News Round-Up

• “Rochdale groomers ‘cannot be deported as Pakistan won’t take them’” – The ringleaders of an infamous Rochdale grooming gang cannot be deported because Pakistan will not take them back, reports the Mail. 
• “Inside the towns still living in fear of grooming gangs” – Parents in towns preyed on by grooming gangs say they still live in fear of abusers targeting their children, says the Mail.
• “‘Whitehall officials tried to suppress grooming gangs scandal’” – Michael Gove has told GB News that Whitehall officials attempted to “block journalists” from publishing investigations into grooming gangs in 2011.
• “Pakistani Muslim rape gangs: the truth finally?” – Unlike with previous reports, this time the panic amongst those who branded whistleblowers as “racist” or “Islamophobic” is palpable, notes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “French plan to intercept migrant boats at sea faces legal threat” – French plans to intercept people smugglers guiding small boats at sea – so-called “taxi boats” – could be blocked by legal action, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestine thugs are becoming a threat to democracy” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon warns that frenzied pro-Palestinian mobs pose a threat to democracy.
• “Pro-Palestine health workers threaten to sue NHS trust over dress code” – Two doctors and a nurse are threatening to sue a London NHS trust over claims that its uniform discriminates against them because of their pro-Palestinian beliefs, reports the Times.
• “Labour MPs turn on assisted dying Bill” – Labour MPs have turned against the assisted dying Bill and at the eleventh hour urged their colleagues to vote down the “drastically weakened” plans, says the Telegraph.
• “This assisted dying Bill must not pass” – The Telegraph warns that Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill, rushed through Parliament and stripped of key safeguards, must be rejected.
• “Labour whip quits over Starmer’s welfare cuts” – Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a Government whip over proposed benefit cuts, reports the Express.
• “‘My modest proposal’” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle hails Britain’s soaring abortion rate as an economic triumph and suggests infanticide might be the next logical step in our moral freefall.
• “Three simple ways to stamp out benefits fraud” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark proposes three blunt fixes to end benefit fraud: scrap sick pay for the mentally ill, crack down on cannabis and ban benefit claimants from travelling abroad.
• “NHS staff want right to stop working if it gets too hot” – Members of a doctors’ union have called for a “national maximum workplace temperature”, giving them the right to down tools if it gets too hot, according to the Express.
• “Miliband to open door to North Sea drilling” – Two of the North Sea’s most controversial drilling projects are poised to go ahead after Ed Miliband rewrites the rules on carbon emissions, reports GB News.
• “‘Climate science has become pseudo science’” – In a video on the Freedom Research Substack, renowned climatologist Prof Judith Curry debunks the myth of a climate consensus, revealing deep scientific disagreement on critical issues like the causes and impacts of warming.
• “How a race for electric vehicles threatens a marine paradise” – Images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth.
• “Screwing the tern” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson reveals how Equinor tried to seize Scottish farmland to greenwash a wind farm 400 miles away — all in the name of saving a bird that might never return.
• “Australia’s renewable energy future requires realignment with China” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall argues that Australia’s renewable ambitions may hinge on ditching AUKUS and embracing China.
• “Britain ‘may have to inform Iran ally Mauritius’ before air strikes from Chagos” – Britain will be required to inform Mauritius about any future air strikes on Iran because of Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal, according to the Express.
• “Lord Hermer has utterly destroyed the credibility of international law” – The Attorney General defers to the ideology of human rights above all else, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “Bad luck, Lord Hermer. We are inextricably involved in any US strike on Iran” – There has never been a better time to defang Tehran and remove its ability to produce a nuclear weapon once and for all, says Tom Sharpe in the Telegraph.
• “Hezbollah hurting, but its fighters are ready to join war on Israel” – A leading Hezbollah commander has reportedly been assassinated in Israel’s deadliest attack on Lebanon in recent days, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump approves Iran attack plans” – President Trump has given provisional approval for US military strikes against Iran, according to GB News.
• “Deep in a bunker, Iran’s supreme leader faces a dilemma: must he drink his cup of poison?” – With the Islamic Republic’s survival at stake, Ayatollah Khamenei is under pressure to compromise on the one issue he said he wouldn’t, writes David Blair in the Telegraph, and ditch Iran’s nuclear programme.
• “Only regime change will solve the problem of Iran” – As a result of Hamas’s premature firing of the starting gun for war with Israel, Iran’s emergent regional empire now lies in ruins, says Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator.
• “What else could Israel do?” – Anybody who wants peace should have spent recent years trying to stop the Iranian regime in its tracks, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Why establishment political discourse is so vacuous, dishonest and oblivious to reality” – German political discourse sucks, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Japan releases bombshell vax vs unvax data on 18 million people” – On Substack, the Vigilant Fox reports that Dr Yasufumi Murakami has linked Japan’s new vaccine data on 18 million people to a deadly spike in post-jab deaths.
• “Feminists threaten to sue SNP for ‘ignoring’ Supreme Court trans ruling” – SNP ministers have been threatened with legal action for failing to comply with the Supreme Court ruling that banned biological men from women’s toilets and changing rooms, reports the Herald.
• “SNP leaders ‘snubbed’ nurse at centre of NHS trans row” – The SNP’s John Swinney and Kate Forbes declined an invitation to meet the NHS Fife nurse at the centre of the explosive trans employment tribunal, reveals the Courier.
• “Stephen Fry embodies everything wrong with our cultural elite” – The actor and TV presenter’s attack on J.K. Rowling just shows how out of touch he is, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “The end of youth gender transition?” – In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled that states can restrict the ability of minors to get transition treatment – it’s long overdue, writes Emily Yoffe in the Free Press.
• “Rachel Zegler’s Evita criticised for ‘loud music’ trigger warning” – A new production of Evita starring Rachel Zegler is being ridiculed for its “woke” trigger warnings about “loud music and sudden noises”, reports the Mail. 
• “When I gave the order to detonate, they told me we had no nuclear scientists any more. They’re all dead” – Amusing parody video from Il Donaldo Trumpo.

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