News Round-Up

• “US and Iran reach peace deal with military operations halted” – Donald Trump has announced that America and Iran have agreed to end their conflict after just under three and a half months of hostilities, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer: no more money for defence” – Sir Keir Starmer will not commit any further funds to the military, dashing the hopes of his new Defence Secretary, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer is undermining one of Britain’s biggest industries” – The Prime Minister and the Chancellor are jointly responsible for a defence policy in complete disarray, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Andy Burnham ‘to launch immediate leadership challenge after victory’” – Allies of the Mayor of Greater Manchester believe John Healey’s resignation is a “game-changer” and that Burnham should make his move against Sir Keir Starmer without delay, according to the Times.
• “UK seizure of Russian shadow fleet vessel ‘just the beginning’” – Royal Marines are poised to take further action after commandos boarded an oil tanker in the English Channel, prompting six other ships approaching British waters to turn back, notes the Times.
• “Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under Terrorism Act” – The far-Right activist was held by police at Heathrow Airport at the weekend under counter-terror laws before being released, reveals the Mail.
• “EU students vanish from UK with £893 million in loans” – The Government-owned Student Loans Company is currently trying to track down roughly 42,000 former EU undergraduates who have disappeared with outstanding debt, writes Matt Davis in the Mail.
• “Man charged with attempted murder after stabbing girl in the neck” – Footage shows a man approaching a woman from behind on a road in the Lancashire village of Brierfield before stabbing her in the neck in a shocking daylight attack, reports Jake Holden in the Mail.
• “White people blocked from jobseeker schemes” – White jobseekers are being excluded from a range of taxpayer-funded employment support programmes offered by local authorities, says the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage claims ‘anti-whiteness is institutionalised’ in the UK” – In a 5,000-word essay published on Substack, the Reform UK leader argues that the British state discriminates against white people through what he calls “toxic” legislation, according to the Times.
• “Doom-mongering Anthropic is reaping what it sowed with AI ban” – Having spent years lobbying for restrictive AI regulation, Anthropic now finds itself caught in the Trump administration’s AI export ban – a trap of its own making, argues Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “China’s tentacles are strangling Britain – with Boris Johnson’s help” – A new book, Uneasy Streets by Caroline Knowles, lays bare Beijing’s sprawling influence in the UK – from covert policing outposts to secret embassy rooms – and the role that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson played in enabling it, says the Telegraph.
• “The surge of Europe’s hatred for Israel” – A wave of antisemitic incidents is sweeping Europe, leaving Jewish tourists excluded from saunas, hotels and flights, as hostility towards Israel hardens across the continent, reveals the Mail.
• “Switzerland votes to reject population cap” – Around 55% of Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to limit the country’s population to 10 million people in a referendum, reports the Telegraph.
• “End wind farm scandal to halt energy bills, Miliband urged” – Consumer champion Will Hodson is calling on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to abandon his drive to more than double offshore wind capacity by 2030, warning that the expansion is fuelling the energy bills crisis, says the Times.
• “Tories pin hopes on oil and gas in Aberdeen South by-election” – Kemi Badenoch is targeting Aberdeen South as a winnable seat, with the SNP mired in scandal, Reform distracted and Labour damaged by Ed Miliband’s opposition to North Sea drilling, notes the Times.
• “EV charging companies threaten to axe £2 billion investment if Starmer softens Net Zero targets” – Electric vehicle charging firms are warning they will pull £2 billion of planned investment if Sir Keir Starmer waters down Labour’s Net Zero commitments, claims the Telegraph.
• “‘Gender gap’ threat to electric car sales” – Research for Autotrader finds that 17% of women cite a lack of knowledge about electric vehicle technology as a barrier to purchase, raising fresh concerns about a gender gap undermining EV sales, according to the Times.
• “Time for judicial review of 7th carbon budget?” – On his Substack, David Turver writes that the Climate Change Committee’s seventh carbon budget relies on renewables cost assumptions far lower than the Government’s own latest estimates, raising serious questions about whether the process is legally defensible.
• “The Filton 4: how Polanski, Owen Jones, and Amnesty whitewash violence as protest” – On his Substack, C.J. Strachan argues that the celebration of Palestine Action’s attack on Elbit Systems – which left a police officer with life-changing injuries – by figures including Owen Jones and Amnesty International represents a deeply troubling normalisation of political violence.
• “Palantir uncovers predatory police officers in Met’s ranks” – AI technology that flags naked images on phones and identifies disturbing patterns of behaviour has been used to identify predatory officers within the Metropolitan Police, reports the Times.
• “Roy Hattersley dead at 93: tributes to former deputy leader” – Tributes have been paid to Roy Hattersley, the former Labour Party Deputy Leader, who has died at the age of 93, writes Shannon McGuigan in the Mail.
• “Churchill deliberately starved Indians, says National Portrait Gallery display” – A video installation by artist Helen Cammock, currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery, claims that Winston Churchill deliberately starved Indians to death, reports the Telegraph.
• “British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals” – American lawyers have vented their frustration with London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a “pay war” for the best British junior talent, notes the Times.
• “There is a pattern of behaviour, and we have a level of activist corruption within the police force” – On Free Speech Nation, Josh Howie interviews Andrew Gilligan about the policy paper published by the National Association of Muslim Police which defends Hamas.

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