News Round-Up

• “Somalia-born man charged with five counts of attempted murder after horror hit and run spree in West London” – A Somalia-born man has been charged with five counts of attempted murder following a hit-and-run spree in West London that left three victims requiring air ambulance treatment, reports GB News.
• “Bystanders ‘smashed car windows to get to driver’ who ploughed into pedestrians” – Bystanders tried to smash the windows of a car in an attempt to get to the driver after it ploughed into a group of pedestrians in West London, says the Telegraph.
• “Nearly 5,000 migrants that had been deported returned to Britain within years” – An investigation has uncovered that approximately 4,300 previously deported migrants were discovered back in Britain during the period from 2021 to 2025, according to GB News.
• “Record 20,000 foreign criminals avoid deportation” – The number of foreign offenders living freely in the UK has doubled since 2020, reports the Telegraph.
• “Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges” – Hundreds of ordinary members of the public are to be trained up as adjudicators for asylum appeals under reforms by the Home Secretary aimed at accelerating the process, says the Times.
• “Labour’s latest immigration plan is pure insanity” – A government which was serious about solving Britain’s migration crisis would understand that it has to bring both ILR and the asylum system to an end, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “The cult of Andy Burnham is sinister and un-British” – Andy Burnham’s devoted following is as gullible, docile and brainwashed as the Moonies, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Give me 10 years to transform Britain” – The incoming Prime Minister has set out his plan to boost the economy through devolution, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tax raids on the middle classes are in Burnham’s 10-year plan” – Andy Burnham is set to unveil a Left-wing plan for a decade in power that includes a tax raid on middle-class Southerners, says Jason Groves in the Mail.
• “Burnham wealth taxes would be ‘huge blow’ for Britain” – Business groups have warned Andy Burnham will deal “a huge blow” to Britain’s economy if he follows calls to ramp up wealth taxes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s ill-considered tourist levy will be the death knell for UK seaside towns” – Granting local authorities the power to enforce a tourist tax will price many hardworking families out of their usual summer break, warns Chris Moss in the Telegraph.
• “Andy Burnham’s reality TV show rise” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill writes that Burnham’s journey to No 10 follows a template familiar from reality TV – right down to his wife Marie-France van Heel’s past as a contestant on Blind Date.
• “Civil Service accused of home working cover-up” – Ministers have been accused of misleading the public by hiding the true scale of civil servants working from home, reports the Telegraph.
• “An indefensible defence policy” – Britain’s strategic defence ambitions are fundamentally incompatible with the country’s welfare bill, says Henry Hill in the Critic.
• “The Right must unite – by following the Thatcher playbook” – The fractured Right must look to Thatcherite principles as the blueprint for rebuilding unity, writes John Wycliffe in the Conservative Woman.
• “The social contract is fundamentally broken” – In the Spectator, Sebastian Milbank argues that behind the high-profile theatre of Westminster and Wigan, a bleaker and more human-scale crisis of national trust is quietly unfolding – Britain is no longer taking care of its children.
• “Lib Dems must stop discriminating against Christians, says former leader” – Tim Farron has warned that prejudicial behaviour towards Christians within the Lib Dems “must not happen again” as the party prepares to pay damages to a deselected candidate, reports the Telegraph.
• “King made to sit through ‘anti-British’ play at Scottish Parliament” – The King should not have been made to endure an “anti-British” performance at the opening of the Scottish Parliament, says the Telegraph.
• “Starmer ‘eyeing up Nato chief role’” – Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly considering a future job as the Secretary General of Nato, according to the Telegraph.
• “How German trains became the shame of a nation” – Once a byword for punctuality and efficiency, Germany’s rail network has collapsed into chronic delays and underinvestment, notes James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “The fate of Germany’s Jewish footballing hero is a lesson for our times” – Germany’s top-scoring football hero was erased from history because he was Jewish, while his best friend was murdered at Auschwitz. In the Telegraph, Michael Coren tells a powerful story of how hatred starts with exclusion long before it ends in atrocity.
• “Locked up like an animal, forced to witness rape, tortured” – Israelis taken hostage by Hamas gunmen on October 7th, 2023, have revealed the full scale of the horror they endured in captivity, writes Imogen Garfinkel in the Mail.
