News Round-Up

“Hamburg stabbing: 17 injured and suspect arrested at German railway station” – A woman has been detained after a knife attack in Hamburg in which 17 people were injured, reports the Times.
“Asylum seeker tent cities spring up in the shadows of Heathrow” – Mini ‘tent cities’ have sprung up in a West London borough where councillors say they are struggling to cope with supporting thousands of asylum seekers, says the Mail.
“Netanyahu tears into Starmer for ‘siding with Hamas over Israel’” – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tore into Western leaders over their threat of sanctions against Israel as tensions reached new highs over a planned Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to the Mail.
“Israel should not listen to Keir Starmer” – Netanyahu’s response to this week’s appalling statement by the leaders of France, Canada and the UK was entirely correct, writes Stephen Pollard in the Spectator.
“Jewish protester charged over placard mocking terrorist leader” – Another two-tier policing row has erupted after a pro-Israel activist was arrested for holding up cartoon at a counter-protest ridiculing the leader of Hezbollah, reports the Telegraph.
“First Labour MP calls for mother jailed over Southport tweet to be freed” – Mary Glindon, a Labour MP, has signed an early day motion condemning the “unduly harsh” sentence meted out to Lucy Connolly, says the Telegraph.
“How calling a German finance minister a ‘moron’ leads to cops and criminal charges” – Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old retiree and former sergeant in the Bundeswehr, was subjected to a dawn raid and charged with a criminal offence after posting a meme about a Green Party politician, according to Brussels Signal.
“Biden administration labeled opponents of Covid mandates as ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’, newly released documents show” – The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists”, or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records, reports Public.
“Top FDA official admits she refused the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant” – A senior regulator at the FSA has admitted she avoided the Covid jab while pregnant, reveals Maryanne Demasi on her Substack.
“Revealed: the grassroots Tory plot to oust Kemi Badenoch” – Association chairmen are understood to be considering a confidence motion against the Conservative Party leader, says the Sunday Times.
“Telegraph to be sold to RedBird Capital” – RedBird Capital, which was planning to buy the Telegraph as the junior partner of IMI, a fund controlled by the UAE, has decided to make a bid for the Telegraph itself, reports the newspaper.
“Jeremy Clarkson interview: ‘In the past 20 years Britain has fallen off a cliff’” – After swapping Ferraris for tractors, strong opinions on TV and at protests have made Jeremy Clarkson a people’s champion. But is he about to become Britain’s Donald Trump? asks Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
“Trump ‘laughing’ at Starmer’s Chagos deal, claims Badenoch” – The Tory leader says the US president “has got a great deal at the expense of the UK” as she labels Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal “wasteful and dangerous”, says the Telegraph.
“Starmer peddles disinformation to sell Chagos surrender” – Starmer’s press conference on the Chagos surrender was packed full of excuses for the handover. They don’t wash, according to Guido Fawkes.
“‘Lying’ Starmer reported to watchdog over true cost of Chagos deal” – The PM has been accused of a “misuse of statistics” when trying to justify his agreement to hand the Chagos islands to Mauritius, reports the Telegraph.
“Labour red-faced over claims of ‘massive increase’ in NHS appointments” – Full Fact has called Labour’s recent claims about the increase in NHS appointments into question, according to the Mail.
“Labour’s spending is out of control” – If you tot up the total amount the Labour Government has added to spending over the last five days, it comes to an extraordinary £50 billion, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator. So much for the £22 billion black hole.
“Is it any surprise doctors are trying their luck with more strikes?” – Did anyone really think that the incoming Starmer government was going to appease the public sector unions for long by stuffing their mouths with gold? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator. A recent spate of pay demands by doctors, nurses and teachers suggests otherwise.
“Wave goodbye to the British middle classes, exploited to extinction under Starmer” – The Left’s brutal tax assault is hammering those who contribute most to Britain’s coffers, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
“The fight between Rayner and Reeves will destroy Labour” – Starmer is struggling to reconcile the wishes of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor and their ongoing dispute is threatening to tear the Government apart, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
“The trans war tearing Labour apart” – Labour has postponed its women’s conference for fear that the internal row about the judgment will burst into the open, reports the Telegraph.
“First nationalised train will be a rail replacement bus” – South Western is launching a Woking to Waterloo service on Sunday… but engineering works will force passengers off at Surbiton, says the Telegraph.
“Labour’s tax raid to trap 1.5 billion barrels of oil and gas under North Sea” – Ed Miliband’s windfall tax has doubled the rate of decline in production in North Sea oil, according to the Telegraph.
“Trump attacks Starmer’s Net Zero plans” – The US president has attacked Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister for failing to drill in the North Sea, reports the Telegraph.
“Trump declares war on Harvard” – Trump’s attack on Harvard is not an effort to reform America’s ideologically hidebound higher education sector, says Andrew Sullivan in the Weekly Dish. It’s about destroying Harvard out of spite.
“Harvard sues Trump over foreign students ban” – Thousands of international students have been told they must either transfer to another college or leave the US, according to the Telegraph.
“Trump’s assault on Harvard is an astonishing act of national self-sabotage” – The revocation of Harvard’s ability to certify visas will lead to a mass exodus of talent, writes Yascha Mounk in Persuasion.
“Two-thirds of Britons back chemical castration of paedophiles” – Sixty seven per cent of Britons back the chemical castration of paedophiles, while just 16% oppose it, says the Mail.
“The BBC’s war on the SAS” – The SAS is under fire, not from terrorists or insurgents, but from ill-informed commentators and our state broadcaster, writes Richard Williams in the Spectator.
“Spain’s blackout story is disintegrating” – It is the socialist government, not green energy, that ought to be on trial for plunging Spain into darkness, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
“Denmark raises retirement age to 70, sparking fury” – The Danish Government has raised the retirement age to 70, says the Mail. How long before the UK follows suit?
“Stephen Fry could easily be satirising Keir Starmer in this clip” – James Melville points out that this old clip of Stephen Fry pretending to be a sleazy Tory PM could easily be a take off of our present-day PM.

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