News Round-Up

• “Trump to run Gaza with Blair” – Donald Trump has dramatically announced that he will rule Gaza with Sir Tony Blair if Hamas accepts his 20-point peace plan, reports the Mail.
• “Trump’s Gaza deal is the best chance to end this war” – If Hamas does resist this historic diplomatic overture, then Israel will retain the right to finish them off on the battlefield, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Labour members defy Starmer to accuse Israel of genocide” – Labour Party members have voted to acknowledge that a genocide is taking place in Gaza at the hands of Israel – putting pressure on the Government to do the same, reports Sky News.
• “Britain wrong to let Jews settle in Palestine, Labour conference told” – At the Labour Party conference, Dr Victor Kattan claimed that the current bloody conflict in Gaza was “made in Britain”, as he campaigned for the UK to apologise and make “reparations” to Palestinian Arabs, says the Mail.
• “Farmers descend on Labour conference to warn ‘liar’ Starmer: ‘We won’t back down’” – In the Telegraph, Natasha Leake reports from the Labour conference where furious farmers rolled in with tractors and the “Trailer of Truth”, branding Starmer a liar over inheritance tax plans that threaten family farms.
• “Keir Starmer ‘will never be voted in as PM again’” – Speaking at Labour’s conference, Carol Vorderman said she felt “very let down” by the party’s first year in office, according to the Mail.
• “The Labour Party is in utter, total disarray” – After just 14 months, party members are demanding that Keir Starmer either do better or be changed for someone better, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Elections guru warns there is no way back for Starmer” – Professor John Curtice has given an apocalyptic assessment of Labour’s situation in a briefing at the party’s annual conference, reports the Mail.
• “The gaping hole in Labour’s worklessness plan” – Alarm bells are ringing at the number of idle young Britons who are out of work and ‘off the grid’, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “Quarter of wealthy ‘consider quitting Britain under Labour’” – A quarter of Britain’s richest families are considering leaving over Labour’s private school tax and rumours of more levies in next month’s Budget, reports Business Matters.
• “Migrant who beat up five of his girlfriends was allowed to stay in UK” – A migrant who attacked five girlfriends, threatened one with acid and faced a restraining order, has been allowed to stay in Britain, with an immigration judge ruling deportation would harm his child despite them not living together, says the Express.
• “Germany tried Labour’s migration plan. It failed” – Germany ditched a Labour-style scheme rewarding migrants for voluntary work after deciding it was a mistake, reports the Telegraph.
• “Unite the Kingdom marchers dubbed ‘heirs to skinheads’ by Mahmood” – The Home Secretary told the Labour Party conference that marchers who took to the streets in the Unite the Kingdom rally are the “heirs to skinheads and Paki-bashers”, according to the Mail.
• “No Keir, it’s not ‘racist’ to want immigration controls” – In the Telegraph, Nigel Farage blasts Keir Starmer for calling Reform’s immigration crackdown “racist” while his own Home Secretary backs it.
• “Reform has changed the conversation on immigration” – Restrictions on access to welfare have been popular with the British public for a long time, writes Fred De Fossard in the Spectator.
• “Labour-run council takes down St George’s flags” – Derby City Council is set to begin ripping down hundreds of St George’s flags from lamp posts and walls across the city, reports the Mail.
• “‘Grooming gangs scandal is single worst stain on our nation in living memory’” – In the Express, Tory MP Katie Lam says the grooming gangs scandal is the worst stain on our nation and those who ignored or smeared the girls should face the full force of the law.
• “Andy Burnham says ‘not now’ as Keir Starmer makes plans for compulsory digital ID” – Andy Burnham says he disagrees with plans to introduce digital ID cards in Britain in another split with Sir Keir Starmer, according to Manchester Evening News.
• “Starmer’s reign of error will soon be upon us” – Labour’s digital IDs are a cosmic-scale delusion that will end in catastrophe, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Inside the Tony Blair Institute” – Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism? ask Peter Geoghegan and May Bulman in the New Statesman.
• “Switzerland votes to approve digital ID cards in referendum” – Swiss voters have narrowly approved a state-run system of digital identity in a referendum that followed rejection of a similar scheme in 2021, reports the BBC.
