News Round-Up

• “Former police chief ‘covered up grooming scandal to avoid racial tensions’” – A former senior police officer who allegedly covered up a grooming scandal has been reported to the National Crime Agency by Chris Philp, says the Telegraph.
• “SNP ‘turn blind eye’ to grooming gangs as it blocks attempt to launch inquiry” – The SNP has been accused of turning a “blind eye” to grooming gangs in Scotland after blocking attempts to launch an inquiry into the scandal, reports the Scottish Express.
• “Migrant housed in care home who moved family in says he won’t go” – A Bangladeshi father of nine who receives disability benefits says he will fight against being evicted from a retirement home where he lives with his wife and young twin daughters – unless they are found somewhere bigger, says the Mail. 
• “Migrants who fight deportation make a mockery of our laws” – The Home Secretary has vowed to fight “vexatious, last-minute claims” after the deportation of an Eritrean man under the UK-France migrants returns deal was temporarily blocked, reports the BBC.
• “On boats, Labour is being hoist by its own petard” – We have reached a point where the British state cannot perform its most elementary duty: controlling our borders, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer to recognise Palestinian statehood this weekend, reports suggest” – Sir Keir Starmer will recognise a Palestinian state over the weekend after Donald Trump concludes his state visit to the UK, reports the Standard.
• “Muslim MPs call on UK to declare war on Israel” – A group of mostly independent Muslim MPs have called on the UK to honour its obligations as a signatory of the Genocide Convention by militarily intervening in Gaza to save Palestinians from Israel’s genocide, according to 5Pillars.
• “Even Muslim countries think Britain has a problem with Islamism” – This Government must challenge the extremist ideology that is poisoning young minds within our own communities, says Fiyaz Mughal in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s decent majority are not racist, they’re just terrified of losing the country they love” – From the huge turnout at the Unite the Kingdom march to the defiant flying of our beautiful flags, people are sending a very clear message, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “The Unite the Kingdom protesters, in their own words” – Watch Spiked’s video report from Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom march.
• “The whole world can see that the Chagos giveaway is ‘nuts’ and its architects are ‘fools’” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty says the Chagos giveaway is a crazy act of self-harm, backing Mike Pompeo’s view that it’s “nuts” and its architects are “fools”.
• “Banning Israeli soldiers from British academy ‘may be illegal’” – Former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis has warned the Government that exclusion of Israeli students from the Royal College of Defence Studies could breach the Equality Act, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s workers’ rights Bill will have ‘chilling effect on jobs’” – Bosses have warned of the “chilling impact” on hiring if the Government hands workers the right to sue companies for unfair dismissal from the first day in a job, says City AM.
• “Britain ‘on recession watch’ as hiring slumps” – Simon French, chief economist at City stockbroker Panmure Liberum, has raised concerns over a potential downturn following a drop in vacancies, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour have now let the cat out of the bag: welfare reform is over” – A thousand people are currently starting every day on PIP and Labour are incapable of even trying to tackle the problem, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “EU tells Starmer: accept young workers or forget trade deal” – The Government will have to concede to EU demands on youth mobility before signing a deal on food safety, reports the Telegraph.
• “Children who won’t wear uniform can claim special needs benefits, parents told” – Parents are being told they can claim special needs benefits if their children do not like wearing a uniform or become especially anxious about going to the dentist, says the Telegraph.
• “Record numbers disapprove of PM as rivals attack ‘unforced errors’” – A YouGov poll shows that Keir Starmer’s popularity has reached another low with his net favourability at -50 following his latest disastrous week, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer will destroy Labour – he must get radical to survive, top peer warns” – Maurice Glasman says the bungling PM is on course to not just lose the next election but “leave as his legacy the destruction of Labour as a force in British politics”, reports the Sun.
• “Labour councillor who cited Obama as a role model defects to Reform” – Labour has suffered its first direct defection to Reform by an elected politician in England, says the Mail.
• “Khan is the last person that should be calling Trump ‘divisive’” – The Mayor of London is no stranger to making unhelpful political interventions, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
• “Former Labour councillor charged over Westminster honeytrap scandal” – Ex-Labour councillor Oliver Steadman, 28, has been charged with blackmail and communications offences linked to five Westminster figures, reports the Sun.
