News Round-Up

• “Police officer in Henry Nowak murder case resigns” – A police officer involved in the arrest of Henry Nowak has resigned following the release of damning bodyworn camera footage, reports GB News.
• “That’s someone’s boy. That could be my boy” – Kemi Badenoch describes her horror at the police bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest in an interview in the Times.
• “Did anti-racism condemn Henry Nowak to die?” – The contempt shown by officers towards an innocent teenager dying at their feet raises urgent questions about whether anti-racism ideology cost Henry Nowak his life, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “The treatment of Henry Nowak’s killer was all about race” – In the Spectator, Gus Carter says he has some sympathy for Nowak’s arresting officers, not because he thinks what they did was excusable, but because they are trained to behave in this absurd, inhumane way.
• “Institutional racism, reversed: Henry Nowak and the fatal consequences of racialised policing” – On his Substack, C.J. Strachan warns that the Henry Nowak case vindicates his reporting from 18 months ago – that the introduction of Critical Race Theory into the bloodstream of British policing is fostering an institutional culture of anti-white racism with potentially fatal consequences.
• “Henry Nowak’s death shows how brainwashed Britain’s police have become” – A blameless teenager died because officers in 2026 feared accusations of ‘racism’ more than their duty of care, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “I don’t think you have, mate” – On the Free Mind Substack, Laura Dodsworth examines the Henry Nowak case and what it reveals about the police’s conduct, invoking Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil.
• “There must be no two-tier policing” – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood insists that police have a “sacred duty” to enforce the law “without fear or favour” in the wake of the Nowak case, according to the Telegraph.
• “Call to end policing race plan after ‘two-tier’ accusations” – Police chiefs are to review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently, reports the Times.
• “What really happened in the Manchester airport brawl case?” –
  The decision not to pursue a third trial in the Manchester Airport brawl case leaves unanswered questions about how a key charge ended up with two hung juries in a row, writes John O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Reform election chances growing as it’s ‘more than a protest party’” – Prof Sir John Curtice says his latest analysis shows Reform UK’s supporters form a “coalition” of people with “distinct socially conservative views”, making a Reform general election victory an increasingly realistic prospect, according to the Mail.
• “Burnham rules out snap election if he ousts Starmer” – Andy Burnham has declared he would not call an early general election if he became PM, reports the Standard.
• “Government borrowing £60 billion higher than OBR prediction” – The OBR spending watchdog has admitted its forecast for UK economic expansion was “too optimistic”, says the Times.
• “Private schools have lost 30,000 pupils since introduction of VAT” – Pupil numbers have fallen by 6.6% in some year groups since VAT was put on to independent school fees, reveals the Times.
• “The triple lock has to go – but political cowardice will preserve it” – The triple lock has lifted the state pension to around 30% of average earnings and must be scrapped. Yet no politician has the courage to act, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Second Labour figure’s messages to Mandelson lost after ‘phone theft’” – A second senior Labour figure was unable to hand over any messages exchanged with Peter Mandelson because their mobile phone was stolen, echoing ex-Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney’s unfortunate brush with a criminal five days later, reports the Mail.
• “PM’s WhatsApp messages are deleted automatically, Downing Street says” – Downing Street has insisted Sir Keir Starmer’s WhatsApp messages are deleted automatically, after the Conservatives claimed he had deleted his messages with Lord Mandelson, says the Telegraph.
• “Oxford Union President said Hamas would be ‘lauded as heroes’” – The Oxford Union President claimed that Hamas’s actions on October 7th were “proportional” and that the terrorists should be “lauded as heroes”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Changing old novels to avoid offence ‘Orwellian’, says Lee Child” – Jack Reacher author Lee Child says ordering writers to remove sentences from earlier works to avoid causing offence is ‘Orwellian’ and denies future readers a true record of the past, says the Times.
• “Trump has Iran over a barrel” – Donald Trump’s unconventional approach to the Iran ceasefire has left Tehran with precious little room to manoeuvre, writes Roger Kimball in the Spectator.
• “Study linking vaccines to SIDS deleted” – A major science publisher has removed a peer-reviewed article linking vaccines to sudden infant death syndrome, declaring it too dangerous for doctors and parents to read, according to Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
• “Concerns regarding the UK COVID-19 Inquiry Module 4” – Serious questions have been raised about the continuing misrepresentation of counterfactual modelling in the Covid Inquiry, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson on their TTE Substack.
• “Scientists warn there’s an 80% chance of super El Niño this summer” – The World Meteorological Organisation says there is now an 80% likelihood of an El Niño event during June–August 2026 and a 90% chance it will continue until at least November, according to the Mail.
• “Your bills. Their dividends” – On Substack, the Rationals carry a damning investigation into where British energy bill money actually goes.
• “Britons recommended to ‘cycle more and eat less meat’ to hit Net Zero targets” – The Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budget paper calls for the British public to cycle more and cut meat consumption in order to meet Net Zero targets, reports GB News.
• “Wrong, AP, computer simulations don’t mean smashed heat records will occur” – The Associated Press’s claim that Earth is “overwhelmingly likely” to repeatedly surge past 1.5°C and suffer escalating extremes is highly misleading and built almost entirely on computer simulations rather than actual data, claims Anthony Watts at ClimateRealism.
• “Are climate models ‘just physics’?” – Policymakers urgently need a clearer understanding of climate models before acting on their projections, says Dr Craig Loehle in Watts Up With That?
• “Ford ditches EVs – again” – Ford has once again retreated from electric vehicles, notes Robert Bradley Jr. at Master Resource.
• “How does China aim to hit climate targets? It rewrites the rules” – China has made an accounting adjustment to how it counts carbon emissions, making its Net Zero targets significantly easier to meet without any actual reduction in pollution, says the Times.
• “Only a sexual revolution can save us now” – Young people must abandon their excessive sensibleness and embrace a sexual revolution if Britain’s demographic decline is to be reversed, writes Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “I’m not woke enough to win literary awards” – Conservative author Lionel Shriver claims she has been shut out of literary prizes because she does not belong to “woke world”, according to the Telegraph.
• “We are basically told to put a lid on it” – On GB News, Claire Fox skewers the liberal hand-wringers asking us not to ‘politicise’ the murder of Henry Nowak, contrasting it with their reaction to the death George Floyd.

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