News Round-Up

• “Two asylum seekers charged over the alleged rape of a 12 year-old girl” – Two Afghan asylum seekers have been charged over the alleged rape of a 12 year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, reports the Mail.
• “Yvette Cooper’s fast-track asylum plan revealed as protests erupt again” – The Home Secretary is set to introduce a new fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog so that decisions can be made in weeks rather than years, says LBC.
• “Home Office tried to silence Robert Jenrick after small boat terror claims” – The Home Office tried to silence Robert Jenrick after he said terror suspects had arrived in Britain on small boats, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Populists will break the law to halt migration unless we change it” – If liberals won’t legislate to stem the migrant influx then authoritarians will, warns Matthew Syed in the Times.
• “Why white working-class rage is surging in Britain” – Soaring crime rates and unchecked immigration are fuelling a political wave the establishment can’t contain, warns James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “How academia has enabled the industrial-scale rape of British children” – On Substack, the National Archive for Survivors argues that Britain’s academic elite has helped normalise child rape by shielding perpetrators and branding critics as racist.
• “Southport, revisited” – In Café Américain, Freddie Attenborough argues that by shielding the Southport killer’s identity and sanitising the narrative, authorities are whitewashing institutional failures.
• “London: a city of strangers” – A housing crisis, rampant crime and uncontrolled immigration are corroding our once vibrant capital, laments Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “Housebuilding in England falls to near-decade low under Labour” – New figures highlight the Government’s struggle to hit its one million new homes target, reports the Telegraph.
• “Despite our ever-growing number of laws, this country is becoming increasingly lawless” – We are drowning in red tape, yet there is a constant clamour for more, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph – but it’s not just the politicians who are to blame.
• “‘Fair pay’ is a dangerous fiction” – ‘Fair pay’ across the whole economy would result in both huge labour shortages and unemployment, warns Charles Amos in CapX.
• “Dispatches from Soviet Britain” – Social engineering is a disaster that has proven to destroy social solidarity and cohesion the world over, writes Konstantin Kisin on his Substack.
• “Reeves making bigger mistakes than Truss, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has accused the Government of taking the country’s finances closer to a “debt spiral”, reports the Telegraph.
• “We bailed out the banks. Who will bail out the state?” – The new ‘too big to fail’ isn’t a bank or a hedge fund, says Damian Pudner in CapX – it’s the British state.
• “Britain’s MPs charge VPNs to expenses as minister urges caution” – A Politico analysis shows that MPs, including ministers, are expensing commercial VPN subscriptions to the public.
• “This sinister ‘Children’s Wellbeing’ Bill would mean surveillance for life” – In TCW, Mary Hardy warns that the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill threatens children’s privacy and parental rights by enabling lifelong state surveillance through data collection.
• “The age of electronic totalitarianism” – In TakiMag, Theodore Dalrymple examines the topic of electronic surveillance by modern, democratic states in the West, with a particular focus on (formerly Great) Britain.
• “Senior nurse warned of ‘nightmare’ baby-killing bacteria in Lucy Letby unit” – A senior nurse at Lucy Letby’s hospital warned she was facing her “worst nightmare” after deadly bacteria was found on several taps in the “over-capacity” baby unit, reports the Telegraph.
• “Miliband refuses to publish details of green energy deal with China” – Ed Miliband is under fire for refusing to publish the details of a green energy deal with China, fuelling fears of potential security risks, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s festival farm plans descend into farce” – Nesting birds have ruined hopes of using land bought with £4.2 million of taxpayer money to host Green Man events, reports Samuel Montgomery in the Telegraph.
• ‘Why is California so chilly this summer?” – It’s been so cold in San Francisco, painters on the Golden Gate Bridge have had to break out heaters, reports Amy Graff in the NY Times.
• “Trump admin moves to curb ‘environmentally damaging’ green energy projects” – The US Interior Department will now weigh energy projects’ density and environmental impact before approval – singling out wind and solar, says the Daily Caller.
• “Trump administration restores sanity to offshore energy policy” – If the wind doesn’t blow quite so favourably for offshore wind’s rent-seekers in the future, well, maybe that’s just the way the wind ought to blow, writes Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “Attribution studies don’t prove anything about South Africa’s floods, Phys.org” – Phys.org claims an attribution study proves climate change made flooding worse in 2022 in South Africa, writes Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism, but attribution studies aren’t proof.
• “Enough doom-mongering about climate change” – Don’t listen to the hair-shirt brigade – it is economic growth and technological innovation that will save the planet, says Tom Ough in the Telegraph.
• “Ignore the doomsayers: capitalism is saving the planet” – Entrepreneurship is driving environmental impact where bureaucracy falls short, writes Mark Brolin in CapX.
• “Landmark ECJ rulings drastically expand migrants’ rights and limit state discretion” – In two landmark decisions, the European Court of Justice has significantly restricted how EU member states can manage asylum claims, reports Brussels Signal.
• “JD Vance is right about Germany’s civilisational suicide” – It is a sobering reality when the Vice President of a foreign country appears more concerned with Germany’s future and problems than its own political class, writes Elisabeth Dampier in the Spectator.
• “Hamas have made it clear. They want nothing to do with peace” – It’s madness to treat Hamas as some sort of negotiating partner, rather than as a terrorist organisation which must be destroyed, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “A genocide is under way — but it’s not in Gaza” – Accusing Israel of trying to annihilate the Palestinian people is a luxury belief, writes Niall Ferguson in the Times; liberals should call out Hamas and Russia instead of carping about Zelensky.
• “Let’s not forget the mass casualties of the Covid response – part 3” – On Substack, Dr Gary Sidley argues that, far from protecting the vulnerable, the UK’s Covid response involved state-sanctioned neglect and euthanasia.
• “If even Pride & Prejudice has to have a ‘diverse’ cast, the English period drama is dead” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon mocks the entertainment industry’s obsession with historical accuracy in props but fantasy in race.
• “Authors of gender critical books claim festival has ‘cancelled’ them” – The boss of Scotland’s top book festival has sparked outrage by admitting gender-critical authors weren’t invited as the topic is too divisive, reports the Mail.
• “‘The literary world is one-sided in the gender debate’” – In the Mail, Jenny Lindsay takes aim at the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s deliberate exclusion of gender-critical voices.
• “Edinburgh Fringe Macbeth has trigger warnings for ‘violence and swearing’” – A performance of Macbeth at the Fringe is replete with trigger warnings for violence and swearing, adding fuel to fears that creativity’s being smothered by caution, reports the Telegraph.
• “Influencer sues Guardian for defamation in Mumford & Sons review” – Right-wing influencer Andy Ngo is suing the Guardian for defamation over its review of a new Mumford & Sons album, says the Telegraph.
• “March for Remigration” – Aerial footage shows the massive scale of Britain First’s ‘March for Remigration’ in Manchester.

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