News Round-Up

• “Starmer must condemn Trump over Venezuela, say Labour MPs” – The Prime Minister has been urged by Labour MPs to “stand up to gangster politics” after revealing he was kept in the dark about the US strikes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Squirming Keir Starmer refuses to say whether he backs Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro” – Keir Starmer has declined to say whether he backs Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro as questions over legality have mounted, says the Mail.
• “How Venezuela’s dictator ended up in a US helicopter bound for New York” – The US has carried out a daring raid that has put Nicolás Maduro in custody and flown him to New York, reports the Telegraph.
• “The rise and fall of Maduro – how Venezuela’s President lost control” – US forces have seized Nicolás Maduro in one fell swoop as Venezuela’s grip on power has unravelled, says the Times.
• “What the capture of Maduro means for China and Russia” – With the capture of Maduro shaking China and Russia’s footholds in Latin America, the Telegraph‘s Adrian Blomfield sets out the implications.
• “Why China and oil are behind Trump’s real motivation for capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro” – The Mail‘s Mark Almond argues Trump’s assault on Venezuela is a show of raw US power driven by oil and China.
• “Trump’s gunboat diplomacy is a betrayal of populism” – Trump’s revival of gunboat diplomacy imperils populism’s credibility, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Entirely irrelevant Eurotards assure the world they are ‘closely monitoring the situation’ after the US strikes Venezuela and captures President Nicolás Maduro” – European officials have issued stock statements as the US has bombed Venezuela and captured Maduro, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Iran’s supreme leader calls for talks with demonstrators” – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for talks with demonstrators while warning against unrest, according to the Telegraph.
• “Why has the BBC ignored the Iranian uprisings?” – Iran’s latest uprising has spread nationwide while the BBC has given it minimal coverage, says Mary Dejevsky in Spiked.
• “The keffiyeh crew’s curious silence on Iran” – Western activists who spent the last two years screaming about Gaza have curiously elected to stay quiet when Iran’s oppressed population rises up, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Starmer’s silence on Iran is shocking” – In the Telegraph, Priti Patel argues the Labour Party’s neglect of Britain’s defence and national security when it comes to Iran is unacceptable.
• “Britain tumbles down Nato rankings despite Starmer’s spending pledge” – Britain has slid down Nato defence-spending rankings despite Labour’s pledge to spend more, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Labour Left’s long love affair with basket-case communists leaves Starmer squirming” – Sir Keir Starmer’s initial squirming reaction to the US strike on Venezuela is rooted in the long love affair the Left has enjoyed with the basket-case communist country, says the Mail‘s Glen Owen.
• “Mass migration ‘storing up future problems’, warns former border tsar” – Mass migration has been used to paper over economic issues in Britain and is “storing up longer-run problems”, the UK’s former border tsar Prof Alan Manning has admitted, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Fuad Awale case shows what’s wrong with the ECHR” – Could there be any clearer illustration of what is wrong with the ECHR than the outrageous case of Fuad Awale, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “ECHR ‘stops prisons keeping extremists under control’” – Jonathan Hall KC, the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has warned that ECHR judgments have made it harder to keep extremist inmates under control, reports the Telegraph.
• “The radical Reform plan to propel Nigel Farage into No 10” – Reform has drawn up an insurgent blueprint aimed at turning Nigel Farage into a convincing Prime-Minister-in-waiting, according to the Telegraph.
• “We won’t forgive Labour’s continuing embrace of trans dogma” – Campaigners have vowed not to forgive Labour as Ministers have hesitated to enforce sex-based rights law, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Katharine Birbalsingh: ‘Labour don’t want to see deprived children succeed’” – Britain’s ‘strictest headmistress’ has warned that victim culture is destroying the life chances of the country’s poorest pupils, notes the Telegraph.
