News Round-Up

• “Four in 10 migrants crossing Channel on small boats ‘lie about age’” – Nearly half of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats lie about being children, reports the Mail.
• “Government to prosecute migrants who dangerously overcrowd small boats” – Yvette Cooper will use new laws to prosecute migrants who overcrowd small boats, says the Mail.
• “TikTok cashes in as gangs post videos of dangerous crossings” – Traffickers using TikTok to promote small boat crossings are being paid by the tech giant, reveals the Mail.
• “Critics brand Reform plan on Channel crossings a ‘magnet for migrants’” – Reform MP Richard Tice has been accused of dreaming up a “magnet for migrants” after he called for a joint asylum-seeker processing centre in France, reports the Mail.
• “Epping migrant hotel must shut down, demands Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has called for the asylum hotel at the centre of violent protests in Essex to be closed immediately, says the Express.
• “Woman in Union Jack dress turned away from Wetherspoons” – A woman wearing a Union Jack dress has been turned away from a Wetherspoons so as “not to increase tensions” after an anti-migrant protest in the area, reports the Mail.
• “‘Racist, far-Right’ protesters: a Sikh, a Chinese man and a veteran with mixed-race kids” – The financial district was once a byword for Britain’s glittering future, writes Michael Murphy in the Telegraph. Now it merely reflects our national misery.
• “The Ulsterisation of English politics” – Westminster is rapidly losing legitimacy, warns Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
• “How a million white Europeans were sold to Muslim world” – Though it is almost forgotten today, the Muslim trade in white European slaves was deeply feared, writes Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
• “Chancellor in new gaffe over £425 billion pension reform” – Rachel Reeves has been slammed for a “shocking grasp of detail” after bungling key facts on her flagship pension reform, says This is Money.
• “How 15,000 family businesses could collapse in pensions tax raid” – New inheritance rules are set to impose heavy financial pressures on company owners, with around 15,000 firms at risk of closure once the reforms take effect in 2027, reports GB News.
• “Labour’s delusional think tanks are making a bad situation worse” – None of the Government’s policy advisers acknowledge that Britain is rapidly going broke, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “The Left has a long history of catastrophic financial errors – Reeves is about to follow suit” – An ideological crypto sell-off has all the hallmarks of Gordon Brown’s infamous gold gaffe, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “The real Kemi: what everyone gets wrong about the Tory leader” – Badenoch’s fierce love of Britain is indelibly shaped by her Nigerian background, says Feyi Fawehinmi in the Telegraph.
• “Brits could be banned from going on holiday as ‘carbon passports’ introduced” – A new report suggests that Brits could face holiday bans as ‘carbon passports’ are introduced in an effort to tackle climate change, according to the Daily Record.
• “Notorious speed camera wracked up over £1 million in fines” – A Labour council says it can’t afford to replace a £20,000 speed camera – wrecked by the South Wales Bladerunners – despite it bringing in more than £1 million in fines, reports the Mail.
• “British Gas owner mulls mini-nuke challenge to Rolls-Royce” – Centrica is looking to follow Rolls-Royce in developing small modular reactors, says the Telegraph.
• “Peak pink Octopus” – On Substack, David Turver claims Octopus Energy is unravelling – offloading Kraken, its energy software arm, to cover cash gaps while the rest of the business sinks.
• “Climate activists outraged at President Trump’s AI push” – Are greens market testing a pivot from climate activism to anti-AI activism? wonders Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Why Texas’s ‘cut-throat’ approach to Net Zero is paying off” – In the Telegraph, Melissa Lawford reports that Texas’s ruthless free-market approach to energy has turned it into a renewables powerhouse – leaving Trump’s war on wind and solar at odds with his own Republican base.
• “Oh noes! WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts debunks yet more doom-laden forecasts from the World Meteorological Organisation.
• “Medical union starts legal fight over cut-price medics” – The Health Secretary could be hit with a judicial review over his decision to cut back use of physician associates in the NHS, reports the Mail.
