News Round-Up

• “Number of small-boat arrivals in Britain under Labour to hit 50,000” – More than 1,000 migrants have come to the UK since the Government’s ‘one in, one out’ deal with France became operational last Wednesday, says the Mail.
• “Revealed: most common offences migrants in hotels have been accused of” – The shocking array of crime committed by migrants living in taxpayer-funded hotels is exposed by the Mail.
• “Set up camps to house asylum seekers, suggests Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has suggested that asylum seekers should be housed in camps which could be policed, instead of in hotels, according to Sky News.
• “Lord Hermer told to ‘enforce the law’ after Palestine Action arrests” – Labour’s Attorney General is being urged to “enforce the law” following the arrest of more than 500 people at a Palestine Action rally last weekend, reports the Mail.
• “Pious Palestine Action activists are nothing like the suffragettes” – Modern protestors only feel contempt towards our hard-won democratic rights, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “Grey-haired granny activists are ruining Britain” – Elderly protestors arrested at Palestine Action demonstrations remind us that age and wisdom do not always go hand-in-hand, writes Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
• “The Chagos betrayal proves Labour is lying about public spending” – Handing over the Chagos Islands is the paradigmatic example of the governing class failing to deliver for the people they are paid to serve, says Ross Kempsell in the Telegraph.
• “‘We’ll blacklist Mauritius over Chagos deal’” – Reform UK has declared it will blacklist Mauritius if it doesn’t hand the Chagos Islands back to Britain, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s economic doomloop is only just starting” – With a £51 billion black hole of her own making, Rachel Reeves is breaking another promise and planning yet more borrowing and tax rises, writes Nick Timothy on his Substack.
• “Nice house? Labour wants to tax it, Kemi Badenoch tells Middle England” – Kemi Badenoch warns that Labour is plotting a tax raid on homes for the billions needed to fill the fiscal black hole, reports the Mail.
• “Labour’s pensions overhaul ‘risks fresh wave of unemployment’” – A leading pension consultant has warned that Liz Kendall’s plans to force employers to increase pension contributions risk sparking a “counterproductive” wave of unemployment, says the Telegraph.
• “Lord Kinnock’s £2 billion VAT raid would crush the NHS” – Desperate as Rachel Reeves is, she should give the former Labour leader’s policy a wide berth, writes Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Young people turn to lodging to beat rising rents” – Young people are becoming lodgers in ever greater numbers to beat rising rents, reveals the Telegraph.
• “‘I’ve been in the gun trade for 40 years. I fear Labour’s crackdown will destroy it’” – In the Telegraph, Richard Negus warns that Labour’s new shotgun licensing laws will gut the £3 billion shooting trade, wreck conservation efforts and punish law-abiding rural communities without improving public safety.
• “Fury as junior doctor brags about Italy holiday during recent strikes” – A junior doctor is under fire for flaunting her luxury holiday while urging colleagues to join a recent strike, reports the Mail.
• “It’s time Britain realised that going to university is a scam” – The Blairite dream of sending “50% of young adults” into further education has been a waste of resources, says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
• “Labour admits shoplifting has got ‘out of hand’” – Despite shoplifters terrorising the high street, Sir Keir Starmer has refused to call them “scumbags”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Locals living in ‘UK’s most famous tourist town’ say it’s in ‘decline’” – Behind Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespearean charm, its high street is hollowing out, reports Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Mail.
• “Vigilante Tube passengers face arrest over ‘assault’ of naked man” – Commuters who took the law into their own hands when a Tube passenger dropped his trousers in a packed London Underground carriage could face arrest, reveals the Mail.
• “High Court rejects Wikipedia challenge to online censorship laws” – Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to the Online Safety Act, reports the BBC.
• “Why the medical world was ‘terrified’ to speak out over Letby case” – In the Telegraph, Anouk Curry argues that overlooked evidence, expert criticism of key witnesses and systemic NHS failings raise serious doubts about Lucy Letby’s convictions.
