News Round-Up

• “Labour lowers UK voting age to 16” – In a transparent attempt to distract voters from the Afghan scandal, Angela Rayner has revealed a new constitutional bill that, among other things, will lower the voting age to 16, reports the Telegraph.
• “The young will vote like angry radicals – and empower Britain’s Fruit and Nut party” – The newly enfranchised will flock to the political fringes and back either Corbyn or Reform, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s votes for teenagers ruse will backfire” – Around 1.5 million 16 and 17 year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election, under government plans to lower the voting age. But the Spectator’s James Hanson reckons it will backfire.
• “This voting fix will backfire on Labour” – The Telegraph’s William Atkinson thinks it will backfire too. Only desperate Left-wing strategists and A-level Politics teachers want this change, he says.
• “Labour won’t be in government long enough to witness the mess their NHS plan is creating” – In 10 years’ time, Labour and this Health Secretary will not be around to answer for the costly errors they have made, writes J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
• “3.6 million people are on Universal Credit with no need to seek work” – Nearly half of all the 7.9 million people on Universal Credit have “no work requirement”, compared to fewer than 700,000 in January 2020, according to the Mail.
• “Unemployment creeps up after Rachel Reeves’ tax raid on businesses” – The UK unemployment rate has risen to a four-year high, going from 4.6% in the three months to April to 4.7% in the three months to May, reports the Mail.
• “JLR to axe 500 roles – but insists job losses are ‘normal practice’” – In the latest case of ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’, Jaguar Land Rover is cutting 500 managerial jobs, says the Mail.
• “It’s time to face the truth: Britain is being destroyed from within” – The do-gooders who think of this country as a charity aren’t just making us poorer – they’re also putting us at risk of violent unrest, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “‘It is ‘silly’ to compare antisemitism to skin colour racism’” – Diane Abbott used a BBC interview to say she had no regrets about her 2023 claim that antisemitism and anti-traveller discrimination are not on a par with prejudice based on skin colour, even though it got her suspended from the Labour Party at the time, according to the Mail.
• “Labour set to suspend Diane Abbott for repeating race comments” – And… she’s going to be suspended again, reports the Times.
• “Labour’s official definition of Islamophobia branded ‘nonsensical’” – Sir Trevor Phillips, who first popularised the term ‘Islamophobia’ as head of the Runnymede Trust, says it’s “nonsensical” to introduce a Government-backed definition because there are plenty of existing laws protecting Muslims from hate crimes, says the Mail.
• “Labour’s Islamophobia definition aimed at crushing free speech, warn experts” – Labour’s plans for a definition of Islamophobia are aimed at shutting down free speech, Britain’s ex-equalities chief has warned. More reporting of Sir Trevor’s remarks yesterday, this time in the Sun.
• “Islamic radio station fined for hate accuses Ofcom of Islamophobia” – Campaigners say the row over Salaam BCR, which broadcast an antisemitic speech, shows the risk of officially defining Islamophobia, with extremists using it as a way of shutting down criticism, says the Times.
• “Talking freely about Islam ‘feared more than any other religion’” – Britons are more cautious about criticising Islam than they are Christianity, according to a new poll written up in the Telegraph.
• “BBC executive told staff ‘Hamas Government different to its military’” – A top BBC News editor tried to justify featuring Hamas officials in a Gaza documentary at a staff meeting by wrongly claiming only Hamas’s military wing is a proscribed terrorist organisation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Afghan data disaster takes twist as ambulance-chasing lawyers cash in ” – Legal companies have begun signing up thousands of Afghan claimants who could, it is claimed, pocket up to £250,000 each in compensation, says the Mail.
• “How Tories tore themselves apart over Afghan leak” – Cabinet ministers objected to £7 billion plan to grant asylum to data breach victims because of fears over national security, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Afghan fiasco shows how badly the last Tory government let you down” – Those responsible must be held accountable, and the system that enabled this cover-up has to be dismantled, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “The British public will never forgive the elites for this monstrous betrayal” – We have been lied to one time too many. This will go down as the week the old order perished in disgrace, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “UK special forces, MI6 spies and military officers named in Afghan data leak” – The Times has analysed the data which is also understood to have revealed the whereabouts of Afghans seeking sanctuary in the UK and found some unexpected names on the list.
• “The cost of mass migration has been concealed from the public” – The migration-debt trade should be dropped before it finally blows up, says the Telegraph.
• “Sir David Amess’s killer called ‘great person’ by Prevent officials” – A police interview later suggested murderer Ali Harbi Ali had been deceiving officials, who believed him to be “pleasant”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Migrant asked schoolgirl ‘to make Jamaican babies’, court hears” – Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, is alleged to have put his hand on a schoolgirl’s leg, asked her for a kiss and suggested they make “Jamaican babies” in Epping over two days last week, reports the Mail.
