News Round-Up

• “I will deport 600,000 migrants in my first term” – Nigel Farage has pledged to deport up to 600,000 illegal migrants in the first term of a Reform government, says the BBC.
• “Taliban ‘ready and willing’ to work with Farage on migrants” – The Taliban has said it is “ready and willing” to work with Nigel Farage and accept deported Afghans after he unveiled his deportation plans, reports GB News.
• “How feasible is Reform’s plan to deport migrants?” – Nigel Farage has promised to send home 600,000 illegal immigrants, including women and children. The Times breaks down the hurdles he will face.
• “The real significance of Farage’s deportation plan” – The difficulty faced by Farage’s opponents is that, whatever the details, the man’s underlying message on immigration rings entirely true, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
• “Scrap human rights law or small boats will keep coming” – Labour’s latest plan to stem asylum seekers is laughable given its deep attachment to universal rights, writes Melanie Phillips in the Times.
• “Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’” – Sir Keir Starmer has made a forthright defence of the European Convention on Human Rights and says those calling for the country to leave it are “not serious” people, according to LBC.
• “Ethiopian staying in Epping migrant hotel in court for sexual assault” – A court has heard how a migrant sexually assaulted a 14 year-old girl just eight days after arriving in Britain on a small boat, according to the Mail.
• “Oxford academic ‘running operation to bring in foreign workers’” – Oxford University academic and refugee campaigner Dr Ozlem Galip is allegedly running an illicit operation to help bring foreign workers to the UK, reports the Mail.
• “Musk promises to fund legal cases against officials ‘who failed over grooming gangs’” – Elon Musk has pledged to bankroll legal action against officials who turned a blind eye to the grooming gangs after an investigation by Rupert Lowe found at least 85 local authorities are culpable, says the Express.
• “British Authorities Arrest St. George For Brandishing Bladed Weapon At Dragon” – In a spoof article, the Babylon Bee imagines how St George would be treated by the British authorities if he tried to slay a dragon today.
• “In defence of ‘flagshaggers’” – A nation that cannot understand the patriotism of its own people is a nation cutting its own throat, warns Country Squire in a leading article.
• “Record 6.5 million Britons on jobless benefits” – The number of Britons on jobless benefits has hit a record 6.5 million after jumping by 500,000 under Labour, reports the Telegraph.
• “Record jobless benefits are a national scandal” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark warns that Britain’s jobless epidemic is a hidden crisis masked by dodgy unemployment stats and political cowardice.
• “UK vacancies for entry-level jobs hit five-year low” – UK entry-level jobs have plunged to a five-year low, leaving young workers struggling to start their careers as rising costs and Labour’s taxes bite, says Business Matters.
• “The pension tax zealot behind Reeves’s next Budget” – In the Express, Harvey Jones sounds the alarm about the fact that Torsten Bell – who once suggested scrapping the triple lock and hiking pensions – has been promoted to lead Rachel Reeves’ Budget preparations.
• “UK paying a ‘moron premium’ on debt” – Economists are warning Britain is paying a “moron premium” on its debt, as borrowing costs climb back towards their highest since 1998, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Angela Rayner urged to come clean over where she lives” – The Tories have demanded that Angela Rayner come clean over her council tax arrangements after neighbours said they “barely saw her” at the home designated as her primary residence, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why was Lucy Connolly treated so harshly?” – You don’t have to believe Lucy Connolly was a political prisoner to recognise that politics may well have played a role in her deeply unjust treatment, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “Professional bodies have become a major threat to free speech” – As the case of Amy Hamm shows, too much is left to the managerial class to decide when speech crosses some imaginary and entirely subjective line, writes Lisa Bildy in the National Post.
• “Worst ever Notting Hill Carnival for arrests as Met detains 528 people” – Police made a record number of arrests at the ‘mostly peaceful’ Notting Hill Carnival this year, detaining 528 people over the course of two days, according to the Mail.
