News Round-Up

“Ex-Royal Marine, 53, appears in court over Liverpool parade crash” – Paul Doyle has appeared before Liverpool Magistrates Court charged with seven offences, including dangerous driving and grievous bodily harm, reports the Mail.
“Keir Starmer’s top legal adviser apologises for ‘clumsy’ Nazi speech” – Keir Starmer is under pressure to sack his top legal adviser over a speech in which he compared demands that the UK quit the ECHR to early Nazi ideology, says the Mail.
“Labour minister defends AG for saying calls to quit ECHR like Nazism” – Education Minister Catherine McKinnell has backed Attorney General Lord Hermer, under fire for likening calls to quit the ECHR to Nazi ideology, reports the Mail.
“Lord Hermer is preposterously wrong about international law” – Lord Hermer’s approach to international law is incompatible with our political history and constitutional tradition, says Richard Ekins in the Spectator.
“The hard-Left are back, and ready to seize power” – John McDonnell is toying with the idea of a putsch – or failing that, a green, socialist, Islamist alliance, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
“Losing this £50 billion stock market listing is a humiliation for Reeves” – Chinese fast fashion giant Shein’s decision to float in Hong Kong should be a wake-up call for Britain, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
“Rachel Reeves pensions power grab is worthy of a banana republic” – Labour’s diktat to retirement funds is the latest in a series of attacks on Britons’ wealth, writes Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph.
“Final salary pensions at risk from Labour tax raid” – Labour is set to remove restrictions that currently protect pension savings from being funnelled into risky investments, reports the Telegraph.
“Rayner’s irrational tax raid will suffocate Britain’s most promising businesses” – Rayner’s tax raid on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) risks choking £68 billion of UK growth for a measly £110 million gain, says James Baxter-Derrington in the Telegraph.
“‘Labour letting ‘guilty councils’ investigate grooming gangs’” – Kemi Badenoch warns that Labour is letting “guilty councils” decide whether to investigate their own grooming gang scandals, according to the Telegraph.
“Kemi Badenoch takes aim at Farage and Starmer over welfare handouts” – Kemi Badenoch has blasted Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer for being in a “race to the bottom” over welfare handouts, reports the Mail.
“‘I will make Bank of England hold Bitcoin’” – Nigel Farage has promised to pass crypto-friendly legislation and establish a bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England if he comes into government, says CoinDesk.
“Reform UK pledges cuts as £27 million civil service diversity spend revealed” – The civil service spent £27 million in one year on equality, diversity and inclusion projects, such as private sector consultants and on memberships of organisations such as Stonewall, reports the Times.
“Foreigners claim £1 billion a month in benefits” – Benefits claims by households with at least one foreign national have doubled to nearly £1 billion a month in the past three years, says the Telegraph.
“Is it now a crime to make fun of Hezbollah terrorists?” – Causing offence to Islamist extremists can now land you in a police cell, warns Potkin Azarmehr in Spiked.
“Angela Rayner ‘does a runner’ from pro-Palestine protesters as Deputy PM forced to abandon campaign” – Angela Rayner has downplayed suggestions she “did a runner” from a group of pro-Palestine protesters during a campaign event in Scotland, according to GB News.
“Hairy asylum seeker with deep voice is a child, tribunal rules” – A UK tribunal has ruled that a deep-voiced, hairy Sudanese asylum seeker is 16, rejecting official claims he’s in his mid-20s, reports the Telegraph.
“Manchester terrorist was granted taxpayer money in religious discrimination claim” – Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi was granted more than £1,200 in taxpayers’ money to launch an equal rights case in jail, says GB News.
“Police officer is sacked after showing knife teen ‘lack of courtesy’” – An award-winning police officer has been fired after he was accused of showing a lack of courtesy and respect to a knife-carrying teenager he arrested for assault, reports the Mail.
“Police let half of all class A drug users walk free” – Some 48.1% of people caught in possession of hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, were let off without any criminal sanction, Home Office data analysed by the Telegraph reveals.
“The drug crime chaos on Sadiq Khan’s doorstep” – As drug crime rages in Tooting, locals slam Sadiq Khan for pushing cannabis decriminalisation while chaos reigns on his doorstep, writes Samuel Montgomery in the Telegraph.
“Why did LBC tick off Robert Jenrick?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill suggests LBC’s jab at Robert Jenrick over his unauthorised Tube video was less a scoop and more a broadcast on behalf of Sadiq Khan – whose pals at Global run LBC and profit from TfL.
“Gerry Adams awarded £84,000 in BBC libel case” – Gerry Adams has been awarded €100,000 (£84,000) in damages after winning a libel case against the BBC, reports GB News.
“Ofcom accused of censorship in Carry On free speech row” – Ofcom has been accused of censorship by TV bosses in a deepening free speech row over classic comedy, says the Telegraph.
