News Round-Up

• “Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping” – In the Spectator, our own Laurie Wastell roasts Essex Police for marching pro-migrant activists straight into a furious Epping protest – then lying about it – confirming that two-tier policing isn’t coming, it’s already here.
• “Labour must confront the uncomfortable causes of immigration protests” – Locking up rioters and condemning the uglier side of this anti-migrant unrest is the easy bit, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “The Epping migrant delusion” – There is an inherent problem with the Government’s strategy to ‘educate’ people out of their concerns about immigration, writes Madeline Grant in the Spectator.
• “These are not extremists. Ordinary British people are being criminalised” – This is how civil order dies, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph: not in some dramatic coup, but in the slow erosion of trust.
• “Labour must tackle crime and migration or lose out to Reform” – People don’t want the police to clean up social media, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph; they want phone snatchers put behind bars.
• “Councils to buy empty homes to house migrants under Government plans” – Ministers have unveiled proposals to relocate thousands of asylum seekers from costly hotel accommodation into council-managed properties and renovated vacant homes throughout Britain, reports GB News.
• “The council spending £90,000 a night on hotels for social housing tenants” – Liverpool City Council is spending £90,000 a night on hotels for social housing amid a homelessness crisis, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ten charities funding open borders in Britain” – It’s time to smash the NGOs, says Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
• “‘Horrible migrant invasion is killing Europe’” – Donald Trump has issued a stark migration warning to Sir Keir Starmer, saying a “horrible invasion” risks “killing Europe”, according to GB News.
• “Militant doctors start five-day strike demanding a 29% pay rise” – Striking junior doctors have faced a media roasting as their five-day walkout saw picket lines spring up across England, reports the Mail.
• “BMA could sue Labour over plans to fight doctors’ strikes” – The British Medical Association could take legal action if the Labour Government makes doctors “feel pain” for striking, says the Telegraph.
• “What resident doctors don’t want you to know about their pay” – As well as an inflation-busting pay rise, striking medics enjoy eye-wateringly generous pensions, writes Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
• “‘Reeves must raise taxes, scrap triple lock or charge for NHS’” – The IMF has warned Rachel Reeves that she must raise taxes on working people, scrap the pension triple lock or start charging for the NHS, reports the Sun.
• “Labour’s war on rural Britain goes far deeper than farms” – In the Telegraph, Jamie Blackett warns that Labour’s inheritance tax hike is driving family farms to ruin.
• “Corbyn claims 200,000 signed up to new party” – Jeremy Corbyn claims that nearly 200,000 people have already signed up to his new party in just 24 hours, according to the Mail.
• “A split in Corbyn’s party looms already, a brutal war between Fruit and Nut” – Jeremy Corbyn tardily pondering the title of his new TBC movement after its announcement is nothing short of socialist comedy gold, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Can anything stop Reform?” – While it may be a long-distance race until the next general election, Reform remains the pace-setter of British politics, writes Tim Shipman in the Spectator.
• “Miliband’s taxes are transferring wealth from poor to rich” – In the Mail, Matt Ridley exposes how the Energy Secretary’s plans to increase taxpayer subsidies for electric cars, heating and electricity bills punish the poor while lining the pockets of the rich.
• “Solar panel issue known a year before Shanklea school fire” – Potential safety issues with solar panels were known to a council for more than a year before a fire broke out at a primary school, reports the BBC.
• “Eco rail firm on brink of collapse over rising electricity prices” – “Environmentally sustainable” freight train company Varamis Rail is on the brink of collapse because of high electricity prices, says the Telegraph.
• “2023: the year that broke climate science” – On Net Zero Watch, Dr David Whitehouse warns that 2023’s record heat exposes major flaws and growing uncertainties in climate science and its models.
• “The warming of 2023 was due to natural causes, not man-made” – On NoTricksZone, Frank Bosse explains that the sharp global temperature rise since 2023 is largely attributable to a massive underwater volcanic eruption injecting water vapour into the stratosphere.
• “Check your facts, Reuters, Mediterranean wildfires aren’t unusual historically, no reason to blame climate change” – In Climate Realism, H. Sterling Burnett challenges Reuters’ climate change narrative on Mediterranean wildfires.
• “International Energy Agency policies hurt Africans” – In RealClearEnergy, Brenda Shaffer slams the IEA for worsening Africa’s energy poverty by blocking fossil fuel development, condemning millions to pollution and poverty.
• “German electric grid costs doubled over past decade as a result of green transition” – The fees to operate Germany’s electricity grid have more than doubled over the past decade, primarily due to Berlin’s green agenda, says Kurt Zindulka in Breitbart.
• “MISO’s existing nuclear, natural gas and coal plants are way cheaper than new wind and solar” – On Substack, Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling reveal that existing nuclear, natural gas and coal plants in the MISO region generate electricity at far lower costs than new wind and solar projects.
• “How fossil fuels doubled human life expectancy” – Climate activists say fossil fuels are killing us – history and data suggests the opposite, says Dr Matthew Wielicki on his Irrational Fear Substack.
• “mRNA injections induce severe, long-lasting genetic disruption linked to cancer and chronic disease” – A new landmark study reveals that COVID-19 “vaccines” severely disrupt the expression of thousands of genes – triggering mitochondrial failure, immune reprogramming and oncogenic activation, reports Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
• “220 MPs call for Keir Starmer to recognise Palestinian state” – More than a third of MPs have signed a letter to Sir Keir Starmer calling for the UK to recognise a Palestinian state, reports the BBC.
• “Why does the Archbishop of York fail to see that if Israel defeats Hamas, it will have done the world a favour?” – In Anglican Mainstream, Julian Mann asks why Archbishop Cottrell complains about Israel but ignores the global threat posed by Hamas.
• “‘My hell in the Gaza tunnels’ by British hostage Emily Damari” – The only hostage with dual British citizenship bravely takes the Daily Mail back to her harrowing time in Gaza.
• “Israel gives tour of UN aid left ‘rotting’ in Gaza” – Israel has given a tour of a large storage site within Gaza containing what it claims to be 1,000 lorries-worth of aid that the UN has failed to deliver, according to the Telegraph.
• “The power of the picture” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth shows how powerful images – like a haunting photo from Gaza – can hijack our emotions and turn us into unwitting mouthpieces for propaganda.
• “College is a ‘racket’ – by the numbers…” – “Higher education” might be as big a scam as the Military Industrial Complex and the Science/Medicine Complex, writes Bill Rice Jr. on his Substack.
• “Bill Clinton praised Epstein’s ‘childlike curiosity’ in birthday message” – Bill Clinton signed Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” and praised the disgraced financier’s “childlike curiosity”, reports GB News.
• “Hero fireman sues after being disciplined for using the term ‘fireman’” – A hero firefighter is suing his former fire service after being disciplined for not preventing his staff from saying the term ‘fireman’, says the Mail.
• “We need full disclosure now!” – On X, campaign group Together and Lewis Brackpool are demanding answers on lockdown harms after the Treasury admitted it holds cost-benefit analyses – but refuses to publish them.

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