• “Britain’s free speech crisis could get a whole lot worse” – If you think Britain’s free speech crisis is bad now, if Ofcom gets its way it could get a whole lot worse, warns Alex Klaushofer in the Spectator.
• “Our woke schools should focus on education, not feelings” – Children go to class to learn, not receive spurious diagnoses about their mental health, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
• “Lucy Letby’s lawyer says he has evidence that will ‘clear her name’” – Lucy Letby’s barrister claims new evidence could clear her, citing 26 experts and 1,000 pages of fresh material, according to the Mail.
• “We’ll resist plans to make it easier to get an appointment, say GPs” – GPs could strike if the NHS makes it too easy for patients to get an appointment, reports the Mail.
• “Michael Mann’s ‘fire hose’ of misinformation: projection at its finest” – If Michael Mann held himself to the same standard he applies to Trump, he’d be out of the business, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “Funding for green groups soared after 2009 endangerment finding, nonprofit finds” – Fed grants to green organisations increased from $350 million in 2009 to nearly $1.4 billion in 2023, reveals Just the News.
• “Climate crusaders are running out of options” – In the wake of a federal government no longer serving as its obedient lapdog, the desperate lengths to which the climate cult goes to maintain its standing is increasingly imaginative, says Gary Abernathy in TEA.
• “Axios is wrong, climate change is not harming central Ohio” – A single city’s pledge to go “carbon neutral” will have absolutely no impact on global warming, but it could limit peoples’ freedoms and undermine its and the surrounding region’s economic fortunes, writes Linna Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “Flood myths on thin ice: what Greenland just told the modellers” – Greenland has spoken, and its message is simple: the models were wrong, meltwater refreezes, runoff is less than claimed and sea-level rise is not accelerating in the way the prophets declared, writes Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “EVs are now cheaper than gas cars in America – but not for long” – Price parity between electric and combustion vehicles has launched electric-vehicle sales into the stratosphere in the few markets that have reached that elusive milestone, says Tim Levine in Inside EVs.
• “Demise of EVs is greatly exaggerated” – J.D. Power’s Brent Gruber says consistent interest suggests EVs aren’t going anywhere soon, according to Auto Remarketing. 
• “Trump to Europe: ‘Your countries are going to hell’” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the slow death of climatism in Europe.
• “Covid jabs ‘might raise the risk of cancer’, contentious study claims” – Korean researchers say that they have found proof that Covid vaccines raise the risk of six types of cancer including lung, breast and prostate, according to the Mail.
• “Your own stories of how Covid (and the jabs) cost you friendships and family” – On Substack, Alex Berenson shares how Covid and the jabs tore friendships and families apart.
• “Court throws out NHS attempt to use ‘Bananarama’ legal defence in Sandie Peggie case” – A last-ditch attempt by NHS Fife to change its legal defence against Sandie Peggie has been rejected, reports the Scottish Express.
• “In its frenzied embrace of woke, Ireland has abandoned its founders’ vision” – Ireland’s Presidential race has crushed family-values outsiders, leaving only bland or hard-Left candidates in a woke-obsessed system, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
• “Germany cannot contain the populist Right for much longer” – The AfD thrives because the establishment refuses to listen to voters on mass migration and the economy, writes Henry Donovan in the Telegraph.
• “The Gaza flotilla: the woke man’s burden” – Anti-Israel activism is neo-colonial arrogance in the drag of pacifism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Kash Patel disputes Trump as he reveals truth about January 6th” – FBI Director Kash Patel has publicly refuted Trump’s claim on Truth Social that 274 plainclothes agents were in the January 6th Capitol riot crowd, acting as agitators, reports the Mail. 
• “Pentagon quadrupling missile production to counter China” – The Pentagon is pushing weapons manufacturers to quadruple missile production to counter China, says Newsweek.
• “The alarming stranglehold of Charlie Kirk trutherism” – Large swathes of Democrats are convinced that Charlie Kirk’s killer is a MAGA conservative, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
• “Building an unliveable Britain” – New-build estates may look shiny, but as Daniel Kelsall argues in the New Conservative, they’re soulless mazes with no heart, no history and no community.
• “Net Zero must go” – Triggernometry sits down with independent energy expert and consultant Kathryn Porter, founder of Watt-Logic, as she breaks down the risks and realities of Net Zero policies, and why some approaches may need rethinking. Watch the full interview here.

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