• “The UN’s toxic obsession with Israel lets the world’s worst regimes off the hook” – The UN’s disproportionate focus on Israel has long ceased to be a procedural curiosity and has become a pathology that shields the world’s most abusive regimes from scrutiny, says Edmund Fitton-Brown in the Telegraph.
• “Russia is facing problems in Ukraine war” – Vladimir Putin has made a rare admission that Russia is encountering serious difficulties in the Ukraine war as Kyiv’s bombardment of energy targets ratchets up pressure on Moscow, reports the Telegraph.
• “The $238 million Manhattan penthouse at the heart of America’s wealth tax war” – Hedge fund giant Ken Griffin’s $238 million Manhattan penthouse has become the unlikely symbol of America’s escalating battle over wealth taxes, writes Benedict Smith in the Telegraph.
• “Low immigration and a dose of Thatcherism: how South Korea overtook the UK” – South Korea’s combination of tight immigration controls and free-market reforms has left Britain in the rear-view mirror, notes Hans van Leeuwen in the Telegraph.
• “Brussels could reopen the fight to scan your private chats” – Just four months after lawmakers killed the proposal, the EU is pushing for another attempt to mandate scanning of citizens’ private messages, writes Ken Macon in Reclaim the Net.
• “Labour’s eco zealots are waging a clueless class war on British farming” – The Government’s ludicrous lentil policy proves ministers care more about plant-based fantasies than feeding a nation, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s £400 million rainforest pledge shelved over ‘optics concerns’” – The Treasury has blocked Ed Miliband’s plan to bung £400 million to a global rainforest conservation scheme, fearing the timing would ignite a damaging political row, reports the Times.
• “Housebuilder behind ‘flat-pack’ Net Zero homes on brink of collapse” – Agile, a housebuilder specialising in social and Net Zero housing built in partnership with local authorities, NHS trusts and charities, is on the verge of collapse, according to the Telegraph.
• “Plug-in solar safety shocker” – On his Substack, David Turver reveals that a safety study on plug-in solar panels failed to test the protection devices found in most homes and was produced by an apparently unqualified author.
• “Heat and drought in Germany are nothing new, archive media show” – Historical archive media records demonstrate that heat and drought in Germany are far from unprecedented modern phenomena, writes P. Gosselin on No Tricks Zone.
• “France blames US for deadly heatwave” – A Paris official has hit back at mockery over the country’s lack of air conditioning, arguing that America bears responsibility for the record-breaking temperatures, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fire fighting in EU: don’t forget the decade of policy failures in California” – Whether in the Mediterranean or the American West, policymakers are using climate change as a convenient shield to ignore structural failures and demand more taxpayer money, says Stephen Heins in Watts Up With That?
• “Even Einstein admitted he was wrong. We apparently can’t expect as much from Al Gore” – While Einstein had the integrity to admit his errors, Al Gore shows no such willingness to acknowledge the damage his climate alarmism has inflicted, writes Gary Abernathy in Watts Up With That?
• “NHS hospitals defy trans ruling” – NHS hospitals are continuing to allow biological men who identify as transgender to use female-only wards and lavatories in open defiance of the Supreme Court’s single-sex spaces ruling, reports the Telegraph.
• “We need more than legal rulings to win the war against trans ideology” – Ordinary men and women must feel emboldened to challenge gender dogma among their friends, families and colleagues, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
• “A new progressive mafia rules Britain’s arts world by fear” – A Left-wing cultural protection racket is enforcing self-censorship across Britain’s arts world, warns Rosie Kay in the Telegraph.
• “‘Waitrose films’ are ruining British cinema (and disrespecting the elderly)” – Twee, undemanding films aimed at middle-class older audiences are crowding out more challenging British cinema, says David Alexander in the Telegraph.
• “The ‘malfunctioning’ CCTV toll bridge fining drivers hundreds of miles away” – Motorists are accusing operators of ignoring technical issues seemingly behind a wave of unwarranted penalties at a CCTV toll bridge, reports the Telegraph.
• “An island of strangers” – On GB News, the Free Speech Union’s Dr Ben Jones, author of Island of Strangers, warns that mass migration is steadily reshaping almost every part of the country.

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