News Round-Up

• “Palestine Action group to be banned, Home Secretary confirms” – Britain is poised to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror laws after activists targeted military aircraft, with the BBC reporting that membership will soon become a criminal offence.
• “Drug dealer says repeated asylum claims damaging her mental health” – A Jamaican drug dealer who has applied for asylum six times says that repeatedly applying for permission to stay in the UK is bad for her mental health, reports the Mail.
• “How the ‘experts’ got the grooming gang scandal so wrong” – With few exceptions, academics were some of the keenest to suppress discussion about groooming gang abusers’ origins or ethnicity, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Kemi Badenoch opens door to ‘ghetto law’” – Kemi Badenoch says that Britain should look at replicating a controversial Danish “ghetto law” allowing officials to tear down social housing in immigrant-dominated neighbourhoods to promote “assimilation”, according to the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer needs a new attorney general” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn argues that Keir Starmer’s devotion to international law – personified by AG Lord Hermer – is undermining Britain’s global clout, and it’s high time he found a lawyer who says “yes”.
• “Incompetent Left-wing, WFH civil service must be reformed” – No future UK government has a hope of making things better if it can’t reform our incompetent Left-wing, WFH civil service, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
• “Badenoch says Labour plans for new equality law is ‘ideological dross’” – Labour will paralyse public services and hand more power to unaccountable quangos under plans to introduce an equality law, Kemi Badenoch warns in the Mail.
• “Labour still isn’t working” – In the New Conservative, Jack Watson delivers a scathing verdict on Starmer’s Labour.
• “Britain must welcome the rich: they will help to support our working class” – Reform UK will build a nation in which wealth is shared, not hoarded, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Reform ‘set to repeal assisted dying law in next general election’” – Reform UK has vowed to repeal assisted dying laws in its next manifesto, reveals the Mail.
• “Why conservatives should embrace their Christian heritage” – In the Spectator, Bartek Staniszewski argues that the centre-Right won’t win by hiding its faith – it must reclaim the Christian values that still drive its voters and define its soul.
• “It’s official: our establishment has lost any sense of right and wrong” – The vanishing of Christian ethics has been catastrophic for Britain, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Abortion, assisted dying and Britain’s dangerous new politics” – If we are to withstand our enemies, bring our society together and tame the technium, we are going to need values that are up to the job, says Danny Kruger in the Spectator.
• “Broadcaster Selina Scott ‘stabbed’ in the leg by gang who stole her purse” – Veteran broadcaster Selina Scott has revealed she was viciously attacked and robbed by an organised gang in broad daylight in London last week, reports the Mail.
• “‘I stood up to a fare-dodger on the Tube while TfL just shrugs’” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty calls out TfL for shrugging off rampant Tube fare dodging, leaving honest passengers to foot the £130 million shortfall while staff stand by and do nothing.
• “The no-nonsense police chief restoring faith in law and order” – In the Mail, Dominic Lawson profiles Greater Manchester’s Sir Stephen Watson, a no-nonsense police chief slashing crime and restoring trust with old-school policing.
• “Morrisons orders head office staff to work full time” – Morrisons has ordered staff working in its head office back to their desks five days a week as the supermarket battles to revive its fortunes, according to Retail Gazette.
• “Labour must put energy security ahead of Net Zero ideology” – In a leading article, the Telegraph warns that Labour’s zealous pursuit of Net Zero targets risks Britain’s energy security.
• “Britain’s substations are bursting into flames. The answer might be more worrying than the Russians” – Eight substation fires in ten weeks have sparked fears of Kremlin sabotage – but, as Jonathan Ford reveals in the Telegraph, the true threat may be far closer to home.
• “Gullible Europe has signed the death warrant for its own car industry” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Orlowski warns that Europe’s blind faith in all-electric vehicle mandates has handed China an unassailable advantage.
• “Stop building solar/wind farms until a cost-benefit analysis is made public” – Support a UK petition to publish a thorough, nationwide cost-benefit analysis of the construction of solar and wind farms, and to make the subsequent report public.
• “Wind industry now destroying 1000-year old German forest that inspired Grimm fairy tales” – On the NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin reports that Germany’s green technocrats are razing the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale forest to build wind turbines.
• “Study reveals climate warming driven by receding cloud cover” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter flags a bombshell study showing that receding storm-cloud zones – not CO₂ – are the main driver of recent global warming.
• “Trump closes notorious EPA lab that conducted illegal human experiments” – On WUWT?, Steve Milloy reports on Trump’s closure of an EPA lab that conducted illegal human experiments to support false pollution rules used for years.
• “Streeting launches urgent review into scandal-hit NHS maternity units” – Wes Streeting has announced a “rapid national investigation” into England’s maternity units following a litany of scandals that have rocked the NHS, reports the Mail.
• “The truth about palliative care” – Wherever you stand on matters like assisted dying, good palliative and end-of-life care should never be under-prioritised, says Mark Taubert in the Spectator.
• “Watch out, mask mafia, we’re still on your case” – In TCW, Dr Gary Sidley marks five years since mask mandates with a blistering takedown of the “mask mafia” – the zealots, bullies and cowards behind what he calls a cruel, pseudoscientific fiasco.
• “New images show Iran’s nuclear ambitions in ruins” – According to preliminary expert analysis, US strikes on Iran may have set the country’s nuclear programme back by several years, according to CNBC.
• “How the US bombed Iran’s nuclear sites” – While the US strike likely succeeded in damaging or disabling the targeted infrastructure, it did not yet achieve the broader objective of ending Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, writes Fabian Hoffmann in the Spectator.
• “Trump air strikes against Iran ‘illegal’” – Emmanuel Macron has branded Donald Trump’s air strikes against Iran “illegal”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Iran is isolated against the US and Israel” – Now at war with both Israel and the US, Iran has no major power interested in fighting alongside it, writes Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator.
• “Ayatollah Khamenei names his successors in case he is assassinated” – Iranian officials are said to be considering removing their supreme leader from power after the US waded in to Israel’s growing conflict with Iran, reports the Mail.
• “Even a visit to Putin won’t save Iran’s regime” – There is zero chance of China and Russia going to war for Tehran, says David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “Ex-Russian president says states are queuing up to hand nukes to Iran” – Russian ex-president Dmitriy Medvedev claims that a “number of countries” are ready to supply Iran with nuclear warheads after its nuclear facilities were attacked by the US, according to the Mail.
• “Trump will not lose Maga support over bombing Iran. This is why” – The American President’s supporters love him because of his charismatic personality, not his principles or beliefs, says Matthew Lind in the Telegraph.
• “The EU’s war on free speech exposed” – In a searing speech delivered at the European Parliament, Dr Norman Lewis lays bare the growing censorship regime at the heart of the European Union.
• “ISIS are still trying to eliminate Christians in Syria” – ISIS has not gone away; they still present a threat to Christians and other religious minorities, warns James Snell in the Telegraph.
• “J.K. Rowling hits back at Stephen Fry claiming they were never friends” – J.K. Rowling has hit back at Sir Stephen Fry after the Harry Potter narrator accused her of being “radicalised by TERFs” – claiming the two were never even friends, according to the Mail. 
• “The real reason J.K. Rowling’s critics hate her” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill argues that the real reason J.K. Rowling’s critics hate her isn’t her views but her wit, wealth, generosity and unflinching self-assurance – all of which expose their own insecurities.
• “Musk’s robotaxis caught speeding as they hit roads for the first time” – Tesla’s Robotaxis appeared to violate local traffic laws by exceeding the speed limit and swerving into the wrong lane, reports the NY Post.

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