News Round-Up

• “Migrant ‘mega dinghy’ brings record 107 across Channel to Britain” – A record 107 small boat migrants have reached Britain in just one dinghy, confounding Labour’s pledge to “smash the gangs”, says the Mail.
• “Second migrant at Epping hotel charged with sexual assault” – Another migrant living at an asylum hotel in Essex has been charged with a series of offences, including sexual assault, according to the Standard.
• “GB News abruptly halted as ‘machete pulled out’ during migrant crisis report” – GB News coverage of Chris Philp’s visit to a camp in Calais was brought to an abrupt halt after a migrant pulled out a machette, says the Express.
• “Illegal migrant live streams step-by-step crossing and boasts from asylum hotel” – An illegal migrant has boasted on TikTok of crossing the Channel by dinghy, saying: “Tell your friends to come,” reports the Sun.
• “‘Britain must shut the door on those who come here and abuse our compassion’” – The Labour Government is inviting chaos into our country, warns Richard Thomson in the Express.
• “How Europe is cracking down on migrants while UK lets 50,000 cross channel” – As 50,000 migrants have poured into Britain in small boats, European nations are cracking down and securing their borders, reports the Sun.
• “The UK must reject ‘Sanctuary Cities’” – We are inheriting the worst ideas from the States (under the Democrats), warns Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
• “BBC edits Radio 4 show after Robert Jenrick branded ‘xenophobic’” – The BBC has been forced into an embarrassing edit and apology after a Radio 4 broadcast branded Robert Jenrick’s fears about illegal migrants “xenophobic”, says the Sun.
• “Pundit who accused Robert Jenrick of ‘xenophobia’ runs refugee charity” – Dr Krish Kandiah, at the centre of a Today programme controversy, runs a refugee charity and describes himself as a Government adviser, reports the Mail.
• “BBC’s Thought for the Day shouldn’t sell wokery” – An in-built bias against anything that challenges Left-wing nostrums suffocates broader debate on issues that matter, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Manchester Arena bomb plotter charged with three counts of attempted murder” – Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured in an attack at HMP Frankland on April 12th, reports Sky News.
• “Men who attacked Jews with water pistols get ‘slap on the wrist’” – Two social media influencers who targeted Orthodox Jews with water pistols have been “let off with a slap on the wrist”, according to the Mail.
• “Labour’s shoplifting lies show that it doesn’t understand how angry Britain is” – Thieves have achieved what Marx could only dream of: the abolition of private property, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “How could Rachel Reeves change inheritance tax?” – The Chancellor is eyeing changes to the amount people can gift to family during their lifetimes, which impacts how much inheritance tax they pay, according to This is Money.
• ‘Failing’ Khan’s housing pledge in crisis – Sir Sadiq Khan’s plans for thousands of affordable homes in London have been plunged into crisis after figures showed just a few hundred new properties got off the ground last quarter, reports the Express.
• “Britain’s food security at risk as one in eight dairy farmers plans to quit” – Britain’s food security is under threat after hundreds of dairy farmers say they plan to quit the industry because of rising costs and worker shortages, according to the Telegraph.
• “Canary Wharf workers given cash to ‘adjust’ to extra six-minute commute” – Britain’s audit watchdog is offering cash to staff to help them “adjust” to their new office commute, which adds just six minutes to their current journey, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tulip Siddiq ‘used influence over her aunt to acquire land for family’” – An anti-corruption trial has heard how Tulip Siddiq used her “special power” as a British MP to exert influence over her aunt, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, to acquire state-owned land, reports the Times.
• “Online Safety Act was botched from the start” – The history of the flawed Online Safety Act betrays a misguided desire to remodel the internet rather than protect the young, says Juliet Samuel in the Times.
• “LSE research delves into student experiences of free speech” – On HEPI, Lauren Amdor shows why universities and unions need to teach debate skills, make rules clear and actually create spaces for open discussion.
• “America is right to attack Starmer’s record on human rights” – It is hard to dispute the US State Department’s criticisms of the UK’s recent track record on freedom of expression, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
• “Dale Vince blames ‘shadowy lawyers working for Israel’ for flag row” – Ecotricity boss Dale Vince has accused UK Lawyers for Israel of “bullying councils” into removing Palestinian flags and “stifling free speech on behalf of a foreign power”, reports the Times.
• “French energy giant wins legal battle to shut down North Sea oil fields” – Ed Miliband’s Net Zero push has helped a French energy giant win a legal battle to decommission a key North Sea energy hub – killing off five oil fields in the process, according to Energy News Beat.
• “China is overtaking America. In an electric car” – Chinese electric vehicles don’t just threaten Tesla’s market – they could also serve as a weapon of war, warns Ethan Dodd in the Free Press.
• “The consensus strikes back: climate empire launches legal assault on EPA” – On WUWT?, Charles Rotter reports that climate groups Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists are suing to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from listening to sceptics.
• “Electric power fantasies collide out West” – The West’s love of independence is hitting a wall as wind and solar dreams collide with AI-hungry data centres, says David Wojick on CFACT.
• “Die Welt journalist Axel Bojanowski: apocalypticism is ‘a code of belonging’ among journalists” – On NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin reports that German journalist Axel Bojanowski brands media doom-mongering a cult-like badge.
• “The DOE climate report: a scientific milestone that Europe does not want to see” – The US Department of Energy report deserves open debate, not silence, says Evert Doornhof for Clintel.
• “Urbanists see portents of doom: will floods, fire or earthquakes wipe out Sacramento?” – California has faced epic floods and wildfires long before climate change, writes William L. Anderson for PRI.
• “Swiss Government makes a case for e-ID ahead of referendum” – Switzerland is pitching a free, voluntary digital ID as a way to make online life easier and safer, but critics fear it will hand big tech too much power, says SWI.
• “Why is Reuters carrying water for Hamas?” – Media organisations say there is “no evidence” of systemic aid theft by Hamas – but that isn’t true, writes Jonas Du in the Free Press.
• “Pfizer’s chairman is increasingly desperate to cozy up to President Trump” – Pfizer Chairman Dr Albert Bourla has been courting Trump since December to keep drug prices high and shield the company from vaccine lawsuits, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “A shower of non-answers to TTE FOI requests from DHSC” – The Department of Health and Social Care refuses to reveal how billions spent on Test and Trace were actually used, according to Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on the TTE Substack.
• “Trans Met Police volunteer ‘told girl he loved her before sex assault’” – A transgender Met Police volunteer had daily video chats with his alleged rape victim before sexually assaulting her at the age of 12, reports the Mail.
• “Police officers are fed up with their bosses’ woke diktats” – In Spiked, ex-copper Paul Birch says a West Midlands officer calling out “woke bollocks” shows everyone knows there’s two-tier policing – but most on the beat are too scared to say it.
• “Capitalise Black but not white because of ‘political connotations’, authors told” – Edinburgh University Press has issued an “inclusive language” guide for its books – complete with its own warning about “potentially triggering” words, reports the Telegraph.
• “David Lammy refers himself to watchdog after illegally fishing with J.D. Vance” – David Lammy has referred himself to the Environment Agency over an “administrative oversight” which saw the Foreign Secretary fishing alongside J.D. Vance without a rod licence, says GB News.
• “You climate hysterics would rather elderly people die in heat or cold, than give up and admit you’re wrong!” – On TalkTV, Julia Hartley-Brewer clashes with author Jim Dale, after he accuses her of “denying the science” of climate change following hot British weather.

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