News Round-Up

• “Moment Huntingdon train ‘knifeman’ is Tasered by police and arrested” – The Sun has footage of the dramatic moment a suspect is Tasered and arrested by several police officers following the Huntingdon train mass stabbing.
• “Police ‘should have released nationality of train stabbing suspect sooner’” – MPs have criticised police for taking too long to reveal the nationalities of suspects arrested after the Huntingdon train attacks, reports the Telegraph (although one of the suspects has now been released without charge).
• “Questions about the BBC and the Huntingdon train attack” – In TCW, Simon Caldwell calls out the BBC for blaming “knives” for the train stabbings rather than the attacker.
• “Trains are an easy target for mass stabbings” – The stabbings on the Doncaster to London LNER show how trains remain a soft target for terror-inspired knife attacks, writes Charles Hymas in the Telegraph.
• “Mass stabbing on UK train casts spotlight on British stabbing epidemic” – 53,000 people in England and Wales (population 61 million) were stabbed in the year ending March 2025, according to John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
• “After Peterborough, we may need airline-style security for our railways” – After the Huntingdon knife attack, Tom Harris argues in the Telegraph that UK railways may need airline-style security – but doubts British railway bosses won’t balls it up.
• “After Peterborough, paranoia is quickly becoming the new normal” – The measure of a civilised society is that people can travel thoroughfares and use public transport without fearing for their lives, says Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
• “Reform UK fury over Shabana Mahmood’s comments after Huntingdon train stabbings” – Senior Reform UK politician Laila Cunningham has torn into the Home Secretary for asking people to avoid speculating about the Huntingdon train stabbings, reports the Express.
• “The murder in Derby: another victim of borderless Britain” – We cannot allow the murder of UK citizens by illegal immigrants to become the new normal, warns Georgina Mumford in Spiked.
• “Polish criminal allowed back in the UK as he avoids sentence for rape” – A Polish man, extradited from Britain after a burglary sentence, was allowed back in to dodge jail in his homeland for raping a teenage girl, reports the Express.
• “Quarter of jailed foreign sex offenders come from just five countries” – According to Ministry of Justice figures, Poland, Ireland, Pakistan, India and Romania make up 457 of the foreign sex offenders in prisons in England and Wales, says GB News.
• “Fury as hundreds of foreign criminals guilty of murder and abuse allowed in UK” – Hundreds of foreign criminals guilty of murder and rape have been allowed to slip into the UK, reports the Express.
• “425 empty barracks, 7,500 homeless heroes, £15 billion wasted on asylum hotels: the Great British betrayal” – While 7,500 military veterans are homeless, the Government’s blowing £15 billion on asylum hotels and leaving 425 barracks empty – giving keys to strangers but not to the heroes, says the Rationals on Substack.
• “UK migrant capital ‘bursting at the seams’ as asylum seekers spending to triple” – Glasgow, the UK’s migrant capital, is already “bursting at the seams”, with spending on accommodation for asylum seekers set to “triple” to £15.3 billion, reports the Express.
• “Man ‘horrified’ to visit holiday cottage and find asylum seeker inside” – A wealthy businessman was furious when he visited his luxury second home in Cornwall to find an illegal immigrant living there, says the Mail.
• “Woke Labour councils blasted for giving asylum seekers free yoga classes” – Woke Labour councils have been accused of giving asylum seekers free yoga classes while residents’ bills go up, reports the Sun.
• “PM won’t reopen probe into Rachel Reeves’ illegal lettings scandal” – Keir Starmer is refusing to reopen the probe into Rachel Reeves’ illegal lettings scandal despite fresh revelations, says the Mail. 
• “Reeves targets workers on £46,000 despite promise to ‘working people’” – Rachel Reeves is targeting workers earning £46,000 a year or more in this month’s Budget – while claiming to keep her promise not to increase taxes on “working people”, reports the Mail.
• “Rachel Reeves could double council tax for a million homes” – Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering doubling council tax for the the most valuable properties, risking pensioners being forced out of their homes, says the Mail.
• “Landlords ‘face bankruptcy’ under rules that may let tenants skip rent” – Middle-income landlords “face bankruptcy” under new Labour rules which could allow tenants to go for months without paying any rent, reports the Mail. 
• “Reeves wants a piece of British households’ £2 trillion cash mountain” – Rachel Reeves has her sights set on Britain’s savings to keep her shaky growth plans alive, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Founder of UK stock market exchange moves to Dubai after £10 million payday as latest entrepreneur to leave Britain” – Alasdair Haynes has moved to Dubai as he joins the growing list of wealthy Brits fleeing to the Gulf, reports the Mail.
• “Tumbling over the Laffer Curve” – Economically illiterate policy may actually be quite rational, provided it is accepted that prosperity is not the goal, says Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty.
• “Britain hates prices. It’s no wonder we’re getting poorer” – In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes warns Britain’s fight against putting up prices in line with demand in the name of “fairness” is breaking the economy.
