News Round-Up

• “Trump calls for Iranian regime change as he holds crisis talks” – President Donald Trump called for an Iranian regime change, less than one day after the US bombed the country’s nuclear sites – triggering an array of reaction from world leaders, says the Mail.
• “Triumphant Netanyahu sees spectacular end to a lifetime’s work” – For Benjamin Netanyahu the bombing of Fordow and the destruction of Iran’s nuclear programme marks the best part of a life’s work – and a promise kept to Israel, says Paul Nuki in the Telegraph.
• “Revenge would be Iran’s worst mistake, warns US” – The US has warned Iran that retaliating against a series of devastating strikes on its nuclear facilities would be “the worst mistake they’ve ever made”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Iran: the cradle of Islamo-leftism” – The anti-Western fervour that fuelled the Iranian Revolution continues to seduce today’s ‘progressives’, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Operation Midnight Hammer, or: The United States Strikes Iran” – Where is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wonders Eugyppius.
• “Iran vows revenge on US as it threatens to block Strait of Hormuz” – Tehran’s Parliament has voted to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, says the Times.
• “US warns Iran closing Strait of Hormuz would be ‘economic suicide’” – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Tehran’s allies to prevent it from closing the critical oil ‘choke point’ amid worry over global recession, reports the Telegraph.
• “British bases on high alert for Iranian drone swarms” – UK bases in the Middle East are on heightened alert for drone strikes after the US bombing of Iran, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer refuses to say UK would support US if it is attacked” – Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say whether the UK would offer military support to the US if it was attacked, amid questions over the legal advice given, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer has chosen to make Britain irrelevant” – By supporting the US attack on Iran verbally but staying hands off, the PM has gone for a middle path that leads nowhere, says David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “How the war could spin out of control” – Trump must be ruthlessly pragmatic, say Sohrab Ahmari, Arta Moeini and Dan Caldwell in UnHerd.
• “Met chief ‘shocked and frustrated’ Palestine Action mounting protest outside Parliament” – Sir Mark Rowley has said he is “shocked and frustrated” that Palestine Action is mounting a protest outside Parliament just three days after damaging planes at Brize Norton RAF base, saying he can’t ban the protest as the group is not yet proscribed, says the Telegraph.
• “It is time to suspend Dominic Grieve’s anti-Islamophobia group” – If Angela Rayner has any sense, she will thank him and his team for their work, then put the group on ice, says Paul Stott in the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband’s £8 billion pet project is sliding into irrelevance” – What is Great British Energy actually for? Even the quango’s staff seem unclear, says the Telegraph.
• “Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now” – The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the Government wants to continue its massive public funding, says Dale Vince in the Guardian.
• “Spain’s Government Blames Everything But The Real Culprit For Blackouts” – The Spanish Government has tried to pin the blame for the blackouts on the grid operator Red Eléctrica, but it’s clear the real culprit is over-reliance on renewables, writes Paul Homewood.
• “Decarbonisation Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows” – Don’t believe the energy transition hype, says Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT. Across the world, oil, gas and coal continue to grow and drive forward development.
• “How the UK is testing a radical plan to refreeze the Arctic” – A government-backed team will soon start running field trials to ask whether thousands of robots could be deployed to thicken and preserve polar sea ice, according to the Times.
• “Supreme Court Delivers Blow To California Climate Zealots” – The Supreme Court sided last week with oil companies seeking to challenge California’s electric vehicle regulations, reports the Daily Caller.
• “‘Mass wuther’ protest as giant wind farm threatens Brontë moors” – Out on the wily, windy moors around Top Withens in Yorkshire, hundreds of Kate Bush enthusiasts are gathering in a bid to stop 40 turbines despoiling the landscape, reports the Times.
• “Starmer slashes Net Zero charges to save Britain’s factories” – Net Zero taxes will be slashed for thousands of ‘energy intensive’ manufacturers as Sir Keir Starmer scrambles to save British industry from crippling electricity costs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Amazon data centres to consume ‘as much electricity to power Burnley’” – A complex of huge data centres being built by Amazon in Britain are estimated to consume as much electricity as is needed to power a town the size of Burnley (about 80,000 people), the Telegraph reports.
• “Sex predator can stay because home country can’t treat his mental illness” – A dangerous sexual predator from Bangladesh has been allowed to stay in the UK after claiming his home country could not treat his mental illness, reports the Telegraph.
• “This is why Reform is on the cusp of victory” – Nigel Farage’s party is surging because of disaffected voters who are alienated by the mainstream parties, writes James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “Education’s Elephant in the Room” – We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen rather than diminish, writes Russell T. Warne in Quillette.
• “Professor’s fury after Harvard honesty research found to be dishonest” – The Times reports on a high profile example of a non-reproducible study – in this case, by a Harvard researcher who has since been sacked for manipulating her data.
• “Should police show ‘respect’ to knife-carrying youths?” – The dismissal of PC Lorne Castle exposes a culture of backstabbing, mistrust and unbridled wokery, says Paul Birch in Spiked.
• “Children in Need funds group that claims gender-critical views are racist” – BBC Children in Need has helped fund a group that claims gender-critical beliefs are rooted in “white supremacy”, according to the Telegraph.
• “School under fire over drag act for 11 year-olds” – A secondary school – Fareham Academy in Hampshire – has been criticised over plans to stage a drag artist performance to children as young as 11, reports the Telegraph.
• “I was ordered to post 30 apologies on X for calling trans politician a biological man” – Mexican conservative Gabriel Quadri was convicted of being a “‘political violator of women” for expressing biological truths and ordered to post 30 apologies on X. He has now urged Trump to intervene and end the tyranny of wokery, reports the Telegraph.
• “J.K. Rowling hails BBC newsreader Martine Croxall after she overrules autocue’s ‘pregnant people’ line to say ‘women’” – J.K. Rowling has hailed BBC newsreader Martine Croxall after she overruled an autocue line which said “pregnant people” to say “women” instead, reports the Mail.
• “The BBC video that exposed our cowardly elite” – The memory-holing of the word ‘woman’ to appease the trans lobby is an outrage, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “A BBC presenter reads ‘pregnant people’ from the teleprompter then corrects it to ‘women’” – Watch the viral Martine Croxall clip on X, courtesy of Samantha Smith.

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