News Round-Up

• “John Simpson leads BBC stars mocking Trump for threatening to sue” – John Simpson has led a chorus of BBC stars who have mocked Trump’s threat to sue the corporation for doctoring a video of the US President, reports the Mail.
• “John Simpson shows all that is wrong with the BBC” – In the Telegraph, Jake Wallis Simons takes on John Simpson and the Beeb, exposing a broadcaster so entwined in Left-wing bias it can’t see criticism as anything but a political attack.
• “Will ‘deluded and loathed’ BBC deputy be next boss to be swept away?” – Pressure is mounting on Deputy Director of News Jonathan Munro to follow his BBC colleagues out of the door as part of a complete clear out, reports the Mail.
• “Tim Davie launches fightback against BBC’s ‘enemies’” – Tim Davie has blamed “enemies” of the BBC for stoking the bias scandal engulfing the corporation, declaring the broadcaster “the very best of society”, says the Telegraph. 
• “Can Trump actually sue the BBC for $1 billion?” – Legal experts say the President’s lawsuit over the spliced Panorama edit, expected to be filed in Florida, “potentially means very big money”, according to the Times.
• “How mutinous journalists turned on BBC board” – BBC staff have turned on their own board in a furious showdown over claims of a Right-wing coup, reports Anita Singh in the Telegraph.
• “This is not a Right-wing coup. The British Brainwashing Corporation is reaping what it sowed” – It is journalistic malpractice that’s to blame for the BBC’s current woes, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “The real reason centrists are crying over the BBC crisis” – The centrist elite love the Beeb not because it stands up for truth, but because it shares all their high-status opinions, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “How I was cancelled by the BBC for telling the truth about immigration” – In the Telegraph, Harriet Sergeant reveals how the BBC blacklisted her after she dared link rising homelessness to immigration.
• “The BBC has been taken over by middle-class brats” – The BBC’s problem is the same as everybody else’s: a critical mass of progressivism among the uni-educated middle class, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Nothing shows BBC bias like its gushing over men in women’s sport” – Despite the clamour for fairness in female competition, the BBC has nailed its colours to the mast in support of trans athletes, says Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “Why the BBC keeps getting it wrong” – The double-decapitating explosion over BBC bias is a gift for commentators, but much of the commentary misses a key central point, writes Anthony Browne in the Spectator.
• “The BBC licence fee is now a tax on stupidity” – In TCW, Sean Walsh slams the BBC for its shameless bias and fakery, urging mass non-payment of the licence fee as the only way to force reform.
• “Reform pulls out of BBC documentary over bias scandal” – Reform has ordered its members to boycott a BBC documentary in the wake of the bias scandal, according to the Telegraph.
• “BBC accused of ‘ignoring’ pro-trans bias in sports stories” – The BBC has been accused of “ignoring” warnings from female members of their staff about a “pro-trans bias in their sports stories”, reports the Mail.
• “Number of benefits claimants who never have to work hits four million for first time” – The number of people claiming universal credit in Britain who are not required to work has risen by more than 39% in a year, says the Hereford Times.
• “Britain is broke – yet public sector workers are getting the biggest pay rises” – Those with the “broadest shoulders” are already taking a hammering from Rachel Reeves, argues Tim Wallace in the Telegraph. They can’t take any more.
• “Starmer tees up two-child benefit cap axe at Budget” – Keir Starmer has teed up the full scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, reassuring Labour MPs “you won’t have to wait much longer”, reports the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer prepares to defend leadership from ‘feral’ Labour MPs” – Allies of the PM have told the Times that he will not resign in the event of an attempt to remove him and will contest a leadership contest triggered by his MPs.
• “‘Ringleader’ of Rotherham abuse ring has sentence extended for rape” – The predatory ringleader of a Rotherham sex abuse gang jailed for subjecting a girl to a “campaign of violent rape” has been given a further three-year sentence after he was found guilty of attacking another vulnerable teenager in the town, reports the Mail.
• “Eritrean asylum seeker attacked police officers at migrant hotel” – An Eritrean asylum seeker who attacked three police officers at a migrant hotel before he then kicked off in court has been jailed and is expected to be deported, according to the Mail.
• “Green deputy leader complains about asylum seekers in her local area” – Green deputy leader Rachel Millward is leading opposition to the housing of 600 asylum seekers in her local area – despite her party’s vow to “welcome” migrants, reports the Mail.
• “Lenin quoted during council vote to formally label migrant hotel protesters ‘far-Right’” – A Lib Dem-led council has prompted fury after formally labelling protesters outside asylum seeker hotels “far-Right racists”, says the Mail.
• “Prevent ‘no longer keeping country safe’” – An independent review has found that the UK’s Prevent counter-terrorism strategy “is no longer keeping the country safe” and needs a “radical overhaul”, according to Sky News.
• “The truth about ‘UK-born’ criminals” – We need to stop pretending that all cultures are equal, says Daniel Hannan in the Spectator.
