him kicked off Spotify in a bid to censor his COVID-19 views.

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