News Round-Up

• “Lord Hermer ‘ready to change law to stop ECHR blocking deportations’” – Ministers are ready to change the law to stop the European Convention on Human Rights blocking deportations of illegal migrants and foreign criminals, reports the Mail.
• “Mandelson advised Epstein to ‘fight for early release’ after child sex conviction” – Lord Mandelson reportedly advised Jeffrey Epstein on pushing for early release in fresh revelations that could heap pressure on the Washington ambassador to quit, reports the Independent.
• “Suella Braverman and Lord Frost spark fresh Reform UK defection claims” – Suella Braverman and Lord Frost have sparked fresh speculation they could defect to Reform UK after it was announced they will appear at an event with Richard Tice, says the Mail.
• “Britain’s young people aren’t immune to a Right-wing swing” – Until the last election, our youth were the most Left-wing in Europe – but polling shows a significant shift, notes Rachel Wolf in the Telegraph.
• “Is this the real reason Brits are taking so many sick days?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that Britain’s rising sick days may reflect a widespread “workshy” mentality rather than worsening health.
• “Tube drivers striking ‘because they cannot buy in London on £72,000 salary’” – Mortgage brokers have discredited a claim that Tube drivers cannot afford to buy a house in London on their £72,000 salary, reports the Telegraph.
• “2025 – the turning point for global population” – On Substack, Niall McCrae examines the stark demographic shifts of 2025, noting sharp population declines in China, Russia and Germany, while the population of much of western Europe grows through mass immigration.
• “How did Britain go from Magna Carta to the North Korea of the North Sea?” – The root of the UK’s free speech problem is that the ‘stirring up hatred’ offence, first introduced in 1965 by the Race Relations Act, is no longer fit for purpose, says Toby in Financial Review.
• “An exchange with ChatGPT” – In Climate Scepticism, Robin Guenier argues, with the help of ChatGPT, that, with the UK responsible for less than 1% of global emissions, further UK cuts in emissions are pointless.
• “Piddling in the wind – part 2” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson says that despite the UK’s cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the world keeps polluting, making our efforts largely irrelevant.
• “Berlin sees major power outage after extreme leftists sabotage power transmission line” – Left-wing extremism continues to spiral in Germany after leftist fanatics sabotaged a power transmission line and caused a crippling power outage in Berlin, reports P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “New global tide gauge study blows sea-level acceleration claims out of the water” – The alarmist narrative about “accelerating” sea level rise looks increasingly like a house of cards, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “Democrats allege that energy prices are surging due to Trump policies – facts say otherwise” – In WUWT?, James D. Agresti shows that energy prices aren’t exploding under Trump and that most of the recent rises come from Biden’s term.
• “Eureka! Bloomberg News admits carmakers to ‘save billions’ from Trump nuking eco regs” – Even the green freaks at Bloomberg News have had to admit that scrapping absurd eco-extremist regulations could save carmakers money, writes Joseph Vazquez for MRC Business.
• “Greenhouses pay the costs of demonising ‘greenhouse gas’” – In WUWT?, Vijay Jayaraj warns that New Zealand’s greenhouse growers are being crushed by soaring gas costs from decarbonisation.
• “SE Asia sticks with coal to power growing economies, not green fairy tales” – The ‘green’ agenda, by seeking to eliminate coal, demands that the developing world stop building – an ultimatum that ASEAN is rightly and wisely ignoring, says Vijay Jayaraj in RealClearMarkets.
• “Why is the media silent about Iryna Zarutska’s murder?” – In UnHerd, Mary Harrington argues that the media’s near-silence on Iryna Zarutska’s murder exposes how ideological bias shapes which crimes get reported and which quietly disappear.
• “The murder of Iryna Zarutska and the pathological race ideology of the American progressive establishment” – On Substack, Eugyppius argues that Iryna Zarutska’s murder exposes the American progressive elite’s twisting and hiding of the truth about violent crime.
• “The brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska exposes the cost of the Left’s ‘compassion’” – The suspected killer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska should not have been free to walk the streets, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Iryna Zarutska and the reality of American ‘two-tier’ justice” – The system that let someone like Decarlos Brown Jr loose touches every aspect of American life, writes Travis Aaroe in the Spectator.
• “Lies, damned lies and crime statistics” – On Substack, Ed West argues that media distortions of crime and race – from Ferguson to George Floyd – have fanned panic, worsened violence and left the BLM narrative in tatters.
• “Trump asks ‘what’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace?’” – Donald Trump has reacted to NATO members shooting down Russian drones violating Polish airspace, reports the Mail.
• “France gripped by protest chaos as ‘Block Everything’ demonstrators clash with police amid ‘shutdown’ campaign” – France has erupted as ‘Block Everything’ protesters clash with police, blocking transport and sparking nationwide chaos amid Macron’s reshuffle, according to the Standard.
• “Netanyahu warns ‘anyone who attacks us – we will reach them’” – Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that “anyone who attacks us – we will reach them”, following a revenge attack on Houthi training camps in Yemen, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer’s betrayal of Israel disgraces Britain” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath blasts Starmer for betraying Israel and Western values.
• “Victoria’s Aboriginal ‘Treaty’ will undermine its democracy” – The 65,000 people who identify as Aboriginal, out of over seven million Victorians, are to be given rights, privileges and institutions setting them above the rest of the population, writes Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
• “Trade unions vow to oppose Supreme Court trans ruling” – Trade unions have vowed to oppose the Supreme Court ruling on trans issues and have called official guidance on single-sex spaces “flawed”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The judiciary is still in thrall to DEI” – With the highest court of the land embedding racial grievance at the heart of its policies, is it any surprise that the Sentencing Council ended up producing discriminatory two-tier sentencing guidelines, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Spectator.
• “Ben Leo pays tribute to Charlie Kirk” – GB News presenter Ben Leo pays tribute to Charlie Kirk in conversation with Charlie Peters on GB News.

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