• “Reform and the future of welfare” – Welfare reform, not higher taxes, is the only way out of our fiscal crisis, argues the Pimlico Journal on Substack.
• “The Tories are blocking Reform’s path to government” – In the Telegraph, Danny Kruger tells Annabel Denham that Tory chaos is blocking Reform’s rise to power.
• “Reform chief’s outrage after schools compare the party to Nazis” – Reform UK has demanded an investigation after teachers at a group of leading state schools made “inappropriate and slanderous” comparisons between the party and the Nazis, reports the Mail.
• “Bob Vylan suing Jewish organisation who demanded gig be cancelled” – Bob Vylan have called in lawyers after they were labelled “antisemitic” and accused of “incitement” by the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, according to the Mail.
• “Fury as BBC splashing £650,000 of licence-fee cash on private health care for staff” – The BBC is splashing hundreds of thousands of pounds of licence-fee money on a private health service for staff, reports the Sun.
• “Slow drivers have killed 19 and injured 1,500 over the last decade ” – Department for Transport figures reveal that over the past decade, 1,568 people were injured or killed in 1,090 crashes where police blamed someone driving too slowly, according to the Mail. So much for 20mph zones.
• “TfL bailiffs hoist cars off driveways in ‘clampdown’ on ULEZ fines” – Shocking images have shown how Sadiq Khan’s TfL enforcers are hunting down and seizing the cars of thousands of Londoners refusing to pay Ulez fines, reports the Mail.
• “No new North Sea oil wells for first time since 1960s” – No new oil wells are to be drilled in the British North Sea this year for the first time since 1964 as Labour’s crackdown on profits and exploration hammers the sector, says the Telegraph.
• “Another exchange with ChatGPT” – On Climate Scepticism, Robin Guenier’s chat with ChatGPT and Grok shows that Miliband’s clean power by 2030 plan won’t cut bills anytime soon and will likely make them more expensive.
• “How BP’s failed green bet left it drowning in debt” – In the Telegraph, Ben Marlow profiles Murray Auchincloss, who’s battling to shrink BP’s huge debt pile that’s been made worse by costly green gambles.
• “Government admits botched climate projects could be greenwashing” – Taxpayers are spending £200 million on a scheme to help some of the world’s biggest companies achieve Net Zero, despite civil servants admitting it could be seen as “greenwashing”, reports the Telegraph.
• “King worked with William on climate summit speech” – The Prince of Wales has worked with the King on his “landmark” speech to the COP climate change conference, says the Telegraph.
• “Cows suddenly collapsing after Bovaer” – Farmers in Denmark have begun feeding Bovaer to cows to stop them farting and save the planet – but they keep falling over, writes Peter Imanuelsen on his Substack.
• “Bill Gates, 893 companies ditch climate initiative… call for ‘return to economic rationality’” – Nearly 900 companies – including dozens of large international corporations – have quietly withdrawn from the Science Based Targets Initiative, reports P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “Michael Mann: I’m not owned! I’m not owned! – as he shrinks into a corn cob” – After 12 years of legal clownery, Michael Mann has finally dropped his defamation lawsuit against the National Review, writes Charles Rotter in WUWT?
• “‘The Left’ try to stifle migration debate, says Harris” – Tánaiste Simon Harris says people “on the Left” often try to “shut down” immigration debates, reiterating that asylum numbers in Ireland are “too high”, according to Gript.
• “Germany is arming itself to the teeth to transform Europe again” – Germany is ditching its “broomstick army” image and splashing €377 billion on building Europe’s biggest military to face down Russia, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “The plan to keep Trump in power” – Insiders believe Trump could overcome a quagmire of legal, constitutional and political issues to remain in office for a third term, says Connor Stringer in the Telegraph.
• “SARS2 – designed in UNC, given wings in Montana, leaked in Wuhan” – On Substack, Jim Haslam argues SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t a Chinese accident but a US-made “bat vaccine gone wrong”.
• “The real reason Britain stopped having babies” – The fertility crisis is a symptom of deeper economic malaise, says Reem Ibrahim in CapX.
• “The Tory peer spending £30 million on a giant monument to God” – The Telegraph reveals that one of the biggest donations in Christian history will make a 169ft-high dream a reality.
• “BBC bosses ‘wanted to sack Top Gear host as line-up was too white’” – Woke BBC bosses reportedly wanted to sack a Top Gear host after deeming the original line-up to be “too white”, reports the Mail.
• “The hard-Left are the new comedy Right” – The Left went so far left they are now a caricature of the hard-Right they hate, says Spaceman Spiff on Substack.
• “Catholic priest, 57, who threatened to bomb mosques is spared jail” – A Catholic priest who posed as a 16 year-old skinhead in neo-Nazi chatrooms and joked about bombing mosques as part of his “sexual fetish” has avoided jail, reports the Mail. 
• “Remember diversity is our strength” – On X, Sergeant Constable Detective Officer Peter Pisspot (aka comedian Andrew Lawrence) gives a satirical update on the Huntingdon incident.

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