News Round-Up

• “Starmer and Macron agree ‘one in, one out’ Channel migrant swap pilot” – Sir Keir Starmer is facing serious questions over whether a new migrant returns deal agreed with France will make any difference to the Channel small boats crisis, reports the Mail.
• “‘I was a Border Force officer. Starmer’s ‘deal’ with Macron is worse than useless’” – There’s still no serious long-term plan for halting the increase in Channel crossings, let alone stopping them completely, says Tony Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer and Macron won’t fix the Channel migrant crisis” – The sceptic might argue that the real problem in cracking the migrant crisis isn’t so much the criminal gangs as the human rights industry, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Starmer will rue the day he made Lord Hermer de facto deputy PM” – This is a Government of human rights lawyers, by human rights lawyers, for human rights lawyers, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Cut benefits for depression and ADHD, Tories demand” – Kemi Badenoch claims that the Government could save up to £9 billion by cutting PIP and UC for claimants better off in work, reports the Mail.
• “Kemi is right. The benefits bill could cripple Britain” – In the Spectator, Michael Simmons says Badenoch is right on welfare – but not tackling pensions means Britain’s real crisis still looms.
• “Britain is killing itself with compassion” – A spiralling welfare bill, ballooning debt and political idealism are setting the stage for crisis, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Moment police officer sobs after ‘being punched at Manchester Airport’” – The moment a female police officer was left sobbing and bleeding after being punched in the face during a brawl at Manchester Airport, has been shown in court, reports the Mail.
• “The unspoken truth about 7/7” – The way we have dealt with the 7/7 bombings is effectively to deny that they happened at all, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “‘My tips to avoid arrest by the Met’” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray slams the Met’s double standards after 11 officers arrest a man for a sandwich board at Pride, suggesting he’d have been safer shouting “Jihad” or joining a grooming gang.
• “Heard the one about Rod Liddle and the police state?” – Brighton Council’s dullard Labour leader has reported Rod Liddle to the police over an obviously satirical column, writes Mick Hume in Spiked.
• “Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries” – In the Spectator, Charles Moore mourns Labour’s quiet purge of the hereditary peers.
• “Ofcom costs hit £4.6 million after losing GB News legal battle” – Ofcom’s spending on external advisers surged to £4.6 million last year after the watchdog lost a high-profile court battle against GB News, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Starmer has pushed Miliband to make a rare good decision” – Plans for so-called zonal electricity have been quietly dropped following No10 scrutiny, notes Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
• “The true cost of our energy delusions” – In Net Zero Watch, Maurice Cousins warns that Britain’s crumbling energy policy has sabotaged its economy.
• “‘I tried circumnavigating the UK in an electric van – here’s why it was impossible’” – It’s green, it’s eco-friendly… and, as the Times’s Chris Haslam discovered, it can take up to six hours to charge. The road trip revolution is still a long way off.
• “Scotland’s tidal bet: Net Zero, net loss” – In WUWT?, Willis Eschenbach slams Scotland’s MeyGen tidal scheme as a £66 million vanity project that churns out power at ten times the price of gas.
• “A fresh start” – On Climate Scepticism, Robin Guenier argues that Britain’s Net Zero crusade is futile virtue-signalling in a world where global emissions are rising regardless.
• “2022-2024 warming mostly linked to natural factors, not CO₂” – On the NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin reports that Prof Fritz Vahrenholt attributes recent warming to natural factors like El Niño and increased solar radiation, arguing that climate models overstate the role of CO₂.
• “Al Jazeera wrongly hypes a climate connection to recent European heatwaves” – On Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken argues that Al Jazeera’s claims about worsening heatwaves and rising deaths ignore historic temperature data and overstate climate change’s role.
• “Natural gas is green and hugely beneficial economically” – In RealClearEnergy, Benjamin Zycher exposes the myths around green energy, showing natural gas is cleaner, cheaper and more reliable than renewables.
• “Dems’ climate pivot probably just smoke and mirrors” – Dems are dialling back some of their climate policies due to their mounting costs, but some policy analysts say the changes are merely symbolic, writes Melissa O’Rourke in the Daily Caller.
• “‘I’m a young meteorologist who questioned the idea of man-made climate change. The climate zealots wanted me punished, silenced and expelled’” – Science doesn’t support the theory that climate change caused the Texas floods, but any attempts to have science-based discussion about the issue are being repressed, says Chris Martz in the Free Beacon.
• “Texas soaked, Bloomberg smoked? Lefty billionaire blames ‘climate denialism’ for floods” – Lefty billionaire Michael Bloomberg is back in the spotlight exploiting the Texas floods to blow a gasket over his most obsessive political issue – you guessed it – climate change, writes Joseph Vazquez in NewsBusters.
• “Trump cancels wind and solar subsidies – Canada’s Net Zero policies are economic suicide” – While Trump focusses on energy security and dismantling the climate empire in the US, Canada still plods a Net Zero path to economic suicide, say the Friends of Science Society on Clintel.
• “The Green lobby’s dishonest crusade for solar and wind” – In RealClearMarkets, Vijay Jayaraj argues that the Green lobby’s push for wind and solar is a “dishonest crusade” built on flawed statistics and fantasy economics.
• “Energy policy vs climate dogma: why the voters aren’t marching to the Green Revolution’s tune” – Americans just aren’t buying the climate apocalypse, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “Pope Leo appeals for more climate action” – The first US pope is just as green as his predecessor, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “The poisonous face of UN Israel-hatred has finally got her comeuppance” – The Trump administration has sanctioned Francesca Albanese, writes Jake Walllis Simons in the Telegraph; it’s a sign of the West’s sickness she was indulged for so long.
• “Women who claimed Brigitte Macron was born male cleared of defamation” – Two women convicted of defaming French First Lady Brigitte Macron by claiming she was “born a man” have been sensationally cleared on appeal, reports the Mail.
• “A response to the World Health Organization and their SAGO report” – On Substack, Jim Haslam takes aim at the WHO’s dodgy SAGO report, accusing it of whitewashing evidence of a US lab origin for Covid.
• “Why should the hunt for the next Archbishop of Canterbury be ‘inclusive’?” – Just when a change in culture is needed, the same culture has shaped the process for selecting the next Archbishop of Canterbury, writes Fergus Butler-Gallie in the Spectator.
• “I’m just ugly not trans, train driver told colleagues” – Aslef is pushing back against the Supreme Court’s ruling that “woman” means biological female, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Toilet wars are over. It’s time to flush this nonsense for good” – The SNP Government and public servants, indoctrinated by the taxpayer-funded trans lobby, are still refusing to implement the ruling of the Supreme Court on gender, says Iain Mcwhirter in the Times.
• “BBC bans Gregg Wallace over ‘unsafe’ behaviour” – Gregg Wallace has been banned from working at the BBC after the corporation ruled that he was not safe to have in the workplace, reports the Standard.
• “Terrified of criticising Islam” – Toby appeared on Mike Graham’s TalkTV show yesterday to talk about the Government’s attempt to come up with an official definition of Islamophobia.
• “‘They’re trying to correct a problem that doesn’t exist!’” – On TalkTV, Mike Graham grills lawyer Luke Gittos over the Law Society’s decision to run free training courses for aspiring judges exclusively for BAME solicitors – with white applicants excluded.

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