• “The hidden Net Zero tax crushing British industry” – Carbon pricing has put an irreversible financial squeeze on UK businesses, says Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s biggest chemicals plant at risk of closure” – Britain’s biggest chemical plant is at risk of shuttering after surging energy costs left it struggling for survival, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Plans for giant solar farm means I can’t sell my house’” – Plans for a massive solar farm almost double the size of a neighbouring village in scenic Yorkshire countryside has sparked uproar from residents, according to the Mail.
• “Energy giant takes £4 billion hit as Trump goes to war on ‘con job’ wind farms” – More than £4 billion has been wiped off the value of Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer, after Donald Trump declared war on renewable energy projects, reports the Telegraph.
• “Another eye-roller of a climate study” – A new study suggests that climate change is influencing insect behaviour in complex and unexpected ways, according to EurekAlert!
• “From weather to climate: why Tribune’s News Service AI leap is a logic fail” – AI is not a magical oracle of climate truth, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “No decline in Arctic sea ice extent – ‘No long-term trend’ – since 2007” – On the NoTricksZone, a new study reveals that since 2007 Arctic sea ice has shown no long-term decline, remaining stable for nearly two decades.
• “Arctic sea ice hasn’t declined since Al Gore’s 2007 doomsday prediction” – It’s time for Mr Gore to return that Nobel Peace Prize, says Kenneth Richard in Climate Dispatch.
• “EU Covid cash ‘funded yachts, luxury cars and swingers club’” – European recovery funds designed to rescue pandemic-stricken hospitality venues in Poland have instead financed yacht purchases, high-end vehicles and even a sex club, reports GB News.
• “Friedrich Merz finds his chancellorship in crisis following his announcement of an arms embargo on Israel” – Friedrich Merz has managed to turn his chancellorship into a political minefield with a sudden arms embargo on Israel, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Labour would give Hamas ‘a prize’ by recognising Palestine, says sister of hostages” – Family and friends of loved ones of hostages held by Hamas say Sir Keir Starmer is “rewarding terror” by offering to recognise a Palestinian state before they are released, reports the Express.
• “Gary Lineker and Mo Salah’s ‘we can’t hear you’ hypocrisy is plain to see” – In the Telegraph, Oliver Brown attacks Gary Lineker and Mohamed Salah for expressing outrage over the death of the “Palestinian Pele” but having said nothing about the murder of Israeli footballer Lior Asulin at the Nova music festival.
• “Woman arrested after wearing a T-shirt saying ‘Allah is lesbian’” – A feminist activist in Morocco has been arrested after posting a photo in a T-shirt reading “Allah is a lesbian” and was later threatened online with stoning, according to the Mail.
• “Why should we be pulling down statues in our capital city to appease India?” – The last thing Labour needs is start fighting the culture war battles of 2020 again, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Met volunteer police officer raped child, court told” – Trans special constable James Bubb, now known as Gwyn Samuels, has been accused of grooming and raping a vulnerable teen, plus abusing another woman, according to the Times.
• “I’m enjoying life, says Nicola Sturgeon when asked about sexuality ” – Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that she is not “rushing into a relationship with anyone” – including women, reports the Mail.
• “Drivers over 70 to be forced to take eye tests and banned if they fail” – Drivers older than 70 face taking eye tests every three years and could be banned if they fail them under planned new motoring laws, says the Mail.
• “‘Taking away my driving licence because I’m 90 would strip me of the life I’ve always known’” – Keeping older people off the road in the name of safety would be devastating, says nonagenarian Richard Henderson in the Telegraph; we’d lose so much pride and independence.
• “Vigilante Cycling Mikey pushes his bicycle into a car” – A vigilante cyclist who reports motorists to the police has filmed himself pushing his bicycle into a Fiat 500, according to the Sun.
• “The promise of an AI utopia is crumbling before our eyes” – Talk of a new era of ‘superintelligence’ is starting to look very silly indeed, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband wants to stop the UK from drilling for gas in the North Sea. But he’s happy to buy gas from Norway, which drills from the same damn field under the seabed.” – Matt Ridley gives the Mad Monk both barrels in the Brendan O’Neill podcast.

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