News Round-Up

• “Starmer has delighted our enemies, disheartened our friends and debased our nation” – Keir Starmer has left Britain looking weak on the world stage, argues Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour minister mocks Trump as ‘special relationship’ is frayed by Iran war” – Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer have held crisis talks amid a rift unseen in decades sparked by the war with Iran, according to the Mail. But Yvette Cooper, the Foreign Secretary, has openly mocked the President.
• “Trump’s $100 billion war backfires” – Donald Trump’s massive spending on the Iran war has failed to lift his popularity at home, says Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
• “Khamenei joins Saddam in Hell, but Iran 2026 is not Iraq 2003” – The US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic will not last long, promises Niall Ferguson on his Substack.
• “IRGC is a threat in our streets – here’s how Britain can defend its citizens” – Iran’s IRGC has become a direct threat on British soil, warns Lord Walney in the Sun.
• “Kemi Badenoch slams ‘clueless’ idiots mourning death of the Ayatollah” – Kemi Badenoch has called out the “clueless” people mourning the Ayatollah and suggested they leave Britain, reports the Sun.
• “Islamist hate preachers set to be stopped from entering Britain under new plans” – Foreign Islamist hate preachers have been lined up for entry bans as part of a fresh crackdown on extremism, says the Sun.
• “Universities that fail to halt extremism face closure” – Universities have been warned they could face closure if they don’t stamp out extremism and hate speech, according to the Telegraph. Does this mean the Greens will be banned from campuses?
• “How Starmer is failing Britain’s Armed Forces” – A war inside the corridors of Whitehall threatens to derail plans to rebuild the military, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
• “Ayatollah Khamenei’s son owns £50 million luxury apartments overlooking Israeli embassy in London” – The son of Iran’s recently killed dictator owns two luxury apartments overlooking the Israeli embassy in London, with experts warning of a “serious security breach”, reports the Mail.
• “China ‘spy’ case linked to think tank where suspect met ministers” – One of the Foreign Secretary’s first public engagements was at Asia House where David Taylor, now the subject of a police investigation for being a Chinese spy, is Director of Policy, reveals the Sunday Times.
• “Shabana Mahmood’s truths must be heard as the soft Left calls us all racists” – On the thorny issue of migration, the Left and Right are living in totally different ideological worlds, says Robert Colvile in the Sunday Times.
• “Conspiracy theorists and an ex-football hooligan: meet the Your Party Politburo” – The Left has always been fractured, says Sabrina Miller in the Telegraph. But Your Party – much like its politics – appears to have taken things to the extreme.
• “The Red-Green alliance: how the British Left organises” – On YouTube, Charlotte Gill maps the Red-Green alliance in British politics: a growing alignment between Green Party figures, socialist MPs, activist networks and campaign groups.
• “‘Dine-and-dashers’ threaten staff and refuse to pay for bill – but police tell restaurant to ‘deal with it themselves’” – A group of dine-and-dashers refused to pay their £146 bill and threatened staff – but police have told the restaurant they must “deal with it themselves” because it is a civil matter, says the Mail.
• “Police officer who failed to enter home despite hearing 50 loud thuds inside as man murdered his wife with skateboard escapes with a written warning” – A police officer has walked away with a written warning after not intervening during a fatal attack, reveals the Mail.
• “Dozens of police officers and civilian staff who faked activity on keyboards while working from home have been dismissed in the past three years” – Dozens of police and staff have lost their jobs for pretending to work by jiggling keyboards at home, says the Mail.
• “Police investigating the explosion at US embassy in Oslo say it could have been a terror attack” – An explosion at the US embassy in Oslo has prompted a terror attack investigation, according to the Mail.
• “America’s digital fortress is finally being built” – President Trump’s latest cyber strategy has moved beyond defence to include real offensive tools, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
• “Final insight into the IgG4 farce” – Most health scares around the experimental mRNA Covid vaccines have failed to materialise beyond early injuries, writes Brian Mowrey on his Unglossed Substack.
• “COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ mRNA and spike protein invade the human placenta and fetal cells – even in mothers vaccinated before pregnancy” – A new study has identified spike protein and vaccine-derived mRNA within human placental tissues following COVID-19 vaccination and/or infection, reveals Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
• “Clinical trial fails to address spike protein in Long Covid” – A recent clinical trial has overlooked the potential role of spike protein in Long Covid, suggests Dr Peter A. McCullough on the Focal Points Substack.
• “Equipoise, uncertainty and the gender medicine dilemma – part 4” – Adolescent gender care has raced ahead of the evidence, leaving long-term outcomes unclear, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson on theTTE Substack. Tracking the GIDS cohort properly could finally show what actually happened.
• “Autism has become ‘glamorised’ and diagnosis ‘desirable’ as definition now includes symptoms once considered social awkwardness” – A leading expert has warned that autism has turned into something almost trendy with broader definitions pulling in everyday traits, reports the Mail.
• “Almost 1.4 million UK homes facing instant £600-plus rise in heating oil costs” – Nearly 1.4 million off-grid homes have seen heating oil prices soar by £600+ with suppliers accused of exploiting the Iran crisis, says the Mail.
• “Watch and weep as your pension goes up in green smoke” – The Pensions Schemes Bill has given ministers power to force green agendas on fund managers at savers’ expense, warns Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.
• “Net Zero is the Road to Serfdom” – Net Zero virtue signalling is jacking up your energy bills and hammering the economy, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Is there a way to rationalise the car tax?” – The car tax regime penalises older vehicles unfairly and could use a rethink, suggests Jit on Cliscep.
• “New York ‘climate’ policy approaching the cliff” – New York has over-committed to unachievable climate targets and is heading straight for a brick wall, warns Francis Menton on his Manhattan Contrarian blog.
• “Princess Eugenie steps down from anti-slavery charity” – An anti-slavery charity has scrubbed Princess Eugenie’s name from its website – after millions of emails laid bare her father’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, reports the Mail.
• “Museum half covers up slave trader portrait to ‘reclaim history’” – A museum has half-hidden a portrait of a slave trader with Madras cloth, a material exported to the Caribbean during the colonial period, to “reclaim Caribbean history”, says the Telegraph.
• “Does anyone want to run the Today programme any more?” – The BBC is finding it tough to attract anyone to edit the flagship Today programme, reveals Rosamund Urwin in the Sunday Times.
• “Theatre tells triggered MacBeth audience members to sniff a perfumed tissue to deal with play’s ‘busy or noisy’ environment” – A theatre has handed out scented tissues to help sensitive Macbeth viewers cope with the show’s “occasional loud noises and changing lights”, reports the Mail.
• “How do I gaslight thee? Let me count the ways” – Gaslighting has become a favourite tactic across politics and culture these days, observes Dr Roger Watson in the Conservative Woman.
• “Beware Labour’s fight to ban Right-wing dogs” – Labour’s push for new dog welfare rules is bonkers and risks banning perfectly fine breeds, warns Jeremy Clarkson in the Sunday Times.
• “Final answer: A) Strike Iran” – On X, an AI mash-up of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has Trump phoning Benjamin Netanyahu to ask what someone should do if they want to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Bomb Iran, he says.

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