• “If Penny Mordaunt is the Tories’ best hope against Reform, they really are finished” – Dame Penny Mordaunt, who lost her seat at last year’s election, will do nothing to stop voters flocking to Farage, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Reform’s Covid crankery sparks fear among Britain’s drug giants” – One major pharmaceutical company is understood to have broken off engagement with Reform following Dr Aseem Malhotra’s speech at the Reform UK party conference, according to the Telegraph.
• “Barristers prepare for clash with the culture police” – The barristers’ profession is on the cusp of a culture war over plans to stop lawyers from misbehaving, reports the Telegraph.
• “Will we face the truth about Britain’s bogus mental health crisis?” – If a majority of young adults really do have mental health problems, perhaps we should shut down universities altogether and reopen them as mental hospitals, suggests Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
• “Parliament is so ready to embrace assisted suicide because it has rejected Christian morality” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann says that Parliament’s push for assisted suicide stems from MPs abandonment of Christianity.
• “TfL suppressed report showing LTNs don’t cut car use” – Sir Sadiq Khan’s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods do not reduce car use, reports the Standard.
• “Oil refinery ‘risks major catastrophe’ after staff exodus” – In a letter to Ed Miliband, Unite’s General Secretary has warned that the Lindsey refinery is “at serious risk of a major accident” because of staffing levels, according to Grimsby Live.
• “Sun and cosmic rays drive climate, not CO₂” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv profiles Dr Henrik Svensmark, whose climate sceptic views have brought him abuse and rejection from mainstream science.
• “Germany faces challenging winter of power outages as energy supply struggles” – Germany could be in for a rough winter of blackouts and sky-high energy bills as nuclear and coal fade out, warns P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “Realtor.com and Yahoo News are wrong: insurance is not rising due to climate change” – Realtor.com claims that increasing “climate risk” is forcing people to go without insurance and insurers to pull out. This is false, says Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “Green groups sue to silence scientists who questioned climate alarmism in DoE report” – Environmental groups are suing to void a sceptical US Department of Energy climate report and censor scientists who challenge mainstream climate narratives, writes Jeff Luse in Reason.
• “Our Children’s Trust launches a youth climate lawsuit” – A group of young Americans are suing Trump over climate change, saying his fossil-fuel policies are harming them, according to WUWT?
• “Backlash against Aussie $22.9 million climate doomsday report” – Australia has just spunked $22.9 million on a 284-page climate report that even its authors say can’t guide policy, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “French ‘using deadly tactics to stop migrants entering territory’” – France has deployed deadly tactics for years to prevent small boats from reaching its overseas territories, despite saying such combative intervention was illegal in the English Channel, reports the Mail.
• “Pedro Sanchez’s pro-Palestine obsession is damaging Spain” – In the Spectator, Mark Nayler says Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s obsession with Israel has crossed into antisemitism and sheer political stupidity.
• “The battle of Gaza City: it’s time to take sides” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explains why the Jewish State must be victorious over the Islamist hysterics of Hamas.
• “How conservative America turned on Britain” – Donald Trump may go easy on Starmer during this week’s state visit, but his supporters see the UK as a stark warning for the US, says Roland Oliphant in the Telegraph.
• “ABC reporter says texts from Charlie Kirk ‘killer’ were ‘touching’” – ABC News reporter Matt Gutman is being slammed for describing texts from Charlie Kirk’s assassin to his trans lover as “very touching”, reports the Mail. 
• “J.D. Vance calls out the shadowy billionaires who finance and celebrate political violence” – TCW flags J.D. Vance’s recent heartfelt address condemning Charlie Kirk’s murder and calling out billionaires like Soros for funding and celebrating political violence.
• “Of course leftist anger motivated Charlie Kirk’s (alleged) assassin” – Charlie Kirk’s assassin killed out of his hatred for conservative views, not a conspiracy, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Pam Bondi vs the First Amendment” – The most powerful law enforcement official in America does not seem to appreciate what Charlie Kirk – and practically every account on X – understands, says the Free Press.
• “Trans row threatens to overshadow Lib Dem conference” – The Liberal Democrats are facing a trans row at their conference over party rules that allow biological men to take women’s posts, reports the Telegraph.
• “This is a safeguarding concern” – On X, James Esses has published a photograph taken at a classical studies summer school at Wadham College, University of Oxford, showing a male lecturer wearing fetish gear (including a BDSM collar) teaching 16 year-olds about womanhood.
• “US Trump supporter undergoing cancer treatment threatened by UK police over tweets” – The Free Speech Union flags the chilling case of an American cancer patient and Trump supporter who was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation.

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