News Round-Up

• “Police arrest 466 Palestine Action supporters and five more are cuffed for attacking officers while across the UK violence also explodes at separate migrant protests” – Police have made more than 400 arrests at protests across the country today as the UK was engulfed by a wave of pro-Palestine and anti-migrant demonstrations, the Mail reports.
• “Protesters presented themselves as peaceniks, but ugliness lurked below the surface” – As police began making arrests at pro-Palestine gathering in London, shouts from crowd revealed deep hostility towards police and Israel, says the Telegraph.
• “US blames Macron for collapsed Gaza peace talks” – The US has blamed France for the collapse of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas because it agreed to recognise Palestine as a state, reports the Telegraph.
• “Would-be leaders of Palestinian state are extremists, Starmer warned” – Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that recognition of a Palestinian state would “lay the groundwork for the next October 7th”, as the Palestinian Authority continues to promote school textbooks glorifying jihad, according to the Telegraph.
• “We should help Gaza’s children, but that doesn’t mean resettling them in the UK” – Many Arab nations are unwilling to allow Palestinians to move to their own countries – these warnings should not be ignored, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions” – Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths, reports the Telegraph.
• “Moment embarrassed police officer knocks on ‘anti-migrant’ protester’s door after being sent door-knocking by ‘woeful’ thought police ahead of demonstrations” – In the Mail, watch footage showing a Warwickshire police officer hesitantly approaching a Nuneaton property before ringing the doorbell.
• “Crackdown on asylum seekers taking jobs for delivery firms sees just 280 arrests after week-long operation” – The Mail is unimpressed after a week-long crackdown on illegal migrants working saw only 280 arrests and 1,780 people stopped and spoken to.
• “Starmer needs to admit the truth: migrants do commit more crime than native Brits. This is a national crisis – and the PM’s silence isn’t good enough” – Dan Hodges in the Mail is fuming about political inaction on illegal immigration and crime.
• “Zelensky rejects giving up land to ‘occupiers’ ahead of Trump meeting with Putin” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed Ukraine would never cede any territory to the “occupier”, as he rejected Donald Trump’s suggested plan for peace at next Friday’s summit in Alaska, the Telegraph reports.
• “Trump has betrayed Ukraine, making the world immeasurably more dangerous” – No US President has done more to make the West weak again than the current incumbent, argues Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Benefits claims among over-50s hit record high” – The number of over-50s claiming benefits has almost hit two million for the first time amid a growing ‘sick note’ culture, reports the Telegraph.
• “Our lives changed forever after my husband had the Covid jab… a stroke left him blind and paralysed – and the stress has broken our marriage” – The Mail profiles “doting” father-of-two John O’Neill from Althorne, Essex, who had a reaction to the AstraZeneca jab in May 2021 that caused a devastating stroke and left him disabled for life.
• “Kennedy’s move against mRNA vaccines is a massive blow to Big Pharma” – In TCW, Daniel Jupp hails RFK Jr’s crackdown on mRNA vaccine research – part of an impressive first six months in office.
• “Covid Vaccine Mandates Are Finally Being Completely Dismantled” – The Trump administration is undoing the abuses of Joe Biden’s autopen, says Ian Miller on the Unmasked Substack.
• “Powerful antidepressants taken by millions ‘linked to more than 1,000 deaths – including children under 10’” – SSRI antidepressants have been linked to more than 1,000 deaths since 1987, according to the Mail.
• “We need an independent and transparent investigation of mRNA Covid jab risks – from the ground up” – Yesterday, a man who thought Covid jabs had hurt him killed a police officer near the CDC. The attack, which was wrong and immoral, shows the depth of anger and fear over the jabs and the Government must respond, says Alex Berenson on the Unreported Truths Substack.
• “ADHD is a fake diagnosis that doesn’t exist” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail rails against the “‘ADHD’ lobby, a mighty alliance of bad teachers, bad parents, dodgy doctors and greedy drug companies”.
• “The offshore wind turbines destroying Britain’s fishing trade” – Fishermen are being excluded by offshore wind farms from areas where they once reaped rich harvests, says the Telegraph.
• “La Niña Continues – Globe To Keep Cooling For Another Year” – There’s no global warming this year, and likely next year as well amid a cooling La Niña period, says Pierre Gosselin on the No Tricks Zone.
• “The climate scaremongers: 1976 and all that” – According to Met Office data, this summer is neck and neck so far with the historic summer of 1976 as the hottest on record – but it’s an utterly absurd claim, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “Families facing ‘boiler tax’ under Miliband’s Net Zero drive” – Families have been warned they face a £25 ‘boiler tax’ as heat-pump manufacturers struggle to sell enough to avoid huge Government fines, the Telegraph reports.
• “Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months” – Tesla is poised to take on Octopus and British Gas as a new electricity supplier in Britain, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Climate Cult Takes on ‘Resiliency’ in Manhattan” – In New York City, in the grip of the hysterical climate cult, authorities are undertaking a massive transformation of the energy system without anyone having done the simple arithmetic to check whether the plans have any chance of succeeding, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian.
• “How ‘progressive’ teaching destroyed our education system – and threatens to return under Labour” – In a new book, ex-Tory minister Nick Gibb describes his war against ‘child-led’ learning and why he fears the ideology is staging a comeback, summarising his argument in the Telegraph.
• “Val, it’s not misogyny that got Sturgeon – it’s her wokester ideology” – Scotland’s former first minister is doing the rounds appealing for sympathy, but Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph hasn’t forgotten her appalling record on Covid and woke authoritarianism.
• “Labour accused of hypocrisy after raising age of party officials to 18” – Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after backing 16 year-olds to have the vote but banning them from key roles in local party branches because of “significant legal responsibilities”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Social media giants face fines for ‘overzealous’ free speech crackdown” – Ministers have warned social media giants that they face huge fines for curbing free speech by “overzealous” enforcement of online safety laws, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Mind the Grab’ is victim-blaming at its worst” – The garish, patronising crime-awareness campaign on Oxford Street blames victims while letting phone thieves off the hook, says Simon Evans in Spiked.
• “All aboard the Edinburgh University guilt trip” – In TCW, Professor Roger Watson castigates Edinburgh University for its latest race-baiting ‘decolonisation’ report.
• “Police in the UK are now openly laughing at the stupid laws they have to enforce” – On X, Basil the Great draws attention to the Nuneaton police officer who told a resident: “I apologise, it’s not something I agree with but I’ve been asked to do it.” Let’s hope he doesn’t face any penalty for his honesty.

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