• “The white man who pretended to be black to get published” – A young poet pretended to be “a gender-fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora” and wrote intentionally bad poems, but got 47 of them published, according to the Free Press.
• “Climate jihadi allegedly skyjacks plane after declaring global warming will turn ‘Earth into Venus’” – A man charged with hijacking a plane in Canada also appeared to post on Facebook that he is the “messiah sent to save humanity from climate change”, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Sunnova’s Enronish ending” – On MasterResource, Robert Bradley Jr. delivers a scorching post-mortem on Sunnova’s collapse, likening the government-enabled solar firm to Enron in flip-flops.
• “Oh no – we might need a 3ft sea wall to stop the Doomsday Glacier from wrecking cities” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall reacts to alarmists’ claim that a big glacier in Antarctica could “swallow parts of cities all over the world”.
• “Net Zero targets clash with AI’s explosive emissions surge, researchers warn” – Researchers are questioning the efforts of companies and governments to achieve Net Zero emissions targets while also backing the rise of AI, whose emissions are now projected to “far exceed” those of air travel, according to Climate Change Dispatch.
• “There’s no evidence that climate change has increased the rat population” – In Reason, Aaron Brown slams a hyped rat study, showing there’s zero evidence climate change is fuelling a rodent boom.
• “7 in 10 college energy courses focus on so-called climate change” – Ignoring the extant realities of energy will render students unprepared for making sensible decisions… in the public or private sector, says Chuck DeVore in the Federalist.
• “Steve Miller Band cancels North American tour due to climate change weather disasters” – The Steve Miller Band has cited a climate of fear over the weather for cancelling all dates on a long-planned 2025 North American tour, reports Breitbart.
• “Air India captain ‘cut off’ fuel to engines” – Black box captured the plane’s panicked first officer asking the Air India captain why he moved switches, says the Telegraph.
• “Trump deports ‘depraved monster’ immigrants to tiny African kingdom” – Washington says the five men its deported to a tiny African country are “so uniquely barbaric” their home countries won’t take them back, reports the Telegraph.
• “John Torode ‘plans legal action against BBC’ after MasterChef sacking” – MasterChef bosses are reportedly pushing to air Gregg Wallace and John Torode’s final series ‘“when the dust settles” after they were both sacked from the cooking show, says the Mail.
• “Police face ban from marching in Pride parades after court ruling” – The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police acted unlawfully when she allowed uniformed officers to march under a trans flag at a Pride event last year, a judge ruled today after FSU member Linzi Smith brought a case, reports the Mail.
• “The new sex education guidance will fail” – There are big problems – and the new sex education guidance won’t fix them, says Neil O’Brien on his Substack.
• “Brigitte Macron ‘has been secretly driven to despair’” – French first lady Brigitte Macron was always renowned for her decorum and grace at the many high profile public appearances which come with the role, but she’s wilting under accusations she’s a man, according to the Mail.
• “Childhood jabs and autism: Landmark study reveals the truth” – Researchers examined the health records of more than 1.2 million children born in Denmark between 1997 and 2018, all of whom had received routine jabs, and the findings are that vaccines may actually protect children from autism, reports the Mail.
• “The fall of Hezbollah” – Hezbollah’s downfall was not the result of a battle lost or a lapse in resolve, but the sudden and total collapse of a strategic worldview, write Joseph Nichol and Adi Asi in Quillette.
• “Banning Alternative für Deutschland: a nightmare scenario” – What will happen if Germany’s largest opposition party is banned and why it is in everybody’s interest for the centre-Right CDU to bring down the firewall and normalise the populist Right, writes Eugyppius on his Substack.
• “Jacinda Ardern forced out wealthy foreigners. Now New Zealand is desperate to win them back” – Kiwi nation makes golden visa rules more attractive than ever following a collapse in investment thanks to Jacinda’s hopeless mismanagement of the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “The true scandal of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is about to be blown wide open” – The former president’s ‘Politburo’ are due to give evidence to a congressional committee. The veil of secrecy may be about to be lifted, according to the Telegraph.
• “The secret code words being used to beat online censorship” – A 24 year-old Harvard graduate is exposing how new slang is shaping our language – and it’s not just by (or for) kids, says the Telegraph.
• “Andrew Tate accused of sexually assaulting far-Right influencer” – Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern claims she was strangled by the self-proclaimed misogynist after a night out in Romania, reports the Telegraph.
• “The latest in the line of Labour MPs dolls! Free with every vote, just as soon as we can lower the voting age to 2!” – Amusing take on Labour’s lowering of the voting age from those pranksters at the Ministry of Wit.

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