News Round-Up

• “Fury as secret identities of SAS troops are leaked online” – An urgent probe has been launched after the identities of SAS troops were published online, reports the Mail.
• “Riot police knock man’s teeth out during Epping migrant hotel clash” – Riot police have smashed a shield into a protester’s face and knocked his teeth out in a heated clash outside an Epping migrant hotel, says the Mail.
• “TikTok migrant films himself on boat to UK before enjoying Blackpool” – A small boat migrant who was helped across the Channel by the French authorities is documenting his “best life” in Britain on TikTok, reports the Mail.
• “Two asylum seekers ‘caught making OnlyFans sex tape’ in migrant hotel” – Two asylum seekers were caught making an OnlyFans sex tape in their taxpayer-funded hotel room, according to the Mail.
• “‘My part in Britain’s illegal immigration crisis’” – In the Telegraph, Michael Mosbacher admits that his own dim sum habit may be fuelling Britain’s illegal immigration crisis – showing how middle-class spending on cheap services sustains the system everyone claims to oppose.
• “Suella Braverman reveals blueprint for leaving ECHR” – Suella Braverman has unveiled her legal blueprint for how the UK could quit the European Convention on Human Rights, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s Islamophobia law could hand Reform 100-seat majority” – A poll has found that Angela Rayner’s proposal for an official definition of Islamophobia would hand Reform a 100-seat majority at the expense of Labour, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Islamophobia’: how the British state manufactures a crisis and fuels division” – On Free Speech Backlash, Maryam Gholami warns that Britain’s “Islamophobia” crackdown stifles free speech and fuels division.
• “Our free speech is under attack” – We must be free to say what we think about Islam – even if it offends Muslims, says Nick Timothy on his Substack.
• “We are coming apart” – In Spiked, Tom Slater explains how asylum, multiculturalism and contempt for the masses turned Britain into a tinder box.
• “Tories demand inquiry into PM’s security chief Jonathan Powell” – One of Sir Keir Starmer’s most powerful advisers has been accused of running secret diplomatic back channels to “terrorists” using his own taxpayer-funded team, reports the Mail.
• “Inflation risks are taking Britain towards the debt-crisis cliff edge” – As interest payments pile up, our public finances resemble a Ponzi scheme, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “How Labour is ‘taxing the high street into bankruptcy’” – Startling figures reveal that a pub was hit by a 226% hike in fees, costing it almost £17,000 in one year, reports the Mail.
• “£250 million Chelsea manor’s owner says ‘Britain has gone to hell’” – The UK’s ninth richest billionaire has cashed out, placing his eye-watering £250 million London mansion on sale after declaring that “Britain has gone to hell”, according to the Mail.
• “The 182-night rule that is killing the Welsh holiday” – Holiday let owners in Wales are struggling to make their businesses profitable amid an onslaught of new taxes, writes Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
• “The truancy time bomb threatening to blow up Britain’s economy” – The UK’s school absence epidemic risks devastating consequences for taxpayers and the workforce, warns Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “Pay rises for Sadiq Khan’s top team” – With London going soooo well, it makes sense Sadiq Khan’s top team has been given nearly £50,000 in pay rises, writes Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
• “Christians overturn ban on street preaching in London borough” – A church in West London has successfully overturned a council ban that blocked it from preaching in Uxbridge town centre, reports the Standard.
• “NHS managers who silence whistleblowers to be banned from senior roles” – The Government has announced that NHS managers who silence whistleblowers will be banned from working in other senior health service roles, says Sky News.
• “Inside the Lords battle on foreign media ownership” – In the Spectator, James Heale reports that the House of Lords may block plans to raise foreign media ownership limits.
• “Middle class families could be hit with soaring water bills” – Middle class families could be hit with soaring water bills under Labour plans to lower the costs for Britain’s poorest households, says the Mail.
• “Minister pressures water boss to refuse rise doubling salary to £1.4 million” – The Environment Secretary says that Southern Water’s chief executive should refuse a pay rise that would nearly double his salary to £1.4 million, according to the Mail.
• “Reform would nationalise half of water industry, says Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage has vowed to nationalise half of the water industry by striking a deal with the private sector, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farage says taxpayers ‘defrauded’ out of billions to fund green energy” – The Reform UK leader has questioned why money is being used to underwrite wind and solar schemes “for literally zero effect” on global CO₂ emissions, reports the Mail.
