News Round-Up

• “Judge who let Albanian burglar stay in UK had been on refugee charity’s board” – A judge who allowed an Albanian burglar with 50 convictions to remain in ­Britain served on the board of a refugee charity, reveals the Sun.
• “Smoke canister thrown at anti-migrant protest outside Aberdeen hotel” – Protesters have been locked in a tense stand-off outside an Aberdeen hotel currently used to house asylum seekers, according to the Press & Journal.
• “Labour stands by Epping migrant hotel ruling over ‘disruption’ fears” – On Trevor Philips yesterday, the Education Secretary Bridget Phillips said it was perfectly right for the Government to put the interests of asylum seekers above those of Epping residents, reports the Mail.
• “Leaving ECHR ‘would not threaten peace in Northern Ireland’” – Experts say that leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would not threaten peace in Northern Ireland, according to the Telegraph.
• “Boundaries matter” – We are learning the hard way that empathy without boundaries will destroy us, says Spaceman Spiff on Substack.
• “The rise of vexillophobia: fear of the flag is this nation’s greatest malady” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth tells flag-lovers to wave the Union Jack loud and proud and rub it in the faces of the nation’s self-haters.
• “Rayner’s boyfriend works for lobby group whose client got govt cash boost” – Angela Rayner is at the centre of a new hypocrisy storm after it emerged her boyfriend Sam Tarry works for a lobby group whose client got a £280,000 cash boost from the Labour Government, reports the Sun.
• “Angela Rayner deserves ‘privacy’ over tax dodge, says minister” – Bridget Phillipson has shrugged off calls to probe Angela Rayner’s finances, insisting the Deputy PM had “followed all the rules”, says the Mail. So just tax avoidance, then, not tax evasion?
• “MP failed to disclose billionaire backing for campaign group he chairs” – A Labour MP has failed to report the source or scale of private money behind a lobbying effort to protect horse racing from paying more tax before the budget, according to the Sunday Times.
• “Downing Street’s new ‘masterminds’ could tax the UK into oblivion” – By drafting in Minouche Shafik as his economics advisor, Starmer is sending an alarming signal to the wealthy and aspirational, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Without serious welfare reform, Britain is heading for a 1970s-style fiscal meltdown” – We need to stop paying people to stay at home and get them back to work, writes Iain Duncan-Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Notting Hill Carnival isn’t the ‘best of Britain’. It’s a taxpayer-funded fiasco” – In the Telegraph, Michael Murphy says the Notting Hill Carnival is a taxpayer-subsidised crime fest.
• “Labour were the original ECHR sceptics” – It is a curious fact that Starmer now cheers the very document that previous socialist governments viewed with horror, writes Richard Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “Reform must grow up or it will face extinction” – Nigel Farage needs to show he is leading an alternative Government, not a protest party, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “The reactionary heart of the Green Party” – In Spiked, Tim Black discusses why the Greens’ dark neo-Malthusian vision resonates with the middle-class Corbynista Left.
• “Britain goes to war with the ‘cesspit of the internet’” – Ofcom’s investigation into the website 4chan risks triggering a free speech battle with the US, warns James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
• “Tories should be the party of the environment” – In the Telegraph, Lord Gove says that the Conservatives should be “the strongest champions” of environmentalists.
• “Oil rig parts maker to close 80% of UK arm over Labour ‘cult of carbon’” – Labour’s “cult of carbon” has forced one of Britain’s oldest oil companies to shed dozens of staff and shut down 80% of its UK operations, reports the Telegraph.
• “AR7 to blow Clean Power 2030 budget” – Allocation Round 7 strike prices show green energy could cost a lot more than Miliband promised in his Clean Power 2030 Plan, says David Turver on his Substack.
• “Norway’s electricity crisis is about to hit Britain” – European countries like the UK have become too reliant on cheap hydro from Scandinavia, writes Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
• “No acceleration in sea level rise detected worldwide” – Clintel flags a new peer-reviewed study challenging a key claim of climate science: that the global rise in sea levels is accelerating.
• “China burning coal at record high levels in 2025” – China has expanded its use of coal energy more in the first half of 2025 than at any time in the past nine years, reports DW.
• “Co-benefits, costs and concoctions, oh my” – On Substack, Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling find that repealing Biden’s coal and gas rules would net $314.6 billion in benefits for the MISO region.
• “France could be about to crash the global economy” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn warns that France’s spiralling debt and lavish welfare system could trigger a global market crash.
• “German unemployment tops three million for first time since 2015” – For the first time in 10 years more than three million Germans are without a job, reports Brussels Signal.
• “Israel hatches plan to throw Greta Thunberg in terror cell” – Israel is reportedly planning to throw Greta Thunberg in a terror cell as the environmental activist launched a second Gaza-bound ‘Freedom Flotilla’, says the Mail. 
• “Greta Thunberg’s narcissism knows no bounds” – If you drew a Venn diagram of Palestine, eco and trans activists, it would look like an eclipse of the sun, writes Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Woke is on its way out. What follows will be even more terrifying” – The vacuum left by woke may be filled by a new form of intolerance, driven by religious rather than “intersectional” convictions, warns Andrew Doyle in the Telegraph.
• “The new convention” – In TakiMag, Theodore Dalrymple slams modern virtue-signalling in sport.
• “Britain’s Rousseauian delusions” – The Noble Savage fable is a comforting story for Britain’s progressives, says Jasper Robbins in the Critic.
• “Woke insurance” – If you’re about to be a first year university student, you need woke insurance! Toby brings news of a half-price offer for first year university students from the Free Speech Union. You can take up the offer here.

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