News Round-Up

“Shots fired at Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania” – Donald Trump was injured in the ear as he ducked at a rally as shots were fired at the former President, reports the Mail.
“This shocking incident will have just won Trump the Presidency” – His campaign, already trouncing Biden in a number of key swing states, will only benefit from this public act of bravery, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
“Gary Lineker claims he did not call England ‘shit’ at Euro 2024” – Lineker claims he said “it” was shit on his podcast, “it” being the game, reports the Telegraph. Erm, right, let’s see what he actually said: “I can’t imagine anybody that is English that would have enjoyed England’s performance. Because it was lethargic. It was dour. I mean, you can think of all sorts of words and expletives, if you like, but it was shit.”
“Sunak held secret talks about Farage Red Wall deal” – The possibility of candidates in Red Wall seats running on a joint Tory-Reform U.K. ticket was discussed by the Tories in the run-up to the election but allegedly kiboshed by the centrists around Sunak, according to the Telegraph.
“It’s about to become painfully clear that Rachel Reeves doesn’t have a clue” – After a very lacklustre first week, for all her boasting, the Chancellor doesn’t seem to have any ideas at all, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
“The insufferable gushing of the pro-Starmer media” – They are carrying on like a cross between Pravda and Smash Hits, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
“Tory Governments failed to roll back Blair’s Leftist agenda – that’s why we lost” – In the Telegraph, Liz Truss examines the failure of 14 years of Tory rule.
“Angela Rayner is already being frozen out, allies fear” – We are just over a week into the new Labour Government and sources are claiming that tensions between the top two are bubbling under the surface, reports the Telegraph.
“Pro-Palestinian MP told rally there was ‘no difference’ between Israeli Government and Isis” – Speaking in Hyde Park in 2014, Adnan Hussain told the crowd: “Isis are terrorists and so are the Israeli Government,” according to the Telegraph.
“Farage: Campaign to reform voting system ‘would be more irresistible than Brexit’” – Farage raises the prospect of a campaign to move the U.K. to a proportional voting system – something Starmer himself favoured back in 2020. Not so keen now, for some reason.
“David Lammy ‘closely considering’ resuming funding for UNRWA” – David Lammy is “closely considering” resuming funding for the UN’s humanitarian body for Gaza, despite its links to Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
“Humza Yousaf faces review over £250k Gaza funding” – Former First Minister Humza Yousaf faces a probe into a series of donations the Scottish Government made to UNRWA while members of his family were trapped in the warzone, a day before his parents finally obtained safe passage out, the Telegraph reports.
“Why is antisemitism such a problem at elite universities?” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams looks at why America’s top universities are such hotbeds of anti-Jewish feeling.
“Joe Biden defies calls to quit as Democratic donors threaten to withhold $90m” – Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are thought to oppose the President’s re-election bid, as a poll suggests even Kamala Harris would fare better against Trump, reports the Times.
“Is Lucy Letby innocent? I’m a miscarriage of justice expert – here’s what I think” – As the chorus of voices raising concerns about the conviction of “killer nurse” Lucy Letby grows louder, former commissioner at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, David James Smith, looks at how seriously they should be taken for the Independent.
“What if Lucy Letby is innocent?” – Peter Hitchens brings the growing case for Letby’s innocence to the readers of the Mail.
“Mother wins battle to stop son having Covid vaccine she feared could kill him” – The devoted mother says the landmark case to protect her disabled son Tom was a “Kafkaesque nightmare” that nearly bankrupted her, reports the Telegraph.
“Russia loses ‘astronomical’ 70,000 troops in 60 days” – The reported uptick in the Russian loss (death and injury) rate reflects the opening of the new Kharkiv front, according to the MoD, the Telegraph reports.
“Big Brother is Watching You. So Where is the outrage?” – Dr. Robert Malone on Elon Musk’s disturbing revelation that the EU has been engaging in illegal secret censorship deals with social media companies by blackmailing them with its draconian Digital Services Act.
“Did the European Union Just Try to Illegally Censor U.S. Free Speech?” – WUWT‘s Eric Worrall looks at the simmering battle over free speech between Musk and the EU.
“Censors Everywhere We Look” – Lori Weintz links growing censorship even in private Google forums with the Supreme Court’s refusal to step in on Government social media censorship.
“Ireland’s ridiculous racism tsar” – Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator laments the state of the race debate in Ireland, with one Dr. Ebun Joseph appointed as a “Special Rapporteur for the National Plan Against Racism”.
“Shooting just happened at The Trump rally” – Watch the moment shots were fired on X.

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