News Round-Up

• “Antisemitism ‘normalised in middle-class Britain’” – Antisemitism has been normalised in middle-class Britain, a Government-backed report has found, reports the Telegraph.
• “Evidence of UK antisemitism stunned us – this issue is urgent for the whole country” – We are all harmed if we tolerate the abuse of some of our fellow citizens by those who hold warped or extreme views, write Penny Mordaunt John Mann – the authors of the new report – in the Telegraph.
• “More than 70 Palestine Action supporters arrested” – More than 70 have been arrested at protests in England and Wales against Palestine Action being proscribed as a terror group, the Times reports.
• “Britain needs a post-Covid economic reset” – In the Telegraph, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says Britain must let go of bad and unaffordable habits picked up during the Covid lockdowns and trust people, not government, to rebuild our future.
• “This shameless Labour Government could be gone far sooner than anyone imagines” – After only a year in office, the PM has been painted into a corner by his disastrous policies and disgruntled back-benchers, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Junior doctor strikes will send NHS waiting list soaring” – Doctors’ strikes will act as a blow to Labour’s key pledge by sending the NHS waiting list back up, Telegraph analysis shows.
• “Revealed: the full, devastating impact of Labour’s VAT raid on private schools” – Shut schools, displaced children and lost communities are the immediate results of a damaging policy, says the Telegraph.
• “Welcome to the Little Chagos Islands! Single London council faces £18 million bill as it is forced to house hundreds from the Indian isles on top of its asylum seekers quota” – A single London council has seen its housing bill for new migrants soar to £18 million after hundreds of Chagos Islanders arrived on top of the asylum seekers it was already paying for, reports the Mail.
• “Reform welfare or become a failed state: that is Britain’s only remaining choice” – From Labour to Reform, every other party is content to let the bills rise, giving the Tories a political opportunity, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Drivers with sleeping disorders can lease cars under benefits scheme” – More than 400 people who list obstructive sleep apnoea, a sleeping disorder, as a primary medical condition accessed a vehicle through the taxpayer-subsidised Motability scheme in 2024, according to official government figures, the Telegraph reports.
• “Britain’s mental health crisis isn’t what you think” – There is a growing percentage of people who now resort to state support because they falsely believe themselves to suffer from debilitating mental disorders, says Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “I’ve been a doctor for over 50 years, and I am appalled by the strike” – Money buys you neither love nor happiness, says Karol Sikora in the Telegraph: a whole system shake-up is now absolutely necessary for the NHS.
• “Welcome to London… a ‘shanty town’, a stabbing and the rich fleeing” – More than 50 bailiffs arrived one day to break up the sprawling migrant camp that had taken root over recent months in one of the world’s most exclusive postcodes in Sadiq Khan’s London, says the Mail.
• “Britain is broken. Wherever you look the state is failing” – In many ways the mess is worse than in the 1970s, when Labour last ruined the country, says Stephen Glover in the Mail.
• “Reform warns it wouldn’t take Liz Truss or Suella Braverman if they decided to leave the Tories amid concerns they would damage the party’s image” – One well-placed insider tells the Mail that former attorney general Suella Braverman was “not a team player”, adding: “Her record shows she is just too disruptive.”
• “Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Emmanuel Macron for his jihad against Brexit” – Following Macron’s comments last week blaming the small boats crisis on Brexit, Boris Johnson in the Mail suggests Macron is deliberately perpetuating the crisis to show up the problems with Brexit.
• “Britain’s tortured relationship with free speech – from public floggings to gender ‘hate crime’” – The idea of the free-born Englishman is central to our identity, but our national story is also one of censorship and repression, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “People with traditional values could be extremists, Canadian police warn” – People with traditional values could be extremists, Canadian police have warned, the Telegraph reports.
• “It’s time for the medical establishment to admit they made a terrible mistake” – Dr Aseem Malhotra publishes the speech he gave at the Global Health Awards 2025 in the House of Commons members dining area on Thursday July 10th, where he highlights key evidence the Covid vaccines are unsafe medical products.
• “HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s Net Zero alliance” – HSBC has become the first UK bank to leave the global banking industry’s Net Zero target-setting group, as campaigners warned it was a “troubling” sign over the lender’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian reports.