• “Labour council ‘using socialist sledgehammer’ to impose LTN” – A Labour-run council has been accused of using a “socialist sledgehammer” to set up a low-traffic neighbourhood without proper consultation, says the Telegraph.
• “Everyone else is scaling back green targets – why can’t we?” – As the UK’s peers row back on Net Zero, Ed Miliband is pushing stubbornly ahead, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “‘I’m an EV expert: Labour’s new Electric Car Grant is an expensive mess’” – In the Mail, EV advocate Ginny Buckley blasts Labour’s £650 million car grant as a botched, baffling mess that snubs popular models and buries buyers in red tape.
• “‘My electric car costs have surged now my son is learning to drive’” – In the Telegraph, Faith Archer discovers the true cost of going green, as her son learning to drive sends electric car bills and insurance premiums through the roof.
• “Texas flood hysteria: media’s climate blame drowned by history and data” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts blasts media and Bill Nye for twisting decades-old Texas floods into climate crisis propaganda.
• “Republicans probe Bloomberg-backed NYU climate programme funding officials in state attorney general offices” – Republicans are probing Michael Bloomberg’s NYU climate programme for placing partisan fellows in state attorneys general’s offices, reports the Free Beacon.
• “The right to grieve or the right to kill?” – In TCW, Andrea Williams highlights the contradiction of UK law: mourning miscarried babies while allowing abortion up to birth.
• “Protesters vow to disrupt Vance’s Cotswolds family holiday” – J.D. Vance has been warned by protesters that he will “find the resistance waiting” when he visits the Cotswolds this summer, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hamas lawyer called for ‘copycat’ Palestine Action groups” – A lawyer who represented Hamas has called for “copycat” direct action groups to spring up to replace the banned Palestine Action, says the Telegraph.
• “Palestine protester at Royal Opera House attended £48,000-a-year school” – A “queer dance artist” who attended a £48,000-a-year school was behind a pro-Palestine protest at the Royal Opera House, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Recognising Palestine will consign Britain and France to total irrelevance” – In the Telegraph, John Woodcock warns that recognising Palestine now would reward terrorists, alienate British Jews, embolden extremists and relegate Britain and France to irrelevance in Middle East diplomacy.
• “On patrol with Poland’s ultra-nationalist border vigilantes” – As tensions rise with Germany over migrants, some in Poland are taking matters into their own hands, reports James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “In the driver’s seat” – In TakiMag, Theodore Dalrymple uses a Paris taxi ride to reveal the simmering resentment, disillusionment and contradictions of France’s immigrant underclass.
• “Europe still has the power of… what, exactly?” – In Brussels Signal, Anthony J. Constantini slams EU Foreign Affairs chief Kaja Kallas for demanding American support while Europe cosplays as a power without paying its way or having a real force.
• “Japan’s ruling party loses majority in election disaster” – Japan’s Prime Minister has refused to step down despite losing his majority, thanks in part to a surge in hard-Right support, reports the Telegraph.
• “Evil footage shows militants forcing Druze men to their death in Syria” – A disturbing video showing militants forcing Druze men to jump off a balcony to their deaths as they are sprayed with bullets has emerged online, according to the Mail.
• “Council finally cuts ties with Pride group founded by paedophile” – A county council has finally cut all ties with a Pride group, four years after whistleblowers raised serious concerns about its paedophile founder, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reform-led Lancashire council’s new flag policy voted through” – A council has voted through changes that mean a number of flags, including the Pride flag, will no longer be flown over Lancashire County Council buildings, says the BBC.
• “England to stop taking the knee over racist abuse” – The Lionesses will no longer take the knee before matches, stating that it is “clear we and football need to find another way to tackle racism”, according to the Metro.
• “How podcasters are taking over TV” – The bleeding of audio shows into television poses a new threat to traditional broadcasters, writes James Warrington in the Telegraph.
• “How television ate politics” – To make politics functional again, we must revive political parties as social movements, says Steve Davies in CapX.
• “Unsophisticated sophisticates” – Real life is demanding, says Spaceman Spiff on Substack – which is why it is ignored.
• “The architecture of arrogance” – Until architects as a profession recognise what they have wrought, in the United States and elsewhere, they are not to be trusted, writes Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty.
• “‘How we’re being portrayed is not correct’” – On X, a woman at the Bell Hotel protests in Epping blasts the mainstream media for labelling them far-Right when they are simply concerned locals.

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