News Round-Up

• “Britain joins North Korea as it announces compulsory ID cards” – Britain will join the illustrious ranks of North Korea, China and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan by declaring it compulsory for every citizen to have a government-issued digital ID card, reports the Mail.
• “In authoritarian new plan, citizens will be forced to carry ID cards” – Sir Keir Starmer faced a furious backlash on Thursday over ‘dystopian’ plans to force millions of adults to sign up for a digital ID card, says the Mail.
• “Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID” – Civil liberties groups are warning that mandatory digital IDs risk pushing “unauthorised migrants further into the shadows”, according to the Independent.
• “Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards” – Sign the petition calling on the Government not to introduce Digital ID cards.
• “Morgan McSweeney failed to declare almost £740,000 in gifts to Labour campaign group” – The campaign group led my Morgan McSweeney that helped Sir Keir Starmer win the leadership was fined for breaking electoral law more than 20 times, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer loses another trusted lieutenant as comms chief quits” – Steph Driver, who worked for Sir Keir for five years in opposition before joining him in Downing Street, confirmed today that she’s quitting in the latest blow to the beleaguered Prime Minister, says the Mail.
• “Starmer: Burnham would ‘inflict harm’ like Truss” – Sir Keir Starmer has compared Andy Burnham to Liz Truss, saying his policies would inflict harm on working people, according to the Telegraph.
• “Starmer won’t survive the loss of another ally” – In the Telegraph, Tom Harris predicts the PM won’t survive another departure from his top team.
• “Starmer’s plan to scrap amnesty for Troubles veterans faces Supreme Court challenge” – The Conservative Party is supporting a legal move backing immunity for retired British troops who “risked their lives to protect us from terrorism”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Majority in UK live in homes getting more benefits than they pay tax” – A record 35.8 million people in the UK live in households receiving more in state handouts and services than they pay in tax, according to new figures laying bare the reality of benefits Britain, says the Mail.
• “Institute of Directors backs calls for income tax rise” – The IoD has urged Labour to break its manifesto promise, raise income tax and “stop fiddling while the UK burns”, according to the Telegraph.
• “How London became the ‘Sharia capital’ of the West” – Donald Trump isn’t wrong, says the Telegraph. London really is the Sharia Law capital of the West.
• “Britain has a de facto blasphemy law, but it only protects one religion” – The leniency shown to a knife-wielding Muslim man will simply stoke resentment about two-tier justice and special privileges for Muslims, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Small boat migrant takes eight-week holiday back to Afghanistan” – An asylum seeker told UK officials he could not return to his Taliban-controlled homeland because it was too dangerous, yet went back there for an eight-week holiday, reports the Telegraph.
• “Sudanese immigrant ‘raped university student’ months after arriving in UK” – A Sudanese immigrant accused of raping a British student had fled his home country months before the incident, says the Telegraph.
• “Fury as civilian boss of skint UK cop union earns £600,000 in salary and bonuses” – The head of the cash-strapped Police Federation earned £600,000 in salary and bonuses last year, according to the Sun.
• “I experienced the chilling effects of NCHIs – abolish them” – Non-crime hate incidents have achieved nothing to help the police or public, and have been catastrophic for police trust, writes Catherine Larkman, a former police officer, in the Times.
• “Trump told Arab leaders he would block the annexation of West Bank” – The US President has pledged to thwart any annexation attempt of the West Bank, reports the Telegraph.
• “Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority” – The White House is backing a plan that would see Tony Blair head a temporary administration of the Gaza Strip, says the Guardian.
• “Uefa members in favour of banning Israel from European football next week” – Pressure has ramped up on European football’s governing body to exclude Israel from the Eufa cup, according to the Times.
• “Donald Trump steps in to stop Israel being banned from World Cup” – The United Nations this week urged organizations to suspend Israeli sporting teams over the war in Gaza, but Trump says ‘not on my watch’, reports the Mail.
• “The case of Bolsonaro: what they had in mind for trump” – Donald Trump is now President of the United States for a second term, having survived an unprecedented campaign of lawfare that has included no fewer than four criminal prosecutions, two state and two federal, brought during the four years that he was out of office, writes the Manhattan Contrarian.
• “The hypocrisy of the limousine liberals” – You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at all the Hollywood celebrities rending their garments about Donald Trump’s attacks on free speech, says yours truly in the Spectator.
• “Nicolas Sarkozy to be jailed for five years over Gaddafi money” – The former French president has been sentenced to five years in jail for corruption, according to the Times.
• “Human Rights Commission’s call to regulate debate around climate change under fire” – The Australian Human Rights Commission is demanding the federal government criminalise climate denialism, reports Sky News Australia.
• “Ben Affleck’s daughter has become the mask-wearing poster girl for Generation Fear” – Violet Affleck wants us to continue to wear masks even though the pandemic has long been over – and is seemingly terrified of climate change, too, says Emily Retter in the Telegraph.
• “RAF air crews win battle… for vegan uniforms” – RAF air crews have won the right to wear vegan uniforms after a long-running dispute with defence chiefs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Miliband backs UK’s first Net Zero cement factory with taxpayer cash” – The Energy Secretary is to bankroll a Net Zero cement factory in North Wales in a desperate scramble to hit green targets, says the Telegraph.
• “Climate change is not causing New England’s ‘creepy’ bacteria and bugs, Boston Globe” – In WUWT? Linnea Lueken says blaming weird creepy crawlies that have appeared in New England on climate change is an example of missing the forest for the trees.
• “Left-wing terrorists DO carry out more attacks than conservatives” – Disturbing new data has revealed an upswing in violence from progressive extremists, including eco-terrorists, according to the Mail.
• “Britain’s ‘wokest’ universities named and shamed” – Oxford and Cambridge, once crowned the top two in terms of pushing contentiously progressive ideologies on students, came joint-fourth in the Times Good University Guide 2026. It’s a case of ‘Go woke, go broke’, reports the Mail.
• “Every single election cycle it gets worse” – On GB News, Simon Evans points out that government promises to do something to tackle excessive levels of migration ring increasingly hollow.

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