News Round-Up

• “Illegal immigrant stabbed fellow asylum hotel resident 15 times in attack” – An illegal immigrant stabbed a fellow asylum hotel resident 15 times in a frenzied attack, repots the Sun.
• “Nigerian man who sexually assaulted teenager walks free” – A Nigerian man who sexually assaulted a young woman next to Bournemouth beach has avoided jail, says the Mail.
• “Migrants told to join a trade union by taxpayer-funded app” – International Recruitment Zone tells workers that trade unions offer “training, experts, legal and other benefits”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch: I would cut migrant Channel crossings to zero” – Tory leader says Labour is “making excuses” as the number of arrivals under Starmer hits 50,000, reports the Telegraph.
• “The guy is a genuine hero” – A movie is being made about the ‘Lion of London Bridge’ – Roy Larner, who single-handedly took on a group of Jihadis murdering civilians in Borough Market, says Southwark News. Watch Dominic Frisby’s song about him here.
• “Rachel Reeves’s assault on the British economy continues” – There really is no hiding place for Rachel Reeves in this morning’s employment figures, released by the ONS, according to Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Treasury considers inheritance tax raid in budget” – Officials are rumoured to be looking at ways Rachel Reeves can raise billions to plug budget deficits after a wealth tax was ruled out, reports the Times.
• “One million more signed off work indefinitely since Labour took power” – The number claiming Universal Credit has increased substantially during Starmer’s first year in office, says the Telegraph.
• “Channel migrants arriving at record speed under Starmer” – A minister deemed “unacceptable” the landing of 50,000 since Starmer took power 13 months ago – the fastest the milestone has been hit under any PM, according to the Times.
• “Labour’s approval rating slumps to its lowest ever level under Starmer” – Labour’s net approval rating under Keir Starmer has fallen to -55, according to YouGov polling. The Mail has more.
• “Undercover officers pose as joggers to catch catcallers” – Plain clothes officers jog through areas identified as harassment hot spots, while specialist units wait to intervene, in the latest effort by the police to avoid catching criminals, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why won’t the police let us call shoplifters ‘scumbags’?” – The authorities care more about policing speech than policing crime, writes Hugo Timms in Spiked.
• “Vance to host Jenrick at Cotswolds manor house – but not Badenoch” – The US vice-president is planning to meet Robert Jenrick, but not Kemi Badenoch, during his stay in the Cotswolds, says the Telegraph.
• “JD Vance to meet Nigel Farage for breakfast in the Cotswolds” – The US Vice-President is also due to meet with Nigel Farage, according to the Times.
• “Britain remains the greatest place to live: here are 12 reasons why” – This country is still a precious stone set in a silver sea, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph (although his 12 reasons Britain is great are a bit rubbish).
• “Clive of India’s descendant defends his legacy after statue row” – Robert Clive, whose conquests paved the way for British rule in India and who was blamed for the Bengal famine, has been defended by his descendants, reports the Times.
• “It wasn’t Trump who trashed gay rights – it was the trans lobby” – Russell T Davies is wrong to blame populists for the crisis of gay liberation, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Stop asking kids if they’re depressed” – In the Free Press, Abigail Shrier urges us to stop asking kids if they’re depressed because it’s making them depressed.
• “Queer writing awards boycotted over nomination of gender-critical author” – The inclusion of John Boyne, best known as the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, in the shortlist for the Polari Prize has been described as “inexcusable” by demented trans activists, says the Telegraph.
• “Teachers can ask pupils to call them ’Mx’” – The Education Secretary says teachers can “request” that children call them by their preferred gender pronouns, according to LBC.
• “Nicola Sturgeon – a victim or a hard-nosed, humourless harpy?” – The Scottish politician’s hotly anticipated memoir, Frankly, is filled with an obsessive desire for reinvention, writes Tom Harris in his two-tar review in the Telegraph.
• “Let’s not rewrite history: Nicola Sturgeon was a truly dire politician” – The former Scottish first minister possesses many admirable qualities, but good political judgment is not one of them, says Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
• “Why I don’t write about Covid anymore” – On his Substack, Eugyppius explains why he no longer writes about COVID-19.
• “The climate cult takes on ‘resiliency’ in Manhattan” – New York City is undertaking a massive transformation of its energy system without anyone in authority having done the simple arithmetic to check whether the plans have any chance of succeeding, writes the Manhattan Contrarian on his blog.
• “Delete your old emails to save water, says Environment Agency” – Emails and photos stored on the cloud are supported by large water and energy-demanding data centres, according to the Environment Agency (via the Mail).
• “The TV weather heat index has become a climate propaganda tool” – The over-use of the term ‘heat index’ by US weathermen smacks more of sensationalism than scientific clarity, writes Anthony Watts in the Western Journal.
• “Check the Data, France 24, climate change isn’t causing worsening wildfires in France” – French 24 pushes the idea that recent wildfires in France were due to human-caused climate change, but this is false, reports Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “The era of reckless bets on Net Zero is officially over” – Ørsted has gone from being a source of national pride in Denmark to a national embarrassment, says the Telegraph.
• “Food without farms: Coke, Nestlé, Pepsi among ultra-processed food giants running global food policy” – New research sheds light on the complex web of ultra-processed food producers that control global food and health policy, says the Defender, the Children’s Health Defence blog.
• “Try to talk about Islam, and you’ll receive death threats” – Watch a clip of Tommy Robinson being interviewed on Triggernometry.

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