News Round-Up

“‘Grinning’ Syrian man ‘stabs 14 year-old boy to death’” – A 14 year-old boy has been knifed to death after a ‘grinning’ Syrian refugee randomly stabbed passersby in the Austrian city of Villach today, leaving five others injured, the Mail reports.
“Defence spending may have to treble if Putin wins in Ukraine, Lammy warns Reeves” – David Lammy has warned Rachel Reeves that defence spending may need to treble to Cold War levels if Russia is allowed to win in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
“Trump sparks fury as ‘Europe excluded’ from Ukraine-Russia peace talks” – President Donald Trump’s envoy has sparked fury among European leaders after they were told they would be excluded from the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, causing Emmanuel Macron to call for an emergency summit, reports the Mail.
“This is how Ukraine’s war ends. But Trump’s plan for what comes next is even more radical” – Negotiations aimed at freezing the conflict could finally put an end to the fighting – and lay the foundation for a new world order, says Roland Oliphant in the Telegraph.
“Why J.D. Vance’s Munich speech matters” – When was the last time a new US Vice President gave a truly memorable speech, asks the Spectator‘s James Heale.
“J.D. Vance has signed the death warrant of the status quo” – His intellectual waterboarding of Europe’s elites was a joy to watch, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“We can’t let Labour drag us back into the shrinking orbit of the anti-Trump Eurosphere” – J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich just confirmed the obvious: Britain can no longer avoid the choice between the EU and US, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
“I’m the abortion campaigner name-checked by J.D. Vance. I’m glad he exposed UK censorship” – Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor, who was convicted for praying silently outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic and whose case was highlighted by J.D. Vance in Munich, says he’s glad the censorship is being shown up, reports the Telegraph.
“Donald Trump has blown apart America’s failing status quo” – President Trump has blown away America’s status quo responses to difficult issues such as the war in Gaza, says Gwythian Prins in the Spectator.
“Royal Society to debate expelling ‘Bond villain’ Elon Musk” – The Royal Society has summoned its fellows to a meeting next month to discuss growing calls for the expulsion of Elon Musk over his backing of President Trump and downplaying of climate change, reports the Times.
“‘We’re sick of Downing Street’: Labour Ministers lift the lid on the brutal civil war raging in No 10 as one whispers ‘we’re about to commit electoral suicide’” – The Mail‘s Dan Hodges has the inside track on the recriminations inside Downing Street as Labour’s approval ratings sink out of sight.
“UK’s £9 billion Chagos Islands deal is ‘reparations’, say Mauritian politicians” – Senior politicians in Mauritius have described the £9 billion Britain is expected to pay to hand over the Chagos Islands as “reparations” and a “fair” price, though the Foreign Office has rejected this characterisation, reports the Telegraph.
“Starmer’s Chagos giveaway under fire as deal mastermind interrogated in money-laundering probe” – Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands giveaway was plunged into fresh controversy on Saturday night after the former Mauritian Prime Minister who masterminded the deal was interrogated in a money-laundering scandal, the Telegraph reports.
“Asylum seekers to be given more money to fight claims under Labour plans” – The Government is set to boost spending on lawyers for immigrants by almost a third, despite growing anger over a string of controversial asylum rulings, reports the Telegraph.
“Labour MPs turn on Lord Hermer as ethics watchdog urged to investigate” – Senior Labour figures were turning on Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, on Saturday night as he was reported to the Prime Minister’s ethics tsar in an escalation of concerns over perceived conflicts of interest after he refused to declare his financial interests, reports the Telegraph.
“Blow to Reeves as endangered spiders halt Government’s plans for 1,300 new homes” – A small colony of endangered spiders has halted the development of more than a thousand new homes in a blow to the Government’s growth plans, the Telegraph reports.
“Labour has outlawed banter” – The purge of MPs after the leaks from the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group shows that black comedy has become taboo, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
“Is Our Five-Year Nightmare Finally Over?” – RFK Jr.’s confirmation is a symbolic repudiation of the most egregious public policies on record. And yet, the repudiation so far is implicit, with “no commission, no admission of error, no one truly held responsible, and no real accountability”, says Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone Journal.
“Encouraging signs of awakening in Australia” – The land down under is fighting back against globalist agendas, says Dr Gary Sidley on Substack.
“Monkeypox mania continues to take its toll on common sense” – Monkeypox is simply the latest vector for vaccine-derived profit, and the poor people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are simply the latest victims of the scam, says Dr Roger Watson in TCW.
“‘Ed Miliband’s latest mad move just cost UK £112 billion – your taxes will plug gap’” – Ed Miliband would be a menace at the best of times. Today, he’s a national threat, says Harvey Jones in the Express.
“David Starkey: ‘I’ve witnessed the disintegration of everything that I loved in Britain’” – The historian – once dubbed ‘the rudest man in Britain’ – speaks to the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley about cancel culture, free speech and why he refuses to “shut up”.
“Our warnings went unheeded: how neo-Marxists’ anti-racism destroyed British education” – In TCW, Dr Frank Palmer says he was part of a group of researchers that included Sir Roger Scruton warning about the dangers of ‘anti-racism’ ideology in 1986, but their alerts went unheeded.
“Hundreds charged with online ‘speech crimes’ under ‘Orwellian’ crackdown” – Almost 300 people have been charged with online ‘speech crimes’ amid claims from the Trump administration that civil liberties are under threat in Britain, says the Telegraph.
“Inside the NHS tribunal that has reignited the trans debate” – Sandie Peggie, a nurse, and Beth Upton, a trans doctor, have clashed over use of a changing room at Victoria Hospital in Fife, reports the Times.
“Badenoch urges Britons to ‘fight for’ free speech” – Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has urged Britons to “fight for” free speech, warning that causing offence was being criminalised under Labour, the Telegraph reports.
“Pro-Palestine protesters shout anti-Semitic threats and insults in London march” – Pro-Palestinian protesters shouted anti-Semitic insults and threats against supporters of Israel as they marched through London on Saturday, reports the Telegraph.
“FA’s LGBT rainbow laces used to ‘strong arm’ trans women into female sport, High Court hears” – Linzi Smith has launched legal action against football’s governing body to force it to scrap the rainbow laces campaign, which she claims goes against its own ban on political activity, reports the Telegraph.
“Violent Pole’s deportation blocked because he is ‘father figure’ to nephew” – A violent Polish serial criminal’s deportation was blocked under human rights laws after he claimed to be a “father figure” to his nephew, the Telegraph reports.
“Woman claims she can’t be deported as husband can’t cope with hot food” – A woman from the Caribbean staying illegally in the UK says one of the reasons she could not be deported is because her Latvian-born husband doesn’t like spicy food, reports the Mail.
“Police reissue IS terrorist’s mugshot after she complains she was not wearing a niqab” – A police force reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State terrorist after she complained she was not wearing a niqab in it, reports the Telegraph.
“NHS hires diversity staff on double the salary of junior doctors” – Trusts are continuing to recruit for highly paid EDI roles despite concerns about the cost and effectiveness of such programmes, reports the Times.
“Jeremy Clarkson issues cancel culture rant as he defends Gino D’Acampo” – Jeremy Clarkson has gone on a furious rant against cancel culture as he defended under-fire stars Gino D’Acampo, Wynne Evans and Gregg Wallace, the Mail reports.
“France’s churches are burning – and no one seems to care” – France’s churches are under attack, yet the media and political establishment are pretending not to notice, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
“Why do so many Zoomers think Britain is racist?” – Disenfranchised young people are taking out their frustrations on their own nation, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.

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