News Round-Up

• “Trump administration forces Labour to drop Apple security back door” – The Government has been forced to drop plans to demand Apple break the end-to-end encryption used to secure iPhone users’ private data after coming under pressure from the Trump administration, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “Migrant hotels facing closure” – The High Court has thrown Labour’s asylum strategy into doubt, says the Telegraph.
• “Epping has shown the way to win” – We must now detain and deport the thousands of illegal immigrants who have no business being in Britain, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “This attack on Nigel Farage is Labour’s most pathetic yet” – Sir Keir and co are frantically trying to scare voters away from Reform. Here’s why it won’t work, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “If Reform wins, they will need Tory support to defeat the institutional intifada” – Writing in the Telegraph, Paul Goodman says that if Reform wins the next election it will need wily, battle-scared Tories by its side to defeat the blob.
• “How much Britain is really paying for Labour’s addiction to debt” – Government’s ballooning borrowing costs nearly as much as our beloved NHS, writes Neil Record in the Telegraph.
• “Plot to raise hundreds more flags on England’s streets” – A drive to cover British towns and cities in national flags is being coordinated by an online movement called Operation Raise the Colours, according to the Mail.
• “Trans teacher buys Scottish land in bid to be called Lord, not Miss” – Toby Tobin purchased a ‘souvenir plot’ in Fife to get around laws in Florida that state school staff do not have the right to use preferred honorifics or pronouns, reports the Times.
• “US covid report shames Britain’s redundant, ridiculous Hallett Inquiry” – A US covid report shames Britain’s redundant, ridiculous Hallett Inquiry, says Angus Dalgleish in the Times.
• “Germany rejects US free speech criticism as social media arrests fuel international condemnation” – Berlin insists on free speech, even as people are given swinging fines for posting memes, according to Reclaim the Net.
• “Rachel Reeves plots a new property tax raid” – The Chancellor has been accused of seeking to “punish people” for making sacrifices to buy their own homes with her proposed new property tax, reports the Mail.
• “Tommy Robinson charging £28 a minute as personal coach to far Right” – The EDL founder is charging about £28 a minute for videos giving advice to supporters on anti-Islam activism and migrant hotel protests, says the Times.
• “ITV will not launch an investigation into Good Morning Britain” – The popular daytime show covered the 80th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day back in January, but failed to say its victims were Jewish, reports ITV’s news blog.
• “Trans police volunteer, 27, ‘posed as girl online before raping woman’” – James Bubb, 27, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, allegedly raped the woman he was in an on-off relationship with over a five year period, says the Mail.
• “Labour council splurges £14 million on bridge ‘no one wants’” – A “pointless” bridge is the latest emblem of the profligate spending of Labour councils, according to the Telegraph.
• “The British Right should put Kent before Kyiv” – A tension is emerging across the Western world over how to weigh national interest against involvement in faraway conflicts. James Orr helps us navigate it in the Telegraph.
• “Orsted leaves investors and consumers twisting in the Wind” – Expensive offshore wind power is bad for consumers and just as bad for investors, says David Turver on his Substack.
• “Government advice to save water by deleting emails is ‘inaccurate’” – Industry report finds computing hubs are “not intensive water users”, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Our Green council can’t do the basics like fix potholes – now they want a four-day week’” – Five local authorities are looking to slash working hours by 20% – but opponents say it will make a broken system worse, reports the Telegraph.
• “Stossel on the green industrial complex: power, panic, and Profits” – The media portrays environmental groups as the underdog. In reality, they’re the big guys, and they’re rolling in money, says John Stossel in Climate Changed Dispatch.
• “New Study: Corals thrived in warmer-than-today temps and when sea levels were just metres higher” – In NoTricksZone, Kenneth Richard points out that climate change may have had a positive impact on corals.
• “Climate change ‘could kill off the traditional Bakewell tart’” – Californian heatwaves and droughts threaten the global almond supply, reports the Telegraph.
• “Not one electric car qualifies for Labour’s £3,750 discount” – Drivers and carmakers have been left “confused” by non-transparent eligibility criteria, says the Telegraph.
• “Meat is back on the menu. Has the bubble burst for veganism?” – One of America’s most acclaimed restaurants is ditching its vegan philosophy. It’s not the only news to suggest that plant-based food has peaked, writes Giulia Crouch in the Times.
• “Here’s what happened when they tried to cancel me” – My nomination for the Polari Prize led to this year’s award being abandoned entirely. Aren’t we supposed to believe in free speech? asks John Boyne in the Telegraph.
• “Who did this?” – More fun and games with AI, this time from inside the private jet that Sir Keir Starmer took to Washington this week.

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