News Round-Up

• “Migrants will be allowed into UK from France for up to three months” – Migrants in France will be handed a visa to live in Britain for up to three months if they apply through Labour’s new ‘one in, one out’ deal, reports the Mail.
• “It’s happened again – authorities implicated in asylum seeker sexual assault charge ‘cover up’” – On Substack, J.J. Starky reveals how police cover-ups and Labour’s plan to house asylum seekers in private homes risk fuelling more sexual assaults.
• “Police should reveal ethnicity of suspects, says Yvette Cooper” – The Home Secretary says that police should reveal more information about crime suspects, including their ethnicity, according to the Sky News.
• “Jenrick demands Law Society withdraws mad new ‘race and ethnicity’ guidance” – Robert Jenrick is urging the Law Society to withdraw its divisive race and ethnicity guidance, warning it undermines equality before the law, according to Guido.
• “Parents pay £500 million to beat private school VAT raid” – Parents at Britain’s top private schools have defied Labour’s VAT raid by paying fees in advance, reports the Express.
• “HMRC plans new private school tax grab” – Tax authorities are planning to investigate early payment deals at private schools, says GB News.
• “Nearly three million savers will be hit by tax bill this year” – Around 120,000 more savers are set to pay tax on their savings interest in the space of a year, reports This is Money.
• “Rayner pushes higher wages for 18 year-olds as Labour woos young” – Angela Rayner is pressing ahead with plans to raise the minimum wage for 18 year-olds despite warnings from business groups that it will price them out of the jobs market, says the Telegraph.
• “Parents are starting to panic about generation jobless” – Young people who lost out in Covid are entering a cut-throat jobs market with blank CVs, writes Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
• “‘I paid £50,000 for my degree – now I’m on Universal Credit’” – In the Telegraph, Madeleine Ross reports that a record number of disillusioned graduates, saddled with £50,000 debt and blanked by employers, are now turning to Universal Credit.
• “State pension age to hit 80 without reforms, expert warns” – An expert has warned that workers could be forced to wait until they’re 80 to draw their state pension or pay 50% more in National Insurance contributions by the 2070s, reports GB News.
• “Woman arrested after posting about cop ex-boyfriend in Facebook group” – A woman has been arrested after she wrote a Facebook post about her ex-boyfriend, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, says the Mail.
• “Teacher sacked over comment about Lucy Connolly fighting to clear name” – A teacher says it is now “very difficult to find another job” after a teaching union reported him to his employer for criticising Lucy Connolly’s prison sentence, reports the Mail.
• “UK Online Safety Act censorship hits lawmakers’ political posts” – The UK Government’s push for ‘online safety’ is building the most efficient speech‑erasing machine the internet has ever seen, writes Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “Less porn, more crime?” – In the New Conservative, Jack Watson slams Labour for cracking down on porn while ignoring rising crime and migrant rapes.
• “The foreign governments warning citizens about the dangers of visiting crime-ridden Britain” – Australia, France, Canada and even Mexico are advising their citizens to exercise caution when travelling to the UK, reports GB News.
• “The crisis of public reason, 2025” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan examines what is happening in modern Britain – and what it means.
• “We need a parliament, not a crèche” – Nobody benefits from the infantilisation of political discourse, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? review – one of the most meticulous documentaries in years” – In the Guardian, Lucy Mangan praises Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?, a documentary on Channel 4, as a masterclass in forensic documentary-making that unpicks the case with such clarity and calm that you leave convinced her conviction is not safe.
• “Ed Miliband is teeing Labour up for yet another Scottish pummelling” – On oil and gas, Donald Trump is right and Britain’s Energy Secretary is wrong, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Londoners outraged over ‘stupid’ new charge added to restaurant bills” – A London restaurant has sparked outrage after sneakily tacking on a £1.23 “Carbon Free” fee to diners’ bills, reports the Mail. 
• “Most bestselling EVs barely ever reach peak charging speed” – The majority of bestselling EVs barely ever achieve their maximum charging speed, creating longer waits at charging stations, according to the Times.
• “Bad news getting worse for New York’s struggling grid with looming green buildings mandate” – New York will soon force developers to build new buildings that can only use electricity, further straining the state’s electric grid if it’s fully implemented, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Climate change is not to blame for the rising costs of natural disasters, NBC” – In WUWT?, H. Sterling Burnett argues that rising natural disaster costs are due to poor urban planning, not climate change.
• “CNN get embarrassed on climate change by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin” – On NewsBusters, Matthew Seck reveals how CNN was called out for using misleading images and twisting the 2009 vehicle-focused endangerment finding.
