- “Britain’s riot shame: Police officers are hospitalised in Liverpool as looting breaks out in Hull with shops and cars set on fire while far-Right thugs clash with ‘mosque defenders’ in Stoke – as Home Secretary vows rioters will ‘pay the price’” – The Mail reports on the latest social unrest.
- “Courts to be open 24 hours to crack down on rioters” – Emergency measures are brought in as violent confrontations sweep across Britain, reports the Telegraph.
- “Not everyone who took to the streets this week was ‘far Right’. Unless our leaders are open about the real problems, we may be heading to a very dark place, says ” – Rakib Ehsan in the Mail with his take on the Southport murders, the riots and the response from the authorities.
- “The ‘community cohesion’ concept explains confusing police tactics” – In the Spectator, Ian Acheson notes that Merseyside police were very keen to rule out the Southport attack as “terrorism-related” despite subsequent remarks from the Home Office that counter-terrorism police were still assisting the investigation.
- “Keir Starmer’s two-tier tyranny” – Any crackdown on free speech and civil liberties must be vigorously resisted, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “After Southport: the rage against the throng” – Fear and loathing of the white working class is palpable in the elite’s response to the unrest, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict” – This week’s riots won’t be the last, says Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “Sir Keir Starmer’s Pre-Crime Clarion Call” – After nationalist riots in Southport, Britain’s new Prime Minister announces plans for a “coordinated effort” to arrest wrongdoers “before they can even board a train”, says Matt Taibbi in Racket News.
- “Britain is coming apart at the seams” – Weeks of unrest have revealed tensions, anger and a collapse in social trust that can no longer be ignored, says Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “Labour is proving to be far, far worse than anyone feared” – Tory successes are being binned for no more reason than political ideology, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, as he runs through Labour’s already terrible record in Government.
- “The militant Left has just been given carte blanche to cripple Britain” – Succumbing to public sector pay demands won’t snuff out strikes – it will fire up more, says the Telegraph‘s Annabel Denham.
- “A new study in Nature Communications claims Covid vaccines decrease cardiovascular harms. Sadly, the study is not trustworthy.” – Dr. Vinay Prasad criticises a new study that claims to show the vaccines cut heart problems without publishing full data on all-cause mortality.
- ““Blood Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Vaccine in Humans”” – Jessica Rose summarises a new preprint that finds vaccine mRNA hangs around in half of people for at least 28 days.
- “How the New York Times undermined mask evidence” – On Trust the Evidence, Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan look at the leaked Cochrane emails that reveal how scientists were smeared.
- “The Never Trumpers and Kamala Harris” – Andrew Sullivan wonders whether Harris is really as far Left as she appears.
- “German prosecutors, police and press continue to denounce and investigate an unending plague of ‘Nazi salute’ incidents, in a totally healthy and non-hysterical campaign to finally stamp out fascism” – Once upon a time, the spectre that haunted Europe was communism, but today that spectre is the stiffly extended arm raised to an angle of 45 degrees, says Eugyppius.
- “Hospital where Lucy Letby worked suffered bacteria outbreak ‘lethal’ to babies” – A risk report leaked to the Telegraph shows that bacteria lethal to babies colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit.
- “David Davis hopes to visit Lucy Letby in prison in miscarriage of justice investigation” – The Tory MP tells the Telegraph he wants to be “at least three-quarters persuaded” the nurse convicted of murdering seven babies is innocent before seeking a case review.
- “David Miliband is handed £1 million pay package from aid charity” – David Miliband has been handed an annual pay package of more than £1 million by an aid charity heavily funded by British taxpayers that is losing money due to excessive costs, reports the Mail.
- “XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained” – Doriane Lambelet Coleman in Quillette with the historical, political and medical context of the Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting cases.
- “Netanyahu ‘emboldened to strike Iran’ after Biden quit Presidential race” – Joe Biden’s decision to quit the Presidential race has emboldened Benjamin Netanyahu to take bolder action against Iran, a senior Israeli official has told the Telegraph.
- “Canary Wharf workers offered free books on white privilege and colonialism” – Canary Wharf workers will be offered free books on white privilege and colonialism on their way to work, according to the Telegraph. Do they have to give them away because no one will buy them?
- “This is Brilliant” – On X, WeGotitBack has got Keir Starmer pegged. Exstarmernate!
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