News Round-Up

• “Child dies after falling off migrant boat in the English Channel” – A child migrant has died after falling from an overcrowded Channel dinghy, just a day after two Somali women drowned in a similar tragedy, reports the Mail.
• “Taxi firm with £4 million deal to ferry asylum seekers around UK sees profits soar” – A taxi company which has a £4 million-a-year deal to ferry migrants around the country has seen profits soar more than tenfold since taking on the lucrative contract, reveals the Sun on Sunday.
• “Migrants will have to contribute or leave UK” – Shabana Mahmood will declare today that migrants’ right to settle in the UK will be dependent on them not claiming benefits, reports the BBC.
• “Her five tests met, Kemi Badenoch will back leaving the ECHR” – Kemi Badenoch will next week commit the Conservatives to quitting the European Convention on Human Rights, using the Tory party conference to settle an immigration policy issue that has divided the party for years, writes Harry Yorke in the Sunday Times.
• “The billionaires opening the border” – On the Thinking Coalition Substack, Alex Kriel discusses wars, immigration and falling fertility.
• “Sharia law in Britain” – In Free Speech Backlash, Andy Myers gives some reasons Sharia law in Britain might not be quite as bad as you think – though it is still pretty damned bad.
• “Woman ‘gang raped in churchyard by group of men’” – Police have launched an urgent probe after a woman was gang raped in a churchyard in Banbury, Oxfordshire, reports the Mail.
• “How does the Left explain the evidence of truth in what Farage said?” – The Left-wing media have spent the week ‘debunking’ Farage’s claim that migrants are eating Royal Park swans – so how do they explain the troubling evidence that suggests it may be true? asks Tom Harwood in the Mail.
• “Angela Rayner hailed as ‘working class hero’ at Labour’s conference” – Angela Rayner has been hailed as a “working-class hero” at Labour’s conference – just three weeks after she resigned following her failure to pay enough tax, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer is playing the patriotism card, and it’s fooling no one” – The PM’s attempt to define Britishness was as abstract as it was inauthentic, and it won’t neutralise Reform, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer announces plans for 12 new towns amid threat of Reform” – Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans for 12 new towns across the UK ahead of a tense party conference as Reform continues to surge in the polls, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer’s tax adviser did not pay tax for 17 years – because bosses footed the bill” – The Prime Minister’s new tax-raising economic adviser has not paid tax for 17 years because her employers footed the bill, a Telegraph investigation has found.  
• “Young people could be stripped of benefits if they turn down job after 18 months” – The Chancellor will announce today that tens of thousands of out-of-work young people could be stripped of their benefits if they refuse to take a job, according to the Mail.
• “Council spends £950 a day to get one special needs child to school” – Councils are spending as much as £950 a day to get a single child to school in a sign of the spiralling cost of supporting special needs pupils, reports the Telegraph.
• “A nine-fold surge in public debt means the Government has to stop spending” – If there’s to be any hope of economic recovery the UK needs to get a grip on the size of the state, writes Ewen Stewart in Global Britain.
• “To solve the UK’s productivity puzzle we need to start with the state” – In the Telegraph, Liam Halligan says Britain’s productivity slump is wrecking growth, with public sector output down 5% since 2019.
• “This is worse than the IMF-bailout crisis” – Unlike Labour in the 1970s, Starmer and Reeves have no plan or clue how to steer the UK from disaster, warns Phil Mullan in Spiked.
• “I’ve joined the Conservatives. No, it’s not a joke – let me explain” – A sharp leftward turn in politics has put us in a debt crisis, says Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, but only one party grasps the size of the problem.
• “The strange and self-inflicted death of Tory England” – The peculiar thing about the Tory retreat is that they keep choosing the very route that will lead to their demise, writes Henry Olsen in Brussels Signal.
• “Phillipson’s latest attack on private schools will hurt vulnerable children – all for £4 million a year” – The Education Secretary is hunting for Labour votes with a populist attack on private schools, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “You’re not therapists, schools told in warning of ‘negative spiral’” – In the Mail, ex-Ofsted boss Baroness Spielman says children are being encouraged to self-diagnose problems when they should be engrossed in normal education.
• “How Labour abandoned the working class” – Now the posh party for London’s middle class and elite, Labour has turned its back on its core voters – and the numbers prove it, writes James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “Across the Anglosphere, the Left is turning its back on the working class” – In both the UK and Australia, the understood definition of “Leftism” has been completely upended, says Stephen Davies in the Telegraph.
• “Ex-Green deputy leader launches new legal action against party” – Ex-Green deputy leader Dr Shahrar Ali, who won a landmark case against the party last year, has launched a second claim, accusing the Greens of “procedural abuse” and gender-critical discrimination, reports the BBC.
• “Britain embraced authoritarianism long before Starmer’s ID cards” – Starmer won’t stop illegal migration, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, but he may be about to introduce a Chinese-style social credit system.
