News Round-Up

• “Households face ‘a lot more’ tax rises after defence pledge” – Analysts warn that Sir Keir Starmer’s US trade deal fails to offset the full impact of tariffs, according to the Telegraph.
• “Nothing says ‘national defence’ like wind farms off Brighton Beach” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley slams Pat McFadden’s defence pledge as a joke, with “security” stretched to mean wind farms, housing and the NHS.
• “Starmer faces major Labour rebellion over benefits cuts” – Over 100 Labour MPs have launched a major rebellion to block the Government’s plans to cut sickness and disability benefits, reports the Mirror.
• “Britain to lose more millionaires than any other country after tax raid” – The UK is poised to lose more millionaires than any other country this year as high taxes drive away the wealthy, says City A.M.
• “Brits don’t want digital ID cards” – In the Spectator, Alex Klaushofer explores Britain’s deep-rooted dislike of compulsory ID.
• “Reform’s ‘Britannia cards’ will cost £34 billion” – In the Spectator, Dan Neidle warns that Reform’s plan to sell tax-free residency to the super-rich is a populist gimmick likely to repel talent and blow a £34 billion hole in the budget.
• “Farage’s flat tax plan is bold but he risks being outflanked by Labour or the Tories” – There’s a big flaw in Farage’s ‘Robin Hood’ idea – watch the rival parties pounce on it, says Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
• “Police plead with asylum seekers not to ‘harass or abuse’ women” – Asylum seekers have been told by police to treat women with respect and not harass them or risk being arrested, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tice calls for ‘Lucy’s law’ to free mother jailed for Southport tweet” – Richard Tice is calling for a new “backstop” against overly harsh sentences to prevent more people like Lucy Connolly being sent to prison, reports the Parliament Politics.
• “The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister” – Lucy Connolly says she’s been manhandled, bruised and starved yet was jailed for a single tweet – we are truly living in Starmer’s Stasi Britain, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “This Left-wing myth about Windrush is an insult to Britain” – Sir Keir Starmer says the Windrush immigrants “laid the foundations for modern Britain”, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. Seriously?
• “The Buckingham University coup” – In the Critic, Parliament Square chronicles the long, bruising campaign to oust James Tooley as Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham.
• “Professor driven out over false Islamophobia claims criticises university” – The University of Bristol has been ­accused of failing to protect one of its professors who was falsely accused of Islamophobia, according to the Times.
• “The academics muzzled by cancel culture at Britain’s ‘bastion of wokery’ campuses” – In the Telegraph, Ed Cumming charts the wreckage of cancel culture on campus, as academics warn that Britain’s new free speech law may be too late to rescue academia from its woke tailspin.
• “Free speech row as Ofcom urged to ban Nigel Farage’s GB News show” – GB News has been plunged into a fresh free speech row as Ofcom comes under pressure to ban politicians from acting as presenters, reports the Telegraph.
• “The UK’s free speech crisis” – Labour’s pushing forward with the same thing that enabled the rape gangs, warns Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
• “Co-op compares Israel with Russia as it bans produce” – Co-op has banned its shops from selling Israeli produce as it begins a boycott of the country to “support peace”, reports the Mail.
• “Home Office probes Palestine Action over suspected Iran link” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reports that Palestinian Action is suspected of Iranian funding links.
• “Palestine Action activist to give Glastonbury talk” – Palestine Action activist Francesca Nadin – a self-styled “political prisoner” and writer for the Revolutionary Communist Party – is set to speak at Glastonbury Festival, according to the Telegraph. 
• “‘Two-tier police threaten to charge Jewish man’ for waving Israeli flag at Palestine Action protest” – Sir Mark Rowley has compared two pro-Israel protesters to “stupid” football fans after they waved an Israeli flag at a Palestine Action rally, reports the Mail.
• “Palestine Action activist poses with handgun on social media” – A prominent Palestine Action activist has posed with a handgun and showed off his terrorist tattoo in a series of disturbing social media posts, reveals the Mail.
• “The failure to crush other Left-wing extremists created Palestine Action” – Authorities can’t avoid taking a tough line on all direct action protest groups with a progressive sheen, writes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
• “Sarah Vine on why ex Michael Gove knifed Boris Johnson and Cameron the ‘man-baby’” – In the latest episode of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey sits down with Sarah Vine to talk about what it was really like being married to one of the UK’s most controversial MPs and how she built her own high-profile career in journalism.
• “Punish electric car owners who charge at peak times, Miliband urged” – Electric vehicle owners could face higher electricity bills for charging their cars during peak times under radical new proposals, reports GB News.
