News Round-Up

• “Starmer begs for political future with ‘political infighting’ warning” – The Prime Minister has pleaded for party unity amid reports that three senior Labour figures are preparing to mount a leadership challenge, reports the Mail.
• “Cabinet rebels will unite to oust PM if local elections a disaster” – Senior figures are said to be ready to tell Sir Keir Starmer that the party’s best interests require him to agree a timetable for leaving Downing Street, says the Mail.
• “Burnham wins over Labour’s ruling body” – Sir Keir Starmer loyalists on Labour’s ruling body are no longer prepared to block Andy Burnham’s return to Parliament, the Telegraph has learnt.
• “An election may come sooner than we think” – Thursday’s results are not the end of Labour’s agony but the beginning of a greater crisis, warns the Mail on Sunday in a leading article.
• “Corbyn opponents warn Starmer over antisemitism” – Former Labour MPs are among 80 peers warning the PM that Britain is “profoundly failing” the Jewish community, reports the Telegraph.
• “Antisemitism has become acceptable at dinner parties” – Kemi Badenoch claims that antisemitic remarks have become normalised in polite conversation under Labour, according to the Telegraph.
• “Irish state broadcaster in antisemitism row over Boy George interview” – Holocaust Awareness Ireland has condemned Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty for showing a “singular lack of empathy when speaking about Jews” during his recent interview with Boy George, reports the Telegraph.
• “Child cycled up to me and said ‘Heil Hitler’” – Rob Rinder claims that a young boy shouted “Heil Hitler” at him on a street in London, according to the Telegraph.
• “Zack Polanski defends pro-Palestine ‘peace’ marches” – The Green Party leader has again questioned whether police officers at the Golders Green arrest scene used “proportionate force” to arrest the suspect, says the Mail.
• “I want to talk to people who disagree with me” – In the Times, Decca Aitkenhead grills the embattled Greens leader on his response to the Golders Green attack, his economic vision and his party’s troubling lack of diversity.
• “Met chief meddled in election by criticising me” – The Green Party leader has reignited his row with Sir Mark Rowley, accusing the Met Police commissioner of improper interference in the local elections, reports the Telegraph.
• “It’s not just Zack Polanski’s name that’s different…” – A Mail investigation has revealed that the Green Party leader once campaigned as a Lib Dem under a different name.
• “Green candidate posted fake picture of Di wearing Palestinian clothing” – A Green Party election candidate who was related by marriage to David Cameron’s family has been forced to apologise for posting pro-Hamas propaganda – including a picture of Princess Diana doctored to show her wearing Palestinian clothing, reports the Mail.
• “Candidates in Birmingham give out sweets to celebrate Iran’s ‘success’” – Two Workers Party of Britain candidates posted a video praising Iran after it blocked the Strait of Hormuz, reveals the Mail.
• “Tommy Robinson ‘booked by Oxford Union to speak at a debate on Islam’” – Tommy Robinson has reportedly accepted an invitation to debate whether the West is right to be suspicious of Islam at the Oxford Union, reports the Mail.
• “Cost of a pint hits £10 in London for first time” – A growing number of high-end bars are now charging £10 or more for draught and bottled beer, with some venues billing drinkers £11 a pint, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Teenager is charged over ‘bomb hoax’ at Peter Kay gig” – Omar Majed, 19, has been charged with making false bomb communications after a Peter Kay concert was abandoned 45 minutes in, reports the Mail.
• “Moment serial shoplifter fills up bag with Boots beauty products” – CCTV footage shows a serial shoplifter brazenly stealing Maybelline cosmetics from a Boots store with the help of a female accomplice as part of a £100,000 haul, says the Mail.
• “Burglar awarded £5.5 million for jail stabbing moans the ‘money’s a curse’” – A career criminal who successfully sued the Ministry of Justice after being stabbed 16 times in a prison kitchen has complained that the taxpayer-funded windfall has blighted his life, reports the Mail.
• “NSPCC first introduced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to Peter Mandelson” – A former NSPCC director says he has “sleepless nights” over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson working together on one of the charity’s biggest child abuse campaigns, amid visits to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Mail.