• “OCO satellites: fancy tools, empty pockets” – One of the most reliable tells in the climate shell game is a government programme with a name that promises ‘carbon’ and delivers something suspiciously less concrete, says Willis Eschenbach in WUWT?
• “Yet another misleading report on ‘low-cost’ wind and solar” – In RealClearEnergy, Jonathan Lesser argues that glowing claims about cheap wind and solar ignore their unreliability.
• “If global warming is a problem, why is there so much snow in Australia?” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall ridicules Net Zero in light of Australia’s heaviest snowfall in decades.
• “Latest Northern Ireland data cast further doubt on the ‘official’ Covid narrative” – The WATN? Substack reveals that Northern Ireland’s latest data show very few Covid-only deaths, suggesting that Covid largely replaced flu from 2020 to 2022.
• “Conor McGregor launches campaign to become Ireland’s president” – Conor McGregor has launched his bid to become the next president of Ireland, just days after losing a high-profile civil rape case appeal, reports the Mail.
• “European Commission’s complicity in Poland’s constitutional breakdown” – In Brussels Signal, Marcin Romanowski accuses the European Commission of enabling Donald Tusk’s unconstitutional crackdown on democracy in Poland.
• “Iran ‘asks Taliban for spy kill list’ to exploit UK’s lost database” – Iran is said to be plotting with the Taliban to exploit a lost database that exposed details of MI6 spies and UK Special Forces, reports the Mail.
• “Royal Ballet and Opera caves in to pro-Palestine activists and halts Israel show” – The Royal Ballet and Opera has bowed to pro-Palestine activists and cancelled its planned 2026 Tosca run in partnership with the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv following staff pressure, according to Ynetnews.com.
• “Labour’s new definition of Islamophobia will be disastrous for theatre” – As rows over anti-Muslim hatred and free speech heat up, writers and directors will steer clear of contentious Muslim subject matter, writes Dominic Cavendish in the Telegraph.
• “The simple truth about the war in Gaza” – Hamas’s strategy is to maximise suffering on its own side, and then have the world blame Israel, writes Coleman Hughes in the Free Press – our moral confusion is its chief asset.
• “Why J.D. Vance is worth watching this summer” – J.D. Vance is willing and able to use his status to shape the dynamics of the UK–US relationship and, potentially, the future of British conservatism, writes James Heale in the Spectator.
• “Murdoch takes on Trump in press baron’s last stand” – Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is preparing for his biggest battle yet, as Donald Trump launches a lawsuit over claims linking him to Jeffrey Epstein, says James Warrington in the Telegraph.
• “US to begin deporting migrants to Rwanda” – Rwanda is the third African nation to accept US deportees under Trump’s plan to send migrants to countries with which they have no ties, reports AP.
• “Pam Bondi shocks by ordering grand jury for ‘Russia hoax’ developments” – A grand jury will gather to hear new evidence as part of criminal referrals concerning the Russiagate hoax, says the Mail.
• “Trump to punish banks for dropping customers” – President Trump is planning an executive order that would punish banks if they are believed to be discriminating against customers for political reasons, reports Axios.
• “Trump orders nuclear reactor to be built on moon” – The US is planning to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon as it seeks to push ahead in the space race, according to CNBC.
• “Tesla hands Elon Musk $29 billion to stop him leaving” – Tesla has handed its chief executive shares worth almost $30 billion after he warned he could leave unless given greater control of the company, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farage distances himself from justice tsar’s trans prisoner remarks” – Nigel Farage has distanced himself from his new justice adviser over the issue of whether trans women should be housed in women’s prisons, according to GB News.
• “Reform’s trans prisoner policy is a mess” – There is nothing decent about choosing to prioritise the demands of a very small number of men over the needs of very vulnerable women, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Sex sells for Sydney Sweeney – and so does being a Republican” – A few years ago, reports linking Sydney Sweeney to Donald Trump’s party would have damaged her career – now, they look set to boost it, writes Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “Why the world is obsessed with white women” – Why has much of the world desired paler, whiter women? wonders Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
• “JLR confirms new chief exec: PB Balaji to take over in November” – Jaguar Land Rover has named a new boss less than a week after its former chief executive quit following a disastrous woke rebrand of the company, reports This is Money.
• “Protestors claim estate regeneration project is ‘ethnic cleansing’” – Protesters have staged a sit-in at the estate where A Clockwork Orange was filmed, claiming a regeneration project there amounts to “ethnic cleansing”, says the Mail.
• “‘Pornographic’ mermaid statue to be removed in Denmark” – A naked mermaid statue in Denmark is set to be removed due to its large breasts, reports the Mail.
• “‘Welcome to the UK Thought Police helpline’” – On X, Hannasworlduk hits the nail on the head with the free speech issues and woke nonsense in the UK right now.

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