News Round-Up

• “It is time for the House of Lords to come to the rescue” – The enthusiasm with which MPs have discarded centuries of consensus on the dignity of human life has been unnerving, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Diane Abbott’s masterful Assisted Dying speech will come back to haunt us” – In the Spectator, Melanie McDonagh says Diane Abbott was brilliant when she pointed out that “if the police can’t spot coercion dealing with domestic violence, why should they spot it in assisted dying?”
• “Truly, Kim Leadbeater is the face of ‘sinister twee’” – The real, underlying principle is whether or not the state can kill, says the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley.
• “When did our MPs form a death cult?” – Mindless libertarianism is killing compassion, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “Britain has fallen to the technocratic death cult” – In backing ‘assisted dying’, MPs have given the state a licence to kill, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “This Government is the most devious and dishonest in Britain’s history” – Starmer was elected on a platform of personal rectitude, but his only firm policy is selling Britain out, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Britain tells Iran to stop funding proxies or face Trump strikes” – Iran has been told to stop funding its proxies, end its nuclear programme and limit manufacturing ballistic missiles in exchange for a deal to halt Donald Trump’s plans for military strikes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Has Trump ‘chickened out’ on Iran? Five reasons for his two-week delay” – To some, the President is living up to his ‘Taco’ instincts. But there are several plausible reasons to wait, says Adrian Blomfield in the Telegraph.
• “The Attorney General should not have a veto on military action” – Britain’s voice on the world stage is being stifled by a cautious legalism that views foreign policy through the rearview mirror, says former Attorney General Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Protesters attacked outside Iranian Embassy in London” – Anti-Iranian regime protesters were attacked outside the country’s embassy in London on Friday, leading to seven arrests, the Standard reports.
• “Why China won’t come to Iran’s rescue” – As America looks poised to intervene in the spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, one power which has been largely absent from discussions is China. Miquel Vila in UnHerd looks at why.
• “Why Muslim-majority countries have turned against Iran” – Saudi Arabia has described “evil” Iran as the “head of the snake” – and it isn’t the only Muslim-majority country to criticise Iran, says Kunwar Khuldune Shahid in the Spectator.
• “Palestine Action banned as terrorist organisation” – Palestine Action has been banned as a terrorist organisation after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed red paint into aircraft engines, reports the Telegraph.
• “How deeply would you have to hate Britain to damage our means of defending it?” – The Palestine Action fanatics detest our country, our values, our traditions, our history and evidently our national security, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer defended protester who sabotaged military aircraft” – Sir Keir Starmer defended a protester – one of the Fairford Five who disrupted military operations at an air base in 2003 – when he was a human rights barrister, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC axes new Gaza film” – The Telegraph reports that the BBC has pulled a new ‘impartial’ Gaza documentary after its Director told BBC Today that “Israel has become a rogue state that’s committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass-murdering Palestinians”.
• “Has the Islamophobia ‘Working Group’ of MPs already made up its mind?” – Whatever form of words is chosen, and whatever legal status it has to start with, any Islamophobia definition will almost certainly turbocharge ‘cancel culture’, writes Sir John Jenkins in the Spectator.
• “University staff walk out over calls to return to the office three days a week” – More than 300 university workers from Liverpool University will go on strike on Friday over demands to return to the office three days a week, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Czech data reveals the truth about the Covid vaccine. Is that why no epidemiologist or infectious disease expert will touch it?” – Steve Kirsch with the latest insights from the Czech Covid vaccine data.
• “UN Calls for ‘Climate Misinformation’ to be Criminalised” – The climate censorship movement is much bigger than a bunch of disgruntled academics and big oil conspiracy theorists, and may even threaten free speech in the USA and across the world, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “Three Years To Save The World!” – Paul Homewood chides the BBC for a story in which “scientists” proclaim we have just three years to keep temperatures below the magic 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
• “The climate scaremongers: Another £45 billion for Mad Ed to squander” – Amid Rachel Reeves’s showering of the public sector with taxpayer money as if it was confetti in last week’s Spending Review, the biggest winner in percentage terms was Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, writes Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “Public Ridicule Hyped Summer Heat Headlines… Meteorologists Losing Credibility” – Sensationalist weathermen in Germany are losing credibility and getting mocked and ridiculed, says Pierre Gosselin on the No Tricks Zone.
• “G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity” – Those who aspire to Net Zero are condemning Africa to extreme poverty, says Brenda Shaffer in WUWT.
• “The real reason birth rates are falling” – They might not say it to a survey, but the real reason for the plummeting birth rate is because women consider babies to be hard work and to restrict their freedom to live the life of their choice, says Matthew Parris in the Spectator.
• “Primary school children taught about the 300 flags of Pride” – Schoolchildren are being taught about 300 different LGBT pride flags and the sexualities and gender identities behind each of them – yet parents say the Labour council has ignored their concerns, says the Telegraph.
• “It’s Stephen Fry, not J.K. Rowling, who’s been radicalised” – Why is it that every time Stephen Fry voices a female character in the Harry Potter audio books it’s high-pitched, whiny and annoying, no matter what she has to say, wonders Victoria Smith in UnHerd.
• “DNA screening for every baby on the NHS” – Every baby will have his or her DNA mapped under an NHS revolution to predict and prevent disease in a move that has prompted concerns about privacy and ethics, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty faces claims over bullying” – The BBC’s Naga Munchetty has reportedly been accused of bullying a member of staff and using a slang term for a sex act during an off-air break, reports the Mail.
• “Masking Humanity: what was sold as public duty became quiet cruelty” – When masks were imposed in care homes and hospitals, countless vulnerable people lost human connection – and some never recovered. Watch the new short film from Smile Free about the masking mania and its brutal fallout.

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