News Round-Up

• “Can Trump’s Gaza peace deal last?” – The Palestinian movement has not earned peace, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator; it must show that it wants more than survival, more than revenge and more than martyrdom.
• “After two years of agony, relief: the hostages are coming home” – Donald Trump deserves no small part of the credit for getting the first part of this deal over the line, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “To keep his Nobel dream alive, Trump needs this peace deal to survive” – After eight months of stalled negotiations Trump has hailed a breakthrough – but there’s a long way still to go, writes Katy Balls in the Times.
• “Trump has dealt a devastating blow to Israelophobia” – Trump’s peace deal has left the West’s Israel-haters with nowhere left to hide, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “J.K. Rowling, Mia Khalifa and the delusion of the pro-Palestine mob” – Tens of millions have cheered on a doomed extremist project that has brought nothing but misery to Jews and Arabs alike, writes Nick Cohen in the Spectator.
• “The increasing fear felt by Britain’s Jews” – The Jews of Manchester are the latest victims of the intifada that people on our streets have demanded for years, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “How a war over the Union Flag is dividing Faversham” – A Kent market town has become the focus of an extraordinary battle between ‘Raise the Colours’ protesters and anti-racism activists, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
• “Islamic extremist plotted deadly mustard gas attack on UK shopping centre” – A Muslim-convert who boasted of wanting to “kill Jews” may have been hatching a deadly mustard gas attack on a shopping centre when counter terror police raided his home, reports the Express.
• “Horror as ‘knifeman attacks people and police outside college’” – Four people have been left injured after a man with a knife assaulted people outside a Bradford college, says the Express.
• “More than 1,000 small boat migrants cross to Britain in one day again” – More than 1,000 small boat migrants crossed the Channel to reach Britain on Wednesday, with the Home Office confirming 1,075 arrivals in 15 dinghies over 24 hours, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer’s digital ID cards will not stop migrants, says head of Calais region” – Calais regional chief Xavier Bertrand says Sir Keir Starmer’s digital ID plan “won’t stop” illegal Channel crossings, and that the UK–France “one in, one out” migrant swap could make the crisis even worse, according to the Telegraph.
• “Foreign dancers and interior designers exempt from Mahmood visa ban” – Foreign dancers, interior designers, musicians and writers are expected to be exempt from a visa ban being introduced by Shabana Mahmood in a bid to lower net migration, reports GB News.
• “Robert Jenrick is right” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle backs Robert Jenrick for daring to “notice” Birmingham’s demographics.
• “What Robert Jenrick gets wrong about activist judges” – Judges will continue to make irrational decisions about asylum and immigration as long as the law lets them, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “Crack down on Islamic radicalism or watch it spread” – In TCW, Gavin S. Innes warns Britain risks chaos if it soft-pedals on Islamic radicalism.
• “The UK region facing a ‘new level of toxicity’ as asylum seeker tensions explode” – Government officials have been warned about the breakdown of social cohesion, anger and emotions over the UK’s migrant crisis, reports the Express.
• “What the British ‘spies’ were really doing in China” – In the Telegraph, Allegra Mendelson reports Britain’s so-called China spies are off the hook after prosecutors failed to prove they’d leaked anything useful to Xi’s top brass.
• “Security veteran ‘baffled’ over collapse of China ‘spy’ trial” – Ex-ministers say hundreds of espionage incidents were flagged to mark Beijing as a national security threat, but Labour failed to act, according to the Times.
• “More than half of taxpayers want inheritance tax abolished” – More than half of taxpayers support abolishing inheritance tax as a record number of families are forced to pay death duties, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Economic growth, who, me? Not with these taxes” – Dan Neidle’s critique of high marginal tax rates is spot-on, but the harms caused are wider, deeper and longer-lasting than he identifies, says Isabel Paterson on her Substack.
• “Labour could give digital ID cards to 13 year-olds” – Children as young as 13 could be forced to have digital ID cards under “sinister” plans to expand the role of the state in people’s lives, reports the Mail.
• “The Conservatives are back from the brink, but there’s still a long way to go” – Kemi’s speech may have cheered Tories, but David Frost in the Telegraph warns the party still struggles with Net Zero, the ECHR and voter trust.
• “What the collapse of Liberal Democrat membership says about the future of politics” – Lib Dem membership has almost halved under Ed Davey – a clear symptom of centrism’s decline, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Our telecoms infrastructure is stuck in the past” – London is now at the bottom of the European league for 5G quality and the UK as a whole ranks near the back for both speed and availability, writes Thomas Evans in CapX.
• “Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe was stonewalled by Ed Miliband when he asked the Energy Secretary to discuss his policies on Net Zero and the North Sea, reports the Telegraph. 
• “One of world’s biggest windfarm developers to cut quarter of workforce” – Troubled wind farm operator Ørsted has put hundreds of UK jobs at risk as part of a sweeping overhaul to cut costs, says the Guardian.
• “Spain at risk of fresh Net Zero blackouts” – Spain’s electricity grid operator has warned that the country is at risk of Net Zero blackouts just months after similar issues left millions without power, reports Reuters.
• “How the media turned “questioning a UN bureaucrat” into a hate crime against science” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter shows how climate critics like Roger Pielke Jr. get attacked for questioning UN scientist Friederike Otto, while the media shields her.
• “Have renewables overtaken coal?” – Kathryn Porter flagged claims that renewables now outpace coal, but as Paul Homewood shows on NoTricksZone, including hydro and wood skews the stats – wind and solar still cover only 15% of global electricity.
• “False, Yahoo News, Cape Coral isn’t sinking” – Yahoo News claims Cape Coral is “vanishing” under rising seas, but actual data tells a different story, says Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
• “Democrats, media rushed to blame deadly California fire on climate change. It was actually arson” – Democrats and much of the media blamed California’s Palisades Fire on climate change, but federal prosecutors have charged an arsonist, reports the Free Beacon.
• “Ireland won’t reintroduce hate speech law” – Ireland’s Justice Minister says he won’t bring back failed hate speech laws, adding he’s “fairly satisfied” Ireland has met EU rules, according to Gript.
• “Jihadist plot ‘to kill PM with drone attack’ foiled” – Belgium claims it has foiled a jihadist plot to kill the Prime Minister and other politicians with a drone attack, reports the Express.
• “Choose me! French Duke urges return to ‘monarchic heritage’” – The Duke of Anjou has criticised the country’s deepening “political and institutional crisis” and urged the French to look to their “monarchic heritage” as a source of renewal and hope, says Brussels Signal.
• “America reverts to calling mpox ‘monkeypox’ in anti-woke drive” – America’s top public health agency has reverted to calling mpox ‘monkeypox’ despite a broad consensus that the original name for the virus is scientifically inaccurate, reports the Telegraph.
• “Harry Judd’s wife Izzy details parenting a neurodivergent child” – McFly drummer Harry Judd’s wife says one of their children has “pathological demand avoidance” – a controversial condition that makes even simple requests, like tidying a room or saying please and thank you, trigger anxiety, says the Mail.
• “Revealed: the Left-wing bias in Britain’s establishment” – The Left-wing bias of the establishment has been revealed in a survey of their views on politics, free speech, the empire and racism, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape” – Ex-Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, according to Sky News.
• “Leonardo DiCaprio’s woke ‘pro-Antifa’ blockbuster is box office flop” – Leonardo DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another has sparked backlash from conservative audiences despite being the most critically-acclaimed film of the year, reports the Mail.

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