• “Heatwaves and excess deaths – the facts” – Following the Guardian’s absurd claim that “last week’s heatwave killed 600 people”, Paul Homewood revisits ONS data from the 2022 heatwaves in Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “If climate change is coming for Britain, why can’t we get air conditioning?” – As we brace for a week of sweltering weather, a cheap and easy fix to make life more comfortable is being ignored, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Biden’s offshore wind dreams drowning as Trump guts industry” – In the Daily Caller, Audrey Streb reveals how Trump is killing Biden’s offshore wind dream, slashing subsidies and halting projects.
• “Reality check for Gen Z: ‘green’ energy requires wealth” – In WUWT? Ethan Watson warns Gen Z that ditching fossil fuels risks killing the wealth that funds green tech.
• “AI is power hungry, but it could cut emissions” – In WUWT? Eric Worrall blasts claims that AI will cut more emissions than it causes.
• “How did Britain get it so wrong on Trump and Iran?” – In the Times, Steven Swinford reveals how Sir Keir Starmer was blindsided by Trump’s sudden Iran strike – which came just days after insisting no attack was coming.
• “Has Trump brought peace to the Congo?” – Trump’s approach has delivered results in the Congo where traditional diplomacy has failed, writes James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
• “Could Trump win a Nobel peace prize? How he brokered ceasefire” – The chances of a nomination for the accolade Trump craves look increasingly slim, says David Charter in the Times.
• “Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination withdrawn” – Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination has been withdrawn by a senior Ukraine politician who accused the US President of appeasing Vladimir Putin, reports Newsweek.
• “The Washington Post ends toxic narrative that cops are hunting black men” – The Washington Post has quietly pulled the plug on its police shooting database ‘Fatal Force’ – but don’t expect an apology or a reckoning, writes David Sypher Jr. in the Spectator World.
• “Leipzig court overturns Nancy Faeser’s ban on the AfD-adjacent magazine Compact” – On his Substack, Eugyppius reveals how a Leipzig court overturned a ban on the AfD-linked magazine Compact, handing the publication a win while exposing the alarming ease with which German authorities can gag the press.
• “The Covid fraud squad that turned out to be a joke” – In the Telegraph, Charlotte Lytton reveals how a council-run Covid fraud squad cost taxpayers £38.5 million, secured just 14 convictions and now faces legal chaos. Was it, in fact, a fraud?
• “‘I was a healthy father-of-four until I had the Pfizer Covid vaccine’” – In the Mail, Katherine Lawton profiles Dean Valentine, a once-healthy father-of-four who says the Pfizer Covid vaccine left him with crippling symptoms and a £100,000 medical bill.
• “Warning as experts reveal deadly condition caused by single Covid jab” – A healthy man has been struck by a life-threatening inflammation of his brain and spinal cord after just one dose of a Covid vaccine, reports the Mail. 
• “USDA preparing to mass vaccinate poultry against bird flu – ignoring scientific and public warnings” – Despite RFK Jr.’s public opposition, the USDA is planning to mass vaccinate poultry – a move that could drive mutations and spark a human pandemic, warns Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
• “‘I have been appointed co-chair of the ACIP Committee’” – Robert W. Malone reacts on his Substack to his appointment as co-chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices at the CDC by HHS Secretary Kennedy.
• “The Church of England needs to lead” – There was a unique focus on life and death in parliament last week, writes Julia Lopez in the Spectator. Why was the Church of England not more vocal about its position?
• “BBC backs Martine Croxall after she corrected ‘pregnant people’ script” – The BBC is understood to have thrown its support behind Maxine Croxall, who recently corrected the phrase “pregnant people” on her autocue to “pregnant women” during a live broadcast, reports GB News.
• “How ‘pregnant people’ ended up on Martine Croxall’s BBC autocue” – The Mail reveals how the phrase “pregnant people” ended up on Martine Croxall’s autocue before she overrode it live on air.
• “NHS trust embroiled in trans row releases ‘divisive’ Pride calendar” – While patients languish on trolleys, the County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust has found time to craft a 36-page Pride calendar featuring drag days, notes Steerpike in the Spectator.
• “‘Stephen Fry’s savage attack on J.K. Rowling proves the limit of his intellect’” – J.K. Rowling took on a toxic fight at great risk, says Sam Lister in the Express; Stephen Fry threatened to flounce out of the Garrick.
• “No, J.K. Rowling has not been ‘radicalised’” – Stephen Fry’s comments on the gender debate betray his fundamental misunderstanding of the issues, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Councils queue up to outwoke each other” – In TCW, Alexander McKibbin slams Britain’s councils as taxpayer-funded woke machines.
• “‘How are the Jews doing this?!’” – On X, Visegrád 24 shares incredible scenes taking place in the Ayatollah’s bunker.

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