News Round-Up

• “One year of Keir Starmer” – The Pimlico Journal gives its verdict on Sir Keir’s first year.
• “The year that permanently shattered our political mainstream” – We might be witnessing the end of both Labour and the Tories as dominant governing forces, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer has revealed himself to be the most politically hopeless PM of my lifetime” – No wonder the Chancellor was crying. Such a serious failure of economic and political will is very hard to come back from, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Even my Leftie pals can’t believe Labour’s mess” – My Left-leaning, champagne-socialist friends were so excited at the prospect of a Labour government last year, writes Kemi Badenoch in the Mail. But now the scales are beginning to fall from their eyes.
• “How Labour governments always end” – Can’t we just skip to the end of this story? asks Matthew Parris in the Spectator. We all know the Labour Party will be turfed out of office when it plunges the country into a financial crisis.
• “Rachel Reeves: Taxes will rise to cover scrapped welfare reform” – The Labour Party’s pledge to protect workers’ pay is at risk after the Chancellor tells the Cabinet the ‘low-hanging fruit’ is gone, reports the Times.
• “Starmer poised to block wealth taxes” – The PM is set to reject growing calls from some on Labour’s Left for two per cent levy on assets above £10 million, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour delayed Palestine Action ban ‘over riot fears’” – The Government has been accused of suspending the proscription of Palestine Action to avoid losing the the Muslim vote ahead of local elections, says the Telegraph.
• “The 19 Palestine Action attacks the Government failed to stop” – Criminal acts, including vandalism and theft, could have been prevented had the group been proscribed in March, writes Tim Sigsworth in the Telegraph.
• “Migrants will not stop molesting and assaulting children at swimming pools in the best and most democratic Germany of all time” – In The Plague Chronicle, Eugyppius documents the growing threat to women and girls in swimming pools posed by migrants.
• “White woman gropes black disabled boy in anti-harassment campaign” – German poster ‘makes mockery’ of victims when crime is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, according to the Telegraph.
• “RAF nuclear jet base protected by 5ft fence” – Telegraph investigation finds several military airstrips that are vulnerable to attack by activists and foreign agents
• “The new Corbyn-Sultana party may be the most sinister Britain has seen in decades” – The proposed breakaway outfit is an extremist alliance between terrorist supporting Islamists and the hard-Left, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Leading Corbynites reject new party” – John McDonnell and Diane Abbott say they will not leave Labour to join Jeremy Corbyn’s new party, Reports the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s eco zealotry is destroying the beauty of rural Britain” – The pursuit of clean power is a good thing, but it should not come at the expense of our precious wildlife, says Patrick Galbraith in the Telegraph.
• “How Boris Johnson is the only one standing in Nigel Farage’s way” – Voters in Yorkshire and Swindon who voted Labour in the last general election are strangely drawn back to the man who won a landslide for the Tories in 2019, according to Oliver Wright in the Times.
• “Just ignore Farage, Johnson tells Tories” – My strategy of not mentioning Nigel Farage kept his party at ‘zero per cent in the polls’, says the former PM in the Mail.
• “Britain is turning into a hotel for the world’s criminals” – New analysis has revealed that illegal immigrants are far more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Southport Riots Cover-Up Committee” – Sajid Javid has assembled a group of immigration apologists to investigate the causes of last summer’s Southport riots, writes Connor Tomlinson in Restoration.
• “Brothers used used ‘high level of violence’ to assault police – court” – Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are alleged to have struck out at police in the Terminal 2 building on July 23 last year, says the Mail.
• “Home Office has no idea how many migrants overstay their visas” – The Government has failed to gather basic information or analyse exit checks on foreign workers since 2020, reports the Telegraph.
• “The shocking truth about slavery in the Islamic world today” – Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th Century – and are continuing to do so, writes Justin Marozzi in the Telegraph.
• “Zohran Mamdani is turning New York City Republican” – The Left-wing vote is likely to be split. That could give eccentric Curtis Sliwa just the opportunity he needs to win the mayoralty, says the Telegraph.
• “Taliban bans political debate in free speech crackdown” – In a ‘dog bites man’ story, the Taliban have said they’re going to ban political debate in Afghanistan, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Secret Campaign To Stop RFK Jr.” – A leaked document exposes the vast public relations operation designed to discredit RFK Jr., writes a Midwestern Doctor in The Forgotten Side of Medicine on Substack.
• “The scale of Xi Jinping’s humiliation is only now becoming clear” – Only now are the full effects of the Twelve Day War becoming clear. Israel and the US have fundamentally reshaped the world order, writes Charles Lipson on Substack.
• “Russia cannot lose war in Ukraine, warns China” – Beijing foreign minister has given the EU chief “history lessons and lectures” amid fears Washington will shift its focus to the east, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Sad reflection of our times’ as council’s Pride flag reportedly cut down overnight” – Hexham Council, which regularly raise different flags at their offices at St Andrews, has expressed shock that a member of the public cut down the flag overnight, according to the Hexham Courant.
• “Shakespeare and civilisation” – Andrew Doyle’s gave a talk about Shakespeare at ‘The Academy’, a symposium run by Ideas Matter. He has kindly republished his talk on his Substack.
• “We should be outraged by Lily Allen’s ‘four or five’ abortions” – If we want to understand why thousands of women a year in England and Wales have an abortion – 251,377 in 2022, so probably way more now – we could do worse than consider the musings of the singer Lily Allen on the subject, says Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
• “‘Woke’ university accused of no-platforming academic over Israel views” – A coalition of Left-wing staff and students organised a protest to try to stop Eric Kaufmann appearing on a platform at Cardiff University, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hundreds of electric car charging stations hit in organised crime wave” – Gangs targeting EV chargers have forced the industry to develop an anti-theft device, says the Telegraph.
• “Why the baby bust matters” – Collapsing birth rates are the most serious threat humanity faces, writes Miriam Cates in the Spectator.
• “The biggest reason people aren’t having babies? FOMO” – Cold hard cash is never going to work because the opportunity cost of having children is simply too high these days, says Kristina Murkett in the Spectator.
• “Why is TfL’s boss attacking me for cleaning up his filthy trains?” – Khan and his £639,164 a year TfL Commissioner Andy Lord might not take the Tube as regularly as I do, writes Tom Harwood in the Spectator.
• “Women who believe in ‘white male privilege’ protected from discrimination” – The belief that “white middle-aged men” have an “unseen advantage” is ‘protected’, according to the Employment Tribunal, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s biggest fact-checking company goes into administration” – Logically, a lynch pin of Britain’s junior college branch of the Censorship-Industrial complex, is floundering, reports the Times.
• “Blasphemy, Censorship, and the Future of Free Expression in Britain” – Pamela Paresky sat down with me to discuss the current state of free expression in the United Kingdom for Quillette.
• “‘Police said I violated the Human Rights Act for cycling no-handed’” – A cyclist claims he was given a ticket because he contravened Article 2 of the ECHR which covers the right to life, says the Telegraph.
• “You’ve just shot into the top 10 of my favourite guests on this entire channel!” – GB News presenter Martin Daubney interviews a nurse about the NHS’s focus on EDI and she’s marvellous.

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