News Round-Up

• “Elon Musk sets up new political group” – Elon Musk said on Saturday that he had set up the America Party after asking his followers if he should do so in an online poll on X, the Telegraph reports.
• “One year on from Starmer’s election victory, here’s my report card” – Starmer is a creature of our failed elite consensus and he’s going down with it, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “‘Labour doesn’t understand GCSE economics – Britain is a mess one year on’” – From pensioners to property owners, millions of people have suffered a punishing financial hit, says Tom Haynes in the Telegraph.
• “Labour is heading for a solvency crisis” – Britain under Starmer and Reeves is careering towards insolvency, says Wolfgang Munchau in UnHerd.
• “Starmer endorses UN’s high-tax manifesto” – Labour has paved the way for higher taxes on the wealthy, alcohol and fossil fuels by signing Britain up to a new United Nations pact, reports the Telegraph.
• “More than 1.4 million claiming mental health benefits” – 1.4 million people are receiving PIP benefits for mental health issues, with an astonishing 531 new claimants being added every day, the Telegraph reports.
• “Online tutorials teach disability benefit claimants to milk the system” – Mastering the red tape behind Britain’s bloated benefits system can apparently also present extraordinarily lucrative business opportunities, says the Mail.
• “Ban foreigners from claiming disability benefits, say Tories” – Foreigners should be barred from claiming key disability benefits to reduce the cost of Britain’s welfare bill, the Tories have said, as Kemi Badenoch makes welfare a dividing line with Labour and Reform, the Telegraph reports.
• “Jeremy won’t be happy! Far-left MP Zarah Sultana asks supporters to join ‘Team Zarah’ as name of new party she is launching with Corbyn remains unannounced” – Far-Left MP Zarah Sultana has asked supporters to “Join Team Zarah” after Jeremy Corbyn was said to be “furious at being blindsided” by her announcement of their new political party, says the Mail.
• “Is Zarah Sultana the most ridiculous politician in Britain?” – The female Adrian Mole of the wet, woke Left is setting up a new party, and Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill can’t wait.
• “Inside the ugly relationship between Islamism and the Left” – As Zarah Sultana leaves Labour to lead a new Left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn, the Telegraph‘s George Chesteton sets out how the war in Gaza reignited a decades-old alliance.
• “Britain’s new Islamo-Leftist alliance won’t last, but it might kill Labour first” – Corbyn and Sultana’s unholy alliance between religious conservatives and socialists has been tried before – such as in Iran in 1979 – and it has never ended well for the socialists, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Palestine Action protesters arrested after defying terror ban” – An 83 year-old retired priest was among more than 20 Palestine Action supporters arrested for defying a terror ban on the group hours after it came into force, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bob Vylan singer says ‘only good pig is a dead pig’ in anti-police rant” – The singer of punk band Bob Vylan said the “only good pig is a dead pig” in an anti-police rant, new footage from 2023 has revealed, according to the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestine activists disrupt London Pride parade” – Pro-Palestine activists have disrupted the London Pride parade, covering a float with red paint, reports the Mail.
• “Festival organiser gets death threats after cancelling Bob Vylan set” – The boss of a music festival said she received death threats from pro-Palestinian activists after dropping controversial rap duo Bob Vylan from the line-up, the Telegraph reports.
• “‘Death to IDF’: Pro-Palestine protesters storm Jewish restaurant” – Rioters in Melbourne set fire to a synagogue and ransacked an Israeli restaurant while shouting “death to the IDF” as the notorious chant used at Glastonbury spread to Australia, the Telegraph reports.
• “Pride organisers reject antisemitism training” – Jewish groups boycotted Pride celebrations after the organisers rejected offers of free antisemitism training for the event’s stewards, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reform MP James McMurdock suspended after Sunday Times investigation” – Reform MP James McMurdock has suspended himself from the party after a an investigation into £70,000 of loans he took out during the pandemic in 2020, reports the Times.
• “Miliband forced to pay solar farms to switch off” – British solar farms have been paid to switch off for the first time as sunny days prompt a surge of clean power that could overwhelm the grid, the Telegraph reports.
• “The climate scaremongers: Net Zero is further away than ever” – BP’s latest annual review of global energy markets confirms what we have known for a long time: Net Zero is further away than ever, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “Stop Lying, the Guardian, the World’s Oceans Aren’t Becoming Dangerously Acidic” – The Guardian ran an article claiming that the world’s oceans have surpassed a critical tipping point in acidity threatening sea life, but this is false, says H. Sterling Burnett in Climate Realism.
• “Inter-American Court Rules Nations Must Reduce Emissions and Censor Sceptics” – Eric Worrall in WUWT warns about an international body which thinks it can dictate climate policy and free speech policy to the United States.
• “Why Your EV Won’t Fill Up In Five” – In WUWT, Willis Eschenbach bursts the bubble of those getting excited about car batteries that fill up in five minutes: “Charging a 600 kWh battery in five requires the power output of a small hydroelectric dam.”
• “Against Equality” – Nietzsche was right to call the doctrine of equality the most poisonous poison, says Bo Winegard in Aporia.
• “Liberal hypocrisy over immigration has just been brutally laid bare” – Middle class jobs are being supplanted by AI and suddenly the Guardian is worried about jobs being taken by others. Where was its similar concern when immigrants were taking working class jobs, wonders Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “France’s smoking ban is Covid-era nanny-statism” – France has banned smoking in the vicinity of children in the latest example of Covid-style nanny state health authoritarianism, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in UnHerd.
• “US Supreme Court ruling shows up UK’s morally indefensible Schools Bill” – A recent US Supreme Court decision has put governments on notice, says Rabbi Asher Gratt in TCW: state-run education cannot impose belief systems under the guise of inclusion or regulation.
• “Recognising Palestine now would delay peace, not deliver it” – Watch Lord Walney on GB News urge Keir Starmer not to follow Macron’s lead.

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