News Round-Up

• “Starmer: Britain will evacuate children from Gaza” – Britain will evacuate critically ill children from the Gaza Strip, Sir Keir Starmer has said, according to the Telegraph. I guess Egypt and Qatar must be full already, after taking in (checks notes) zero Gazan refugees.
• “Starmer must shut asylum hotels sooner, says Labour Red Wall chief” – Jo White says Labour MPs are calling for asylum hotel closures “a lot, lot quicker” than Rachel Reeves’s pledge to axe their usage by 2029, reports the Telegraph.
• “Migrant hotel protests spread nationwide” – Migrant hotel protests spread across Britain to Leeds, Southampton and Nottinghamshire on Saturday as public anger grew over illegal immigration, says the Telegraph.
• “How a three-star migrant hotel in Barbican became a living nightmare for locals: Blazing mattresses and a TV hurled from windows… and no fewer than 41 ‘guests’ charged with 90 offences ranging from rape to sexual assault, robbery and bag snatching” – The Mail reports on a a central London crimewave centred on an asylum hotel.
• “The small boats crisis could make Blair’s digital ID dream a reality” – A once controversial idea is now being seen as a silver bullet for Britain’s illegal immigration problem, says the Telegraph. The Government can’t secure the borders, so we all have to have ID cards…
• “Taliban fighters ‘brought to Britain’ in airlift after data leak” – Former Taliban fighters with “British blood on their hands” are living in the UK after corrupt officials facilitated the evacuation of jihadists from Kabul on British mercy flights, the Telegraph has been told.
• “Our police and Establishment have turned against us. The country is on the brink” – People engage in street protests because they have given up on the whole democratic process, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “The secrecy on migrant crime statistics must end” – We have enough problems with law and order, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph. The British state must be shamed into stopping the boats.
• “Trump is telling the truths Europe’s leaders won’t” – From immigration to Net Zero to free speech, lately President Trump has been in the right more often than not, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Recognising Palestine would reward murder and rape, says Israel’s ambassador” – Sir Keir Starmer will “reward” the October 7th terrorists if he recognises a Palestinian state, Israel’s ambassador to the UK has said, according to the Telegraph.
• “President Macron is playing with fire by recognising Palestine” – Macron’s imperious statement rewards the neo-fascists of Hamas and isolates the Jewish state, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Israel says aid air drops to start in Gaza along with new UN corridors” – Israel’s military says airdrops of aid will begin Saturday night in Gaza and humanitarian corridors will be established for United Nations convoys, reports the Mail.
• “Labour isn’t working: Sick leave in Whitehall surges under Starmer” – Sick leave in the Whitehall Blob is surging under Labour, as absence rates jumped by up to 26% in major government departments last year, reports the Mail.
• “At Columbia, Trump has won a major victory for Western values” – The $220 million settlement is a model for other universities like Harvard to follow, says Charles Lipson in the Telegraph.
• “The worst wreckers of Birmingham? The judges” – The unions, the council and Corbyn are all at fault. But the lunatic ‘similar work’ legal ruling has done even more damage, says the Telegraph‘s Tom Harris.
• “Mandelson ‘called Epstein my best pal’” – Lord Mandelson, the UK ambassador to the US, is alleged to have written a note in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous birthday album calling the paedophile “my best pal”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband eyes battery bonanza to cut wind farm costs” – Ed Miliband will plough hundreds of millions of pounds into battery storage technology as the cost of ordering wind farms to shut down spirals out of control, reports the Telegraph.
• “Another £806 Million of Your Money Down The Net Zero Drain” – On Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood is unimpressed with the latest bung of £806 million for the Net Zero black hole.
• “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 on ClimateRealism.
• “Rebuttal to: ‘2023 Marine Heatwaves Unprecedented and Potentially Signal a Climate Tipping Point’” – Marine heatwaves might “portend an emerging climate tipping point”. That’s a phrase straight from the climate playbook of fear, says Anthony Watts on WUWT.
• “Reagan on Abolishing the US Department of Energy (it’s Trump’s turn)” – Reagan pledged to abolish the Department of Energy but never managed to follow through. Trump needs to pick up this obvious money-saver, says Robert Bradley Jr in Master Resource.
• “‘Make America Healthy Agenda’ Scores More Wins on Froot Loops and Flu Vaccines” – RFK Jr is scoring wins for MAHA, while states such as Nebraska are also enacting his agenda, says Legal Insurrection.
• “The breakdown of the British state” – Watch Daniel Hannan, a.k.a. Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, tell peers that, as government malfunctions, people blame politicians, but there is a much deeper problem.

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