News Round-Up

• “Rachel Reeves to announce milkshake tax” – According to the Telegraph, the upcoming budget is to end the exemption that milk-based drinks enjoy from taxes on sugary beverages.
• “Asylum seekers who arrive in UK illegaally face 20-year wait” – Asylum seekers who enter the UK illegally will have a 20-year wait under new rules being brought forward by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, the Telegraph reports.
• “Refugees will lose automatic right to bring families to Britain” – Refugees will also be barred from bringing their families to the UK, unless they can show they can pay for their upkeep without claiming benefits, says the Telegraph.
• “Thousands protest plan to house 600 male asylum seekers in army camp” – Locals in Crowborough, East Sussex, were heard to shout “Starmer out” as they protested plans to house asylum seekers in an army camp on the edge of the town, the Mail reports.
• “Hundreds protest against Labour plans to house migrants in barracks” – Crowborough community groups have raised £15,000 for legal action against the camp, according to the Telegraph.
• “Your Party in fresh trans row” – Iqbal Mohamed raised ire of pro-trans co-founder Zarah Sultana by saying “hard-won rights of biological women must not be taken away”, the Telegraph says.
• “BBC says Trump has no case as misleading Panorama did not air in US” – BBC lawyers say that Donald Trump will not be able to sue the corporation, according to the Times, because the doctored video did not air in the US.
• “Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee” – The Reform Party has declared the BBC’s funding model to be “completely unacceptable”, the Telegraph says, and vows to amend the Royal Charter.
• “Trump vs the BBC is the battle royale of our tasteless culture war” – “The real issue of our time is not partiality,” says the Telegraph’s Tim Stanley of the BBC, “but a decline in quality.”
• “It’s time to get rid of this Blairite abomination” – Amor Johal calls time on our Supreme Court. It is “the symbol of an undemocratic culture that views judicial authority as superior to elected Parliament”, he writes in the Telegraph.
• “An independent Bank of England isn’t working” – “The reality is that the Bank appears to have forgotten its original purpose,” says Mani Basharzad in the Spectator. “What, then, is the point of independence at all?”
• “I saw the dark heart of lawless Britain at a west London car boot sale” – “What was once a family tradition has become a carnival of criminality,” says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph after visiting a car boot sale in Hounslow, where stolen tools were on display.
• “Once again, the nanny state is trying to suck all the fun out of life” – The Telegraph bemoans the ever-growing nanny state, as Heineken is forced to water down its beer.
• “‘I was a radical feminist. Now I devote my life to my husband and children’” – The Telegraph meets Ekaterina Andersen, an author of a radical feminist group who is a leading light in the ‘tradwife’ trend.
• “Mexican anti-cartel Gen Z rebellion reaches presidential palace” – Thousands of protesters in Mexico City have demonstrated against Claudia Sheinbaum’s handling of violent crime, the Telegraph reports.
• “US aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean to confront Maduro” – According to the Telegraph, the US has deployed a strike group close to Venezuela to “counter narco-terrorism in defence of the homeland”.
• “The book on vaccine harm that every health professional should read” – In the Conservative Woman, Neil Sherry recommends The Needle’s Secret by Marc Girardot, a book on vaccination and what it does to the body.
• “Punching above their weight” – Fiona McAnena explains in the Critic how women got men out of Olympic female sport.
• “No more Morning Glory” – In the New Conservative, Roger Watson pays tribute to Mike Graham who was recently sacked from TalkTV over a social media post.
• “Civil Service employing at least 500 diversity officers” – At least 500 civil servants are employed across Government to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion policies, according to the Telegraph.
• “Disney axes ‘diversity’ and ‘DEI’ from financial report, company event for first time in years” – A leaked Disney email about a recent employee event reportedly revealed the company has quietly reworked its approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Breitbart reports.
• “The day is coming where voters realise Britain is no longer a rich country” – “When the penny finally drops, their first reaction will be to direct their fury at those in power,” says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “All the decent people” – “The worldview of the limited is limited,” writes Spaceman Spiff in Postcards from the Abyss, reflecting on the puzzlement Sydney Sweeney caused her interviewer when she chose not to comment on her jeans ad.
• “Top MIT scientist blasts ‘climate hysteria’, saying it’s about money” –  “The exact causes of global warming remain unclear,” experts have told the Mail. And “the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science”.
• “Climate change fears could fuel drug use, claims health watchdog” – The UK Health Security Agency has warned that Britons are at risk of being gripped by “eco-fear, eco-anger and eco-grief”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Paris Climate Accord’s demise – James Hansen was right” – The Paris Climate Agreement turns ten this month, but, writes Robert L. Bradley Jr on WUWT?, the outcome – in which 195 countries pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve a global temperature outcome – is in serious peril. 
• “New York at the green energy wall – What is the exit strategy?” – Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian, tells of how New York’s utopian Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act mandating 70% of electricity from renewable sources has hit the buffers.
• “The BBC has been completely biased on this issue” – Watch Connie Shaw of the Free Speech Union discuss the BBC’s bias on trans issues on Free Speech Nation on GB News.

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