• “Digital dictatorship: why we must reject digital ID” – Digital ID is a digital cage, giving the state and Big Tech control while failing on security and immigration, warns Tom Armstrong in Free Speech Backlash.
• “The sinister arrest of my autistic son over Hamas tweet” – Britain’s free speech is under siege, says Richard North in TCW, after his autistic son, Pete North, was hauled in at night over an X post about Hamas.
• “The fantasy world of free speech absolutists” – There must be limits to free speech if it is to mean anything at all, argues Elena Louisa Lange in Café Américain.
• “George Galloway claims police detained him for nine hours” – George Galloway claims counter-terror police held him and his wife for nine hours at Gatwick airport, confiscating his phone and laptop, according to the Mail.
• “How successful has Wizz Air’s All You Can Fly scheme really been?” – Wizz Air’s “All You Can Fly” pass has been a hit for avid travellers, reports Oliver Gill in the Sunday Times.
• “Alas, poor ORIT” – Despite harvesting massive subsidies, aggressive accounting policies may contribute to the downfall of the Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust, warns David Turver on the Eigen Values Substack.
• “2025 Arctic sea ice minimum nearly half a million square kilometers more than 2007” – Arctic summer sea ice has barely budged in nearly 20 years, defying doom predictions; this year it’s up nearly half a million sq km on 2007, writes P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “Claim: climate change is supercharging Europe’s biggest hail” – Anything is possible when you use a flawed climate model to generate craptastic, er, speculative output, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “The Netherlands has a wolf problem” – In Holland, wolves roam free, activists defend them, farmers and people are at risk and the Government can’t act, reports Arnout Nuijt in the Spectator.
• “Bad sports” – In Climate Scepticism, Tony Thomas takes a swipe at Australia’s AFL, where fans just want footy but universities and lobby groups turn players into poetry-reading, Net Zero evangelists.
• “China cashes in as Net Zero scam feeds the energy fat cats” – In TCW, David Wright shows how Britain and Australia are sleepwalking into blackouts and higher bills.
• “Do we even need the Presidency?” – The Irish Presidency has become a foghorn for mediocrities and discontented leftists who failed to distinguish themselves in regular politics or indeed in any kind of public service, says Dr Derek O’Flynn in Gript.
• “EU handouts fund Pakistan authoritarian power and drive migrant invasion of Europe” – The EU keeps handing billions to Pakistan, fuelling despotism, migration and chaos in Europe, writes Andy Myers in Brussels Signal.
• “Slovakia enshrines two genders in constitution” – Slovakia’s Parliament has amended its constitution to state that all citizens are either male or female, limit adoption to married heterosexual couples and ban surrogacy, reports Politico.
• “Australians used to flock to Britain. Now the expat dream is all but dead” – The UK’s appeal Down Under is fading just as both countries need an ally on the world stage, writes Hans van Leeuwen in the Telegraph.
• “Canada tries to muscle religion and pro-life orgs” – Canada is the first country to suggest legislation aimed at censoring and silencing Christian and pro-life organisations – it is only a matter of time before similar moves are made in Europe, warns Brid in Gript.
• “On the limits of Covid forgiveness” – On Substack, Alex Berenson reflects on a Covid-era friendship that ended over his vaccine scepticism – and after years of silence and a half-hearted reunion, he’s finally over it.
• “NHS nurse ‘betrayed after misgendering trans paedophile’, Tories claim” – The Tories have demanded that a nurse suspended for refusing to parrot radical trans ideology should be reinstated immediately, reports the Express.
• “The Lib Dems’ pratfalls on trans are an insult to women” – At the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, women were silenced and an award for outstanding female politicians was handed to a man, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “The 5G menace that Government pretends doesn’t exist” – The Government insists 5G is harmless, yet independent scientists show radiation can damage DNA and health long before any heating effect, says Gillian Jamieson in TCW.
• “The app that pays you to give away your voice” – An app that pays users for access to their phone call audio has surged to the top of Apple’s US App Store rankings, reflecting a growing willingness to exchange personal privacy for small financial rewards, writes Ken Macon in Reclaim The Net.
• “The masses and the market” – If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future, says Joel Kotkin on the Quillette Substack.
• “Requiem For a Nightmare” – On Substack, Paul Sutton delivers a requiem laced with dark humour and anger at a nation too scared to speak plainly.
• “‘Entities’ may be living in underwater UFO bases, congressman reveals” – A US congressman has gone viral after revealing that there may be aliens living in “five or six” bases off the coast of the US, according to the Mail.
• “David Shipley questions whether sparing jail for a Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran is a travesty of justice” – On Free Speech Nation, David Shipley asks what message it sends to Musllim fundamentalists that the knifeman who attacked a Koran burner is spared jail.

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