News Round-Up

• “The new migrant hotels: the family homes being converted in suburbua” – A secretive government operation is underway to scatter thousands of asylum seekers across working-class communities and on smart private housing estates bought with taxpayers’ money, reveals the Mail.
• “Council row erupts as van with Palestine flag ignored but towed days after St George’s flag added” – Brighton council has sparked anger after ignoring a van with a Palestine flag for months, then towing it the moment a St George’s cross went up, according to GB News.
• “Labour’s new policing minister worked with campaign to defund the police” – Labour’s new policing minister Sarah Jones has longstanding links with StopWatch, a radical group campaigning to “defund the police”, reveals Guido.
• “Rayner replacement must be a woman, says Harman” – Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman says the party must pick a woman from outside London to replace Angela Rayner, according to the BBC.
• “Labour’s deputy leadership race could tear Starmer’s party apart” – The number of potential Starmer foes has only grown, says James Heale in the Spectator.
• “More disruption for Starmer as strategist quits after two weeks” – The Spectator’s Steerpike eyes more chaos for Starmer as his new strategist Tom Kibasi, once a trusted campaign ally, jumps ship from No 10 after just two weeks.
• “Let’s work together to cut welfare bill” – Kemi Badenoch is set to challenge the PM to team up with the Conservatives to slash the welfare bill, according to the Oxford Mail.
• “London exodus is over as bosses call staff back into the office” – Homebuyers are sticking to the capital, sending house sales in relocation hotspots crashing by half, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s Chagos surrender may cost taxpayers £12 billion more than feared” – The Government has been accused of not admitting the true cost of the Chagos surrender, says GB News reporting on a story put out by the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
• “Africa joins crusade for UK to pay reparations for ‘historic crimes’” – Africa is calling for “meaningful reparations” from Britain for exploiting the people and the land across the continent, reports the Express.
• “The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers” – The UK once boasted a proud tradition of free speech, but it’s being eviscerated one arrest at a time, warns Jacob Mchangama for FIRE.
• “Blaming the victims” – There is a worrying trend in the West, whereby the authorities appear to have concluded it’s far easier to prosecute the victims of crime than it is to deal with the actual criminals themselves, writes Frank Haviland on his Substack.
• “Why do so many Brits hate Jews?” – The reaction to the Holocaust did not destroy Jew hate, says Stephen Pollard in the Spectator; it merely buried it.
• “Banksy could be unmasked as police investigate latest stunt” – Banksy could finally be unmasked as police launch an investigation into possible “criminal damage” after a new artwork was sprayed on the Royal Courts of Justice in London, reports the Mail.
• “Ratcliffe’s energy empire abandons UK investment over North Sea tax” – Energy giant Ineos has ceased all British investment and will channel £3 billion into American operations, blaming the Labour Government’s taxation of North Sea oil and gas extraction, according to GB News.
• “Gen Z flock to National Trust as antidote to climate anxiety” – Gen Z are flocking to the National Trust to relieve climate anxiety and get away from social media, reports the Telegraph.
• “No, BBC, climate change isn’t causing water shortages in Scotland” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts blasts the BBC for blaming Scotland’s water troubles on climate change. It’s just normal weather swings and leaky infrastructure, not a crisis.
• “Europe’s most powerful conservative vows to tear up Net Zero rules” – Six years after being passed over in favour of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission, Manfred Weber is leading the charge against her Net Zero laws and the EU ban on petrol cars, writes James Crisp in the Telegraph.
• “Rising-sea hysteria debunked – but the ‘climate change’ cult won’t care” – New data shows global sea levels are rising much slower than climate models predicted, debunking long-standing doomsday claims, says the NY Post.
• “Get the facts straight, Independent, island nations are growing, not ‘sinking into the sea’” – The Independent warns that islands are under threat from rising seas, but data shows that island nations are actually growing, writes H. Sterling Burnett in Climate Realism.
• “Oh noes! Desert soils emit greenhouse gases in minutes!” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts flags a groundbreaking study revealing that desert soils can emit powerful greenhouse gases within minutes of being wetted.
• “CBS News leans on reporting produced by outside climate change group” – CBS News has been airing segments produced by climate change nonprofit Climate Central with the help of a correspondent and a producer who previously worked for the network, reveals Fox News.
• “We’re too dysfunctional to stop small boats, admits French police chief” – A French police chief has admitted that the country’s efforts to stop migrant boats are ineffective in the face of the extreme violence meted out by people-smuggling gangs, reports the Telegraph.
• “France descends into chaos as PM loses confidence vote in humiliation” – Emmanuel Macron has been humiliated after his Government lost a confidence vote, plunging France into political chaos, says the Mail.
• “French PM warns legislators ‘don’t be like Britain!’ as he faces Government collapse” – Outgoing French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has warned the country’s parliament not to tax the rich or face an exodus of millionaires – just like in the UK, reports the Express.
• “Bayrou’s defeat is a warning to Starmer” – France’s economic crisis is a lesson to Britain that countries must learn to live within their means, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “Majorca restaurants and bars devastated by anti-tourist protests” – Restaurant and bar owners in Majorca say that their season has suffered due to a plunge in visitors after the holiday hot-spot was ravaged by yet another summer of hostile anti-tourism protests, reports the Mail. 
• The last stronghold of Hamas is about to fall – The coming battle may be the bloodiest fight of the current Israel-Hamas war, warns Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
• “Argentine markets plunge after Milei’s party loses to Peronists in Buenos Aires vote” – Argentina’s markets have fallen sharply after President Javier Milei was defeated in a crucial provincial election, according to Reuters.
• “Assisted suicide is the largest transfer of power to the NHS in my lifetime” – This Friday the Lords must reject a Bill that gives the state the right to decide when patients should live or die, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Is Jacinda Ardern hiding from Covid scrutiny?” – Jacinda Ardern built her brand on ‘transparent’ leadership, writes David Cohen in the Spectator – yet when it comes to her zero-Covid legacy, she’s nowhere to be seen.
• “Rethinking over-medication in children’s development” – On Substack, Dr Randall Bock argues that children need patience, not pills.
• “Why I drink three to four cups of coffee a day for my health” – In the Telegraph, doctor and gut specialist Tim Spector shares the medical evidence that led him to swap tea for coffee.
• “Secondary school teachers more anxious about diversity than curriculum” – A startling new report reveals that secondary school teachers are now more anxious about diversity than the curriculum, according to the Sun.
• “Feminist campaigner ‘kicked out of Pride for asking safeguarding questions’” – In the Telegraph, gender-critical campaigner and journalist Julie Bindel says that four members of security staff told her to leave Surrey Pride after she interviewed attendees for a podcast.
• “Murdoch buys out liberal children to end succession battle” – Rupert Murdoch’s conservative son Lachlan has secured control of the family’s sprawling media empire in a £2.4 billion deal to buy out the media mogul’s three oldest children and end a long-running succession battle, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
• “Maybe Karma actually exists – a song about Angela Rayner” – On X, Dominic Frisby gives the “Ginger Growler” a musical roasting.

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