News Round-Up

• “Ring of steel around Canary Wharf hotel being used to house migrants” – Large barriers have been installed outside the luxury Britannia International Hotel, which has been converted to house migrants, following sweeping protests this week, reports the Mail.
• “Protesters gather near Epping migrant hotel ahead of urgent meeting” – Hundreds have marched through Epping, as police mount a major operation to prevent violence spilling over again, according to the Mail.
• “Move migrants from Epping, demands Essex police chief” – The Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner has demanded that migrants are removed from Epping following days of protests, reports GB News.
• “Did Essex Police ‘bus in’ counter-protesters?” – In UnHerd, Tom Jones exposes Essex Police’s use of bussed-in counter-protesters in Epping as a divisive tactic to manage migrant unrest, warning it risks fuelling Britain’s growing wave of riots.
• “Second police force in row over escorting pro-migrant protesters” – A second police force, Hampshire Constabulary, has sparked outrage after footage showed officers escorting anti-racism protesters to a migrant hotel, reports GB News.
• “Moment police arrest ‘Epping migrant hotel protester’” – Bodycam footage has captured the dramatic moment police arrested a suspect in his living room following anti-migrant clashes outside an asylum seeker hotel, says the Mail.
• “The police can’t cope with another summer of fury over asylum hotels” – If those in Westminster do not confront the migrant crisis head-on, they are risking a level of disorder not seen in these isles for a very long time, warns Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
• “A summer of anti-migrant riots would suit our elites down to the ground” – Any outbreak of violence would serve the powers that be, letting them brand all protests against immigration as ‘far-Right’ extremism, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “One spark and tinderbox Britain will go up in flames” – “I have lived long enough, in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Iron Curtain as well as in the West, to recognise the signs. Serious social unrest is in the air” warns Frank Furedi in the Mail.
• “Gradually, then suddenly” – We are witnessing the final death throes of the regime, writes Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
• “If there’s anything the Tories should be united on, it’s leaving the ECHR” – In the Telegraph, Henry Hill warns that Kemi Badenoch’s ECHR review risks empowering Tory critics to block leaving.
• “Saying ‘Islamist’ is discriminatory, said group training civil servants” – Whitehall mandarins have been receiving anti-Islamophobia training from an organisation which once claimed the word “Islamist” was discriminatory, reports GB News.
• “Britain will benefit from Indian migrants, says Modi” – Keir Starmer has approved an “historic” £5 billion trade deal with India, with Narendra Modi claiming it will bring Britain the benefit of more skilled workers, according to the Mail.
• “Shoplifting epidemic sees three thefts every minute” – Britain is in the grip of a nightmare shoplifting epidemic, with police recording 530,643 offences in the year to March 2025 – a staggering 20% rise in just 12 months, reports the Sun.
• “Reeves’s tax rises are incompatible with growth, warns Lloyds boss” – The boss of Britain’s biggest mortgage lender has sounded the alarm over tax rises, amid warnings of slowing GDP growth and rising unemployment, says This is Money.
• “Record number of farms shut in wake of inheritance tax raid” – A record number of farms have closed for good this year after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid made the future of thousands of rural businesses unviable, reports the Telegraph.
• “RMT union threatens ‘direct action’ if Labour raises state pension age” – Labour’s early review of the state pension age has sparked threats of demos and strikes from Britain’s biggest rail union, says GB News.
• “Make doctors feel pain or strikes will spread, Streeting warns” – Wes Streeting has warned that doctors must feel the “pain” of strikes or they will spread, according to the Telegraph.
• “Taxpayers forced to pay extra £900 million to retired teachers” – Taxpayers have handed an extra £900 million to retired teachers after the cost of their pensions hit almost £13 billion a year, reports the Express.
• “State pension age ‘could hit 80’ with warnings crisis underestimated” – Brits face a stark warning that the state pension crisis could be far worse than feared, says the Mail.
• “The High Court’s war on truth” – In the Spectator, Lionel Shriver slams a High Court ruling redefining “family” beyond blood or legal ties.
• “Raise the age of suffrage to 25” – Sixteen year-olds will vote for whatever jackanapes provides the most unrealistic vision of the future, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “The lanyard class is imploding – and it can’t blame Musk” – In the Spectator, Toby blasts the “lanyard class” for blaming social unrest on Elon Musk’s algorithms rather than their own failed immigration policies.
• “Miliband’s ‘eye-watering’ wind power price increase to hit energy bills” – Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to offer “eye-watering” sums to offshore wind developers in a bid to lure them into UK waters, reports the Telegraph. 
• “New record set for deaths from climate and weather disasters” – On Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton points out that, contrary to media panic, the first half of 2025 saw the lowest number of climate and weather disaster deaths this century – possibly in recorded history.
• “Climate change is reducing, not increasing food costs, mainstream media” – Several media outlets are reporting on a study claiming that food costs are rising due to climate change – but the study is misleading, says Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “The climate change cult is encountering more resistance these days” – On TEA, Gary Abernathy argues that the climate change movement is losing ground as public scepticism grows and brave scientists challenge the “cult-like” consensus with facts.
• “Climate activism in judicial drag” – In WUWT?, Willis Eschenbach slams the UN’s top court for swapping legal reasoning with climate zealotry.
• “When science fails, they call the lawyers” – On Substack, Dr Matthew Wielicki exposes the UN’s plan to criminalise climate dissent.
• “How the Trump AI action plan will wreck green energy” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall argues that Trump’s new AI Action Plan will wreck green energy by prioritising reliable power over flakey renewables.
• “California Dems scramble to find buyer for refinery after running owner out of town” – California Democrats are reportedly scrambling to save a refinery they helped drive out with strict green regulations, says the Daily Caller.
• “The 7-1-7 plan is supercharging pandemic response. The UK never signed up” – In the Telegraph, Sarah Newey explains how the 7-1-7 plan – used by 35 countries but not the UK – boosts outbreak response by demanding detection within 7 days, notification in 1 and action in 7.
• “Jewish comedy gigs at Fringe cancelled ‘over safety concerns’” – Jewish comedians have had their Edinburgh Fringe shows cancelled because of staff “safety concerns”, reports the Jewish News.
• “Jewish schoolchildren kicked off plane after singing Hebrew songs” – A group of Jewish children returning to France from summer camp in Spain were escorted off a flight to Paris after at least one child sang a Hebrew song, says the Times of Israel.
• “Israeli settlers burn West Bank’s last Christian town” – In the Telegraph, Iona Cleave reports from Taybeh, where Israeli settlers torched a fifth-century church in what locals describe as a terror campaign to wipe out the West Bank’s last Christian town.
• “Epstein” – On Substack, Eugyppius argues that while Jeffrey Epstein was undeniably a sex offender, the conspiracy theories surrounding him are riddled with contradictions and lack crucial evidence.

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