News Round-Up

• “Moment foreign criminals are finally flown out of UK” – Rare footage has revealed what happens onboard a deportation flight for foreign criminals – with some being handed bank cards pre-loaded with £2,000, according to the Mail. 
• “Deporting foreign criminals ‘to take decades’ for some nationalities” – A wide range of convicted criminals – particularly those from African, Middle Eastern and Caribbean nations – are being removed from Britain at a glacial pace, reports the Mail.
• “Historic seaside town scraps plans to become refugee ‘sanctuary’ after concerned residents protest” – Weston-super-Mare has scrapped its plans to become a “Council of Sanctuary” town for refugees after massive backlash, says GB News.
• “Violent asylum seeker avoided sentencing by leaving court for fish and chips” – A violent asylum seeker has had his sentencing hearing postponed after leaving court to get some fish and chips, reports the Express.
• “Indefinite leave to remain cannot go on” – We push out wealthy people who contribute billions while allowing in millions who will be net welfare beneficiaries, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Who were the real bigots in Epping?” – It is essential we do not forget what happened in Epping, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator: women raised concerns about the sexual assault of a child, and they were called Nazi scum for doing so.
• “A Koran, a knife and a travesty of justice” – We have a legal system where a man can be convicted of a crime for burning a Koran, while the Muslim who attacked him with a knife is treated as though his anger is entirely justified, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Muslims get green light to take law into own hands’, warns campaigner” – Free speech campaigners have warned extremist Muslims have been “given the green light to take the law into their own hands”, reports the Mail.
• “Protester attacked by Muslim knifeman blasts decision not to jail him” – A protester who was slashed with a knife by a Muslim man furious that he was burning the Koran has slammed the “disgraceful” decision not to jail him, claiming it shows Britain has a “two-tier justice system”, says the Mail.
• “Labour ‘to ease two-child cap on benefits’ as Reeves plots tax hikes” – Labour is inching towards scrapping the two-child benefit cap in another spending splurge, despite Brits facing huge new tax rises in the Budget, reports the Mail.
• “No 10 is behind ‘sexist’ briefings against me, suggests Phillipson” – Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she’s been the target of “sexist briefings” and is not Downing Street’s pick for Labour deputy leader, according to ITV News.
• “Burnham demands Labour lurch to Left as Starmer faces conference chaos” – Andy Burnham has taken aim at “divisive” Keir Starmer and set out his stall to steer Labour to the Left, reports the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer’s Palestine doesn’t exist” – In recognising a state of Palestine, Starmer attempts not to halt a tide but to summon a new one which flows counter to history, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “700,000 swap jobs for benefits in peak working years” – Up to 700,000 people have signed on for out-of-work benefits in the middle of their careers since the pandemic struck, reveals the Telegraph.
• “You won’t believe the latest ruse to make the case for digital ID” – Every crisis, every frustration of modern life has been used to try to sell us the case for digital identification, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “You can’t get the extinguisher without breaking glass” – In Climate Scepticism, Geoff Chambers argues the Guardian has gone from climate derangement to full-blown bias on everything.
• “$2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money” – California’s $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar plant is being shut down after years of wasted money, bird deaths and broken promises, reports Michael Kaplan in the NY Post.
• “Trump calls carbon footprint a ‘hoax’ in UN address criticising green policies ” – President Trump has denounced the EU’s green new scam, calling climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated”, says Climate Change Dispatch.
• “The great UN climate con” – Global climate panic wasn’t spontaneous – it was baked into law in 1992, says Dr. Matthew Wielicki on his Irrational Fear Substack.
• “Europe has become the world’s laughing stock” – Europe, once the cockpit of Western civilisation, has become the laughing stock of the world, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “From climate radicals to culture killers: the same poisoned root” – The same spirit that demands you turn off your gas stove and bow to climate hysteria also demands you shut your mouth, abandon your faith and surrender your country, writes Terry L. Headley in WUWT?
• “Media launches partisan attack on DoE scientists, hypes fake consensus” – On the American Thinker blog, Vijay Jayaraj exposes the media’s coordinated psyop against non-consensus climate scientists.
• “Why our systems collapse” – When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free and fragile systems collapse – leaving lives and cities in ruin, warns Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness.
• “Streeting to launch pro-vaccine fightback against Trump” – Wes Streeting will fight back against Donald Trump in a war on vaccine misinformation, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage backs Trump over paracetamol autism claim” – Nigel Farage has compared paracetamol to thalidomide – one of the worst drug scandals in modern history – after refusing to call Trump irresponsible for suggesting the painkiller may cause autism, reports the Mail.
