News Round-Up

• “Sick of woke censorship? You ain’t seen nothing yet” – In Spiked, Toby takes us through what to look forward to under a Starmer premiership.
• “The Conservatives deserved this brush with annihilation” – What’s left of the Conservative Party should count its blessings. Each seat retained is an unearned act of kindness, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.`“The Conservatives deserved this brush with annihilation” – What’s left of the Conservative Party should count its blessings. Each seat retained is an unearned act of kindness, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “The Tories have only themselves to blame” – If the Right is to cohere, it will have to have some soggy centrists and some people who are actually Right-wing, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “The Conservative and Labour parties no longer deserve their names” – When was the last time the Conservative Party was actually conservative? asks Laura Dodsworth on her Substack.
• “Tories will have to come to terms with Reform’s success” – The question for the Conservatives now is clearly how they reinvent themselves and regain credibility, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “‘We warned the Tory leadership that catastrophe was coming. Now they must go and never be seen again’” – “Decent man though he is, Rishi Sunak’s brief, tragic premiership has ended, though I wish it could have done so sooner,” says David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Are the Lib Dems and Reform really right to feel happy?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says the Tories should feel a bit of relief after the exit poll, which shows only a 10% gap between the Conservative and Labour vote share.
• “SNP collapse as party predicted to retain just 10 seats” – The Telegraph reports on the best news of last night – the collapse of the SNP.
• “The key moments that defined the general election campaign” – A lot has happened since a drenched Rishi Sunak called for the country to cast their ballots, says the Telegraph, as it takes us through Rishi’s worse moments of the campaign.
• “Labour’s backdoor British blasphemy laws” – Under Labour, we might very well see legislation that would irreversibly damage freedom of speech and stifle any ability to criticise radical Islam, warns Ayaan Hirsi Ali on her Restoration Substack.
• “Independent inquiry launched into Channel Four Reform report” – Ofcom-Watch, the new campaign group set up to monitor Ofcom, has instructed a senior barrister to lead an independent inquiry into Channel Four’s undercover report of the Reform campaign, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Dermatology’s horrendous war against the Sun” – On Substack, a Midwestern Doctor untangles dermatology’s huge skin cancer scam.
• “Lucy Letby: courtroom drama, a failed appeal and battles over the truth” – Lucy Letby was convicted of multiple baby murders, but then fell out of the headlines. The BBC explains what has happened since.
• “Rejecting Kant’s cant” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough discusses Germany’s draconian hate speech law and its impact on fundamental liberal norms.
• “Ukraine’s new F-16 fighter jets will be destroyed as soon as they arrive” – Russian ballistic missiles are pounding Zelensky’s air bases, writes David Axe in the Telegraph.
• “Zelensky U-turns as he invites Russia to attend peace summit without giving up land” – After two years of war, the Ukrainian leader appears to be taking peace talks seriously, says James Kilner in the Telegraph.
• “Biden is as big a narcissist as Trump” – The Bidens’ decision to contest the 2024 U.S. Presidential race was arrogant and criminally oblivious to the country’s future, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
• “No, the Supreme Court has not turned Trump into a king” – The Democrats’ reaction to the Presidential-immunity ruling has been typically hysterical, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “The awesome, terrifying power of the press” –On Substack, Eugyppius marvels at how the media have changed their tune on Biden’s mental acuity.
• “The Democrats’ civil war has begun” – The unholy Democrat alliance of oligarchs and identitarians is about to come apart, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Calm down, it’s a joke” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle comes to the defence of the writer and broadcaster David Aaronovitch in the wake of his recent Twitterstorm.
• “UBS on green energy: from ’a wave of capital’ to ‘sluggish rollout’ in just four years” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall wonders how investors who bet on UBS’s 2020 imminent green energy boom hype feel today?
• “What happened to that ‘wettest summer’, Met Office?” – The Met Office warned us all to prepare for at least 50 days of rain in the next three months. Well, so far the summer has been much drier than average, says Paul Homewood in Not A Lot Of People Know That.
• “No, CBS News, New York City isn’t going to be flooded by sea level rise” – A recent CBS News article claims that climate change-induced sea level rise could result in large parts of New York City being underwater by the year 2100. This is false, writes Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “Parishioners stop donations to churches in protest at £100 million slavery fund” – Parishioners are withdrawing donations from local churches in protest against the CofE’s £100 million slavery reparations fund, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Bad TV impressions: U.K. General Election 2024” – On X, Kieran Hodgson serves up a treat for fans of the election with impressions of all the major players.

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