• “Violent BBC presenter ‘broke wrist of female colleague’” – The BBC has been accused of a scandalous cover-up following claims a presenter broke the wrist of one of his female colleagues in a physical altercation, says the Mail.
• “Doctor leading strikes has lucrative sideline selling software to NHS” – The union chief presiding over doctors’ pay demands is also running a business that sells payroll software to the very organisation his members are striking against, reveals the Mail.
• “Keeping the Falkland Islands British not very important, under-25s say” – Voters under 25 are far less likely than older generations to consider retaining sovereignty over the Falklands a priority, according to the Mail.
• “France, take note! Belgian police crack down on small boat gangs” – Small boat gangs switching cross-Channel smuggling operations from France to Belgium have been hit by an unprecedented wave of arrests, reports the Mail.
• “Europe’s immigration problem: people, not accounting units” – In the Epoch Times, Theodore Dalrymple argues that Europe’s political class treats mass migration as an abstraction, ignoring the human costs it imposes on ordinary citizens.
• “The three ways Iran is targeting Britain” – Direct operatives, proxy groups and the nurturing of homegrown terrorism are emerging as a major and growing threat to the UK, notes Ali Hamedani in the Sunday Times.
• “Israel tightens grip on rat-infested Gaza” – The Israeli army has pushed further into Gaza, according to its radio service, increasing the area of the strip controlled by Israel, says the Telegraph.
• “Whisper it, but Trump’s blockade is working” – In the Telegraph, Jake Wallis Simons argues that Iran is enduring its worst economic crisis since 1979, with its shadow oil trade strangled and its leadership in disarray.
• “White House shooting suspect complains about his prison conditions” – Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect who allegedly opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has complained that his prison conditions are a violation of his rights, according to the Mail.
• “Fauci’s co-conspirator(s) indicted” – In his Substack, Jim Haslam reports that David Morens – Anthony Fauci’s longtime senior scientific adviser – has been criminally charged with destroying records and conspiracy against the United States.
• “Miliband ‘covered up’ document showing Net Zero plan will increase electricity bills” – Ed Miliband has been accused of suppressing evidence that Labour’s Net Zero strategy would push up household energy costs, says the Telegraph.
• “Buying a tumble dryer is now an act of resistance” – Ed Miliband’s Net Zero nannying is more than just an intrusion into our homes, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “How the free market cancelled BP’s renewable energy push” – Investor pressure and collapsing returns forced BP to abandon its green energy strategy – proof that Adam Smith’s invisible hand trumps Net Zero ideology, says Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Wind energy is toxic, hazardous to human health, scientific review shows” – A new peer-reviewed study finds that low-frequency infrasound from wind turbines can cause mitochondrial dysfunction, heart fibrosis and cognitive damage, among other serious health risks, writes P. Gosselin in NoTricksZone.
• “There is no drought emergency in Washington State” – Washington State’s drought emergency declaration – the fourth consecutive year authorities have issued one – is flatly contradicted by the meteorological facts on the ground, says Cliff Mass on the Cliff Mass Weather Blog.
• “Aussie One Nation’s condition for a future coalition government deal” – Australia’s One Nation, riding high in national polls, has laid out abolishing the Department of Climate Change as a hard precondition for backing any future Right-wing coalition in Australia, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Nothing will change while such useful idiots are in charge” – Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has accused Labour of being too frightened of trans activists to implement Supreme Court-backed guidance on single-sex spaces, according to GB News.
• “Seven in 10 drivers have battled to pay for parking on their phone” – The hunt for a mobile signal has replaced the scramble for coins as Britain’s most hated parking frustration, reveals the Mail.
• “BBC ‘knew who Banksy was eight years ago but didn’t want to spoil it’” – The BBC’s former New York correspondent Nick Bryant has revealed that he caught the elusive street artist Banksy on film in 2018 but was told by bosses to bury the scoop, reports the Telegraph.
• “Goths and steampunks warned to leave their swords and guns at home” – Attendees at Whitby Goth Weekend have been told to leave prop weapons and even water pistols at home to prevent a “catastrophic” accident at the seaside event, according to the Mail.
• “This is utterly SUPERB from Trevor Phillips!” – Lee Harris praises Trevor Phillips’s interview with Zack Polanski on his Sunday morning show on Sky yesterday.

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