News Round-Up

• “The video that shows Starmer has hung Reeves out to dry” – After just a year in power, the first major casualty of Labour’s front bench looks to be imminent, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Amid Rachel Reeves’s violent loneliness, Starmer finds sympathy a step too far” – In the Times, Tom Peck captures a brutal PMQs where Rachel Reeves wept in plain sight while Starmer, all grins and gags, offered not a shred of comfort.
• “You may not cry for Reeves, but there is worse to come” – If the Chancellor goes, the floodgates will be open to the tax-raising hotheads of Labour’s rank and file, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves looked rinsed by dejection” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts captures the dramatic spectacle of a tearful Rachel Reeves unraveling on the front bench.
• “Borrowing costs surge on speculation over Reeves’s future” – Borrowing costs have surged and the pound has fallen after a tearful appearance by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in parliament, reports the BBC.
• “If AstraZeneca quits the London Stock Exchange, it will be a disaster” – If AstraZeneca leaves the LSE, it will be too late to stop the exodus – and the British economy will be in big trouble, warns Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Keir Starmer considers ‘Labour revenge reshuffle’ after welfare dissent” – Sir Keir is reportedly planning a “Labour revenge reshuffle” following dissent over welfare policy, writes Steven Swinford in the Times.
• “Congratulations, Liz Truss – you’re no longer Britain’s worst prime minister” – Sir Keir Starmer has about as much authority over the Commons as the dust bunnies beneath the Speaker’s chair, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “The 19 seconds that killed Sir Keir’s premiership” – Less than a month after winning the election, the PM failed to rise to the occasion in Southport – and he has not recovered since, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Prime Minister Rayner now looks more likely than ever” – The real question is not now whether Starmer goes, but whether Rayner values her happiness sufficiently little to want to replace him, says William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s abject failure to protect our borders laid bare” – Nearly 900 small-boat migrants arrived in Dover from France on Monday, reports the Mail.
• “Wow. Bombshell numbers show how fast the UK population is changing” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin dives into brand new data on births and families in the UK.
• “Rayner delays most damaging workers’ rights reforms after backlash” – Angela Rayner has bowed to pressure from business and delayed plans to grant “day one” rights to new employees, reports City A.M.
• “Only the Conservatives will do what’s needed on welfare” – Neither Labour nor Reform UK can be trusted to deliver the reforms we so badly need, says Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph.
• “The quiet man who could rescue the Tories” – In the Telegraph, Alan Cochrane profiles Lord McInnes of Kilwinning, the man charged with the mammoth task of reorganising Conservative Party Central Office and helping Kemi Badenoch take on Reform UK.
• “BBC Director-General fights for job after Glastonbury crisis” – Tim Davie is fighting for his job as Director-General of the BBC after the Culture Secretary demanded answers over the Glastonbury furore, reports GB News.
• “BBC boss ‘blamed for not stopping Glastonbury stream’” – A newly appointed BBC executive is being blamed for failing to stop a live stream of the Glastonbury anti-Semitic outburst, says the Mail.
• “We may have to defund the BBC to get our country back” – A cesspit of bigotry played out on a national stage and the Beeb’s feeble excuses only deepen the betrayal of licence-fee payers, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Bob Vylan axed from festival after Glastonbury ‘hate speech’ row” – Punk duo Bob Vylan have been dropped from the line-up of a music festival in Manchester following their disgraceful appearance at Glastonbury, reports the BBC.
• “Britain’s last acceptable hatred” – On Substack, Ed West explores the cultural resentment aimed at Glastonbury.
• “Kneecap and Bob Vylan shouldn’t be prosecuted” – In the Spectator, Toby argues that while Glastonbury acts like Bob Vylan and Kneecap shouldn’t be prosecuted, Lucy Connolly’s 31-month jail sentence for a tweet exposes a glaring two-tier system.
• “Diane Abbott brands IDF the ‘Jewish Defence Force’” – Labour veteran Diane Abbott has come under fire after claiming the “Jewish Defence Force” is murdering Palestinians in Gaza, says GB News.
• “Labour wants to silence criticism of Islam” – Angela Rayner’s secretive working group on Islamophobia has free speech in its crosshairs, says Freddie Attenborough in Spiked.
• “Labour quietly pushing through three Bills that threaten free speech as all eyes on benefits cuts” – Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm over three crucial pieces of legislation that could soon be the law of the land, reports GB News.
• “Greater Manchester police investigating 1,000 grooming gang suspects” – Greater Manchester Police is investigating more than 1,000 individuals suspected of participating in child exploitation networks, according to GB News.
• “WFH justice boss quits after Andrew Malkinson scandal” – The boss of a justice watchdog who allowed her staff to work from home has quit over criticism of her “incompetent” handling of the Andrew Malkinson scandal, reports Sky News.
• “MI5’s ‘epic’ China warning is being ignored” – The case of Chu Ting Tang shows that the Government is oddly determined to turn a blind eye to Beijing’s meddling, says Juliet Samuel in the Times.
• “MPs back foreign newspaper ownership ahead of Telegraph sale” – RedBird edged closer to snapping up the Telegraph, after MPs backed a new law letting foreign states own up to 15% of British newspapers, reports the Reading Chronicle.
