News Round-Up

• “Sikh man who fatally stabbed student jailed for life” – Vickrum Digwa has been jailed for life for murdering 18 year-old University of Southampton student Henry Nowak with a Sikh ceremonial knife, reports ITV News.
• “Police left our son to die then treated his killer with decency” – The father of Henry Nowak has described how he is “tormented” by thoughts of his son bleeding to death on the floor chained in handcuffs while police treated his murderer with “decency”, says the Telegraph.
• “Mandelson files: everything we know” – The Telegraph has picked out the key issues around Lord Mandelson’s ill-fated US ambassadorial appointment, after the Government released the final tranche of the Mandelson files.
• “Labour’s ‘trade envoy’ MPs spend record £224,000 in a year on business class flights” – Labour’s trade envoy programme for MPs has racked up a record annual bill of £224,331 in travel costs, with taxpayers footing the bill for business class flights, says Guido Fawkes.
• “Young farmers all support Reform” – Jeremy Clarkson says support for Reform UK is burgeoning among young farmers and that there’s not a “farmer alive who’s Labour any more”, according to the Times.
• “Support for Restore points to greater disorder” – The rise of Restore signals a deeper disorder in British political life, warns Paul Goodman in the Times.
• “Desert Island Discs no-platforming Farage shows what’s gone wrong with the BBC” – Desert Island Discs once hosted Hitler-admirer Diana Mosley but now refuses to give airtime to Britain’s most popular politician, notes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “Is Britain right to ban Cenk Uygur?” – With Piers Morgan left embarrassed as yet another of his guests is deemed persona non grata by the Home Secretary, the question of whether banning Cenk Uygur is justified demands an answer, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “Falling birth rates are an existential threat – yet the political class is silent” – Britain is giving up on babies, yet despite the sky-high stakes, political parties remain conspicuously quiet about the collapse in births, notes James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
• “London’s deepening childlessness crisis” – Nearly 100,000 children under 10 vanished from London’s demographic picture between 2013 and 2023 – the equivalent of 250 primary schools, says the Telegraph.
• “The Left has forgotten the value of argument” – Labour and the Greens are dodging questions and censoring ideas rather than engaging in the frank exchanges of view that democracy demands, says James Marriott in the Times.
• “Police force tells officers to log anti-Islam conversations” – South Wales Police has been accused of threatening free speech after instructing officers to record instances of “hostility” towards Muslims, reports the Telegraph.
• “Khan accuses MAGA and Russia of spreading disinformation about London” – Sir Sadiq Khan has accused an imaginary list of enemies of spreading disinformation about London on social media, according to the Telegraph.
• “Jewish lesbian couple thrown out of ‘LGBTQ sauna’” – A Jewish lesbian couple were ejected from a Spanish LGBTQ+ sauna after a fellow customer spotted one of them wearing a Star of David pendant, reports the Mail.
• “‘My 15 year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin. My family celebrated by dancing in the street’” – In the Guardian, a female relative of murdered Iraqi teenager Kawthar al-Husayjawi describes how the girl was killed for refusing a forced marriage – and shares her fears for other women and girls facing the same fate.
• “Autism’s vaccine verdict: conviction via convictions?” – The question of whether the scientific consensus on autism and vaccines has been shaped by ideology rather than evidence is examined by Randall Bock on his Substack.
• “Meta ‘acting like medieval king’ by silencing whistleblower” – Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of a memoir about working at Facebook called Careless People, was too cowed by Meta’s legal threats to speak at the Hay Festival, reports the Times.
• “Anthropic first AI titan to file for IPO in battle of giants” – The maker of Claude has beaten rivals OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI to become the first major AI company to file for an IPO, putting it in pole position in the race to go public, says the Times.
• “Drax buys operator of solar and wind farms in £560 million deal” – Drax, owner of Britain’s largest power station, has acquired Bluefield Solar in a £560 million deal as it hopes to move away from biomass power, reports the Times.
• “Would you rather live near a battery energy storage system or a nuclear plant?” – Battery energy storage facilities are far less safe than the nuclear plants they replace, says Richard Ellenbogen in Watts Up With That?
• “Data centres can make neighbourhoods up to 4°F hotter” – Researchers studying data centre impacts in Phoenix, Arizona, found that they can raise nearby air temperatures by up to 4°F (2°C), according to Gizmodo. Don’t tell the Met, or they’ll stick a weather station next to one.
• “Germany’s ecological holocaust: once fairy tale forests getting cleared for wind turbines” – Germany’s ancient forests are being felled to make way for wind turbines in the name of green energy, reports P. Gosselin at notrickszone.com.
• “RCP8.5: the ultimate elephant gun?” – In Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway examines the truth behind the recent demise of the most extreme climate modelling scenario.
• “The climate house of cards is finally collapsing” –  The climate change industrial complex’s credibility and decades of scaremongering under the false flag of “science” should never again be taken seriously, says Peter Murphy for CFACT.
• “Net Zero just cut Aussie wheat production by 50%” – Australia’s Net Zero policies have been linked to a dramatic 50% reduction in the country’s wheat production, according to Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
• “Police force says trans officers can use women’s lavatories” – Gwent Police, which covers South East Wales, has insisted that trans officers are allowed to use women’s lavatories and showers, says the Telegraph.
• “Why does a museum want to cancel its own Charles Dickens exhibition?” – Britain’s absurdly right-on heritage sector is slowly destroying its raison d’être, warns Sean Walsh in Spiked.
• “Adolfo Daniel Vallejo fined $65,000 for sexist remarks at French Open” – Paraguayan tennis player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo has been fined £48,000 for “sexist remarks” in which he suggested that only a male umpire could have stood up to the rowdy crowd during his match against a Frenchman at the French Open, says the Sun.
• “Meghan Markle called expensive candles ‘obnoxious’ before selling them” – The Duchess of Sussex once insisted that selling candles for more than $100 would violate her “girl next door” business ethos – before launching a £190 range of her own, reveals the Mail.
• “Wake up and do something about this!” – In the Lords yesterday, ex-Secretary of State for Employment Lord Hunt of Wirral slammed the Government over rising youth unemployment, warning that the UK is heading back towards levels last seen under Labour in 2008.

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