News Round-Up

• “Starmer set to agree 17-in, one-out migrant deal with France in negotiating flop” – Sir Keir Starmer is facing a huge negotiating humiliation after it was revealed his hoped-for migrant exchange scheme with France will be hugely watered down, reports the Express.
• “‘If there’s a more disgusting spectacle than Starmer grovelling to Macron, I’ve yet to see it’” – The decline and fall of the UK and France is one of the tragedies of our times, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “‘Macron could stop the boats now if he wanted to’” – Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick says that France “could be doing so much more” to halt migrant Channel crossings, according to the Express.
• “Muslim media watchdog ‘wrongly labelled terror attack coverage as Islamophobic’” – A bombshell report claims that the Muslim Council of Britain’s media monitoring unit “acted in bad faith” by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism, reports GB News.
• “Asylum seeker can stay in UK because of speech impediment” – An Iraqi asylum seeker who claimed he was discriminated against in his home country because of a speech impediment has won the right to stay in the UK, says the Mail.
• “Hamas fails to overturn status as banned terrorist group in UK” – The Home Office has dismissed an application by Hamas to be removed from the list of banned terrorist organisations, reports the Times.
• “Starmer refuses to rule out wealth tax” – Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out a wealth tax or say if he would extend a freeze on income tax and national insurance thresholds, says Sky News.
• “Junior doctors to strike for five days” – Trainee doctors will walk out for five days this month in a dispute over pay, reports the Sun.
• “Wes Streeting is right to take on the doctors” – The truth is that our doctors, even those just starting out, are not badly paid at all, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Lord Hermer gives himself ‘veto’ over government policy” – Lord Hermer has effectively granted himself a veto over government policy by introducing stricter legal oversight, reports the Telegraph.
• “Would scrapping jury trials save Britain’s broken courts?” – In the Spectator, David Shipley unpacks Brian Leveson’s radical blueprint to fix Britain’s broken courts.
• “Don’t let Labour take your right to a jury trial” – Nobody denies the crisis in our courts, but make no mistake: Leveson’s review is dangerously misguided, warns Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “We need to cut the number of jury trials” – In the Spectator, Danny Shaw argues it’s time to end the jury trial fetish, backing Sir Brian Leveson’s plan to cut court delays by limiting juries and reviving common-sense justice.
• “Ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry defects to Reform and says party is ‘last chance’” – The Conservative Party has been dealt a hammer blow after its ex-boss Sir Jake Berry defected to Reform, says the Sun.
• “Museums like the V&A shouldn’t be allowed to return ‘looted’ treasures” – In the Spectator, Lara Brown warns that Tristram Hunt is trying to gut the V&A’s collection under the guise of restitution.
• “Meet the Stepford employees” – The hegemony of HR has led to employees that are disengaged and unhappy, says G.V. Chappell in the Spectator – it’s having a cost on our social lives and the global economy.
• “RIP Norman Tebbit” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland raises a glass to the Chingford Skinhead. May he rest in peace.
• “It is official: Britain can’t afford Net Zero” – In the Telegraph, Henry Hill warns that Net Zero won’t save taxpayers money, as Britain’s rising welfare costs will absorb any savings.
• “Britain will bankrupt itself before it admits the truth about Net Zero” – For a country already drowning in debt, it is surely now official – we can’t afford Net Zero, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband ‘abandons zonal pricing’ that would cut Scots’ power cost” – Ed Miliband has shelved a controversial plan to make people in southern England pay more for their electricity than Scots, reports the Mail.
• “Miliband scrambles to keep key oil refinery running after collapse” – The Government is scrambling to safeguard oil supplies at one of Britain’s biggest refineries after the collapse of the facility’s owner, says the Telegraph.
• “OBR falls for fake CCC numbers” – The Office for Budget Responsibility has used fake Climate Change Committee numbers to estimate the cost of Net Zero, writes David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Towns to be blighted with empty office blocks under Net Zero rules” – Towns across Britain face being blighted with empty office blocks under proposed Net Zero energy efficiency rules, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Spanish Right-wing party vows to deport eight million people” – Spain’s Vox party has doubled down on a vow to deport illegal immigrants by declaring it would also remove foreigners who “have not adopted our customs”, reports the Mail. 
• “EU announces plan to stockpile food and medicines over war fears” – The EU has announced its first ever plan to help stockpile essential goods such as food, water, fuel and medicines in case of crises, amid fears over potential war with Russia, says the Mail.
• “Why the MAGA movement is turning against Trump over Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged client list” – Some of President Trump’s top MAGA supporters are stewing at the administration’s decision to not release any more information about the criminal case and death of Jeffrey Epstein, reports Politico.
• “X boss quits days after Elon Musk launches new US political party” – The boss of X has announced she is stepping down just days after owner Elon Musk announced plans to launch a new political party, says the Mail.
• “Liberals celebrating death of kids in Texas expose America’s evil rot” – Just when you think that ultra-woke progressives can’t go any lower, we have new horrors: celebrating abortion and cheering the deaths of little girls at summer camp, writes Maureen Callahan in the Mail.
• “Australian online safety tsar ‘censoring free speech’, says US” – A House committee report claims that Australia’s eSafety commissioner Julie Inman-Grant allegedly “colluded” with a powerful group of advertisers who worked to “silence” free expression on X, according to the Telegraph.
• “Vintage car expert ‘killed by grandson who had post-Covid behaviour problems’” – A court has heard that a Jaguar restoration expert was killed by his grandson, whose behaviour had “deteriorated” since the Covid pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “JAMA study confirms long-term collapse in US children’s health – ACIP member demands radical overhaul” – On Substack, Dr Meryl Nass reports that a landmark JAMA study reveals a decade-plus collapse in US children’s health across multiple indicators.
• “Trans woman stands to become women’s officer for Labour” – Labour’s LGBT+ group has sparked outrage after nominating a trans biological male to become their next Women’s Officer, reports GB News.
• “The Left-wing social media site that’s become a digital insane asylum” – Nothing good comes from talking to a mirror, says Zak Asgard in the Telegraph; humans need to argue.
• “The slave and the smartphone” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan argues that smartphones breed passive souls who shun risk and embrace comfort.
• “‘In the medieval period, it was warmer than today’” – On Triggernometry, Matt Ridley, former Science Editor for the Economist, thoroughly debunks the “climate crisis” narrative.

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