News Round-Up

• “The ‘ludicrous’ migrant family rule pushing councils to breaking point” – Labour’s “ludicrous” refugee housing rules are piling pressure on councils, with officers forced to find homes for large migrant families at taxpayers’ expense, reports the Express.
• “Asylum seekers ‘are given new £300,000 townhouses with en-suites’” – Asylum seekers are being housed in £300,000 three-bedroom contemporary townhouses in a village in Suffolk – to the fury of local residents, says the Mail.
• “Hotel owner rejects £3 million to house asylum seekers” – A boutique hotel owner has rejected a £3 million, seven-year contract to house migrants, saying it would “harm the village”, reports the Express. 
• “Epping hotel protester: ‘I was arrested for my beliefs’” – A mother arrested after unfurling a Union flag from a council building during an anti-migrant protest claims she was targeted for her beliefs, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France has none returned” – Labour has admitted that no Channel migrants have been returned to France yet under its much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ deal, reports the Mail.
• “Labour MPs in Commons revolt over small boats crisis” – The Home Secretary endured a rough ride in the House of Commons as she came under fresh pressure from Labour’s own benches over Channel crossings, says the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer admits he would not want to live next to an asylum hotel” – Sir Keir Starmer admits he would not want to live next to an asylum hotel, while insisting he wants to speed up closures, according to the Mail.
• “Asylum seeker ‘too depressed’ to be deported” – A Sri Lankan mother of five has won her legal battle to secure asylum after claiming she is too depressed to fly, reports LBC.
• “Man, 26, arrested after Jewish boy shot in head with air rifle” – A teenager has been targeted in an apparent antisemitic attack in Bournemouth after homes of Jewish families were vandalised, reports LBC.
• “Co-op grapples with Gaza as supermarket slips down the rankings” – Co-op’s ethical stances risk becoming a distraction as it loses ground, writes Hannah Boland in Telegraph.
• “Petrol station installs £12,000 cameras after ‘incompetent’ police fail to stop thieves” – A petrol station owner has installed his own £12,000 ANPR cameras to catch fuel thieves after growing tired of police inaction, reports the Mail.
• “BBC under fire for failing to disclose drug company payments to doctors in weight-loss jab debate” – The BBC faces transparency questions after doctors paid by drug firms discussed new weight-loss drugs on air without viewers being told of their financial ties, says GB News.
• “Fresh crisis in Downing Street as Keir Starmer’s comms chief quits” – No 10 communications director James Lyons has announced he is leaving after a year, amid a desperate effort to ‘reset’ the PM’s team, reports the Mail.
• “Torsten Bell’s Treasury takeover makes radical tax rises more likely than ever” – Torsten Bell’s Treasury reunion with colleagues at the Left-wing think tank he used to run suggests wealth taxes will be in Rachel Reeves’s second Budget, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “PM picks gaffe-prone Treasury minister to be his top No 10 aide” – Darren Jones has been promoted as part of Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ of his top team – but No10 colleagues might be wary of the ex-Treasury minister entering a TV studio, says the Mail. He’s the Government minister who said small boat arrivals are mainly women and children.
• “Starmer freezes out Reeves in No 10 reset” – Keir Starmer has undermined the Chancellor by promoting her deputy and bringing in new economic advisers, reports the Mail.
• “UK borrowing costs rise at fastest pace in G7” – Britain’s borrowing costs have jumped more sharply than any other G7 nation following Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his economic advisers, says GB News.
• “Why Starmer’s bid to reform the Lords is stirring up a ‘hornet’s nest’” – As the Labour whips are now discovering, overhauling the Upper House is a political exercise fraught with risk for very little reward, writes James Heale in the Telegraph.
• “Rayner claims she is gagged over tax affairs” – Angela Rayner has blamed a confidential court order for preventing her disclosing details of her complex tax affairs, reports the Mail.
• “The council pension gravy train is nothing short of a scandal” – Local authorities are throwing taxpayer money at woke funds and City managers – the waste must end, says Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
• “Barking up the wrong tree?” – In Climate Scepticism, Jit talks about climate change and the invasion of Kent by a six-legged, eight-toothed immigrant.
• “New book on the status of the climate issue – the world’s biggest problem or just a hoax?” – Clintel reviews Hoax! Why burning fossil fuels doesn’t cause climate change by physicist Darwin Throne.
• “Is the latest Atlantic current ‘collapse’ paper scientific fraud?” – Weaponised peer review is driving climate alarmist narratives, using debunked scenarios to push fanciful claims like a collapsing AMOC, warns Dr Matthew Wielicki in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “The Greenland ice sheet mass gains again exceed mass losses in 2024–25” – Another year, another well-above-average snow and ice accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet, says Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
• “The carbon credit climate con” – The one constant in the climate alarmism cult is the art of the scam, exemplified by an ESG proponent who swindled others with phoney baloney carbon credits, writes Brian Mark Weber in the Patriot Post.
• “Exxon serves up hard lesson in climate” – In its freshly minted Global Outlook, Exxon included a chapter titled ‘Lessons from Europe’ – and the grading isn’t pretty, says Julianne Geiger on Oilprice.com.
• “Wrong, CBS and other media outlets, abrupt Antarctic ‘climate shifts’ are not new or necessarily catastrophic” – In Climate Realism, Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett say CBS and ABC’s Antarctic “collapse” claims are alarmist hype that ignore history.
• “Trump is on a collision course with Ireland – and it could spell economic disaster” – The US President’s differences of opinion with the republic over a number of legal and ideological issues leave Dublin uniquely vulnerable, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
• “‘Migrant death that’s turned Switzerland into cauldron of hate” – Switzerland’s image of Alpine calm has been shattered after the death of a 17 year-old boy in a police chase, writes Eirian Jane Prosser in the Mail.
• “Trump to offer Gazans $5,000 each to leave for 10 years” – The White House is reportedly considering a plan to pay Palestinians $5,000 to relocate for 10 years while the Gaza Strip is transformed into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, says the NY Post.
• “China unveils plan for new world order” – China’s Xi Jinping has set out plans for a new world order to challenge the dominance of the US-led West, reports the Telegraph.
• “Report claims state failed to protect children in care ‘from the harms of transition’” – Councils have been wasting taxpayers’ money “on training from activist organisations with views far beyond the mainstream”, writes Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
• “Police officers win £50,000 after suspension over ‘sexist’ photo” – Two coppers have been awarded £50,000 in a sex discrimination case after police chiefs suspended them for snapping a selfie with popstar Tallia Storm, reports the Sun.
• “Charity reported for banning disabled child after gender-critical row” – An eight year-old disabled child was banned from attending a summer camp because his mother’s gender-critical views did not fit in with the “inclusive environment”, says the Mail. Now the FSU has reported it to the Scottish charity regulator.
• “Tory MP who quit after he was caught in sex and drugs ‘sting’ dies” – A former Tory MP who quit politics after getting embroiled in a sex and cocaine scandal has died suddenly aged 59, according to the Mail.
• “Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla ‘is forced to turn back to Spain’” – Greta Thunberg’s flotilla attempting to reach Gaza has been forced to turn back within hours of its departure due to bad weather, reports the Mail.
• “I used to be small and cute” – On X, a bitter Greta Thunberg gets the He-Man treatment.

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