• “Eighteen-year-olds urged to sign up as magistrates” – David Lammy has urged 18 year-olds to become magistrates as Ministers have sought to cut the court backlog, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tories demand probe into finances of No 10 spin doctor who devised plan to scrap lobby briefings” – The Conservatives have demanded an inquiry after claiming that the financial affairs of Tim Allan, the No 10 Director of Communications, posed a conflict of interest risk, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hundreds of British buses have Chinese ‘kill switch’” – Hundreds of British buses have been fitted with Chinese-connected systems that could be vulnerable to remote interference, says the Telegraph.
• “Maccabi fans ban: Police consulted mosques that hosted ‘antisemitic’ preachers” – West Midlands Police consulted mosques that had hosted antisemitic preachers before banning Israeli fans from an Aston Villa football match, the Telegraph reveals.
• “Hundreds of ‘Mickey Mouse’ courses offered by UK universities” – British universities have offered nearly 800 ‘Mickey Mouse’ courses since 2022, including bushcraft and a Net Zero bootcamp, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour councils that boycott Israeli goods face legal action” – Labour councils face legal action unless they stop boycotting Israeli businesses, the Communities Secretary Steve Reed has warned, according to the Telegraph.
• “Here endeth the ‘Superflu’” – The 2025 ‘superflu’ is dropping like a stone, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson in Trust the Evidence.
• “2.7 million Spanish children and teenagers. Zero Covid deaths.” – In Unreported Truths, Alex Berenson highlights a Spanish dataset that shows Covid killed zero children, implying mRNA shots should never have been approved for them.
• “Mix bleach with water to survive a national blackout: Sir Chris Whitty’s bizarre survival tips” – In the event of a national blackout, Brits will be told to grab the bleach from underneath the kitchen sink to mix with dirty water and open a low alcohol beer, reports the Mail.
• “Why are hybrids so dangerous? Scientists blame high mileage, quiet engines and concentrated urban use for death rates that are three times higher than petrol cars” – The Mail looks behind new figures that show hybrid cars have been linked to pedestrian deaths at rates far higher than petrol vehicles.
• “Fury as EV drivers face ‘double tax’ when abroad thanks to new Labour scheme” – Drivers of electric vehicles will be taxed twice when driving abroad because of Labour’s new pay per mile scheme, Ministers have admitted, reports the Mail.
• “Labour’s Net Zero ministers fly six times around the world” – Ed Miliband and his Net Zero ministers have flown more than six times around the world since taking office, official figures reveal, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband faces High Court battle over one of UK’s largest solar farms as residents warn it will ‘destroy their countryside’” – Ed Miliband faces a High Court battle over a huge solar-farm scheme as residents have warned it will blight the countryside, the Mail reports.
• “Miliband’s Net Zero kamikaze mission” – Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive is a kamikaze mission, says Roger J. Arthur in TCW.
• “Climate Policies Make California Unaffordable, LAist, Not Climate Change” – California’s cost-of-living crisis is down to climate policies, not climate warming, says Linnea Lueken in ClimateRealism.
• “Museums hide naked sculptures because they ‘must not be seen by men’” – Museums have kept certain nude artefacts out of sight to comply with gender taboos linked to African traditions, reports the Telegraph.
• “The National Trust should appreciate its eccentric volunteers” – If the National Trust’s bosses can’t manage to treat its volunteers with respect, are they in the right job, asks Chas Newkey-Burden in the Spectator.
• “Reparations as Political Performance” – Lipton Matthews in Aporia says Africa’s reparations demands to Britain are undermined by the blind eye its leaders are turning to China’s involvement in African slavery.
• “Taxpayers fund festival that won’t let white people run it” – Taxpayers are funding a music festival that bans white people from its leadership, the Telegraph reveals.
• “Posted by President Trump” – Guido Fawkes was one of many who reposted Trump’s video of US helicopters flying over Caracas as bombs exploded on the ground with ‘Fortunate Son’ by Credence Clearwater Revival as the soundtrack.

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