News Round-Up

• “In backing Sir Keir, Labour MPs are complicit in this too” – Labour MPs who trooped into the lobby for Sir Keir Starmer on the Troubles Bill have made themselves personally responsible for a decision that will haunt the party for years, says Dan Hodges in the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer accused of ‘cover-up’ as Labour MPs rebel over Mandelson” – MPs have voted 335 to 223 against referring the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee, with 15 of his own backbenchers breaking ranks to back an investigation into whether he misled Parliament over Lord Mandelson, reports GB News.
• “Starmer offers Rayner return to Cabinet to avoid coup” – Sir Keir Starmer is thought to be planning a dramatic Cabinet overhaul in a last-ditch effort to rescue his embattled leadership, says GB News.
• “Lords Speaker praises ousted hereditaries for ‘independence of mind’” – The Lords Speaker, Michael Forsyth, has paid tribute to the hereditary peers being removed by Sir Keir Starmer, praising their willingness to defy the whip, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bans on shouting and swearing ‘threaten free speech’” – Councils across Britain have been introducing public space orders banning shouting and swearing, with campaigners warning they are making a mockery of criminal law and eroding free expression, says the Telegraph.
• “John Terry sparks backlash by appearing to support benefits ban for immigrants” – Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has endorsed Rupert Lowe’s post calling for immigrants to be barred from claiming benefits, reports the Mirror.
• “Britain needs schools to build social cohesion – just not the Farage way” – Reform’s idea to make schools fly Union flags and overhaul history lessons is too simplistic, argues former Ofsted head Amanda Spielman in the Telegraph.
• “Barmy Army distances itself from Reform candidate” – The Barmy Army has distanced itself from one of its most recognisable fans after he announced his candidacy for Reform UK in the 2026 local elections, says the Telegraph.
• “Why the Greens have a problem with alcohol” – Green MP Hannah Spencer represents a party which sees no harm in legalising Class A drugs, but objects to alcohol, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “‘Arson attack’ on memorial wall in Golders Green” – Counter-terrorism officers have launched an investigation after a suspected arson attack on a memorial to Iranians killed by the IRGC in Golders Green, according to GB News.
• “The Green Party has become a monster” – In Spiked, former deputy leader Shahrar Ali writes about the authoritarian rot at the heart of Zack Polanski’s Green Party machine.
• “Police investigate Iranian embassy’s call for UK martyrs” – Tehran’s London embassy has been summoned over a Telegram post by the Ambassador urging UK-based Iranians to register for an official martyrdom programme and recruit their own children to die for the regime, reports GB News.
• “Owen Jones is the poster boy for Tehran’s useful idiots” – Owen Jones’s anti-US messaging has turned up on an Iranian regime promotional banner, adding him to a growing list of Western figures whose rhetoric Tehran has been happy to exploit, notes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “The SNP says Scotland has ‘too few’ migrants. Luckily, I’ve got the perfect solution” – The SNP has complained that too few migrants are choosing Scotland, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. The answer is wonderfully close at hand.
• “BP profits double as Iran war triggers oil trading boom” – BP’s quarterly earnings have surged by more than 130% in the wake of the Iran conflict, with campaigners calling it an unearned windfall as millions struggle with energy bills, reports GB News.
• “UAE to leave Opec oil cartel” – The UAE has quit Opec and Opec+ in a major shock to global energy markets, says GB News.
• “Qatar and the ICC Prosecutor” – A witness statement has raised fresh questions about Qatar’s behind-the-scenes influence over ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan and the Netanyahu arrest warrant, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• “The US ‘special relationship’ is with Israel, suggests UK ambassador” – Sir Christian Turner has been caught on a leaked recording telling British sixth formers that America’s only special relationship is with Israel, reports the Times.
• “Trump’s Voice of America: the free-speech crusader pushing MAGA on Europe” – US diplomat Sarah Rogers has pledged $500 million to fight online censorship and has been taking aim at European elites over mass immigration, according to Tim Ross in Politico.
• “US universities are creating a new aristocracy” – The mid-century revolution that turned American universities into engines of social mobility has gone into reverse, with elite institutions now entrenching privilege rather than dismantling it, says James Marriott in the Times.
• “FA claims ‘no proof’ that heading causes long-term brain damage” – The FA has been compared to Big Tobacco after denying any proven link between heading and brain disease, despite the world’s leading authority on CTE calling the evidence overwhelming, reports the Telegraph.
• “David Morens, a top NIH aide to Dr Anthony Fauci, has been indicted for hiding records about the origins of COVID-19” – Fauci’s top aide has been charged with conspiracy and falsifying records after allegedly using personal email to bury the lab leak theory, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
• “Vaxzevria Files 13” – Newly uncovered documents have shed light on why some AstraZeneca vaccine recipients experienced dangerous bleeding, report Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on the Trust The Evidence Substack.
• “MHRA have evidence of harm” – There is growing evidence that the medicines regulator has been sitting on evidence of vaccine-related harm without telling the public, according to Cheryl Grainger on the HART Substack.
• “Tech stocks suffer $180 billion sell-off after ChatGPT misses growth targets” – AI stocks have shed $180 billion in value on fears ChatGPT is proving far less popular with consumers than investors had banked on, reports the Telegraph.
• “The ‘kill’ switch” – On Substack, Dr Robert Malone examines the growing capacity of governments and tech companies to override citizens’ daily lives through digital control.
• “Britain’s AI superpower: a sermon in small print” – Ministers are preaching Net Zero virtue and digital sovereignty while British households underwrite American-owned data centres, note the Rationals on Substack.
• “Major economies turn to coal with LNG supply constrained” – From Europe to South Korea, major economies are turning to carbon-intensive coal to offset constrained supplies of cleaner-burning gas, reports AGBI.
• “Balsa trees illegally logged for wind power” – The wind industry’s dirty secret has been exposed, with balsa wood – a key structural component of turbine blades – found to be sourced through illegal logging operations, according to H. Sterling Burnett in Watts Up With That?
• “Wrong, AP, wildfires have always burned at night” – In Climate Realism, Anthony Watts debunks the Associated Press’s claim that climate change has caused wildfires to burn through the night.
• “IPCC troubles: the latest from Bangkok” – The IPCC’s Bangkok session has ended in failure for the fifth time in a row, with UNEP warning the climate body’s trust fund may run dry before its next major report is even completed, says Robert Bradley Jr. in Master Resource.
• “COP that!” – The latest climate summit has delivered more promises to hold further summits, with the coalition of the willing showing little appetite for anything beyond talking, writes Mark Hodgson in CliScep.
• “Wyoming has a secret eagle-kill organisation” – A little-known Wyoming working group has been quietly managing the deaths of golden eagles to accommodate wind energy expansion, reports David Wojick for CFACT.
• “California leading the nation in number of cities with the most polluted air” – California, despite its green credentials and strict environmental regulations, has claimed the unenviable title of home to the most polluted cities in the United States, says Breitbart.
• “The promises of politicians” – We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit, laments Theodore Dalrymple in the Critic.
• “There’s a stink here, and the public smell it” – Sacha Eastwood gave both barrels to Sir Keir Starmer in Parliament yesterday.

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