News Round-Up

• “Starmer faces humiliation as migrant deal to be ‘scuppered by the EU’” – Keir Starmer’s flagship plan to tackle the small-boats crisis is in jeopardy following EU objections, reports the Mail.
• “Latvian paedophile who abused girl may escape extradition from Britain” – A convicted Latvian paedophile may escape extradition from Britain after a judge heard it could breach his human rights, says the Mail.
• “Ex-Labour MP says 72,000 people have signed up to new Left-wing party” – Zarah Sultana says 72,000 people have already signed up to her new Left-wing party, despite question marks over the involvement of Jeremy Corbyn, according to the Mail.
• “Labour on the brink as McCluskey hints trade unions could ditch Starmer for Corbyn’s new party” – Ex-Unite boss Len McCluskey has hinted that trade unions might abandon Labour for Jeremy Corbyn’s new party, says GB News.
• “Whisper it, but ‘special educational needs’ is becoming an unaffordable racket” – In the Telegraph, Annabel Denham argues that Britain’s ballooning special educational needs system has morphed into an unsustainable, easily gamed racket.
• “London’s most dangerous parks revealed: beauty spots blighted by crime” – London’s parks are being gripped by a mounting crimewave that is turning the green spaces into danger zones, reports the Mail.
• “The very strange ailments that are netting sufferers a free car” – Motability was set up to provide free cars for those with serious physical disabilities, but now people with very surprising conditions are using it to get around courtesy of taxpayers, says the Mail. 
• “Driver charged over electric Jaguar that ‘went rogue’ on motorway” – A motorist who claimed his electric Jaguar had gone “rogue” at 100mph on a motorway has been charged with a driving offence and fraud, according to GB News.
• “Solar farms paid to switch off” – On Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood reveals that British solar farms are now being paid to switch off as surplus clean energy risks overwhelming the grid, pushing consumer bills higher with costly “constraint payments”.
• “No wheels on my wagon” – On Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson argues that the UK Climate Change Committee’s 2025 report ignores rising global emissions and growing costs, making the UK’s Net Zero efforts look ineffective and expensive.
• “Sweden invented ‘flight shaming’. Now it is begging airlines to return” – The country that invented ‘flight shaming’, a concept championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg, has scrapped its air tax in a bid to boost its ailing economy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Germany ‘at risk of dying on the Net Zero operating table’” – On Net Zero Watch, Andrew Montford reports that German industrialists have written to Chancellor Friedrich Merz demanding a roll-back of decarbonisation policies.
• “Brussels proposes softened 90% 2040 climate target” – In Politico, Zia Weise and Louise Guillot report that Brussels has bowed to political pressure by watering down its 2040 climate target to a “flexible” 90%.
• “Green energy provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: unfortunately, a mixed bag” – On his Manhattan Contrarian blog, Francis Menton says Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” might slash green subsidies, but loopholes allow Big Green to continue to cash in.
• “The Texas flooding tragedy: could it have been avoided?” – On the Cliff Mass Weather Blog, Cliff Mass blames local negligence – not climate change – for Texas’s deadly floods, arguing lives were lost despite spot-on forecasts that officials ignored.
• “The OBBBA resets the energy policy playing field” – In the Daily Caller, David Blackmon hails Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a seismic reset of US energy policy, handing oil, gas and nuclear a rare second chance at dominance – and daring them not to waste it.
• “California AG taps major Dem donor to represent State in lawsuit against oil companies” – In the Free Beacon, Thomas Catenacci reveals California AG Rob Bonta paid a Democrat-linked firm over £1,000 an hour to lead a climate lawsuit despite their lack of experience.
• “US without coal? Good luck” – On CoalZoom.com, Frank Clemente and Fred Palmer argue that coal has repeatedly saved the US from blackouts during brutal winters – yet federal policy is phasing it out in favour of unreliable renewables. Good luck with that.
• “UAH v6.1 global temperature update for June, 2025: +0.48°C” – On Dr Roy Spencer’s Global Warming Blog, Roy Spencer reports that June 2025 saw a slight global cooling to +0.48°C above the 1991–2020 average – still keeping the long-term warming trend at +0.16°C per decade.
• “ABC News’ claim that climate change is causing sleep apnea is absurd” – On Climate Realism, Anthony Watts ridicules ABC News for blaming climate change for sleep apnea.
• “Hamas ‘gang-raped and executed’ October 7th victims, new report claims” – According to a new report, victims of the Hamas-led massacre in Israel were found partially or fully naked, with their hands tied, showing evidence of gang rape followed by execution, and genital mutilation, reports the Mail.
• “The UN has become the Taliban’s lapdog” – Britain and other western nations have abandoned the women of Afghanistan in pursuit of a UN programme of engagement with the Taliban that has demonstrably failed, says David Loyn in the Spectator.
• “Trump removes Syrian rebel group from terror list” – The US is set to take the Syrian Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham off its list of foreign terrorist organisations, according to the BBC.
• “Trump tells Elon Musk to ‘have fun’ starting the America Party” – President Trump has described Elon Musk’s new third party as “ridiculous”, saying it has been sad to watch his former “First Buddy” go “completely off the rails”, reports the Mail.
• “Tesla investors ‘exhausted’ as Trump attacks ‘train wreck’ Musk” – Elon Musk’s plan to launch a new political party has reignited his feud with Donald Trump and sparked a backlash among Tesla investors, according to AP News.
• “Donate to my legal case against Matthew Hancock” – Help Andrew Bridgen fight Matt Hancock’s attempt to silence the vaccine safety debate – Bridgen is suing for defamation after being branded “disgusting and dangerous” for speaking up on behalf of the injured.
• “Repeated mRNA Covid jabs are linked to faster death from pancreatic cancer” – Japanese researchers have found that pancreatic cancer patients jabbed three times or more died a lot quicker than those with fewer shots, reports Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Medical cartel sues RFK Jr. for pulling Covid shot recommendation for kids and pregnant women” – On Substack, Nicolas Hulscher says top US medical groups are suing RFK Jr. to keep Covid jabs for kids and pregnant women – despite damning data showing they’re doing more harm than good.
• “BBC Talent: meet the writers who tackle ‘Queerness’, ‘intergenerational trauma’ and ‘post-Brexit radicalisation’” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill exposes the BBC’s £80 million ‘Voices’ scheme as a diversity-driven no-talent factory paying writers to prattle on about ‘queerness’, trauma and ‘post-Brexit radicalisation’.
• “The madness of conviction: how emotional reactivity threatens society” – On Substack, C.J. Strachan warns that unchecked emotional outrage, supercharged by social media and AI, is tearing society apart.
• “Australian broadcaster Alan Jones schools a panel of climate zealots” – Watch climate sceptic Alan Jones educate a panel of Australian NPCs about the benefits of CO₂.

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