News Round-Up

• “Essex County Council offers ‘support’ to staff ‘unsettled’ by St George’s or Union Jack flags” – Essex County Council is offering support to its staff and encouraging them to “reach out” if the St George’s or Union Jack flags that have been put up in recent days upset them, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Police are failing to record violent crimes and anti-social behaviour” – More than 280,000 crimes went unrecorded by police last year, with “unacceptably low” numbers of anti-social behaviour offences being officially documented, reports the Herald.
• “Ghanaian drug smuggler deported three times – but now court says he can stay” – A Ghanaian drug smuggler deported from the UK three times has won his human rights appeal after sneaking back in with a fake passport, with the tribunal saying sending him home would violate his family life rights, according to the Telegraph.
• “French police refuse to tackle migrants in water” – French police will defy orders to stop refugee boats leaving for Britain unless assured they will be protected, properly trained and well-equipped, says their union, in another blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s migrant crackdown, reports the Express.
• “I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children” – Kemi Badenoch says she would go further than Nigel Farage and deport all women and children who enter Britain illegally, according to the Telegraph.
• “Farage’s deportation plans will work” – Tory and Labour politicians have both come up with schemes to tackle our immigration crisis, says Martin Howe in the Telegraph, but only Reform has a programme that can succeed.
• “Rylan Clark says it is ‘insane’ that migrants are put up in hotels” – Rylan Clark has hit out at undocumented migrants entering Britain during an impassioned speech on ITV’s This Morning, reports the Mail. 
• “Why Rylan Clark could be Labour’s worst nightmare” – Rylan Clark’s comments about illegal immigration present a real and present danger to an establishment which prefers to dismiss anyone questioning Britain’s dysfunctional asylum system as a racist or bigot, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
• “Rylan is a sign the immigration debate is shifting” – Rylan Clark’s comments on illegal immigration may look trivial, but they represent a significant shift in the Overton window, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Palestine Action are a terror organisation, but policing pensioners is a waste of time” – The OAPs arrested for supporting Palestine Action are nitwits, but they’re not dangerous, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves considers tax raid on landlords” – Rachel Reeves has been warned that she will be “hurting tenants” if she pushes ahead with plans to clobber landlords this autumn, reports the Mail.
• “Terry Wogan’s son hits out at Reeves after failing to sell £3.75 million family home” – The son of broadcaster Terry Wogan says that “not one person” has viewed his late father’s £3.75 million mansion in Buckinghamshire since it went on the market, according to the Irish Independent.
• “National Insurance on rental income would be the final straw” – These last few years of being a landlord have been hell, says the Secret Landlord in the Telegraph.
• “Winter fuel raid will raise £1.3 billion less than planned” – Rachel Reeves’s about-turn on her winter fuel raid means the Government will save £1.3 billion less than planned after a surge in pension credit claims, reports the Telegraph.
• “Stop ‘taxing everything’, Asda urges Reeves” – The chairman of Asda warns that surging costs in the wake of the last Budget are battering business and the Middle Classes, according to the Mail. 
• “Labour’s wealth tax isn’t just economically ruinous, it’s a moral disgrace” – In the Telegraph, David Frost argues that a wealth tax would punish success, discourage enterprise and signal that the government owns our property. 
• “Who will go bust first: Britain or France?” – Britain and France are in a slow-motion race towards the precipice of a financial crisis, warns Hans van Leeuwen in the Telegraph.
• “Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty” – Angela Rayner saved £40,000 in stamp duty on her new seaside flat after telling tax authorities it was her main home, reports the Sun.
• “Starmer replaces third top aide in less than a year” – Sir Keir Starmer is about to ditch his third No 10 aide in under a year, with Nin Pandit set to be moved on less than 12 months after he hired her because he doesn’t think she’s up to the job, reports the BBC.
• “Starmer faces revolt over ‘needlessly cruel’ treatment of female aides” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “needlessly cruel” treatment of his female aides, says GB News.
