News Round-Up

• “Belfast burns as protesters vow to ‘get the foreigners out’” – A bus and a house were set ablaze in Belfast last night as hundreds of protesters defied calls for calm from Government ministers following a brutal knife attack in the city, reports the Mail.
• “Hero bystander reveals how he tackled Sudanese knifeman in Belfast” – Matt McKiernan describes how he beat back a knifeman in Belfast using his son’s hurling stick after stumbling upon the attack on a trip to a petrol station, says the Mail.
• “First rioters jailed over Henry Nowak unrest” – Leon O’Leary, 41, who admitted violent disorder in Southampton and had nine previous convictions, is handed a three-year prison sentence in the first jailing to arise from the Henry Nowak unrest, according to the Times.
• “Nottingham, Southport and Manchester attacks ‘could have been stopped’” – Kemi Badenoch delivers a scathing attack on the public sector equality duty which she says has cost lives and fuelled “separatism and tribalism” in Britain, reports the Mail.
• “Badenoch: police must stop and search more black boys” – Kemi Badenoch blames the Equality Act 2010 for apparent police failings over the murder of Henry Nowak, arguing that officers must be prepared to stop and search more black boys, notes the Telegraph.
• “Only Kemi Badenoch offers Britain hope of a future free from racial grievance” – Badenoch first showed her mettle on race in 2020 by confronting the divisive ideology of Black Lives Matter, and she alone now offers a credible path away from racial grievance politics, writes Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi’s equality reform proposals are long overdue” – In the Spectator, Ian Acheson argues that equality law should be built on treating people fairly and enforcing clear, comprehensible rules that everyone can understand.
• “Henry Nowak, racial justice, and the Church of England” – The murder of Southampton student Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa raises urgent and emotive questions about racial justice and the Church of England’s response, writes Ian Paul in Psephizo.
• “Andy Burnham: I’ll get a grip on illegal migration” – The Manchester Mayor says he would detain more immigrants if he replaced Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, reports the Telegraph.
• “The real reason Keir Starmer is cracking down on social media” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts says Labour’s plan to give 16 year-olds the vote while simultaneously banning them from Instagram exposes an uncomfortable truth about the Government’s motives.
• “Equalities watchdog moves office after threats by trans activists” – The EHRC has been forced to relocate its London headquarters after it was targeted by Bash Back, the same group that launched a cyber attack on the Free Speech Union, says the Times.
• “Trans activism has turned Oxford into a toxic wasteland of censorship” – The shutting down of Michael Foran’s lectures in Oxford is proof that trans activists continue to threaten free speech on British university campuses, writes Max Thompson in Spiked.
• “Nigerians exploiting student visas to land social-care jobs” – International students are exploiting their visas to work in social-care roles for which they are unqualified and inadequately vetted, according to the Telegraph.
• “Trump vows furious revenge on Iran with chilling new threat” – Donald Trump has vowed the US will strike back at Iran after the regime shot down an American Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Mail.
• “Trump says US will declare ‘total victory’ over Iran in two weeks” – President Trump tells South Carolina voters on a call that the US will declare “total victory” over Iran within a fortnight, says the Mail.
• “Tech Secretary attacks ‘Right-wing’ bosses of Palantir” – Liz Kendall hints that US tech giant Palantir could have its NHS contract cancelled after she attacks its bosses as ‘Right-wing’, reports the Telegraph.
• “Met defends use of Palantir tech after Sadiq Khan blocks contract” – The Metropolitan Police has defended Palantir’s technology as capable of detecting fraud and misconduct in minutes, as Sadiq Khan moves to block its contract, according to the Times.
• “Palantir software halves sepsis deaths at US hospital” – A Palantir-developed system that detects subtle changes in vital signs cuts sepsis deaths in half at Tampa General Hospital in Florida, reports the Times.
• “The English don’t know who they are any more” – In the Telegraph, John Lawrence says that attempting to define Englishness has become dangerously controversial in a multicultural age – at least in the eyes of the BBC.
• “VAT, school closures, and lies – don’t let them off the hook” – On her Substack, Isabel Paterson says the claim that independent schools could simply “cut their cloth” in response to Labour’s VAT raid – and stay afloat that way – was always a lie.
• “EU demands sweeping censorship to influence elections” – On her Substack, Pauline Voss reports that Ursula von der Leyen is pushing an Orwellian plan that would impose sweeping speech restrictions under the guise of a so-called ‘Democracy Shield’.
• “Cold kills 9x more than heat – and it blows up the WHO’s climate health crisis” – In Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard notes that the WHO is pushing climate change as a public health emergency, but the cold kills far more than heat while overall weather-related deaths have fallen dramatically.
• “Multibillion pound data centre project risks collapse over Government delays” – A major data centre developer blames the AI minister for failing to secure planning permission, putting a multibillion-pound project in jeopardy, reports the Telegraph.
• “BP drops Net Zero division in wake of boardroom turmoil” – BP has relegated its Net Zero division in an overhaul aimed at increasing its focus on oil and gas, just weeks after the company’s chairman was dismissed, according to the Telegraph.
• “Meet the Green councillor who demanded ‘heads on sticks’” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan profiles Green councillor Michael Chessum, who has a long record of wild statements including a call for “heads on sticks”.
• “Bonfires of the batteries” – In Watts Up With That? Richard Ellenbogen argues that the apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations applying to every other industry is now presenting major complications for communities in New York State.
• “Have I Got News For You needs putting out of its misery” – The BBC’s long-running panel show has become a complacent lapdog of the liberal establishment, and – like Ian Hislop himself – is well past its sell-by date, according to Spiked.
• “Reform UK councils take down Ukrainian flags from town halls” – Some Reform-run local authorities have taken down the Ukrainian flags raised across councils following Russia’s invasion in 2022, flying Union Jack in their place, notes the Mail.
• “ICC suspends its British chief prosecutor Karim Khan” – Karim Khan – the barrister who sought the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes – has stood down from his post after the court’s oversight body referred him for disciplinary proceedings, Reports the Mail.
• “Families with one breadwinner face £12k penalty” – High-income households with a single earner lose more than £12,000 a year due to deep distortions in the tax system, says the Telegraph.
• “The painful truth about Britain’s ‘world-class’ universities” – In the Spectator, Iain Mansfield reveals that in 15 out of 34 subjects, more than a quarter of graduates earned less than the National Living Wage five years after leaving university.
• “How is the Government planning to avoid scope creep when it comes to client-side scanning” – In the House of Lords, I asked a Government minister how she intended to safeguard against the risks associated with mass surveillance and mass censorship.

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