News Round-Up

• “Sex crimes by foreign nationals surge” – Sexual convictions by foreign nationals have soared by a staggering 62% in four years, reports the Express.
• “Surge in migrant crime between 2021 and 2024” – On its Substack, the Centre for Migration Control dives into the latest foreign national crime data.
• “Farage, flags and the forgotten English” – From the Cross of St George to the Union Jack, Britain’s flag debates reveal the gulf between public opinion and elite disdain for patriotism, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Is this the beginning of the English revolution?” – Recent demonstrations under the St George’s Cross reveal a country questioning who it is and who it wants to be, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “Posh girls for illegal immigration” – Zoe Gardner is the latest professional activist to sneer at working-class concerns about the migrant hotels, writes Lisa McKenzie in Spiked.
• “Palestine flags symbolise the balkanisation of Britain” – Parliament must now decree what colours can fly above our streets and from our town halls, says Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
• “Young Brits ‘squeezed out of jobs by migrants’ as one million left idle” – Nearly one million young Brits have been left idle while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315%, reports the Mail.
• “How to solve the migrant crisis? Bury the rule of lawyers” – Leaders must regain public trust by taking decisive action and accepting that the international rules-based order no longer works, says Lord Glasman in the Sunday Times.
• “How the soft-touch EU turned harder on migration than Brexit Britain” – Where once European leaders derided plans such as the proposed Rwanda scheme, the bloc now appears to be pivoting to a similar approach, writes James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “UK ‘faces social unrest’ if Labour pushes ahead with Islamophobia definition” – Anti-extremism campaigner Fiyaz Mughal has warned Britain risks unrest and a two-tier society if ministers press ahead with defining Islamophobia, reports the Times.
• “Hospitality suffers half of all job losses since Reeves’s tax raid” – More than half of job losses since Rachel Reeves’s tax raid on firms have been in pubs, cafes, restaurants and other hospitality businesses, reports the Mail. 
• “Public foots Rayner’s tax bill on grace-and-favour home” – The council tax due on Angela Rayner’s grace-and-favour home in central London is being paid by the public, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Dropping compulsory resits in English and Maths GCSE will hurt poor children” – The aim of an education minister should be to make every school as good as Michaela Community School, writes Nick Gibb in the Telegraph.
• “Lords who do not turn up face the sack” – Peers who fail to turn up and participate in the House of Lords will be forced to resign under an overhaul being planned by Labour, according to the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s biggest wind farm operator in crisis after Trump axes key deal” – Danish energy giant Ørsted – which generates 7% of Britain’s power – has seen its shares plunge to a record low after the Trump administration blocked work on the £2.9 billion Revolution wind farm off New England, says the Telegraph.
• “Norway’s run of new oil and gas discoveries continues” – Two new commercial oil and gas fields have ben discovered by Norway, reports Upstream. If only Ed Miliband hadn’t called a halt on oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.
• “Can PR rehabilitate Big Tech’s dirty AI carbon splurge?” – Does anyone still believe Big Tech claims they care about the environment? asks Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “No, WCAX 3, owning a dog is not a ‘wrong climate choice’” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken debunks claims that owning a dog harms the climate, arguing that their environmental impact is tiny while their mental health benefits are huge.
• “A nation of great import” – Despite soaring renewable capacity, the UK remains reliant on gas, imports and costly electricity, says Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
• “Wrong, NY Times, climate change isn’t causing a surge in mosquito-borne diseases” – In Climate Realism, Anthony Watts calls out the New York Times for blaming climate change for mosquito-borne diseases, showing it’s really urbanisation, global trade and human activity doing the heavy lifting.
• “Mass delusions: why wind and solar won’t save civilisation” – If civilisation is to endure for the whole human race, our long-term future must rely on nuclear energy, not wind and solar myths, says Wallace Manheimer in Climate Realism.
• “New Scientist: ‘We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines’” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall argues that the US could supply most of its clean-energy metals from mine waste, but technological, economic and strategic hurdles make it tricky.
• “Girl, 17, stabbed to death while calling cops to report being followed” – A wave of national fury has swept Holland following the arrest of an asylum seeker for the killing of a 17 year-old who was stabbed to death while she was calling the police to report being followed on her bike ride home, reports the Mail.
• “This is what depopulation looks like: my home town stands as a warning to the West” – Europe’s looming demographic crisis and the anxieties that come with it risk turbocharging uncontrollable populist forces, warns Katja Hoyer in the Telegraph.
• “Children in care ‘still being failed’ on gender ID” – According to a report backed by a former Labour education secretary and an ex-Ofsted chief, councils are still failing to protect children in care from gender ideology, reports the Times.
• “Duncan Bannatyne to remove non-binary option from app for his gyms” – Ex-Dragon’s Den star Duncan Bannatyne has vowed to remove a non-binary option for users of his gyms and spas after criticism from women’s rights activists, says the Mail.
• “MoD worker sues for harassment over not being given leaving card” – A Ministry of Defence worker at NATO HQ has sued for harassment after he was not given a “good luck” card when he left his job, reports GB News.
• “Bullied at work? Grow up” – The frivolous accusations against Naga Munchetty speak to our infantile, oversensitive age, says Julie Burchill in Spiked.
• “You are a barbaric and disgusting individual” – On X, Owen Jones (aka impersonator Tony Lapidus) explains why you, personally, are destroying the planet.

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