- “Tim Davie should resign over hate chant, says Israeli minister” – BBC boss Tim Davie is facing mounting calls to resign over the broadcaster’s controversial Glastonbury coverage, reports the Express.
- “Justice demands that Connolly and Vylan are held to the same standard” – If social media posts are to be policed, then so too should hate speech from a Glastonbury stage, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Bobby Vylan’s chant was far worse than Lucy Connolly’s tweet. So why is he not in prison?” – It seems like many institutions don’t take anti-Semitism seriously, writes Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Bob Vylan was grotesque, but arrest would be wrong” – Believing that the criminal law ought to get involved in Bob Vylan’s “Death to the IDF” chant is wrongheaded, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Starmer’s peace deal with Labour benefits rebels on brink of collapse” – Keir Starmer is facing demands for even more concessions to defuse a disastrous Labour welfare revolt, reports the Mail.
- “Burnham’s defiance over benefits shows Starmer is doomed” – Greater Manchester’s Mayor has never ruled out another tilt at the Labour leadership, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph, and his time may be coming.
- “McSweeney on resignation watch after Starmer’s media freelancing” – There are swirling rumours about the fate of the man who made Starmer, says Guido Fawkes.
- “It only took a year for Reeves to destroy Britain” – Months of Labour misrule have pushed the country to the brink, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. But what comes next will be far, far worse.
- “Starmer has shredded Reeves’s credibility – how long can she last?” – Changing her fiscal rules would be a resigning matter for the Chancellor, says Adam Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Politicians, not ChatGPT, caused the recruitment slump” – In the Spectator, Matthew Lynn argues that the recent 32% slump in graduate recruitment is not caused by AI, but by Government policies.
- “Rachel Reeves to announce cash Isa cut” – Rachel Reeves is poised to unveil a cut to the tax-free cash Isa allowance in a bid to encourage British savers to invest in London-listed firms and breathe life into the UK’s ailing capital markets, reports City A.M.
- “Albanian with 50 convictions can stay in UK as crimes ‘not extreme enough’” – An Albanian burglar with nearly 50 convictions has won the right to stay in the UK as his crimes are reportedly not extreme enough to “revolt” the public, says the Mail.
- “Now even Labour seems to have understood our courts are out of control” – An obscure Bill on citizenship shows the Government realises the judiciary cannot have untrammelled control over who resides in the UK, writes Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “Channel migrants pose for selfies as they head for Britain” – Channel migrants have brazenly posed for selfies aboard an overcrowded dinghy as they head for Britain, reports the Mail.
- “Grooming gang paedophile member builds house in Pakistan” – A ringleader of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang has built a house in his native Pakistan – despite receiving £285,000 of taxpayers’ money while fighting deportation, reports the Mail.
- “‘He is likely to have been very vulnerable at the time that he committed the sexual offence’” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan charts the madness of a system where a foreign sex offender dodged deportation on the back of a dodgy psych report.
- “England no more” – Whatever replaces cockney London, it will no longer be England – and it’s coming to a town near you sooner than you think, says Frank Haviland on his Substack.
- “Energy companies are not ripping you off – the Government is” – The Government is using your bills to fund stealth taxes, green schemes and welfare, then blaming suppliers for the cost, explains Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
- “The state needs to chill out about the hot weather” – In the Spectator, Robert Taylor urges the state to “chill out” and allow people to use common sense rather than treating normal summers as a crisis.
- “The Bob Ward teller of forecast fortunes” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts brands Bob Ward and the Met Office’s forecasts as little more than self-serving “fortune teller” nonsense, aimed at protecting funding rather than the truth.
- “Meet France’s new anti-green movement” – A new anti-green social movement is gathering momentum in France seven years after the Yellow Vests rocked the establishment, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Senate GOP takes sledgehammer to Biden’s green energy subsidies in big, beautiful Bill” – On the Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard reports that Senate Republicans are slashing Biden-era wind and solar tax credits in their latest reconciliation Bill.
- “How the Big Beautiful Bill will lower energy costs, shore up the electric grid – and unleash American prosperity” – In the NY Post, Chris Wright says the One Big Beautiful Bill will cut energy costs and fix the grid by ending costly green subsidies and backing reliable power.
- “Senator Tillis breaks secrecy oath to smear energy expert opposing wind and solar subsidies” – On the Climate Change Dispatch, Alex Epstein accuses Senator Thom Tillis of breaking a secrecy oath and deliberately misrepresenting expert testimony to defend ongoing subsidies for wind and solar projects.
- “Big, beautiful Bill imposes excise tax on Chinese-made green materials” – Senate Republicans have slashed clean energy credits and taxed Chinese green materials, risking renewable projects ahead of a July 4th deadline, reports the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Senate hearing exposes China’s role in backing climate lawsuits against US energy” – Lawmakers warn that China is bankrolling US climate lawsuits to undermine energy independence, according to the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Toward a new climate paradigm” – On WUWT? Willis Eschenbach argues that Earth’s climate is not a fragile system but a robust, self-organising heat engine.
- “Science fights back” – On Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway says that Stephan Lewandowsky’s Anti-Autocracy Handbook weaponises climate change to label sceptics authoritarian, while ignoring the intolerance and self-censorship already rife within climate academia.
- “Power Suitability Index, v.1.0” – On Climate Scepticism, Jit explores which generator is most suitable to power modern civilisation.
- “Cabinet minister’s alarm at ‘worrying’ decline in birth rates” – Bridget Phillipson has warned of “worrying repercussions for society in the future” as a result of falling birth rates, says the Mail.
- “‘At 41, I found out I was the child of a sperm donor, not my dad’” – In the Telegraph, an anonymous author reveals how learning at 41 that her “dad” was a sperm donor shattered her world – but DNA tests and support helped her rebuild identity and find family beyond blood.
- “Mark Carney caves in on tech tax to appease Trump” – Canada has abandoned plans to impose a new digital services tax on US companies in a bid to revive trade talks with Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fatwa declared on Trump by top Iranian cleric” – A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against Donald Trump, declaring him an “enemy of god”, according to the Mail.
- “Democrats turn on Zohran Mamdani over antisemitism accusations” – Democrats have begun to turn on the party’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over antisemitism concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “Harvard ‘wilful participant’ in harassment of Jewish students, Trump report finds” – An investigation by the Trump administration has found that Harvard University is a “wilful participant” in the harassment of Jewish students and staff, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Woolworths cancels the Spectator” – In the Spectator, Lukas Degutis reacts to South African retailer Woolworths pulling the magazine from its shelves.
- “Labour council ‘breaking law’ after hoisting pro-trans flag” – A council has been accused of breaking the law after erecting a trans-inclusive Pride flag outside its town hall, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Ofcom has just demonstrated its contempt for women, the truth and the law” – By chastising GB News for its request to define women by biological sex, Ofcom has infringed on free speech in broadcasting, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Pride group founder, 42, who raped boy he met on Grindr is jailed” – The founder of a Pride group, who raped an “extremely vulnerable” boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 24 years, reports the Mail.
- “Young people aren’t having sex any more – and I know why” – The draconian dating rules that Gen Z place upon themselves make Cistercian monks look like Woodstock hippies, says Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
- “From the Man Cave IV” – In the New Conservartive, Dr Roger Watson takes a satirical broadside at everything from Glastonbury’s “virtue-signalling hypocrisy” to breastfeeding men.
- “Anushka is like soooo confused about all the hate & complaints towards this year’s Glastonbury Festival” – The incomparable Intel Lady takes a break from impersonating Angela Rayner to mimic a Glastonbury Festival-goer confused about accusations of hate.
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