News Round-Up

• “Starmer’s authority wrecked by U-turns as MPs question his future” – A year after Labour’s landslide victory the PM is struggling to maintain control of the backbenchers who forced him to climb down on welfare benefits, says the Times.
• “The real Starmer has this week revealed himself: a Corbynista in a Blairite suit” – The Prime Minister’s socialist leanings are rendered even more offensive by his endless vacillations, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s love affair with welfare is a disaster for the working class” – Support for our indefensible welfare state is the glue holding the Labour Party together, according to Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Lord Glasman: America’s wave of anger is breaking on UK shores” – The only Labour politician at Donald Trump’s inauguration, who was invited by his penpal JD Vance, fears the working class has given up on Sir Keir Starmer’s party, reports the Times.
• “Tories slam Labour’s benefits U-turn for creating a ‘welfare trap’” – The Tory leader tore into Sir Keir Starmer after he caved over planned reforms in the face of a major backbench rebellion by his MPs, says the Mail.
• “The Labour plot to bring down Morgan McSweeney… and then Rachel Reeves” – As the PM battles to avert his first Commons defeat next week, many are pointing the finger of blame at his chief of staff and his Chancellor, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bailey contradicts Reeves’s claim that economy has ‘turned a corner’” – The Bank of England Governor says the UK’s higher tax burden will slow down growth after a short-term boost, reports the Telegraph.
• “Half of Labour members want Reeves sacked” – Some new polling has dropped which makes for grim reading for the Chancellor. LabourList has the details.
• “NHS sees patients as an inconvenience, says new boss” – Sir Jim Mackey, the new head of NHS England, argues that the service is often “deaf” to criticism and has “wasted a lot of money” in an interview in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant plan will end in failure” – Starmer’s new ‘one in, one out’ deal with Macron won’t stop a single boat crossing the Channel, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech didn’t go far enough” – By caving in to progressives, the Prime Minister has yet again proven himself to be a weak politician, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “Qatari camel herder tried to rape woman in London private heart clinic” – According to his barrister, a man charged with raping a woman at a private heart clinic had little contact with the outside world or any experience of modern or urban life before his arrival in the UK to receive treatment for a rare heart condition, reports the Mail.
• “Why does Lord Hermer think two-tier justice claims are disgusting?” – Lord Hermer, the Attorney General who personally authorised the prosecution of Lucy Connolly for a tweet, has broken his silence on the claims that we have a two-tier justice system, and he’s angry, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Lord Hermer’s idiocy is boundless” – The Attorney General continues to embarrass himself and the Government, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Palestine Action aren’t terrorists. They’re just attention-seeking idiots” – Like Kneecap and Peta, these wannabe revolutionaries are more Ealing comedy than feared menace, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Islamophobia row academic: I wore a disguise. Better ridiculous than dead” – Professor Steven Greer says Bristol University “threw him under the bus” even after he was cleared of ‘Islamophobia’ and his case could become a landmark for academic freedom, according to the Times.
• “Kemi Badenoch’s Danish-style integration plan won’t work” – Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch has this week said she’ll consider Danish-style laws to ensure the “active integration” of immigrants to Britain. Peter Franklin in UnHerd is sceptical.
• “Michael Gove: I’m not gay, despite the rumours” – In an interview in the Telegraph, Michael Gove says people “like the idea that anyone in public life will have a kink or secret of some kind”, but he isn’t gay.
• “How Reform UK’s new councillors are ‘sowing chaos’ in town halls” – A damning dossier has revealed the “chaos and confusion” that Reform councillors are sowing across England after their local elections success on May 1st, reports the Mail.
• “Palestine Action: We’re spreading ‘intifada’ in prisons” – In meeting accessed by the Telegraph, the soon-to-be terrorist group says “resistance lives on the streets, in cities, in towns and in prisons too”, revealing their efforts to recruit activists in prisons.
• “Four people arrested after aircraft is vandalised at RAF Brize Norton” – Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after two aircrafts were damaged at RAF Brize Norton, police have said. The Mail has more.
• “Britain could face two-week blackouts in drive towards Net Zero” – A new study claims increasing the UK’s wind generation capacity would bring negligible extra carbon savings, reports GB News.
• “It’s hot weather, but not man-made” – In Whats Up With That? Steve Goreham says this week’s heat wave in the US is nothing we haven’t seen before.