• “Interview: Professor Richard Lindzen on Climate Change: Never Take Yourself So Seriously That You Have To Invent Problems” – Atmospheric scientist Dr Richard Lindzen explains in an interview with Freedom Research‘s Hannes Sarv that the current warming and climate change are nowhere near posing an existential threat to us.
• “Farmers’ fury over ban on watering crops during heatwave” – Farmers have been banned from watering their crops during the heatwave, warning that the restriction, imposed by the Environment Agency on around 240 farms in East Anglia, threatens significant harvest losses, reports the Telegraph.
• “The climate scaremongers: Texas floods were a tragedy that should never have happened” – In TCW, Paul Homewood explains that the recent tragedy in Texas was, sadly, not unexpected in an area long-dubbed ‘Flash Flood Alley’ – and indeed, should have been anticipated and prevented.
• “Planet Saved, Family Hospitalised: A Heat Pump Love Story” – WUWT‘s Charles Rotter on the problem that heat pumps don’t make water hot enough to kill deadly bacteria such as Legionella.
• “Mann’s Hockey Stick – Still Crap After All these Years” – On WUWT, Anthony Watts says that, using Mann’s technique, he can “create global warming from a bunch of meaningless casino numbers, pure noise”.
• “Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup” – The reality is that making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible, says David Wojick for CFACT.
• “The hypocrisy of those attacking Moygashel’s migrant bonfire” – In the Spectator, Andrew McQuillan says the small boat bonfire is in bad taste, but the people who erected it shouldn’t have to suffer a police investigation and “insufferable opprobrium from those who have bent backwards to justify Kneecap telling their audience to ‘kill your MP'”.
• “Kneecap effigies appear on loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland” – Effigies of controversial rap group Kneecap have been placed on loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland, with one sign reading “Kill Your Local Kneecap” in response to Kneecap telling people to murder their MP, reports the Mail.
• “There Were No ‘Lives Lost’ on 7/7” – We did not ‘lose lives’ on 7/7 as if they were tragically misplaced in a bureaucratic mishap, says Professor Roger Watson in the New Conservative. “They were murdered — deliberately, violently and in cold blood — by men who hated what this country stands for.”
• “Is the U.K. officially a dictatorship?” – The Thinking Coalition is concerned to note that the Parliament website no longer states MPs “represent their [UK public] interests and concerns in the House of Commons”.
• “Welsh Government ‘disobeying Supreme Court trans ruling’” – The Welsh Government has been accused of disobeying the Supreme Court gender judgment after an HR document for the devolved administration on ‘trans inclusion’ continued to claim “trans women are women”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Divorcee forced to pay half of ex-husband’s trans surgery in legal first” – A divorcee has been forced by a judge to pay half for her ex-husband’s trans surgery after the judge said the operation was a “need” and therefore it was “reasonable” for £160k cost to be met out of joint funds, reports the Telegraph.
• “The disturbing world of child brides” – There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage, writes James Reynolds in the Mail.
• “Why conservatives should be anti-car” – Aporia magazine makes the case against the automobile.
• “Friedrich Merz is the Most Incompetent Chancellor the Federal Republic Has Ever Seen” – Eugyppius recounts how the Fail Chancellor sabotaged his own vote, pissed off his coalition partners and cast his government into chaos – all in a misbegotten attempt to own the AfD.
• “North Sea fishermen to be decolonised” – Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre is reviewing its collection to address possible links with ‘colonialism and racism’, according to the Telegraph.
• “Putin ‘tells Iran to accept nuclear deal with no enrichment’” – Vladimir Putin has reportedly told Iran to accept a US nuclear deal that would ban it from enriching uranium, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain does not need an Islamophobia law, existing rules work” – Muslims are a religious collective, not a racial group, and it’s important to differentiate between the two in law, says Fiyaz Mughal in the Telegraph.
• “Plan to turn disused former Leicester pub into mosque approved” – Councillors in Leicester have approved a plan for the Glen pub to become a place of worship and education centre, reports the BBC.
• “I sense a growing popular rage over immigration” – On X, watch Lionel Shriver ask Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill why, since the UK is a democracy, “is the biggest change that is happening in our lifetimes being done without anyone’s say? People vote for parties who say they’ll stop it – and then they don’t.”

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