News Round-Up

• “Vast majority of Afghans on ‘kill list’ were bogus asylum seekers” – Thousands of bogus asylum seekers managed to “slip through the net” as part of the leaked Afghan kill list scandal, reports GB News.
• “‘I’d do it again’, says Grant Shapps of secret Afghan scheme” – Sir Grant Shapps has been accused of trying to “rewrite history” over his role in the Afghan data breach super-injunction, says the Telegraph. 
• “Moment protester is ‘run over by police van’” – The Mail has footage of the moment a police van drove into an anti-migrant protester after violent clashes erupted outside a migrant hotel following the arrest of an asylum seeker accused of sexually assaulting teenage schoolgirls.
• “Labour’s teen vote gamble: doomed to backfire if TikTok is anything to go by” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth argues that Labour’s sudden move to lower the voting age to 16 is a blatant attempt at gerrymandering that is likely to backfire.
• “School that banned Union flag dress closes early over ‘extremist threats’” – The school that banned a girl from wearing a Union Jack dress has been forced to close following “extremist threats”, according to the Sun.
• “Long-awaited sex ed guidance removes age limits for sex education” – The Department for Education’s long-awaited statutory guidance on Relationships, Sex and Health Education has been slammed for removing the minimum age limit for teaching sex education, reports the Christian Institute.
• “BP abandons US wind farms as Trump shuns green energy” – BP is selling off its US wind farms amid growing pressure from Donald Trump’s war on green energy, according to the Telegraph.
• “Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets” – On NetZeroWatch, Maurice Cousins says Richard Tice is right: no amount of spin can make wind and solar defy the laws of physics or economics.
• “Forget climate spending, buy air conditioners instead” – I&I argues it would save more lives – and cost far less – to give air conditioners to the world’s poor than to pour trillions into a non-existent climate crisis.
• “Climate oscillations 9: Arctic and North Atlantic oscillations” – The AO and NAO are the dominant modes of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere and neither of them can be reproduced using climate model output, writes Andy May in WUWT?
• “New study: the North Atlantic has not been cooperating with the global warming narrative” – There has been a “marked cooling trend” across the North Atlantic in recent decades, reports Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
• “From Climategate to courtroom – how climate activists tip the scales of justice” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts says Climategate never ended – it just moved to the courtroom, where climate activists are now coaching judges behind closed doors to rig the rules in their favour.
• “Storm chasing with Michael Mann: how to stay in the climate spotlight” – Michael Mann’s latest climate paper is full of big claims, dodgy data and just enough alarm to keep climate anxiety trending, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “Blue state caves on green energy goal after Trump’s wind crackdown” – New York has pulled the plug on its offshore wind plans, blaming Trump’s permit freeze, reports Daily Caller.
• “Trump cancels $4 billion funding for California ‘bullet train to nowhere’” – Donald Trump has pulled $4 billion in federal funding for California’s “high-speed train to nowhere” which has been beset by delays and budget shortfalls, says the Telegraph.
• “France wages all-out war on free speech” – On the Public Substack, Stéphane Luçon charts France’s escalating crackdown on free speech, with a criminal probe into Elon Musk following the banning of Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid.
• “The Social Democrats are plotting a judicial putsch to seize control of the German government. This is totally real. This is actually happening” – On Substack, Eugyppius warns that Germany’s Social Democrats are plotting a judicial coup to ban the AfD, oust Chancellor Merz and cement a permanent leftist majority. “Reform’s Zia Yusuf apologises over ‘like’ for antisemitic post” – Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf has apologised after his X account was revealed to be among those which liked an antisemitic post calling Robert Jenrick a “traitorous Zogbot”, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
• “Inside Gaza’s last working hospital lies a shadow of Hamas control” – In the Telegraph, Henry Bodkin reports from Gaza’s Nasser hospital, where Hamas hides, tortures and decides who lives or dies.
• “Does the bishop in Jerusalem believe Hamas and the IDF are morally equivalent?” – Why can’t Anglican bishops condemn a terrorist regime? wonders Julian Mann in Anglican Ink.
• “Suddenly, Donald Trump is in trouble” – In the Telegraph, Poppy Coburn reveals how Donald Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ scandal has sparked a rare crisis with his online influencer supporters.
• “Milei beat his detractors and it’s delicious to watch” – Despite predictions of doom, the Argentine leader has proven he knows more than his Lefty critics, says Michael Simmons in the Telegraph.
• “Jair Bolsonaro ordered to wear ankle tag” – A court has ordered Brazil’s ex-President Jair Bolsonaro to wear an ankle tag and put him under curfew, reports the BBC.
• “‘Working from home has turned my husband into a slob’” – In the Telegraph, an anonymous wife vents that remote work has turned her once-slick husband into a scruffy, smelly slob.
• “Long-vaccine patients have seven times higher spike burden than Long-Covid patients” – On Substack, Nicolas Hulscher flags a new study showing vaccinated Long-Covid patients carry seven times more spike antibodies than unvaccinated sufferers.
• “WHO International Health Regulations rejected!” – On Substack, Dr Robert Malone hails Trump after the US formally rejected the WHO’s amended International Health Regulations.
• “Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling” – Northumbria Police has banned its officers from displaying trans colours at this year’s Pride parade following a landmark court ruling over its “impartiality” at last year’s event, reports GB News.
• “‘Men can’t be women’ graffiti investigated as hate crime” – Police are treating graffiti stating that “men can’t be women” as a hate crime, says the Telegraph.
• “It’s time to overthrow the lanyardocracy” – Sandie Peggie has been put through hell but something good might come of her ordeal if it accelerates regime change, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Astonishing penalty shoot-out that even a player is calling ‘c**p’” – England’s penalties win over Sweden is being called one of the “worst ever”, reports the Mail.
• “Meghan Markle’s new show fails to crack Netflix’s top 300” – The Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan failed to break into Netflix’s top 10 programmes – or even the top 300 – for the first half of 2025, says the Mail. 
• “John Torode sacked after using N-word while singing to Kanye West song” – New reports claim that the BBC sacked John Torode after he allegedly “used the N-word twice while singing along to a Kanye West song”, according to the Mail.
• “How I got under Macron’s skin” – The Spectator pays tribute to journalist Jonathan Miller, a much-cherished contributor, who died last week at his home in Occitanie, France.

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