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by Richard Eldred
10 June 2025 12:58 AM

  • “Mail investigation exposes businesses illegally using worker visas” – Corrupt immigration advisers are helping illegal workers dupe the Home Office in a cash for visas scam, reveals the Mail.
  • “People smugglers advertise ‘back door’ migrant routes on Facebook” – Albanian gangs are charging £4,000 to help migrants enter the UK through Ireland, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The battle of the Channel has been fought – and lost” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Miller paints the Channel crisis as a full-blown farce, where French police wave the boats off, British ministers talk tough and smugglers call the shots.
  • “Yusuf apologises for row over Reform MP’s ‘dumb’ burka ban question” – Former Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has made an on-air apology for his role in a public row over banning burkas that resulted in him temporarily quitting the party, reports the Mail.
  • “Farage says Yusuf ‘forgiven’ after he ‘lost his rag’ in burka ban row” – Nigel Farage says that Zia Yusuf is now “very much back and enthused” after barely 48 hours in the wilderness, according to the Mail.
  • “We are all terrorists now” – On Substack, the Thinking Coalition explains how the British State came to fund Islamist propaganda.
  • “The tragic tale of Rhianan Rudd, the UK’s youngest female terror suspect” – In the Telegraph, Robert Mendick reports on the tragic case of a British schoolgirl who was groomed and radicalised by an American white supremacist.
  • “The police’s problem isn’t funding. It’s that they’ve alienated everyone” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott struggles to muster much sympathy for police forces that appear more interested in controlling speech or tasering nonagenarians than in our safety.
  • “Nurses threaten strikes in vote on ‘grotesque’ pay deal” – Nearly 350,000 nurses are voting on whether to strike over a “grotesque” 3.6% pay rise, reports the Mail, even though it’s above the rate of inflation.
  • “Fury grows over NHS staff turning away sick private school pupils ” – Wes Streeting has been urged to “act swiftly” after a child was denied vital treatment because he goes to a private school, says the Mail.
  • “Reeves won’t apologise despite restoring winter fuel payments to nine million” – Rachel Reeves has refused to apologise as she humiliatingly restores winter fuel payments to nine million pensioners, says the Mail.
  • “Pensioners on more than £35,000 denied winter fuel payments” – Sir Keir Starmer’s about-turn on winter fuel will cause chaos for millions of pensioners when they discover it’s nothing of the kind and have to return money to the Treasury, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Reeves public spending spree ‘costs homeowners £820 extra a year’” – Economists warn that Rachel Reeves’s public spending spree has driven up borrowing – adding £820 a year to homeowners’ bills, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Reeves has left herself with only one way of funding her spending promises” – By giving in to Left-wing ideology, the Chancellor has made tax rises all but inevitable, says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
  • “Yvette Cooper ‘on resignation watch’ after spending row with Reeves” – Yvette Cooper’s rows with the Treasury over spending have been so heated that officials fear she will resign, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Meet Labour’s most embarrassing politician” – Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle’s attempt to regulate teenage social media use is an example of embarrassing government overreach, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
  • “Gary Lineker blocked from addressing Jewish writer’s memorial” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to news that Gary Lineker has been dropped from Brian Glanville’s memorial by the late writer’s son after sharing a Zionism video featuring a cartoon rat.
  • “Warwick Stands With Palestine disrupt Jimmy Carr performance during week-long encampment” – Jimmy Carr’s Warwick Arts Centre gig has been disrupted by members of Warwick Stands With Palestine – just days after the group packed up their week-long encampment, according to the Boar.
  • “Sweden snubs Greta’s plea for help on board ‘freedom flotilla’” – Sweden has rejected Greta Thunberg’s plea for help on board the ‘freedom flotilla’ after Israeli commandos intercepted the vessel on its approach to Gaza, reports the Mail.
  • “Israel detains Greta Thunberg after stopping Gaza-bound Madleen aid boat” – Greta Thunberg and her crew of activists sailing to Gaza will be forced to watch a video of Hamas’s October 7th atrocities after being intercepted by the IDF, according to the Mail.
  • “The huge sums energy firms get to not provide power” – Could the Government’s radical plan to change the way the UK distributes electricity really bring down bills – or just lead to a postcode lottery? asks the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt.
  • “Britain must learn from France’s e-scooter mistake” – France was an early advocate of the e-scooter craze but also one of the first to fall out of love with it, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator. Will Britain learn from France’s mistake?
  • “The rise and rise of climate anxiety” – It’s not rising sea levels, but raised anxiety that we need to worry about, says Tom Ed on his Substack.
  • “Gavin Newsom faces a climate revolt – from Democrats” – In the WSJ, Allysia Finley reveals how California Governor Gavin Newsom’s climate policies have sparked a revolt within his own Democratic Party.
  • “Warning over new Covid symptom as infection could sweep UK this summer” – Doctors are warning anyone with a “razor blade” throat that they could have a new and highly contagious Covid variant, reports the Mail. RELEASE THE VARIANT!
  • “UK vaccine chiefs suspend newly approved jab for over 65s” – UK vaccine chiefs have suspended a newly approved jab from being given to people over 65, after reports of two deaths and 21 severe reactions, according to the Mail.
  • “NHS ‘Speaking Up’ scheme offers help to whistleblowers” – On Substack, HART warns that the NHS’s ‘Speaking Up’ scheme offers therapy for whistleblowers but no appetite to hear their warnings.
  • “Australia’s scandal-ridden Covid PM Scott Morrison awarded nation’s top honour” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett slams the decision to award scandal-plagued ex-PM Scott Morrison Australia’s highest honour.
  • “Geert Wilders and the populist collapse: a cautionary tale for the British Right” – The Dutch populist’s collapse in government reveals the perils of entering power without clear strategy, unity or the temperament to govern, writes Luke Daniel on the Restoration Substack.
  • “Russia ready to attack Nato by 2030, warns alliance chief” – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warns that people in Britain had “better learn to speak Russian” if the UK does not ramp up defence spending, according to the Express.
  • “Police blow £17 million on 300 diversity staff” – The Spectator’s Steerpike reveals that UK police forces are blowing £17.8 million a year on over 300 EDI officers.
  • “Simone Biles comes out fighting for transgender athletes” – The Mail updates on the war of words that has broken out between US gymnast Simone Biles and Riley Gaines, the swimmer who has been an outspoken campaigner against trans athletes in women’s sport.
  • “‘I’d be horrified if they tried to make The Day of the Jackal woke’” – In an interview with the Telegraph in 2023, the best-selling author who died yesterday spoke about cancel culture, MI6 and that speeding fine.
  • “Blasphemy Britain” – On TalkTV, Toby warns that police inaction over a terror threat against Koran-burning asylum seeker Hamit Coskun sends a chilling signal: threaten murder, face no charges.

An asylum seeker who burnt the Koran has reportedly received a police warning of a terror plot to murder him.

Free Speech Union founder Lord Young: "The police are sending a message that if you threaten Hamit Coskun with murder – you won't be charged at all!"@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/lUgml8Xfw0

— Talk (@TalkTV) June 9, 2025

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