News Round-Up

• “Trump warns of ‘very bad future’ for Nato” – Donald Trump has warned of a “very bad future” for Nato if allies refuse his demands to send warships to police the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Mail.
• “Protect our ships and sailors and we will help reopen Strait of Hormuz” – Restoring the free flow of energy from the Gulf demands immediate, coordinated action, says Evangelos Marinakis in the Telegraph.
• “Dubai arrests foreign survivors of Iranian drone strike” – Three foreign survivors of a drone strike in Dubai have been arrested after sending photographs of the explosion to loved ones, claims the Mail.
• “Epping council loses latest bid to stop housing asylum seekers at hotel” – Epping Forest District Council has lost its latest bid to prevent asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel, reports Sky News.
• “The UK’s Christian heritage is rapidly deteriorating. Pausing football games for Ramadan is just another example” – The UK’s Christian heritage is deteriorating rapidly with increasing visibility of Islamic practices and the disappearance of Christian ones, warns Tim Dieppe in Premier Christianity.
• “Britain’s inheritance tax ‘among the harshest in the world’” – Britain is among the toughest countries in the developed world when it comes to taxing money and assets passed from parents to their children, reports GB News.
• “£50 billion construction giant abandons London stock market” – Construction giant CRH has abandoned the London stock market dealing another major blow to the city’s financial status, says the Telegraph.
• “How Britain became permanently poorer” – Britain has become permanently poorer as hopes for better living standards have been squandered by the Iran war and Labour’s policies, explains Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
• “Reform is right to take on the civil service blob” – Reform UK is right to propose a clear out of the civil service, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Entitled Britain needs to hear the truth, not Starmer’s half-witted bleating” – As a country, it’s time to get off the couch and get to the gym, before we have an economic heart attack, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “British aid worker debanked while on humanitarian mission” – A British humanitarian worker has found himself cut off from his bank accounts while providing disaster relief in one of the world’s most financially restricted nations, reports GB News.
• “Mojtaba Khamenei escaped death by seconds, leaked audio reveals” – Iran’s new Supreme Leader survived the Israeli strike that killed his father because he stepped outside the compound for a walk in the garden minutes before the blast, reveals the NY Post.
• “We know where you are! Israel warns new Iranian leader after Trump suggested he was dead” – Israel has warned Mojtaba Khamenei that they know his whereabouts after he vanished at the start of the war, according to the Mail.
• “Marine Le Pen’s rise seems unstoppable” – Can anything stop Marine Le Pen? wonders Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “Lords to vote on plan to let women legally terminate their baby up to birth” – Peers will launch a last-ditch bid this week to block ‘reckless’ plans to let women legally terminate their baby up to birth, reports the Mail.
• “‘Decriminalising’ abortions is a danger to women” – There are all sorts of medical risks in late term abortion which cannot be assessed without gestational age checks, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “NHS, where does all the money go?” – On the Trust the Evidence Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson continue their series tracking NHS spending, focusing on end-of-life care.
• “NHS kicking patients off waiting lists to hit Labour targets” – NHS trusts are increasingly throwing patients off waiting lists in a desperate attempt to reach Labour’s targets, according to the Telegraph.
• “What Covid policy did to doctors who refused to stay silent” – The real lesson of the pandemic is not about a virus, says Joseph Varon for the Brownstone Institute. It is about the courage required to defend the integrity of medicine.
• “Why lockdown may have left young people vulnerable to meningitis” – It’s possible that more young people are becoming seriously ill because of the pandemic-era collapse in vaccine programmes than were ever harmed by Covid, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
• “A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration may not change the childhood vaccine schedule” – In a stunning overreach, a Biden-appointed judge has ruled against Trump’s changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Rogue judge strikes again” – A rogue judge is threatening Robert Kennedy’s vital health reforms, warns Dr Robert Malone on the Malone News Substack.
• “Jewish students shunned by antisemitic housemates” – Jewish students are being shunned by antisemitic housemates, according to a new report by the Union of Jewish Students, says the Telegraph.
• “Paul Ehrlich, scientist who predicted a dire future for humanity in The Population Bomb – obituary” – Paul Ehrlich, who said Western governments should end all food aid and argued for the forced sterilisation of Indian men with three or more children, has died aged 93, according to Telegraph Obituaries.
• “Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away” – Paul Ehrlich may have died, but we have not seen the last of the Malthusian Left, laments Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “No cash for savages” – On the News from Uncibal Substack, Dr David McGrogan warns of the coming politicisation of programmable currency.
• “Australia VPN boom as ‘age verification’ law takes effect” – Australia’s age verification law has driven millions to use VPNs and unregulated sites, notes Rick Findlay in Reclaim The Net.
• “Nanny state vs Linux: show us your ID, kid” – Age-verification laws are targeting operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis, says Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in the Register.
• “Red Ed’s eco-crusade has been dubbed ‘political self-harm’ over oil” – Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been accused of a “monumental act of political self-harm” after rejecting calls to expand North Sea oil production, reports the Mail.
• “Britain faces an energy catastrophe and Ed Miliband doesn’t care” – This is not a world running short of oil, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth in the Telegraph. It is a world running short of the political will to use what it has.
• “Wind industry chief urges Miliband to restart North Sea drilling” – In the Telegraph, the UK’s wind farm trade body calls on Ed Miliband to “take energy out of the culture wars” by increasing North Sea production.
• “Yes, the North Sea could give the UK gas security!” – The North Sea offers a viable path to UK gas security, confirms Catherine McBride on her Substack.
• “‘Supersize’ SUV cars: Sadiq Khan considers introducing new charge to drive in London” – Drivers of supersized SUV cars face potential surcharges in London under plans to reduce road deaths, reports the Standard.
• “Nature-currency as a bear signal” – Banknotes are a little window into a country’s soul, contends Ed West on his Wrong Side of History Substack. And that is precisely why states with weak or fractured identities tend to feature animals and natural objects.
• “The children’s book author vilified by trans activists” – In the Telegraph, George Chesterton interviews children’s author Rachel Rooney, who made the mistake of speaking up for women and children’s rights in an industry dominated by rigid gender ideology.
• “The truth about ‘progressives’ like Bob Vylan” – Bob Vylan has subscribed to every lazy orthodoxy of the dinner-party Left despite claiming hyper-progressive status, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “First robot arrested” – A humanoid robot has been arrested by police after terrifying an elderly woman in China, reports the Mail.
• “Seven pubs close for every vape shop opened in past decade” – Seven pubs have closed for every new vape shop that has opened in the last 10 years, according to new research from the Centre for Social Justice, says the Telegraph.
• “It’s going to be weaponised to shut down perfectly legitimate criticism of Islam” – On GB News, Toby warns how the definition of ‘Anti-Muslim Hostility’ will be used to restrict speech in Britain further than the law allows.

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