News Round-Up

• “Judge who allowed drug dealer to stay in UK was on pro-asylum charity” – Fiona Beach, the judge who permitted a knife-wielding drug dealer to remain in Britain, was once on the board of a pro-asylum charity, reveals the Mail.
• “Former British Army colonel: ‘I predict civil war in the UK… there is no political solution’” – On YouTube, ex-British Army Colonel Richard Kemp gives his bleak verdict on the future of Britain in a candid interview with Conor Tomlinson.
• “We live next to a migrant centre – our houses won’t sell” – Locals living near Manston Arrivals and Processing Centre in Kent have slashed tens of thousands of pounds off their property value as they cannot sell them, reports the Mail.
• “Flags raised by patriotism campaigners removed by London council” – A second council has vowed to remove English or British flags that have been attached to lamp posts by patriotism campaigners, says the Telegraph.
• “London is in trouble and there’s no point denying it” – The media elites’ classist indifference to the fraying of social bonds is gross, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The leaked WhatsApp messages that expose Tory splits over ‘silly’ asylum policy” – Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal that Tory MPs are split over the party’s asylum policy and “silly” messaging on migrant hotels, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police advise shop owners to say ‘hello’ to customers if they want to halt thieves” – A police force has told shop owners to hire greeters to say “hello” to customers to stop thieves, reports GB News.
• “Bournemouth: the town diversity destroyed” – The New Culture Forum’s Peter Whittle reports from Bournemouth, a once idyllic seaside town now beset by appalling crime and disorder.
• “Labour has just rolled out the red carpet for the world’s brazen criminals” – Foreign criminals are embarking on their thieving adventures without serious consequence, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “Sally Rooney vows to use BBC royalties to fund Palestine Action” – Novelist Sally Rooney has vowed to fund the proscribed terror group Palestine Action, reports the Mail.
• “Immigration is driving Britain’s religious revival” – In UnHerd, Rakib Ehsan reacts to new polling data which show that over the past four years the percentage of 18–24 year-olds who believe in the existence of God (or multiple gods) has risen from 16% to 37%.
• “Reeves forced to correct parliamentary record after getting her figures wrong” – Rachel Reeves has been forced to correct the parliamentary record after bungling her figures when discussing unemployment and her flagship pension reforms, reports GB News.
• “Markets think British policymakers don’t know what they’re doing” – The gap between the Monetary Policy Committee’s policy rate and the cost of government borrowing is widening, warns Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “An exodus is already underway in Starmer’s Britain: get ready for four more years of it” – Labour’s economic policies will lead to fewer jobs for people at the the start of their careers, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “British horse racing to go on strike for the first time ever” – British horse racing has taken the astonishing decision to go on strike in protest at a proposed rise in betting tax, reports the Mail.
• “UK’s biggest benefit hotspots mapped” – One in five working-age adults in parts of Britain are claiming jobless benefits that don’t require them to seek work, says the Mail.
• “It’s lawyers who really rule the roost” – In TCW, Sean Walsh argues that the UK is increasingly ruled by lawyers beholden to abstract, international law.
• “‘I have no idea what is going on’” – On Substack, Spaceman Spiff says that today’s chaos is less about populism and more about elites clumsily trying to control the world, with propaganda, broken systems and gullible followers.
• “Mirror and Express targeted for takeover that would sack a third of journalists” – The Mirror and Express newspapers are being targeted for a cost-cutting takeover that would result in more than 850 journalists losing their jobs, reports the Telegraph.
• “BBC U-turn over ‘false statistics’ on Lucy Letby Panorama documentary” – The BBC has been forced to correct and re-edit a Panorama programme on Lucy Letby after being accused of “sloppy and amateurish” journalism and producing “false statistics”, says the Mail.
• “Lucy Letby ‘raised alarm over poor care of babies in her hospital’” – New documents show that Lucy Letby raised the alarm over the poor care of babies at the hospital where she worked, reports the Sun.
• “Why green aviation fuel failed to take off” – The quest to make flying greener has descended into a reliance on imports and spiralling costs, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
• “Why Dutch-style bin ‘smart meters’ could solve Britain’s waste crisis” – Britain’s overflowing bins may need a Dutch-style pay-as-you-throw revival, argues Joe Wright in the Telegraph, saying that smart meters for rubbish could cut waste and even trim council tax.
