News Round-Up

• “Indian man charged with driving into pedestrians in Derby on partner visa” – An Indian man who drove a car into pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday night had arrived in the UK on a student partner visa set to expire in six months, reports the Times.
• “Angela Rayner’s bid to topple Keir Starmer could be delayed for years” – Angela Rayner’s hopes of challenging Keir Starmer may be put on hold for years while a tax probe into her unpaid £40,000 stamp duty drags on, according to the Mail.
• “If we slash the benefits bill, we can afford to keep this pension pledge” – Nigel Farage reckons slashing the benefits bill would more than cover keeping the state pension triple lock, says the Mail.
• “British Steel fiasco shows Labour is making things up as it goes along” – Nationalisation of British Steel is unavoidable only because all chances to save the industry have been squandered, laments Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “NHS boss warns junior doctors strike every month for rest of year” – The NHS Chief Executive has warned that junior doctors are likely to strike every month for the rest of the year, reports the Mail.
• “Pupils face chaos this year as teachers threaten strikes over pay” – School pupils could face major disruption again this year as the NASUWT union threatens mass strikes over pay and funding, says the Mail.
• “Labour to unleash 12,000 shoplifters on the streets” – Up to 12,000 of Britain’s most prolific shoplifters will avoid jail under Labour laws scrapping most prison sentences of under one year, reports the Telegraph.
• “The truth about Sadiq Khan’s lawless London” – Sadiq Khan has been accused of living in denial about lawless London after urging diplomats to challenge “disinformation” about crime in the capital, says the Mail.
• “Airey Neave’s daughter attacks Starmer’s Troubles bill” – The family of Airey Neave, the murdered Conservative MP, have attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s Northern Ireland Troubles bill for leaving former British soldiers open to “bloody unfair” prosecution, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s ‘summit’ is nothing but a coup” – In the Mail, Frank Furedi describes Keir Starmer’s upcoming summit as little more than a Remainer coup against Brexit.
• “The stupid lies of Keir Starmer” – Keir Starmer repeatedly tells easily disproven lies while presenting himself as a decent, evidence-based politician, fumes Frank Haviland on his Substack.
• “Four-hour passport queues are a punishment for Brexit from the EU” – Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary says long passport queues are the EU’s deliberate payback for Brexit, according to the Mail.
• “Trump’s mockery of Starmer shows PM ‘isn’t respected on the world stage’” – Robert Jenrick says Trump’s mocking impersonation of Keir Starmer proves the PM is not taken seriously on the world stage, according to the Mail.
• “Tony Blair is right” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson finds more common ground with Tony Blair, agreeing that Britain cannot pretend a war with Iran is not also its own.
• “The Brit flight attendant who posted an airport drone attack photo and the London tourist who pictured an airstrike both now facing up to two years in UAE jail” – At least three Britons now face up to two years in a UAE jail for “cyber crimes” after sharing photos or videos of drone and missile strikes, reports the Mail.
• “The current oil crisis is nothing like 1973. Iran is not Opec” – The current oil crisis triggered by the Iran war bears little resemblance to 1973 because Iran lacks Opec’s power to control global supply, explains Charlie Brown in the Telegraph.
• “The Iran War is going poorly” – Despite some tactical successes, the strategic goals of the Iran war remain far from achieved, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “How Trump’s ‘toxic’ Iran war broke the European Right” – Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran war has caused a major split in the European Right, with former admirers now turning against him, notes James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “Trump is a sinner but by disarming Iran he could be doing the Lord’s work” – Christianity accepts it’s not always wrong to fight, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Iran shoots down US fighter jet” – A crew member from an American fighter jet that was shot down over Iran has been rescued by US forces, reports GB News.
• “Iranian mullahs take their revenge” – The Iranian regime is preparing further executions of protesters and dissidents, with fears of a jail “massacre” to suppress dissent, says the Mail.
• “Dutch doctors euthanised an autistic teen. Why some say that should be a ‘wake-up call’ for Canada” – The euthanasia of an autistic teenager in the Netherlands should serve as a wake-up call for Canada’s expanding assisted dying programme, warns Sharon Kirkey in the National Post.
• “Vaccinate pre-school children against Covid to stop another pandemic” – UK experts are calling for pre-school children to be vaccinated against Covid to head off a new wave as the Cicada variant spreads, according to the Mail.
• “Miliband expected to block North Sea oil drilling” – Ed Miliband is expected to block new North Sea oil drilling despite growing fuel shortages, reports GB News.
• “Majority of Labour voters back drilling in the North Sea” – A majority of Labour voters now support North Sea drilling by a clear two-to-one margin, says the Telegraph.
• “UK must feed and fuel itself – but Labour would rather attack wealth” – The policies of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves push us to rely on imports just as war, inflation and global instability demand self-reliance, says Sir James Dyson in the Times.
• “The age of unreason – part 2” – More examples of contradictory “kettle logic” are appearing in climate and energy debates, notes Mark Hodgson in Cliscep.
• “US heatwaves much worse in past” – Recent hot weather in the US has been seized upon by the climate zombies, but historical data shows that heatwaves were far more severe in the past, says Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “Trump admin declares war on microplastics in drinking water” – The Trump administration has announced a new push through the EPA and HHS to tackle microplastics and pharmaceuticals in drinking water, reports the Daily Caller.
• “We’re all going to die… again” – Climate alarmists and pandemic scaremongers are once again warning that we’re all doomed, sighs Dr Roger Watson in the Conservative Woman.
• “The classroom is no place for anti-Reform activism” – The NEU conference could not have been clearer: teachers want to swap traditional schooling for woke indoctrination, warns Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Why we need religion” – The West desperately needs a return to religion to escape the narrow, materialist Left-brain thinking that dominates modern life, argues Iain McGilchrist in UnHerd.
• “Snooker bans transgender players from women’s game” – Snooker has banned trans players from the women’s game, restricting it to those born biologically female, reports GB News.
• “Sacked Pride in London boss claims he was ousted by ‘white directors’” – The sacked boss of Pride in London has accused “a group of white directors” of plotting to oust him from his role, says the Mail.
• “I turned the Brief Encounter clock until a woke witch hunt got me sacked” – The clock made famous by Brief Encounter has been restored to pride of place at Carnforth station eight years after a volunteer was forced out in a targeted woke campaign over remarks on Channel migrants, reports the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer’s a w****r” – The Labour Cabinet have turned in their best AI impersonation of a Monkees classic.

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