• “AP offers guide to manage ‘emotional toll’ of climate anxiety it regularly stokes” – According to Climate Change Dispatch, the Associated Press is fuelling climate anxiety then making anodyne suggestions about how to allay it, such as make a ‘positivity’ sandwich.
• “Feds ignore their research on windmills killing eagles” – The U.S. Energy Department has an ongoing research programme devoted to detecting and deterring the killing of eagles and other flying critters by wind turbines. The the Fish and Wildlife Service is ignoring it, says David Wojick in Whats Up With That?
• “Three big projects offer hope that our energy nightmare is ending” – According to the Empowerment Alliance, three recently announced developments highlight the resurgence of natural gas in the US.
• “Biden-appointed judge orders Trump to keep throwing money at EV chargers” – A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in funding for EV charger infrastructure in 14 states, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Phones to blast out ‘emergency alarm’ as UK warned to prepare for war” – The UK will test its emergency alarm system for the first time in two years, as the Government warns Britain to prepare for war, says the Mail.
• “Islamists are massacring Syria’s Christians” – A terror attack on a church in Damascus speaks to the lethal persecution faced by Syria’s Christian minority, according to Spiked.
• “As Christians are slaughtered, the world looks away” – Islamists massacred over 200 people in Yelwata, Nigeria – many of them women and children. But the media barely mentioned it, reports the Free Press.
• “Iran still has enriched uranium, Israel admits” – Concerns have been raised that Tehran may rush to build a crude nuclear weapon following the ceasefire deal, says the Telegraph.
• “Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars” – Peter Thiel believes Elon Musk has abandoned his vision of colonising Mars, according to UnHerd.
• “BBC will broadcast Kneecap at Glastonbury despite calls for ban” – The BBC has no intention of de-platforming the controversial Ulster rap group, even though there’s a risk they’ll unveil a Hezbollah flag during their performance, reports the Telegraph.
• “Richard Tice: Glastonbury is not safe for me” – The Reform deputy was invited to debate Green ‘eco-populist’ Zack Polanski at Glastonbury, but has declined for security reasons, says the Telegraph.
• “Left-wingers who defend ‘sex work’ are virtue-signalling hypocrites” – Trendy progressives claim to believe that ‘sex work’ is just another job, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. But would they want their daughters’ career advisors to recommend it as a career at their posh private schools?
• “Socialist New York mayor would raise taxes on ‘white neighbourhoods’” – The hard Left Democratic mayoral hopeful wants to end ‘deed theft’ by shifting fiscal burden to ‘richer’ zones, according to the Telegraph.
• “Football regulator: Government choice for chair faces ‘full enquiry’” – The Government’s proposed choice of a donor to Sir Keir Starmer as the Chair of English football’s new independent regulator faces a ‘full inquiry’ by the Commissioner for Public Appointments, reports BBC News.
• “New MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy known as ‘The Butcher’” – Blaise Metreweli’s grandfather was Hitler’s chief informant in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine who boasted of killing Jews, says the Telegraph.
• “War breaks out at GB News as furious staff plot to oust Eamonn Holmes” – As Eamonn Holmes made his way up to the stage to accept a gong on behalf of GB News Breakfast, boos from the audience filled the room – and they were from his colleagues, according to the Mail.
• “Covid origins investigation inconclusive, says WHO” – An independent panel evaluating the scientific evidence say a lack of cooperation from the Chinese authorities means they are unable to rule out the possibility of a lab leak, reports the Telegraph.
• “The British Medical Association has just shown its contempt for science” – By appointing Tom Dolphin as its leader, the BMA has demonstrated it is out of touch with the British public, writes Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
• “‘Trans rights’ has never been a civil rights issue” – The trans rights movement is not a replay of the civil rights movement, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “My daughter’s school wanted her to learn about trans rights. So I kept her at home” – Schools Diversity Week has become a fixture in many schools across the UK, but some parents are concerned about the focus on trans rights, writes Melissa Twigg in the Telegraph.
• “Build bridges, not walls” – Jeremy Corbyn made a speech at Glastonbury yesterday in which he urged Donald Trump to build bridges, not walls. But as Dan Hannan points out on X, to say this this at Glastonbury, surrounded by a five-mile fence, with pricier security than the Royal Family, and with a special on-site jail for fence-jumpers, requires an almost superhuman lack of self-awareness.

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