News Round-Up

• “Lucy Connolly’s imprisonment never passed the sniff test. Here is why this was an injustice” – What Lucy has suffered at the hands of the British state is a clear case of injustice, according to me for GB News.
• “The rapist, paedophiles and terror offender spared prison while Lucy Connolly was jailed” – The former childminder was deemed more dangerous to society than those convicted of sexual assault or viewing child abuse images, reports the Telegraph.
• “Social media hate prosecutions hit record high after Connolly conviction” – Critics suggest Public Order Act has led to disproportionate or even unnecessary punishments while eroding free speech, says the Telegraph.
• “The bacon hate crime” – A man has been arrested for singing ‘we love bacon’, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack. Free speech is in trouble!
• “I’m proud to see patriotic Britons fighting the denigration of our culture” – People across the county are right to protest and ‘raise the colours’ to try to restore our sense of national identity, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
• “Wave of protests planned at migrant hotels this weekend” – Anti-racism groups have warned that towns and cities across the UK could experience the worst disorder since the riots last summer, according to the Times.
• “The white working class is a time bomb ready to explode” – Plummeting GCSE results among Britain’s poorest pupils spells disaster for all of us, reports the Telegraph.
• “It is not just the state that is failing white kids, it is Labour” – The suggestion that the Conservative Party failed to deliver for schoolchildren – of any group – is absurd, writes Nick Gibb in the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves is preparing the ground for the extinction of the middle class” – The Chancellor’s obscene tax grab will turn millions of ordinary homeowners into dispossessed tenants, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “London Tube strike: RMT to hold seven days of rolling walkouts” – The London Underground will grind to a standstill in the first week of September, thanks to industrial action, says the Times.
• “Labour lost one in 10 of its members last year” – Labour’s membership has slumped amid backlash over winter fuel payments, benefits and Palestine Action, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tory Policy to Leave ECHR Expected at Conference” – According to Guido Fawkes, an announcement of the Conservatives’ intention to leave the ECHR is expected at at the party’s annual conference next month.
• “There is no future in politics of victimhood” – Mass migration was a reckless error but encouraging white majority resentment as a response would be calamitous, writes Danny Finkelstein in the Times.
• “Sturgeon’s trans ideology ‘hurt Scottish independence drive’” – Writing in the Telegraph, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh likens the former First Minister to a “social engineer” and says she picked the wrong issue to unite Scotland.
• “Taliban hands over Afghans on ‘kill list’ to Iran” – Transfer of three people suspected of spying for Britain follows secret deal between Afghanistan and Iran, according to the Telegraph.
• “Electric cars plummet in price twice as fast as hybrids” – Used battery-powered vehicles struggle to retain value as drivers dodge range anxiety, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s third-largest steel producer put under government control” – Britain’s third-largest steelmaker was yesterday put under Government control after a judge granted a winding-up order against its owners and branded them “hopelessly insolvent”, says the Mail.
• “Battling the Net-Zero transition in New York” – Even the most zealous climate activist must admit there is a limit to how much any jurisdiction can afford to spend to implement an energy transition program to eliminate fossil fuels, says Roger Caiazza in WUWT?
• “Saudi Arabia struggles to build desert ski resort for Winter Games” – Riyadh is in talks to move the Winter Games to China as costs mount and construction deadlines slide, according to the Telegraph.
• “Solar panels in space ‘could provide 80% of Europe’s renewable energy by 2050’” – Solar panels could be the answer to our energy needs, reports the Guardian.
• “Lucy Connolly’s imprisonment was a national disgrace” – I appeared on GB News yesterday to talk about Lucy Connolly finally being freed from prison after over a year in jail.

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