News Round-Up

• “Want cops to attend burglary? Put note on door saying ‘Trans women aren’t women’” – In the Sun, I explain why the week just gone by may not be such a bad week for free speech after all.
• “This is why shameful Rayner had to go” – Not only was the former Deputy PM exposed as a hypocrite, but her policies could destroy what’s left of our economy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Why is the BBC painting Rayner as a working-class victim?” – The outlet’s reporting on the former Deputy Prime Minister has pointedly focused on her humble background, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph. Spare us the voilins.
• “Angela Rayner debacle nothing to do with class – and her own words prove it” – Spare a thought for those lefties who are too dim to see what this is really about, writes Sam Lister in the Express.
• “My neighbour Angela Rayner and the lure of the Hove-eoisie” – Angela Rayner has resigned over the stamp duty row on her Hove flat. But it’s telling she chose the neighbourhood of ‘Hove, Actually’ rather than Brighton in the first place, says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
• “Rayner’s resignation will save her from one embarrassment” – Rayner’s resignation will likely save her from the embarrassment of failing to achieve the Government’s target of delivering 1.5 million new homes by 2029, writes Graham Watts in the Spectator.
• “Angela Rayner’s resignation is a political catastrophe for Starmer” – Angela Rayner’s resignation is a personal tragedy for her. But it’s a political catastrophe for Keir Starmer, writes Dan Hodges in the Mail.
• “Global wealth funds have lost patience with Labour’s runaway spending” – Another round of Rachel Reeves’s quick-fix taxes will not win the confidence of investors, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “I was arrested after refusing to remove my Union flag – I thought I’d be the next Lucy Connolly” – Sarah White hit the headlines when she was arrested at a protest outside a migrant hotel, but she feels compelled to continue taking a stand, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s politics has not seen a moment like this for over a century” – Even dramatic reshuffles are unlikely to be enough to halt the total transformation of our electoral landscape, writes Vernon Bogdanor in the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage says he could be PM as early as 2027” – The Reform leader used his keynote address at his party’s conference in Birmingham yesterday to twist the knife into Labour’s wounds following the Deputy Prime Minister’s exit, reports the Mail.
• “Britain and America must unite to defend freedom of speech” – Shutting down legitimate debate poses a risk not only to our democracy, but to US-UK relations, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer pushed into early reshuffle after Angela Rayner quits” – New jobs have been given to half the Cabinet after the Deputy Prime Minister’s resignation, says the Times.
• “Cabinet reshuffle: who’s in and who’s out?” – Cabinet reshuffle 2025: Who’s in and who’s out after Keir Starmer’s government reset. The Times has the details.
• “Muslim Home Secretary to take harder line on illegal migration” – Shabana Mahmood, who replaces Yvette Cooper after impressing as Justice Secretary, is expected to be uncompromising over the refugee crisis, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why did trans ideologues bar a disabled child from a summer camp?” – A charity has refused to help a seriously ill child because his mother fell foul of the pronoun police, according to Freddie Attenborough in Spiked.
• “Graham Linehan: I don’t think I’ll ever come back to Britain” – In the Times, Graham Linehan tells Sanchez Manning he may make his move to America permanent.
• “The biological basis of gender roles” – Patriarchy is best understood as an emergent outcome of long-term evolutionary pressures, writes Marc J. Defant in Aporia.
• “Highly placed EU Commission official explains why Donald Trump has the Eurotards by the balls” – Eugyppius highlights a remarkable interview with a senior EU official explaining why the EU capitulation in negotiations with the US over tariffs.
• “Coward Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — and reveals an important truth about our modern culture” – Could you be persuaded to say something you knew not to be true? Malcolm Gladwell could, writes Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “Donald Trump is saving Europe from itself” – EU elites might be panicking, but the US has made the defence of Western civilisation its priority, says Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph.
• “How Scottish culture is in danger of being strangled to death by activists” – A climate of intimidation at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe is emblematic of the country’s wider cultural crisis, says Claire Allfree in the Telegraph.
• “Can we still trust the experts? The siren song of influence” – Scientists are losing public trust by acting like political influencers instead of impartial researchers, write Bo Winegard and Cory Clark in the Skeptic.
• “The Associated Press lies: climate change isn’t making U.S. corn farming ‘dicier’” – The real problem corn producers face at the moment is not crop decline, but crop abundance and farming success, according to WUWT?
• “New study: Higher CO₂ levels do not precede or control temperature increases” – A new study confirms that higher carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels do not come before temperature increases, according to Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Tory Net Zero push undermines Kemi Badenoch” – In UnHerd, David Rose points out that several high-profile Tories, including James Cleverley, contributed to a book called Returning to Our Roots a few days after Kemi Badenoch’s speech repudiating Net Zero telling a very different story.
• “Miliband survives Starmer Cabinet purge” – Sir Keir Starmer’s crisis reshuffle represented the perfect opportunity to get rid of Ed Miliband, his controversial Net Zero Secretary, yet he was one of the only high-profile ministers to keep his job, reports the Telegraph.
• “Last pub in UK will call time in 2050 at today’s closure rates” – Pubs are shutting at the rate of five a day, hit by changing lifestyles and rising overheads. Micropubs offer hope but owners say they need government help to survive, reports the Times.
• “A favourite moment in all of modern politics” – Ross Kempsell, editor of Guido Fawkes, cherishes the video in which David Lammy, the new Deputy Prime Minister, complains about the lack of bobbies on the beat in Tottenham while, all the while, there’s a policeman clearly visible behind him.

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