• “Desperate greens look to Apple for climate leadership” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall argues that Apple could shake up climate policy, but its AI obsession and corporate self-interest leave greens pleading for leadership that will never come.
• “Canada’s climate lockdown pilot scheme” – The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has announced a total ban on hiking, camping, hunting and other human activity in its forests, reports Off-Guardian.
• “The curious case of the Heart of Voh” – In Climate Scepticism, Jit argues that the Guardian’s fuss over New Caledonia’s Heart of Voh mangrove ‘miracle’ misses the point: it was a barren salt flat that’s now being recolonised by mangroves.
• “The UK Scare Agency proudly presents” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan slam the UKHSA’s CORC report on the Oropouche virus as an expensive, overhyped exercise that wastes taxpayers’ money.
• “Airline pilot incapacitation crisis after illegal mRNA shot mandates” – On the Focal Points podcast, Dr Kevin Stillwagon reveals how mRNA mandates endangered pilots, grounded careers and put aviation safety at risk.
• “Did Dutchman Munster have a German accomplice?” – On Substack, Jim Haslam argues that while Vincent Munster engineered a transmissible bat coronavirus, he likely had crucial help from German virologist Heinz Feldmann.
• “Irish Government pushes ‘disinfo’ plan despite public backlash” – Despite an avalanche of opposition from the public, the Irish Government has pushed ahead with its controversial National Counter Disinformation Strategy without conducting any evaluation of how such policies might restrict freedom of expression, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “Dutch regulator pressures X, Facebook, TikTok to enforce EU censorship rules ahead of October election” – Dutch authorities are once again leaning on tech companies to act as speech enforcers in the run-up to national elections, reports Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
• “We have lived peaceful lives because of squalid deals” – If Trump has to hold his nose and treat the sinister tyrant Vladimir Putin as an equal in order to bring peace, then he will not be the first democratic leader to do so, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “British Columbia nurse suspended by college, asked to pay $94,000 in costs for comments about transgender people” – Amy Hamm, a Canadian nurse, has been suspended and ordered to pay nearly $94,000 in costs for making “discriminatory and derogatory statements” about trans people, reports CBC.
• “Influencers sparks backlash ‘glamourising’ Taliban-run Afghanistan” – According to the Mail, female travel influencers are being slammed for painting a rosy picture of Taliban-run Afghanistan while women there face crushing restrictions.
• “Gender-critical campaigners sue SNP ministers for defying trans ruling” – Scottish ministers are being dragged back to court over claims they are ignoring a Supreme Court ruling that sex in law means biological sex, not gender identity, reports the Herald.
• “Wes Streeting condemns racist abuse of Christian nurse but refuses to intervene on NHS pronoun policy” – Wes Streeting condemns the racist abuse Christian nurse Jennifer Melle faced from NHS colleagues but won’t touch NHS pronoun rules, notes Christian Concern.
• “Lisa Nandy criticised over pro-trans ‘protect the dolls’ T-shirt” – Lisa Nandy has been slammed for posting images of herself at a Wigan Pride march wearing a trans rights T-shirt with the slogan “protect the dolls” (i.e., trans people), reports the Telegraph.
• “Robert Jenrick blasts Radio 4 radical over Sydney Sweeney slur” – The Radio 4 guest who branded Robert Jenrick “xenophobic” for comments about asylum-seekers has also accused actress Sydney Sweeney of “flirting” with Nazi eugenics, says the Mail.
• “MasterChef winner claims John Torode was ‘hung out to dry’ by BBC” – One of MasterChef’s most successful winners has hit out at BBC bosses for axing star John Torode, reports the Mail.
• “Hunchback of Notre Dame in row over casting non-disabled actor as lead” – Critics are claiming that casting an actor without a hunched back in the role of Quasimodo for the West End’s Hunchback of Notre Dame is an example of “ableism”, according to the Mail.
• “Gal Gadot finally breaks silence on woke Snow White” – Gal Gadot has blamed anti-Israel sentiment for the box office failure of the new live-action remake of Disney’s Snow White, reports the Mail. 
• “‘It’s not just swearing they want to ban. They would’ve made it a crime to breastfeed or sneeze in public!’” – On GB News, Toby discusses opposition to a proposed “swearing ban” in Thanet.

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