• “Jenrick confronts ‘tool thieves’ at car boot sale” – Robert Jenrick was subjected to a torrent of abuse at a West London car boot sale after challenging sellers over fears they were offering stolen tools for sale, reports the Mail.
• “Bob Vylan rapper interviewed by police over ‘death to the IDF’ chants” – Police say they have interviewed a man over comments made during punk-rap duo Bob Vylan’s set at Glastonbury, according to Sky News.
• “Another day in Starmer’s socialist paradise: 1,000 jobs a day are lost” – More than 180,000 people have been left on the workplace scrapheap in the UK in the past year, with 64,000 of those coming in the last two months, reports the Mail.
• “Zack Polanski has just shown why no sane person will be voting Green” – If this gurning oddball thinks he can persuade Putin to voluntarily ditch all Russia’s nuclear weapons, he’s even more deluded than we thought, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Former heads of the British Army attack Keir Starmer on human rights law” – Nine four-star generals have warned Keir Starmer that the effectiveness of British forces is being undermined by human rights “lawfare”, according to the Express.
• “How lawfare is killing the SAS” – In the Spectator, Mary Wakefield interviews ex-SAS Regimental Sergeant Major George Simm about how endless legal battles are crippling Britain’s elite forces, risking national security and scaring off anyone thinking of signing up.
• “The ECHR is destroying British army morale” – When we take decisions about the armed forces, it is our duty to remember what we ask of them and the price they might have to pay, says Eliot Wilson in the Spectator.
• “The quiet clause that pays Gerry Adams and silences the rest” – Labour’s Troubles Bill shields soldiers with legal loopholes and pays Gerry Adams tens of thousands – while leaving 400 former internees empty-handed, according to the Rationals Substack.
• “The sinister attempts to tarnish Churchill’s legacy” – The aim of Right-wing critics of Churchill is not simply to destroy his reputation, but through his denigration to create the intellectual space for their other pernicious ideas to flourish, warns Andrew Roberts in the Spectator.
• “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero quest has become a national security threat” – Detecting ‘kill switches’ on electric Chinese buses flooding Europe has massive ramifications for Labour’s green energy drive, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Outrage as rainforest is cleared of 100,000 trees for climate summit” – Both climate activists and sceptics have slammed the destruction of miles of the Amazon rainforest to build a road for COP30, reports the Mail.
• “Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe” – A new Oxford University study reveals how different nations’ laws and regulations are aligning with green climate goals. 
• “The curious case of the missing data” – In WUWT?, Ivor Williams questions the idea that we can know 19th Century global temperatures to eight decimal places.
• “Richard D North, 1970s environmental journalist who later turned against green ‘scaremongers’” – Read the Telegraph’s obituary of environmental journalist Richard D. North, who has died aged 79 and who argued that the BBC was run by “green soft-Left liberals”.
• “Charlie Kirk event stormed by Left-wing protesters” – A Charlie Kirk event at a university campus descended into chaos on Monday after it was stormed by Left-wing protesters, according to Newsweek.
• “Welcome back to Weimar” – In an atomised world, Right and Left are turning to extremes, warns Rod Dreher in the Critic.
• “Chinese official threatens to behead Japanese PM over Taiwan row” – A Chinese diplomat has threatened to behead the Japanese PM after she suggested Japan could become involved in a war over Taiwan, according to Fox News.
• “How Africa is becoming a hotbed of terrorism” – Isolated insurgencies in remote deserts and jungles have turned into full-blown wars of terror, turning several regions into some of the deadliest battlegrounds in the world, reports Kevin Adjei-Darko in the Mail.
• “The pandemic that broke our faith in modelling” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker reviews David Zweig’s book on the pandemic, An Abundance of Caution.
• “Trans mum in legal battle after expert’s online comments about breastfeeding” – A transgender ‘mum’ who transitioned from male to female and underwent medical treatment to breastfeed his newborn son is suing a breastfeeding expert who publicly dismissed his enthusiasm for breastfeeding as a “delusional queer theory take”, reports the Mail.
• “‘Ethical’ investing is a kind of corporate cancel culture” – ESG tries to boil down complex issues into simple numerical scores, and then sanction those companies at the lower end, writes Ross Clark in the Times.
• “Witness in Prince Harry case against Mail publisher says his confession was false” – A private investigator central to the legal action by the Duke of Sussex and others against the Daily Mail has claimed his signature on an earlier witness statement was a “forgery”, reports the Guardian.
• “Kim Kardashian deletes photos with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle” – Images of Harry and Meghan taken at Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday bash have mysteriously vanished from Kim Kardashian’s Instagram, says the Mail.
• “My grateful thanks to the Free Speech Union for their ongoing support” – Katie Hopkins reveals that Devon and Cornwall Police have decided to take no further action against her, thanks to the legal support of the Free Speech Union.

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