News Round-Up

• “Labour MPs fear they were watched by McSweeney think tank” – Left-wing Labour MPs have accused Keir Starmer’s top aide of using a think tank to monitor and control them in what they call a fundamental breach of trust, reports the Telegraph.
• “I was naive over smears of Sunday Times journalists” – Labour Together’s former boss and ex-minister Josh Simons says he was “naive” for commissioning lobbyists to investigate the backgrounds of two Sunday Times journalists, according to the Sunday Times.
• “Labour MP made £30,000 from housing scheme denounced by his own party” – A Labour MP has made nearly £30,000 from a taxpayer-funded housing scheme that his own party once denounced as a lucrative money-spinner, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour draws up equality law revamp that ‘will impose socialism’ on Britain” – Labour has drawn up plans to overhaul equality laws that the Tories say will impose socialism across Britain, according to the Telegraph.
• “How the SNP spends billions ‘to buy loyalty from charities’” – The SNP has spent billions in grants to charities in a way that buys their loyalty and silences criticism on policies around gender, alcohol, drugs and sexual violence, reveals Daniel Sanderson in the Sunday Times.
• “Don’t laugh at the Green Party’s chaos. Be frightened by their sinister agenda” – The chaos engulfing the Green Party should not be laughed at because their underlying ideology remains deeply sinister, warns Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “NHS rations hospital appointments to cut waiting list” – The NHS has started rationing hospital appointments by telling GPs to divert one in four referrals in a bid to cut waiting lists, reports the Telegraph.
• “As many as 70 Brits detained in UAE over Iran war images” – Up to 70 UK citizens have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for taking photos and videos of Iranian attacks, says Sky News.
• “RAF gunners awarded ‘ace’ status for shooting down Iranian drones” – RAF Regiment gunners have been awarded “ace” status for the first time after shooting down Iranian drones in the Middle East, reports GB News.
• “Pentagon ‘prepares for major escalation in Iran War’” – The Pentagon is preparing for a major escalation in the Iran war involving ground operations that could last several weeks as US Marines arrive in the Middle East, according to the Mail.
• “One in eight parents reports their child is disabled” – One in eight parents now reports that their child has a disability, with behavioural issues apparently helping drive up Britain’s benefits bill, says the Telegraph.
• “Inside the euthanasia case that broke the world’s heart” – A young Spanish woman left paralysed and in constant pain after a gang rape has chosen euthanasia, a decision that has devastated her friends and family, reports Eliana Silver in the Mail.
• “Lab leaker reaction to the Baric article” – Lab leak proponents have hit back hard at a new article on Ralph Baric, with one calling the author a scientific illiterate and brazen liar, says Jim Haslam on Substack.
• “Cut tax on gas and electricity and drill for oil” – Kemi Badenoch has called for scrapping taxes on gas and electricity bills while allowing more North Sea oil and gas drilling, reports the Times.
• “Badenoch pledges £200 off energy bills by drilling for North Sea oil” – Kemi Badenoch has pledged to cut £200 from household energy bills by ramping up North Sea oil and gas drilling, says the Telegraph. 
• “Electric car charging points hit by 38,000% surge in energy bills” – Electric car charging points have seen energy bills surge by as much as 38,000%, with one site jumping from £87 to over £33,000 a year, reports the Telegraph.
• “New York retreating on its Climate Act” – New York has started retreating from its ambitious Climate Act after warnings of unlivable costs, says CFACT.
• “German science blog accuses PIK Climate Institute of hallucinating climate tipping points” – A German science blog has accused the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research of hallucinating climate tipping points from noisy data, writes P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
• “Voila! – part 2” – The so-called ‘cost of carbon’ used to justify climate policies has turned out to be little more than a made-up number, says Mark Hodgson on Cliscep.
• “The impact of corporate decisions on energy reliability” – Corporate decisions to embrace aggressive green policies have damaged energy reliability, with companies now learning the hard way that feeding the crocodiles eventually leads to bites, writes Bill Ponton in the American Thinker.
• “Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes” – Lightning bolts on Jupiter have been found to pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes according to new data from NASA’s Juno probe, according to EurekAlert.
• “Council votes against motion to safeguard women’s single-sex spaces despite Supreme Court ruling” – Darlington Borough Council has voted against a motion to protect women’s single-sex spaces despite a recent Supreme Court ruling on biological sex, reports GB News.
• “Civil servants back down on census gender questions” – Civil servants have backed down on plans to quiz people about transgender identity in the next census after the last round produced wildly unreliable and inflated statistics, says the Mail.
• “Andrew Garfield would rather be on the right side of Hollywood than history” – Actor Andrew Garfield would rather stay on the ‘right side’ of Hollywood than defend JK Rowling over her gender-critical views, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “The anti-woke American chicken chain that’s coming to a UK high street near you” – An anti-woke American chicken chain has drawn huge queues at its first UK opening, with many seeing it as a sign that cancel culture is finally fading, says Fred Kelly in the Mail.
• “What happened in Vegas” – Banksy has quietly celebrated 20 years of marriage after a $100 Vegas chapel wedding and now lives as a middle-class church-goer tending his allotment and chickens in rural Somerset, according to James Fielding in the Mail.
• “Lemmings…” – An AI-mash up on X shows a pied piper leading the useful idiots of the Left off a cliff.

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