“Wynne Evans dropped by BBC after ‘inappropriate’ Strictly remark” – The Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans says that he has been dropped by the BBC after using “inappropriate language” during the launch of the Strictly Come Dancing tour, according to the Standard.
“How a ‘bulls–t jobs’ boom captured the Big Four accountants” – Jobs at the top accounting firms are now about “making money by pretending to be an expert”, according to Louis Goss in the Telegraph.
“The climate scaremongers: how can we possibly power all the heat pumps?” – In TCW, Paul Homewood slams Net Zero ambitions as technologically and economically unworkable.
“The Covid Inquiry rumbles on” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson slam the Covid Inquiry as a £136,000-a-day farce led by clueless experts.
“False binaries that ‘limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion’ in the COVID-19 debate and perpetuate lies told by the powers that be” – On the Wood House 76 Substack, Jessica Hockett, Jonathan Engler and Martin Neil argue that the COVID-19 debate has been rigged by false binaries – carefully curated opposing views that keep dissent at bay.
“Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to ‘end UK complicity’ in Gaza” – Benedict Cumberbatch, Annie Lennox, Gary Lineker and Dua Lipa have joined more than 300 public figures calling on the Prime Minister to “end the UK’s complicity” in Gaza, reports Sky News.
“Comedian Reginald D. Hunter prosecuted over ‘antisemitic messages’” – US comedian Reginald D. Hunter is being privately prosecuted by the Campaign Against Antisemitism over posts he sent to a woman, says Sky News.
“Ignore the Left-wing naysayers, Israel is winning this necessary war” – Hamas could end all the bloodshed by laying down its arms and releasing the hostages, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
“America is coming for Britain’s social media censors” – If Washington is now looking to apply the thumbscrews to senior British officials pushing social media censorship, it has plenty to choose from, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
“Von der Leyen wins ‘leadership’ award amid criticism over transparency and corruption” – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has bagged the Charlemagne Prize for leadership – prompting outrage from MEPs who slammed it as a tone-deaf nod to a presidency mired in scandal and secrecy, reports Brussels Signal.
“EU interventionism in national elections: who’s next?” – In Brussels Signal, Rodrigo Ballester warns that the EU is turning national elections into battlegrounds for ideological control – and Hungary’s 2026 vote may be its boldest power grab yet.
“Russia concern over NATO expansion fair, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine says” – Donald Trump’s envoy to the Ukraine has declared that Russia’s long-standing gripes over NATO expansion are fair, reports the Mail.
“FBI to release Jeffrey Epstein video that ‘proves he killed himself’” – The FBI has reviewed video footage which confirms Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, ruling out long-running conspiracy theories that he was murdered, says the Mail.
“Trump announces surprise White House event with Elon Musk” – President Trump has announced that he will hold a press conference with beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk to mark his last day as a special advisor, reports the Mail.
“The derangement of Harvard” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray argues that Harvard has become a deranged, hyper-political institution more interested in ideological posturing than academic excellence.
“Legal action by doctors on trans care is vital” – In Gript, Niamh Uí Bhriain highlights how Drs O’Shea and Moran are dragging the Irish Health Service Executive to court for risking children’s health with activist-driven, unregulated trans care.
“Imane Khelif banned from competing in women’s World Boxing events” – Olympic champion Imane Khelif has been banned from competing in all future World Boxing events in the women’s category unless the Algerian can provide proof of being biologically female, reports CBS News.
“Give trans staff extra breaks to adjust underwear, NHS trust suggested” – An NHS hospital trust drew up plans to give trans staff extra breaks if they wore chest binders or had to tuck their genitals away, says the Telegraph.
“Witch ‘thrown off druid training course’ in trans row” – A practising witch claims she was thrown off a druid training course over accusations by a member of the UK Pagan Federation that she was “transphobic”, reports the Times.
“Equity for all” – In the Critic, Theodore Dalrymple takes aim at progressive corporate Britain.
“End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts argues that Pride has become a bloated, contradictory spectacle now in visible decline.
“BBC drama ‘rewrote history to turn scandalous aristocrat into a feminist’” – Historian and biographer Hallie Rubenhold claims that the BBC rewrote the story of an 18th century heiress to wrongly paint her as a feminist heroine, according to the Telegraph.
“The real reason why academics write in gobbledegook” – In the Spectator, Patrick West argues that academics write in impenetrable jargon not out of clumsiness, but to signal ideological allegiance and social status.
“Russell Brand denies rape and sexual assault charges” – Russell Brand has pleaded not guilty to five sexual offences including rape and indecent assault, reports Sky News.
“Striking a chord” – In Takimag, Theodore Dalrymple finds himself having to sit through a thoroughly awful impromptu piano performance at a French railway station.

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