• “Labour MP calls for Lord Hermer to be sacked” – Veteran Labour MP Graham Stringer has called for Sir Keir Starmer to sack his AG Lord Hermer and suggested the PM was wrong to appoint his long-standing friend to the upper chamber, reports GB News.
• “We must not be banned from talking about Lucy Letby” – At any moment, a thick blanket of silence may prevent any further discussion of the case of Lucy Letby if new charges are brought, writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail; the Letby debate must not be closed down.
• “Energy bills moron premium” – On Substack, David Turver says the reason Ofgem’s lates price cap has risen in spite of falling wholesale gas and electricity prices is thanks to renewable subsidies.
• “UK’s biggest power station faces investigation over greenwashing claims” – Energy company Drax is under investigation by the UK’s financial watchdog over the firm’s sourcing of wood for biomass pellets in the wake of whistleblower claims, reports the Standard.
• “Latest Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies” – In the Guardian, Jillian Ambrose reports that the FCA is probing Drax over billions in renewable subsidies as questions mount about whether its biomass claims add up.
• “Another EV domino has just toppled” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn warns that Porsche abandoning its own EV batteries shows Europe’s electric car push is collapsing.
• “Lock, stock and over a barrel” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson reveals that the Government, desperate to hit 2030 clean power targets, is handing renewable firms a golden CfD bonus while taxpayers pick up the tab.
• “Disasters don’t count if you don’t count them” – Swedish researchers show EM-DAT’s pre-2000 disaster data undercounts smaller events, meaning supposed rises in disaster fatalities are largely a reporting illusion, says Climate Discussion Nexus.
• “Sorry, New York Times, no evidence shows Hurricane Erin was driven by climate change” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken argues that the New York Times’ claims linking Hurricane Erin’s rapid intensification to climate change are unsupported by evidence and rely on flawed attribution modelling.
• “US doctors spell out the link between Covid vaccine and turbo cancers” – In TCW, Prof Angus Dalgleish warns that US doctors have linked Covid mRNA boosters to aggressive “turbo cancers” through multiple immune and genetic pathways.
• “American Covid vaccine study (Kitano et al) torn to shreds” – On Substack, Dr Raphael Lataster tears into the Big Pharma-backed Kitano study, saying its own data show Covid jabs gave trivial benefits while downplaying serious risks.
• “New analysis of the Czech Covid vaccine data reveals that the mRNA shots were deadly for all ages. They should be pulled from the market” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch reveals that a novel analysis of Czech Covid vaccine data shows the mRNA shots caused net harm across all ages, with the young particularly affected.
• “UK lawyer bringing case against Netanyahu again accused of misconduct” – A second woman has made complaints of sexual misconduct against the British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, reports the Mail. 
• “Ofcom acting as ‘global censorship bureau’, US tech firms claim” – Two US websites have filed a complaint in the US against Ofcom over the Online Safety Act, says Brussels Signal.
• “John Bolton investigation ‘began under Biden administration’” – John Bolton, the former US National Security Adviser, came under investigation during Joe Biden’s presidency for mishandling classified material, reveals Newsweek.
• “Equalities watchdog tells organisations to change single-sex space rules” – The EHRC says that policies allowing trans people to enter same-sex spaces in policing, education and care must be rewritten, after it took action against 19 organisations for breaking the law, according to the Times.
• “Trafford Council: a network of gender ideology” – Trafford Council is an example of an ideologically-captured local authority promoting a social justice approach to gender-confused children, says Shelley Charlesworth in Transgender Trend.
• “Miliband accused of cover-up over taxpayer-funded Islamophobia training” – Ed Miliband has been accused of a “cover-up” after his Net Zero department refused to provide details about a taxpayer-funded training session on Islamophobia for staff, reports the Telegraph.
• “The infuriatingly smug complacency of The News Agents” – The ‘sensible’ centrists are chin-stroking while Britain burns, writes Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “Rule Britannia!” – An AI-generated video on X shows the English Lion stirring and inspiring a nation.

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