News Round-Up

• “Maxwell tells Trump: Free me and I’ll tell all to Congress” – Jeffrey Epstein’s jailed girlfriend says she will testify to Congress about everything she knows if the President releases her from jail, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel condemns Keir Starmer over plan to recognise Palestine” – The Prime Minister has said that unless Israel acts to end the “appalling” situation in Gaza, the UK will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly in September, says the Times.
• “This is the darkest day in British foreign policy since the invasion of Iraq” – Israel is not trying to kill, starve or oppress civilians. It is simply trying to defeat the enemy that attacked its people, writes Jake Wallis Simpson in the Telegraph.
• “Second fringe venue drops Jewish comedian – with ‘Palestine’ given as excuse” – A Jewish comedian has been dropped by a second Edinburgh Fringe venue which claimed it was due to his views on Israel, according to Jewish News.
• “Cancel culture has just taken a frightening new turn” – It seems that being Jewish, or expressing support for Israel, can be enough to get you expelled from the Edinburgh Fringe, writes Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
• “Model Caprice ‘no longer feels safe in London’ due to anti-Semitism” – Ex-model Caprice Bourret has revealed she no longer feels safe in the city she’s called home for the last 30 years due to a rise in anti-Semitism, reports the Mail.
• “Arab world tells Hamas to lay down arms and end rule of Gaza” – In an unprecedented move, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have urged Hamas to disband and leave Gaza, says the Telegraph.
• “RNLI: We make no apology for saving Channel migrants” – The lifeboat charity that’s been criticised for being a ‘taxi service’ for migrants says it has no regrets, according to the Telegraph.
• “Migrants enjoy four-poster beds and music lessons at asylum hotel” – Footage smuggled out of a migrant hotel shows just how luxurious their accommodation can be, reports the Telegraph.
• “How could Britain deport more foreign offenders?” – Could Britain deport more foreign criminals? Yes, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator.
• “They tried to break Lucy Connolly, but the decent people of Britain will never desert her” – A year on from the Southport massacre, the childminder who dared to express her anger over immigration is still in jail, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. But her spirit will not be broken.
• “Sharia court job advert deleted from government website” – Recruitment for the £23,500 per year administration role in a Sharia court in Manchester has been withdrawn from the Department for Work and Pensions website, says the Telegraph.
• “Migrant with child abuse video gives thumbs up after being spared jail” – Yemeni Osamah Al-Haddad, 26, was spared jail after police found with three “grotesque” videos on his phone when he arrived at Heathrow Airport from Cairo in January 2024, according to the Mail.
• “Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims” – One grooming gang victim says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car, reports the BBC.
• “The Southport attack exposed a brutal reality that fractured Britain is afraid to confront” – We must do everything in our power to prevent another lone act of violence triggering widespread disorder, writes Rakib Ehsan on the GB News website.
• “The Islamo-Left alliance is already breaking down” – The Islamists’ alliance with the hard Left will be strictly temporary, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Tommy Robinson leaves UK after alleged assault at St Pancras” – Tommy Robinson was filmed next to the prone figure of a man lying face down at St Pancras and is now wanted for police questioning, says the Times.
• “Kemi can still beat Nigel if only her MPs will let her: here is the plan” – The Tories are not doomed to be superseded by Reform – but changing leader now would surely finish them, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Apology should have saved my BBC job” – Gary Lineker says he was told to resign by the BBC in spite of apologising for an anti-Semitic social media post, says the Telegraph.
• “Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice to star diverse cast” – A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic will feature mixed-race actors in vein of Bridgerton, according to the Telegraph.
• “Starmer appoints diversity tsar to advise on knighthoods” – A new committee empaneled by PM will ensure the honours system is “representative of the United Kingdom”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Edinburgh University accused of bias against ‘non-black’ students” – A group of academics has criticised Edinburgh’s reaction to a race report that made dozens of recommendations over links to slavery and colonialism, says the Times.
• “North Sea oil is a ‘treasure chest’ for the UK, says Donald Trump” – The US president, who recently called wind farms “ugly monsters” says Britain’s high taxes on oil “made no sense”, according to the Times.
• “Trump is right about North Sea oil” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says Trump is 100% right about North Sea oil.
• “Starmer must not kotow to the ICJ on climate change” – Last week, 15 judges from the International Court of Justice at the Hague, at the request of the UN General Assembly, pronounced solemnly on how climate change should take priority over every other policy, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator. Starmer should ignore the Court.
