News Round-Up

• “Grooming gangs inquiry to target council cover-ups” – A new rape gangs public inquiry is set to target areas where councils have covered up scandals, reports the Telegraph.
• “Establishment in denial over ethnicity of grooming gangs, Casey report finds” – Baroness Casey’s child rape gang review has found that officials concealed the disproportionate role of Asian men, according to the Times.
• “The key passages from the damning review into grooming gangs” – From institutional failures to cowardice, Baroness Casey’s review has blown the establishment cover-up apart, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Baroness Casey has not held back” – Casey’s audit of child sexual exploitation has been published, and it’s clear why the Government changed course so quickly, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “‘I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls’” – In the Times, Fiona Hamilton sits down with the peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into rape gangs, and who says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal.
• “Timeline of a scandal: how the child sex grooming story unfolded” – More than 20 years after the alarm was first raised about systematic child sexual exploitation, a full inquiry has been announced. But how did matters get this far? asks Constance Kampfner in the Times.
• “All the times Starmer resisted a grooming gangs inquiry” – The Telegraph lists all the instances when Sir Keir rejected calls for a national inquiry into rape gangs.
• “Starmer opposed rape inquiry that would damage Labour” – The Prime Minister had no need to wait for Baroness Casey’s findings – he already knew the truth about the rape gangs, says Dan Hodges in the Mail – and now, to Sir Keir’s eternal shame, so does the country.
• “Blimey, Kemi went for it!” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts marvels as Kemi Badenoch stuns the Commons with a blistering attack on Labour’s U-turn over grooming gang inquiries.
• “The grooming gangs were the worst race-hate crime of modern Britain” – In the Telegraph, Guy Dampier insists Starmer’s national inquiry must unmask the racial abuse in grooming gangs, punish complicit officials and confront uncomfortable truths to deliver long-overdue justice.
• “The right not to be groomed and abused” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan urges conservatives to stop whining about the Human Rights Act and instead use it to expose state complicity in the rape gang scandal.
• “There’s been a lot of foolish talk about immigration lately” – These islands have almost never seen immigration at current levels, and when they did, it was not pleasant, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “Netanyahu refuses to rule out assassinating Supreme Leader” – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says that assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will “end the conflict” between the two arch-foes, according to the Mail.
• “Trump says Iran losing war as state TV blown up live on air” – Iran’s state TV has been taken off air after Israel bombed the offices in Tehran, reports GB News.
• “Trump refuses to sign G7 statement amid split over Iran” – Donald Trump has torpedoed a joint G7 statement on the Israel-Iran conflict, according to the Telegraph.
• “Netanyahu stuns Fox host with bombshell Trump assassination claim” – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the attempts on Donald Trump’s life in 2024 were Iranian-backed, according to the Independent.
• “The Ayatollahs are tottering. Only the BBC hasn’t noticed” – The BBC fails to see the difference between the Tehran tyranny and the only democracy in the Middle East, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “BBC mocked as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall used as Israel-Iran expert” – The BBC has been ridiculed for the bizarre decision to include TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on an expert panel about the Israel-Iran conflict, reports the Mail.
• “France shuts down Israeli weapons stands at trade fair” – France has been caught up in a diplomatic row with Israel after telling organisers of the Paris Air Show to shut down stands showcasing military weapons used against Iran, according to Reuters.
• “Putin offers to take Iran’s uranium” – Vladimir Putin remains ready to act as a mediator in the conflict between Israel and Iran, and store Iranian uranium in Russia, reports Reuters.
• “Trump’s Churchillian choice at Fordow” – History has taught us a clear lesson: believe the threats of dictators, says Andrew Roberts in the Free Press.
• “The delusion of western Palestine activists in Egypt” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti slams the self-deluded western activists in Egypt as deluded performers – fuelled by vanity, not virtue.
• “Rayner’s workers’ rights to ‘flood broken courts with spurious claims’” – Business groups have warned that Britain’s “broken” employment tribunal system faces chaos under Angela Rayner’s workers’ rights plan, according to the Telegraph.
• “Treasury minister’s car crash interview” – The Treasury’s Emma Reynolds forgot both the location and the £10 billion cost of her own road project in a toe-curling LBC interview, reports Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “Orwellian new banking surveillance powers offer huge potential for abuse” – In the Telegraph, Tom Harris urges ministers to win public trust before handing middle-ranking civil servants sweeping rights to spy on citizens’ finances.
• “Business Secretary ‘faces prosecution’ if he repeats false CV claims” – Jonathan Reynolds has been warned he faces prosecution if he repeats previous false claims that he worked as a solicitor, reports the Independent.
• “MI6 gadget chief becomes first female spymaster” – MI6 has named an insider as its first female leader after her rival for the role was criticised for being too soft on China, says the Telegraph.
