News Round-Up

• “Starmer recognising Palestinian state rewards terrorism, says Badenoch” – Sir Keir Starmer is giving Hamas a “reward for terrorism” by recognising a Palestinian state, Kemi Badenoch has said, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer is gearing Britain up for Chagos the Sequel” – It was inevitable that recognising a Palestinian state would embolden Leftie human rights activists. Now, they’re out for all they can get, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “How Maga free speech warriors changed their tune on cancel culture” – Trump’s pledge to end censorship rings hollow with sacking of Jimmy Kimmel over his comments on Charlie Kirk murder, says the Telegraph.
• “The Left destroyed free speech culture. Now it’s reaping the whirlwind” – Jimmy Kimmel is being portrayed as the victim of a ‘fascist’ Right. But ‘liberals’ hold ultimate blame for the decline of free expression, according to Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
• “Nish Kumar has been ‘cancelled’ – but not for the reason he thinks” – Nish Kumar is very welcome to join the herd of the fringe Left bleating interminably and unconvincingly about the looming spectre of fascism, write Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “America’s powerful conservatism is now influencing Britain” – Close identification with Donald Trump may do Nigel Farage no favours, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “How comedy became the crucible for America’s freedom of speech wars” – For years the US Left insisted that you could cancel people for what they said. Now they’re not so sure, reports the Telegraph.
• “The woke Right comes of age” – And you thought the Right were in favour of free speech! Not so fast, says Andrew Sullivan in the Weekly Dish.
• “‘Britain can’t deport me’: Calais migrants vow to keep crossing Channel” – Asylum seekers scoff at Shabana Mahmood’s chances of removing them under the UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal with France, according to the Telegraph.
• “Lord Hermer gave free advice to charity helping migrants fight deportation” – The Attorney General worked for a group that is doing its utmost to prevent Channel refugees being sent back overseas, reports the Telegraph.
• “Afghan asylum seekers ‘go home on holiday’” – Ex-Armed Forces interpreter claims people are exploiting the UK Government’s Afghan scheme and the threat of the Taliban is overstated, says the Telegraph.
• “One out, hundreds in: Labour farce in action as more migrants arrive” – The Eritrean refugee given a stay of execution earlier this week says he was an “alleged trafficking victim” and his barristers asked for an “interim relief” because deportation would risk multiple human rights breaches, reports the Mail.
• “Border Force staff threaten strikes in fresh blow for Starmer” – Patrol boat workers to vote on potential walkout as up to 400 migrants cross Channel in one day, says the Telegraph.
• “The Modern Slavery Act was a terrible mistake” – When my party was in power, we failed to stop the boats. All barriers to deportation must be removed, writers Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Bloated public sector defies hiring slowdown to make tax rises inevitable” – Without growth, making the state more productive is the only pain-free lever the Chancellor has, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “Fewer than one in three Universal Credit claimants looking for a job” – Fewer than a third of Universal Credit claimants are actively seeking work amid a crisis of worklessness in Britain, according to the Telegraph.
• “Covid loan scheme loses £400 million in value amid fraud and insolvencies” – Taxpayers face a hit from the Future Fund decline, though auditors say fast-growing tech firms in the scheme could provide a return, reports the Times.
• “How HR took over British business and got in the way of actual work” – There are now more people working in human resources departments in Britain than there are doctors or lawyers, writes Harry Wallop in the Times.
• “Private schools fleeing abroad is a damning indictment of Reeves’s Britain” – Labour has made this country such a hostile environment to success that wealthy parents are looking elsewhere to educate their children, according to the Telegraph.
• “Church and peers must back assisted dying bill, says ex-archbishop” – Lord Carey told bishops and peers in the House of Lords yesterday to endorse the legislation because public support is high and they “risk their legitimacy” if they oppose it, reports the Times.
• “National Trust gardeners ‘forced out after clash over values’” – A dedicated group of volunteer gardeners have been given their marching orders by the National Trust for being insufficient woke, says the Telegraph.
• “RFK panel votes to restrict children’s access to measles vaccines” – A medical panel hand-picked by Robert F Kennedy has voted to restrict access to a combined vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) for children under four, according to the Telegraph.
• “CDC panel votes against recommending Covid shots for all Americans” – A CDC panel of experts handpicked by Robert F Kennedy Jr has voted to remove all recommendations for Covid shots in favour of “individual decision-making”, reports the Mail.
• “The cultification of science” – Thirty years ago, the physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed a social science journal into publishing a paper “liberally salted with nonsense” (in his own words) that “flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions”. The Sokal Hoax was a taste of things to come, writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
• “The climate scaremongers: Wind farms don’t work if it’s, er . . . windy” – In the Conservative Woman, Paul Homewood lays out some of the flaws with wind power.
• “UK and US in talks to build floating nuclear reactors” – Offshore mini-nukes promise mobile, quick-to-build energy sources for heavy industry and AI, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Paris delusion collapses: even the New York Times admits it” – It has taken a full decade, but the mainstream press is finally catching up to what we at WUWT have been saying since the day the Paris Agreement was signed, writes Anthony Watts.
• “Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to help blast billions of leaves from Great Britain’s tracks” – Network Rail says a train named according to a public vote will join fleet of “unsung hero” leaf-busters this autumn, according to the Guardian.
• “Oxford and Cambridge fall out of top three UK universities for first time” – The London School of Economics has been ranked the best university in the UK for the second year running, while Durham climbed from fifth to third, reports the Times.
• “Husband of Labour MP lied about being a Royal Marine for political gain” – Greg Brackenridge, a Labour councillor and husband of a Labour MP, faces calls to “do the right thing” and resign after exaggerating his military service, says the Telegraph.
• “Adolescence writer Jack Thorne returns with drama about phone-hacking scandal” – Get ready for even more preaching from the elites! says Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
• “Andrew Gwynne: I won’t step aside to clear path for Andy Burnham” – A sacked Labour minister had been tipped to vacate his seat, allowing the Any Burnham to return to Westminster and potentially challenge Sir Keir Starmer. But he says it won’t happen, according to the Times.
• “The collapse of Corbyn and Sultana’s Your Party is delicious” – This must be the first time Jezza has been described as ‘Right wing’, writes Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
• “Left-wing activist who said ‘kill them all’ after Kirk shooting won’t be arrested” – A Left-wing activist who shared a clip saying “kill them all” after the Charlie Kirk shooting will not be arrested, police said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police accused of ‘bullying’ cancer sufferer in free speech row” – Deborah Anderson, an American Trump supporter, was asked to apologise for Facebook comments. A video of the visit has been watched more than 6 million times
• “Lord Young blasts ‘prefect’ police officer for quizzing cancer patient over social media post” – Thames Valley Police claims it is their “duty to respond to allegations of threats or violence”. Nonsense, said Lord Young on GB News.
• “He was there to extract an apology from her! It’s Carry On 1984!” – Watch me on GB News talking about Thames Valley Police’s investigation of Deborah Anderson.

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