• “COVID-19 vaccines and cancer links: what is the evidence?” – On the HART Substack, Dr Ros Jones runs through the uproar after Dr Aseem Malhotra linked mRNA jabs to cancer at Reform’s conference.
• “Ireland’s presidential election is a farce” – Fourteen interminably long years of suffocating sanctimony from the present incumbent, Michael D. Higgins, are about to come to an end, writes Liz Walsh in the Spectator – but will Ireland’s new President be any better?
• “Alternative für Deutschland now the strongest party in Germany as Merz’s government flounders, weak and bereft of options” – Germany’s AfD is now top of the polls as Chancellor Merz flounders in a weak, hopeless government, with no possibility of reform, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “‘Anti-ICE’ messages on bullets at immigration centre shooting” – A detainee has died and two others are critically injured after a rooftop sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement centre in Dallas, reports the BBC.
• “Jimmy Kimmel delivers emotional defence of free speech” – Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears as he tried to explain his statement on Charlie Kirk in his first show back on ABC since he was suspended over his comments about the late TPUSA founder, says the Mail. 
• “Jimmy Kimmel’s return blasted by Roseanne Barr” – Roseanne Barr has fiercely denounced the “double standard” of ABC reinstating Jimmy Kimmel, seven years after the network fired her from her iconic sitcom, reports the Mail. 
• “Trump threatens to sue ‘fake news’ ABC as Jimmy Kimmel returns” – Donald Trump has hinted he’ll sue ABC again, accusing the network of deceit after it brought back Jimmy Kimmel, according to the Mail. 
• “Kimmel’s achingly unfunny return will leave you wishing America really was an autocracy” – Jimmy Kimmel’s self-pitying monologue belied the reality that his cancellation turned out to be little more than a week’s holiday, says Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “It’s absurd to call Kimmel a free-speech hero after Kirk killing” – Graham Linehan claims it is “ironic” and “absurd” that Jimmy Kimmel has been lauded as a victim of a free speech crackdown, while Charlie Kirk has been “silenced forever”, says the Telegraph.
• “Sisters who trashed Kirk memorial ‘are homeless’ as they beg for cash” – Two sisters accused of trashing a Charlie Kirk memorial in Arkansas say they have been harassed and fired from their jobs, according to the Mail.
• “Trump is washing his hands of the Ukraine war” – What may appear at first glance as a stunning U-turn may actually be bad news for Volodymyr Zelensky, writes Rob Crilly in the Telegraph.
• “Trump has called Europe and Zelensky’s bluff” – Trump’s statement is not a declaration of support for Ukraine, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator; it’s Trump’s resignation from further participation in the peace process.
• “Joe Biden’s White House portrait replaced with photo of autopen” – Donald Trump has replaced a portrait of Joe Biden in the White House with a picture of an autopen, which he claims Joe Biden often used to sign bills into law, according to the Telegraph.
• “Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia Firth dramatically hands back her MBE” – Colin Firth’s ex, eco-fashion campaigner Livia Firth, has ripped up her MBE in protest at Britain’s “appeasement” of Donald Trump, reports the Mail.
• “Kamala Harris’s book tour is a car crash for the woke Left” – Kamala Harris’s revelations about why she passed over Pete Buttigieg and Josh Shapiro for her running mate expose the perversities of identity politics, says David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
• “Musk’s dad accused of abusing five of his children and stepchildren” – Elon Musk’s father has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, including one he allegedly touched when she was four years old – who he later had a child with, reports the Mail.
• “The idea that facts are sacred to the Guardian is a sick joke” – Are you a rich, smug liberal? There’s a new garment on the market that lets you wear your moral sanctimony across your chest, says Brendan O’Neil in the Telegraph.
• “Trans criminals in women’s prison despite Supreme Court ruling” – Trans criminals are still being held in a women’s prison despite the Supreme Court ruling that sexes must be segregated, says the Telegraph.
• “ITV has made The Guardian: The Movie, and it’s a cringeworthy mess” – Anita Singh in the Telegraph is unimpressed by Jack Thorne’s new phone hacking drama.
• “This was blatant, observable, undeniable, inescapable two-tier justice” – Sam Armstrong, the Free Speech Union’s Legislative Affairs Director, tells Julie Hartley-Brewer that the suspended sentence handed out to Moussa Kadri, who assaulted a Koran burner with a knife, is a disgrace.

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