• “‘Tories will ban doctor strikes’” – Kemi Badenoch says that doctors should be banned from taking strike action in the same way as police, soldiers and prison officers are, according to Sky News.
• “UK’s biggest ‘baby deserts’ revealed amid threat of ‘underpopulation’” – Plunging fertility rates mean nine in 10 neighbourhoods face the terrifying threat of “underpopulation”, reveals the Mail.
• “Trump and J.D. Vance lead red-cap brigade enjoying summer time in UK” – The UK is seeing a ‘MAGA British summer’ as both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance spend vacation time in the UK, according to the Mail.
• “EasyJet passenger arrested after shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ on flight” – A deranged passenger forced an emergency landing at Scotland’s Glasgow Airport after yelling he had a bomb on board and wanted to “send a message” to President Trump, reports the NY Post.
• “‘Stop migrant invasion’” – Donald Trump has told Europe to “get your act together” over illegal immigration, according to the Mail.
• “A warning from Trump that Britain and Europe simply cannot ignore” – The President is right that Europe cannot indefinitely sustain migration at current levels, says the Mail in a leading article.
• “Trump calls for major TV network to have licence revoked” – Donald Trump has called for NBC News to be stripped of its licence for being a “pawn” of the Democratic Party in a blistering series of social media posts, reports the Mail.
• “Everything you need to know about the Epstein scandal and why Trump can’t escape it” – In the Telegraph, Benedict Smith lays bare how Trump’s long-entangled history with Epstein has become the scandal he can’t shake off.
• “Pilot who removed Jewish children from flight trained two 9/11 hijackers” – French authorities are investigating whether dozens of Jewish-French teenagers were removed from a flight in Spain because of their religion, according to Ynetnews.
• “Miriam Margolyes’s OBE should be stripped, says antisemitism group” – Miriam Margolyes claims that the Israeli Government is doing “exactly the same thing” as Nazi Germany, reports the Telegraph, prompting the Campaign Against Antisemitism to demand she be stripped of her OBE.
• “Macron forgets that Hamas does not want peace” – As Europe makes pointless grandstanding gestures, America grasps that the terrorists have no interest in a deal, writes Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
• “Israel announces tactical pause in military activity in parts of Gaza” – Israel has begun a pause in fighting in three areas of Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian situation, reports Sky News.
• “The dizzying fall of the King of Davos” – In the Telegraph, James Crisp details Klaus Schwab’s scandal-strewn fall from grace as the ‘King of Davos’.
• “Hell in Haiti: how criminals have turned nation into a warzone” – Almost four years after Haiti’s president was assassinated in his own bedroom, the country has spiralled into complete collapse, says Kevin Adjei-Darko in the Mail.
• “Protesters dragged away after confronting trans darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven” – Women’s sport campaigners have been forcibly thrown out of the World Matchplay Darts for protesting against trans player Noa-Lynn van Leuven, reports the Telegraph.
• “Eddie Izzard’s delusions of gender” – Eddie Izzard’s cross-dressing habit has elevated him to sacred-caste status, says Graham Linehan in Spiked.
• “‘I was groped on MasterChef’” – Ex-Masterchef host Gregg Wallace claims he was groped on the hit series and has pledged to never watch the TV show again, according to the Mail.
• “‘Woke fear of being called racist is stopping the police from doing their job’” – In the Telegraph, Claire Allfree meets the actor Adrian Dunbar, who says fear of being labelled racist is stopping police from doing their job.
• “MAGA’s plan to give liberal Hollywood a ‘punch in the face’” – A new generation of US flag-waving producers want to take the silver screen back to ‘the golden age’, writes James Warrington in the Telegraph.
• “‘It’s a horrible thing… the whole thing is a con job’” – Donald Trump takes a moment during a press conference to lecture Ursula von der Leyen on windmills.

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