• “BA flight from London to India turns round mid-air” – A British Airways flight from London to India had to turn around mid-air when it suffered a “flap failure” – just days after the same model was involved in the Air India disaster that killed all but one passenger, reports the Mail.
• “Labour councillor urged to resign for ‘lying to judge about LTN’” – Labour’s Rezina Chowdhury is under pressure to resign after allegedly misleading the High Court over a now-unlawful LTN in West Dulwich, says the Times.
• “How much does the UK Government spend on Net Zero?” – On Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood reveals that the UK Government is committing at least £24 billion annually from central funds alone to Net Zero initiatives.
• “SNP to dump 100 truckloads of waste a day in England” – Scotland will transport as many as 100 lorries filled with waste across the border to England every day following the implementation of a landfill ban, says GB News.
• “Physics demonstrates that increasing greenhouse gases cannot cause dangerous warming, extreme weather or any harm” – In CO₂ Coalition, physicists Richard Lindzen and William Happer slam Net Zero policies as baseless alarmism, proving CO₂ won’t drive dangerous warming.
• “Trump’s EPA ending Obama-Biden war on the American energy industry” – On Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman reports the Environmental Protection Agency is set to scrap Biden’s emissions rules, signalling a decisive rollback of environmental controls to boost America’s energy sector and economy.
• “President Trump moves to end the war on coal” – In the Daily Caller, Steve Milloy notes that while Trump’s EPA rollbacks push back against Democrat coal regulations, the industry still faces a tough recovery after years of damage.
• “Victoria’s renewable grid buckles under a brutal cold snap” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall reveals how Australia’s Victoria, crippled by green ideology and a fracking ban, faced gas shortages and soaring prices amid a cold snap.
• “Growing drumbeat of doubts over Letby conviction” – The Daily Mail Comment warns that mounting doubts and fresh evidence mean Lucy Letby’s conviction must be urgently reviewed.
• “Lucy Letby and the power of the powerless” – The Lucy Letby case is built on fear and lies, says Peter Hayes on his Substack, but speaking the truth is how the powerless can break the system.
• “Everything we know about the Assisted Dying Bill (from a links/funding perspective)” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill reveals a complex web of funding, political sponsorship and media influence behind the Assisted Dying Bill.
• “Come into the office if you want a promotion, says recruitment giant” – Reed research has found that staff who don’t work from home are more likely to get pay rises, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why under-30s are ditching WFH” – In the Telegraph, Megan Carnegie meets Tamara Salloum, one of a growing number of Gen Z workers who prefer life in the office.
• “Now even the pro-vaxxers admit its side effects” – Even staunch pro-vaxxers can no longer ignore COVID-19 vaccine side effects, says Dr Roger Watson in TCW.
• “The clear-out and reconstitution of the US Vaccine Committee.” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson react to RFK Jr replacing the entire US Vaccine Committee to cut ties with Big Pharma and restore honest science.
• “The ever-expanding modern vaccination era may be ending at last” – Robert F. Kennedy’s remaking of the federal advisory panel on immunisations offers a chance to rethink the constant push for more and more expensive, less and less effective jabs, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Trump directs ICE to expand deportation efforts in America’s largest cities” – President Trump says that ICE must “expand efforts to detain and deport” illegal immigrants in “America’s largest [c]ities”, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, according to Fox News.
• “LA riots, BLM, Save Gaza: get ready for a summer of destructive far-Left activism” – With Trump showing no signs of backing down in LA, intersectional rhetoric is almost certain to ratchet up far louder, warns David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
• “Suspect in ‘politically motivated assassination’ arrested in US” – Vance Luther Boelter, the man accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband and injuring another state lawmaker and his wife, allegedly attempted to kill two other state lawmakers, reports the BBC.
• “Minnesota assassin ‘planned to murder four Dem lawmakers on Saturday’” – Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter went to the homes of four different state representatives with the intention of killing them, says the Mail.
• “Legal gender transitions hit record high in the UK” – Almost 10,000 gender recognition certificates have been granted in the UK since their introduction two decades ago, with an increasing proportion going to young adults, reports the Independent.
• “Killer’s criminal record ‘wiped clean’ after self-identifying as woman” – A trans killer had their criminal record wiped clean after declaring himself to be a woman behind bars, says the Mail.
• “Union flag is ‘potentially sectarian’, teacher tells parents” – A primary school headteacher has been forced to apologise after a letter to parents suggested the Union Flag could be “sectarian”, reports the Mail.
• “WhatsApp breaks co-founder’s promise with plans to introduce ads” – Meta has unveiled plans to introduce adverts on WhatsApp, breaking a promise by the messaging app’s co-founder never to do so, says GB News.
• “‘The Prime Minister’s handling of this scandal is an extraordinary failure of leadership’” – GB News covers the moment the House of Commons erupts as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour MPs “should be ashamed of themselves” for initially voting against a national rape gangs inquiry.

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