News Round-Up

• “Thousands say no to digital ID cards as they march through London” – Thousands of protesters have marched through central London to oppose the Government’s planned rollout of digital ID cards, reports the Mail.
• “Net Zero destroyed my home: Father-of-one reveals how eco-friendly scheme cost him £250k and ‘ripped his life apart’” – Duncan Hayes eagerly accepted the free eco-upgrades on his cottage in Gloucestershire, but two years later his period property has been left a chaotic building site with debris, waste and scaffolding spread everywhere, says the Mail.
• “The climate scaremongers: Eco-nuts should get off the snow” – There is well documented evidence, including photographs and contemporary maps, that glaciers in the Alps began retreating long before any increase in greenhouse gases occurred, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “The Paris climate agreement has utterly failed – why keep up the pretence?” – Without Paris, what hope remains for the UN’s climate change campaign, asks Robin Guenier in TCW.
• “Australia’s Energy Transition and Deindustrialisation” – Rooftop solar installations are rapidly gaining market share in Australia and are bound to make grid scale wind and solar obsolete before they recover their construction costs, argues Richard Willoughby in WUWT.
• “Labour tears up Islamophobia definition” – Labour has torn up its definition of Islamophobia – changing it to be concerned with ‘anti-Muslim hate’ and removing all references to ‘Muslimness’ – amid fears it could threaten free speech, reports the Telegraph.
• “MP backing Tel Aviv football fans ban says ‘hating Israel isn’t enough’” – Pro-Gaza independent MP Adnan Hussain, who backs the ban on Israeli football fans from Villa Park, has said hating Israel is not “strong enough”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Jewish lawyer is questioned by police over wearing a Star of David necklace that ‘antagonised’ pro-Palestinian protesters during demo” – A Jewish lawyer was questioned by police after wearing a 2cm Star of David necklace, which officers claimed “antagonised” pro-Palestine supporters during a demonstration, reports the Mail.
• “Aston Villa, council and police all face action over Israeli fan ban” – Campaigners have pledged to “do whatever it takes” and launch a wave of legal actions to overturn a controversial ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans attending a match against Aston Villa, reports the Mail.
• “Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one” – The idea that barring the Israeli club’s supporters from Villa Park will de-escalate a volatile situation just doesn’t stand up, argues Barney Ronay in the Guardian.
• “How do so many women end up as ‘Feminists for Islam’?” – Hamas fangirls, hijab sellers and deranged anti-Zionism made for a curious sight at the FiLiA feminist conference, says Julie Burchill in Spiked.
• “Afghan TikTokker who threatened to murder Nigel Farage is a career criminal who was on the run from police in Sweden for sexually abusing girl, 15, when he arrived in the UK on a small boat” – An Afghan TikTokker who threatened to murder Nigel Farage was on the run from police in Sweden over a litany of crimes when he arrived in the UK on a small boat, the Daily Mail reveals.
• “Blair backs income tax cuts” – Sir Tony Blair believes the top rate of income tax should be cut to below 40%, putting him at odds with Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, reports the Telegraph.
• “Spy suspect was stopped with a suitcase of cash on return from China” – Christopher Berry, who had landed at Heathrow, is believed to have been given the money by his Chinese intelligence handler known only as ‘Alex’, according to the Times.
• “Starmer has been untruthful about China spy case, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of making “false” statements about the reasons behind the collapse of the China spy trial, reports the Telegraph.
• “Oxford Union faces financial crisis over Charlie Kirk scandal” – The George Abaraonye free speech row engulfing the Oxford Union has plunged the debating society into “complete and utter turmoil”, says the Telegraph.
• “We must leave the ECHR to defend women’s rights” – Trans activists in the Council of Europe have single-sex spaces in their sights, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Transgender man wanting to get pregnant wins legal appeal after High Court rules it is ‘not incompatible to live as a man when trying to conceive and carry a baby’” – A transgender ‘man’s’ desire to conceive a child is not a barrier to her being granted a gender recognition certificate (GRC), despite the requirement to be ‘living as a man’, a High Court judge has ruled, reports the Mail.
• “Men’s prisons told to offer trans inmates make-up” – Men’s prisons are being told to offer transgender prisoners make-up and prosthetics, reports the Telegraph.
• “Yes, Trans is in Decline among Young Educated Americans” – Eric Kaufmann replies to critics on both the Left and Right on his Substack page.
• “Election is last gasp of Bolivia’s socialist dream” – After years of Leftist rule, Bolivia’s voters must now pick between two Right-leaning candidates in a presidential run-off, reports the Telegraph.
• “An innocent man was hounded to his death by young vigilantes, and nothing has been done” – In the Telegraph, Serenhedd James says things must change after an Oxford student was hounded to his death by fellow students who falsely accused him of rape.
• “If Lord of the Rings is ‘racist’, answer me this” – If orcs, which are horrible ugly monsters, make you think of black people, it isn’t Tolkien who’s got a problem with race, suggests Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Neville comes under fire at Salford game as fan plants flag on pitch” – Football fans ran on to the pitch to protest against Gary Neville during Salford City’s League Two clash with Oldham after his recent rant about the “negative” use of the British flag, with three men from a far Right group arrested, reports the Mail. 
• “The flag wars have come to the Netherlands” – The small community of Uithoorn, just outside Amsterdam, has unexpectedly found itself on the front line of Europe’s flag wars as Dutch national flags began appearing across the town, perhaps as a show of resistance to a planned asylum centre, says Arnout Nuijt in the Spectator.
• “‘Businessman’ is offensive term, says OECD” – The term ‘businessman’ is offensive, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has claimed, reports the Telegraph.
• “Kennedy rolls out the vaccine revolution” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell summarises the changes RFK Jr has already made to the US vaccine regime.
• “We Are Focusing on Finding Truth and Giving Hope” – Watch Dr Retsef Levi, Chair of the ACIP COVID-19 Immunisation Workgroup – a US Government advisory body – on the React19 podcast discussing the urgent need for greater recognition, diagnosis and care for individuals injured by COVID-19 vaccines.
• “Sleeping Beauty and queer pirates: taxpayer-funded PhDs under fire” – As it emerges that Nadia Yahlom, the woman filmed cutting ribbons for Jewish hostages, was an AHRC-funded academic, critics blast “absurd” research projects, reports the Times.

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