• “Where did it all go so wrong for Britain?” – How quaint Britain’s big worries of the 1990s now seem, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “China is mounting a silent, hostile takeover of Britain” – Keir Starmer’s Government, in its desperation for growth, has decided to turn a blind eye to the scale of the threat to the UK and other democracies from the growing power of China, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Wind farms could make shellfish too dangerous to eat, study warns” – A new study warns that potentially harmful levels of metal from wind turbine-protection systems could pose risks to ecosystems, seafood safety and human health, according to Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
• “‘Green Europe’s industrial masochism” – European leaders are not jumping on a green bandwagon, but a hearse heading towards self-destruction, says Dr Samuele Furfari in WUWT?
• “Biden admin broke environmental law in wind energy push, leaked government study shows” – For years, Biden’s team claimed offshore wind passed environmental muster – but NOAA now says the Empire Wind project off New York and New Jersey broke the law, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
• “Trump unsettles supposedly settled climate science” – Donald Trump’s presidency has seemingly unsettled the supposedly settled science, disrupting 40 years of “climate change is killing us” dogma in seven short months, writes H. Sterling Burnett in Townhall.
• “Offshore wind’s epic fail” – Revolution Wind isn’t revolution… it’s real steel, scarred seabeds and a subsidy-sucking machine that fails on reliability and habitat, says Dr. Matthew Wielicki on his Irrational Fear Substack.
• “UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts” – In the NY Post, Roger Pielke Jr warns that the UN’s IPCC is letting climate zealotry replace rigorous science.
• “What climate crisis? Weather Channel reports ‘record-breaking cold’ for August” – ZeroHedge notes that August went freezing across much of the US, giving climate doomsters a reality check.
• “Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s offshore wind retreat is long overdue” – For too long, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has pursued a thoughtless political campaign to construct offshore wind projects along American coasts that disrupt local fish stocks and harm ecosystems, says Dustin Delano in the Washington Times.
• “From the atmosphere to the abyss: iron’s role in Earth’s climate history” – Iron is a vital nutrient for marine life and plays a significant role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide by influencing the growth of phytoplankton, which absorb CO₂, explains Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “CDC advisory committee launches review of COVID-19 vaccines” – A Centres for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group will review COVID-19 vaccines, including concerns over lingering mRNA, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Woman ‘raped at Eiffel Tower after being dragged into bushes’ near landmark” – A woman was allegedly raped at night in Paris by a 17 year-old Libyan near the Eiffel Tower, says the Sun.
• “New York model rips German immigration problem after horrific attack” – A New York City male model who was brutally attacked while defending two women in Germany has slammed the nation’s immigration policies, reports the Mail.
• “Norway dumps stake in Caterpillar over West Bank links” – Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, says it has divested from US construction equipment group Caterpillar and five Israeli banking groups on ethical grounds, according to Reuters.
• “We are not being told the truth about Gaza” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explains how Hamas and its useful idiots have poisoned the narrative about the Israel–Gaza war.
• “With Iran exposed, the regime could now turn its attention to new targets” – Australia’s actions in revealing Iran’s activities may result in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps turning its attention to new targets, warns ABC News.
• “Scammers ‘defrauding British women as retribution for colonialism’” – Online scammers in Africa are conning British women out of thousands of pounds as “payback for colonialism”, reports GB News.
• “Kids as young as four sent home for ‘racist’ school behaviour in record numbers” – School suspensions for racism have risen from 7,403 in 2021 to 15,191 last year, says the Mirror.
• “The ‘woke’ language Democrats have been told to stop using” – Democrats have been told to stop using phrases like “birthing person”, “chest feeding” and “cultural appropriation” because they alienate voters, reports Politico.
• “It’s a sign of something momentous” – On GB News, historian Robert Tombs says the UK flag movement reflects opposition to the establishment and a belief that the Government is not patriotic.

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