• “Climate activist who caused ‘terror’ at Grangemouth oil refinery is freed” – Samuel Griffiths, who chained himself to “fragile pipes” containing explosive hydrocarbons, was freed on appeal because his co-accused received a non-custodial sentence, reports the Times.
• “Our insane net zero policies are actually increasing carbon emissions” – Net-zero policies are not helping the UK economy or the planet: we are outsourcing our emissions, not cutting them, writes John Redwood in the Telegraph.
• “Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public” – A group of climate researcher have seen what Dominic Cummings’ weirdos are planning in the UK and said: “Hold my beer”, according to Politico.
• “Reclaiming ‘environmentalism’ From the climate extremists” – A group of conservationists are reclaiming ‘environmentalist’ from the radical Left, says Gary Abernathy in WUWT?
• “Skeptics win, endangerment finding axed – truth finally prevails in the climate wars” – A decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency to remove the Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding represents a pivotal shift in America’s approach to climate policy, writes Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “Documentary exposes politics trumping science in child transgender medicine” – The “follow the science” movement has an awkward relationship with medical evidence when it comes to life-changing medical interventions for gender-confused children, according to the Disinformation Chronicle.
• “This is how Labour’s new definition of Islamophobia could spectacularly backfire” – The Government’s marginalisation of other faiths, particularly Sikhs, is nothing short of discriminatory, writes Hardeep Singh in the Telegraph.
• “Ofcom trying to rig the game against rising star GB News for having ‘wrong’ opinions is absurd” – On the GB News website, I argue that we should let the ‘invisible hand’ of the marketplace decide the fate of legacy news broadcasters and not prop them up with government subsidies.
• “‘Savile’ smear won’t stop me defending free speech” – A defiant Nigel Farage has written an article for the Telegraph defending his opposition to the Online Safety Act.
• “We need to talk about Starmer’s Science Secretary (Again)” – It would seem Labour MP Peter Kyle needs to purchase a mirror and perhaps read the Parliamentary Code of Conduct again, writes JJ Starky in the Stark Naked Brief.
• “The Online Safety Bill will make us less happy and free” – The first many people knew of the Online Safety Act was when it was used to prevent users on X from viewing images from an anti-immigration protest in Yorkshire at the weekend, writes Dan Hannan in the Mail.
• “The Online Safety Act is an abomination” – The OSA is making us less free, not more safe, says Fred de Fossard in the Critic.
• “Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act” – Sign this petition if you want to repeal the OSA.
• “Labour’s crackdown on immigration sceptics will backfire” – Immigration is the central – even existential – issue of our time, writes Mike Jones in UnHerd. Yet in 2025, speaking honestly about it feels increasingly risky.
• “Brexit row as Labour aligns with EU on breathalysers for British cars” – The Government has decided to copy European rules and install breathalysers in all new British cars, reports the Telegraph.
• “Draft ‘conversion therapy’ Bill stalls in No10” – Let Us Pray reports that a draft of the bill banning ‘conversion practices’ has been languishing in No10 for months.
• “The trans ‘Safe With Me’ campaign is a safeguarding nightmare” – A BBC presenter wants ‘allies’ in schools to escort trans people to their preferred toilets, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked. What could possibly go wrong?
• “Germany isn’t happy about the EU-US trade deal” – Europe could pay a big price for its weakness in dealing with Trump, according to Constantin Eckner in the Spectator.
• “Five charged over attack on white couple at Cincinnati jazz festival” – Footage of a white couple being attacked by a black mob in Cincinnati has caused outrage across America and led to the arrest of the assailants, says the Telegraph.
• “Waugh against the fogeys” – In First Things, Jaspreet Singh Boparai explores Evelyn Waugh’s attitude to fogeys.
• “Sydney Sweeney’s jeans advert criticised for ‘sexualising’ domestic abuse awareness” – An ad for American Eagle, Sydney Sweeney’s clothing line, has attracted criticism from woke scolds for suggesting (God forbid) that DNA may play a part in how we look, according to the Telegraph.
• “Apple to launch first foldable iPhone” – Apple is jumping on the foldable phone bandwagon, with its first model due next year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Forget about Trump and Starmer, Kahn and London. The all new thatcher doll is here!” – The latest doll from the Ministry of Witt is Margaret Thatcher telling socialists where they can stick it.

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