News Round-Up

• “The U.S. Says Britain Is chilling free speech. Many Britons point the finger back” – To coincide with the Vice-President’s visit, the New York Times investigates whether free speech is really in peril in the UK.
• “Vance warns Lammy: Don’t go down dark path of censorship” – The US Vice-President, now in England for a family holiday, warns the British about going down the dark path of censorship that he says the US would have gone down if Kamala Harris had won the Presidential, reports the Telegraph.
• “POLL: Vast majority of Brits concerned about Online Safety Act blocking criticism of immigration” – More in Common has released polling on the Online Safety Act and it turns out Brits have concerns, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Vance: US won’t follow UK in recognising Palestinian state” – The American vice-president precedes his Cotswolds holiday by holding talks – and going fishing – with David Lammy. But he had disappointing news for the Foreign Secretary – the US won’t follow Britain in recognising Palestine, according to the Times.
• “Will the occupation of Gaza allow Israel to crush Hamas?” – Israel is preparing to enter Gaza City and take direct control over what remains of Hamas’s operational stronghold, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “Israel gives Gazans until Oct 7th to evacuate ahead of full occupation” – Israel has given the people of Gaza until the second anniversary of the October 7th massacre to get out, reports the Telegraph.
• “Israel has little choice but to occupy Gaza” – Hamas will not surrender its control over the strip without being forced to do so, whatever virtue signalling European leaders may think, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Britain would speak German if Starmer was PM in Second World War, says Trump official” – Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has responded to the Prime Minister’s call for a “negotiated solution” to the Hamas-Israel war by saying Starmer would have lost the Second World War, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer is playing with fire with his Brexit betrayal” – New polling finds that voters are overwhelmingly in favour of the UK retaining national sovereignty, says Spiked.
• “British farmers face ‘catastrophic’ harvest, warns Jeremy Clarkson” – The former Top Gear host has warned that a lack of rainfall is severely affecting UK crops, according to the Telegraph.
• “Petition: Call an immediate general election” – Sign this petition calling for an immediate General Election and get the number of signatories up to half a million.
• “National Crime Agency to investigate allegations police were involved in Rotherham abuse” – Three retired South Yorkshire police officers have been arrested on suspicion of historical sex offences, reports the Telegraph.
• “Palestine Action supporters vow to defy warnings they will be arrested” – More than 500 people are expected to gather outside Parliament at 1pm today, while protests are also planned outside migrant hotels, says the Mail.
• “Police warn Palestine Action protestors they may never travel to US” – Palestine Action demonstrators may never be able to visit the US or work in education if they take part in this weekend’s protest, the Met Police have warned, according to the Mail.
• “The heiress whose family profited from the Nazis… and is now marching against Israel” – Marlene Engelhorn, who is joining a ‘freedom flotilla’ to Gaza, is descended from the founder of a company linked to the supply of Zyklon B, reports the Telegraph.
• “With their sneering TikTok videos, the people smugglers are laughing at all of us” – People smugglers can afford to jeer when our Government is such a soft touch, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Asylum has become unsustainable” – Crime data published yesterday has piled yet more pressure on the government to change its asylum policy, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Spain’s anti-Islam turn” – “Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people,” says a spokesperson for Spain’s right wing Vox party. Is the attitude of Spaniards towards its Muslim residents changing? asks Mark Naylor in the Spectator.
• “The case for an independent Kent” – In the Spectator, I come up with a tongue-in-cheek solution to the small boats crisis – make Kent an independent state so it can turn back the dinghies unencumbered by the European Convention on Human Rights or the Geneva Refugee Convention.
• “Call for Kent independence is a joke – but so was the man who could be our next PM” – The idea of Kent breaking away from the UK to “go it alone” may be tongue-in-cheek, but that it’s being floated at all is telling, writes Dan Esson in Kent Online.
• “Middle-class children ‘to be shut out of best schools’ in Labour equality crackdown” – Plans to update Equality Act could force schools to prioritise pupils from working-class backgrounds, according to the Telegraph.
• “Anti-woke Gina Carano’s huge win against Disney after firing” – The actress and mixed martial arts veteran, 43, has won her lawsuit against Disney after being dropped from The Mandalorian for her Right-wing views, reports the Mail.
• “Reform’s amateur hour problem” – Britain is crying out for a radical reforming government, but Gareth Roberts in the Spectator isn’t convinced Reform UK is ready for power.
• “Mask evangelicals wanted to make them a permanent part of ‘new societal norms’” – On his Substack Unmasked, Ian Miller has a pop at the mask fanatics who want masks to become party of our daily lives.
• “Police in free speech row over ‘shoplifters are scumbags’ sign” – Police officers in Wrexham have been criticised for asking a shopkeeper to remove a sign saying “Shoplifters are scumbags”, says the Telegraph.
• “Victory for football fans sick of being bombarded with tokenistic rainbow nonsense” – At last sport is beginning to cut links with Stonewall’s polarising, decade-long obsession with virtue-signalling gesture politics, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “Kneecap’s nauseating free-speech hypocrisy” – The Irish rap trio led the charge to have a ‘far right’ music festival cancelled, bellying their claims to be free speech champions, says Hugo Timms in Spiked.
• “New Jaguar boss defends ‘woke’ rebrand after Trump criticism” – Jaguar customers are getting excited despite the President’s criticism of its ‘woke’ turn, says its incoming chief, according to the Telegraph.
• “Drop trans guidance or face lawsuit, free speech group tells university” – A free speech group has threatened Leicester University with legal action unless it abandons its policy of continuing to allow transwomen to access women’s bathrooms, reports the Times.
• “‘Let the war begin’ – Trans activists vow to fight government guidance” – Activist lawyer accuses the Equality and Human Rights Commission of “violating” trans people’s rights by affirming the Supreme Court judgement, says the Telegraph.
• “So what if you’re offended?” – A teacher has sued for discrimination because a colleague mentioned a “blasphemous” novel (The Satanic Verses). This is where we are now, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “Merryn talks money” – Bloomberg columnist Merryn Somerset Webb debunks the Net Zero boondoggle in her latest podcast.
• “Labour’s decimation of the North Sea is an act of economic vandalism” – Major energy producers are withdrawing as taxes render the North Sea unproductive, says the Telegraph.
• “New study: a city’s industry centre, airport up to 12°C warmer than nearby forests, vegetation” – An analysis of 10 cities from across the globe has revealed airports and industry centres are, on average, 2.5°C to 2.8°C warmer than neighboring green spaces, writes Kenneth Richard in No Tricks Zone.
• “False Stories in the New York Times and the Seattle Times on Western Washington megafires” – Reports of the megafires in Washington state being due to climate change should be taken with a large dose of salt, says Cliff Mass in WUWT?
• “Minerals needed for green energy could run out within decades” – A new study has revealed how exhausting critical resources such as tin, cadmium, and indium could jeopardise the transition away from fossil fuels, says the Times.
• “Why is the Online Safety Act causing over-removal of content?” – On the Triggernometry podcast, I explain why social media platforms have erred on the side of over-removal since the duty to protect children from harmful content kicked in on July 18th.

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