• “128,000 families in social housing among top earners in England” – Almost 130,000 households in taxpayer-subsidised homes are among the top earners in the country, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Heathrow shutdown blamed on substation fault detected seven years ago” – A power outage that led to the shutdown of Heathrow has been blamed on a fault detected seven years ago but not fixed, reports the BBC.
• “Lucy Letby faces charges over more baby deaths” – Lucy Letby could face more charges after police say they have uncovered evidence of further allegations relating to baby deaths and collapses at hospitals where she worked, according to ITV News.
• “Why these arrests are bad news for Lucy Letby” – Arresting hospital bosses over Lucy Letby risks compounding a miscarriage of justice, warns Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
• “Hancock admits ’protective ring’ around care homes was ‘impossible’” – Covid-era Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended claims he “tried to put a protective ring around care homes” but admitted it was “impossible”, reports the Mail. 
• “‘Discharging patients into care homes was ‘least-worst’ Covid decision’” – Matt Hancock says that discharging patients from hospitals into care homes in the early stages of the Covid pandemic was “the least-worst decision” at the time, according to the Standard.
• “Lily Allen admits she ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she has had” – Lily Allen admits she “can’t remember” how many abortions she has had in a chat with best friend Miquita Oliver, reports the Mail.
• “Are we really living through a ‘record-breaking’ heatwave?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark, fresh from hiking Alpine trails, slams media panic over a so-called ‘record-breaking’ heatwave.
• “The Welfarist religion has made Britons so soft we can’t even stand hot weather” – In the Telegraph, Philip Johnston argues that Britain has grown so soft under the cult of welfarism that we now treat a warm summer like a national emergency.
• “Charlie Bigham under fire for exaggerating eco-friendly credentials” – An investigation has found that retailers are duping eco-conscious shoppers by exaggerating their products’ green credentials, reports the Telegraph.
• “Natural gas to the rescue… again” – In WUWT? David Middleton flags the irony of anti-fossil fuel states leaning on natural gas, coal and oil to keep the lights on during a heatwave – while blocking pipelines from the very shale beneath their feet.
• “Ted Cruz demolishes activist’s ‘climate homicide’ claims” – On Not A Lot Of People Know That, Paul Homewood describes how Senator Ted Cruz dismantled a wacko professor who wants oil executives locked up for murder.
• “Thanks, NewScientist, for admitting climate change isn’t making the jet stream more erratic” – A new study challenges the idea that climate change is producing large waves in the jet stream, writes Linnea Lueken in WUWT?
• “3 Cheers For CO₂!” – The Green Blob’s deranged hatred of CO₂ is driven by anti-capitalist ideology, not science, says Martin Durkin in a new film for the Gorilla Science YouTube channel.
• “US coal power surges as Trump reverses Biden’s war on energy” – US coal power jumped 25% in early 2025 as electricity demand soared and Trump reversed Biden-era restrictions, according to the Climate Change Dispatch.
• “UN report seeks to outlaw climate scepticism, punish fossil fuel defenders” – In Just the News, Kevin Killough reveals how climate activists’ push to outlaw scepticism and silence critics is a desperate bid to shut down debate.
• “Fracking is America’s (not so) secret weapon” – On Real Clear Energy, Jim Welty says that America’s shale boom is its secret weapon for energy and national security – but without new pipelines and infrastructure, the US risks losing its edge to rivals like China and Russia.
• “Romanian teens in court on attempted rape counts after Ballymena riots” – Two 14 year-old Romanian teenagers have appeared in court charged with attempted rape, an incident that sparked riots in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena, reports the Mail.
• “How Poland stopped migration with ‘big beautiful 116-mile fence’” – Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claims that a £300 million border wall has proven “98% effective” in preventing attempts at illegal migration from Belarus, according to the Mail.
• “Trump: Israel has agreed to terms of Gaza ceasefire” – Donald Trump claims that Israel has agreed to the terms of a ceasefire agreement intended to end the war in Gaza, says the BBC.
• “The war in Gaza is far from over” – Unless Hamas is willing to relinquish its military and political grip on Gaza, any deal may prove to be little more than a temporary reprieve, warns Dr Limor Simhony in the Spectator.
• “Musk threatens Trump with launch of his own political party” – Elon Musk says he will follow through on threats to establish a third party if President Trump’s “big, beautiful Bill” is enacted by Congress, reports Politico.
• “The Right is splintering” – In the Spectator, Lee Cohen explores how Elon Musk’s “America Party” idea and UK figures like Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe risk fracturing the Right.
• “No, British trans people aren’t at risk of ‘genocide’” – It helps nobody to ruminate on the fiction that they are hated for claiming a trans identity, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “The Left is abandoning its online safe space” – Joining Bluesky was the perfect protest vote against Elon Musk and Twitter, writes Matthew Field in the Telegraph, but posts are thin on the ground.
• “Now That’s What I Call U-Turns” – On X, a spoof promo for the fictional compilation album Now That’s What I Call U-Turns, features such classics as ‘The Winter Fuel Allowance’ and ‘Non Dom Policy’.

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