News Round-Up

• “Officers who arrested Henry Nowak investigated for gross misconduct” – The two police officers who arrested university student Henry Nowak before his death are now under formal gross misconduct investigation, according to Sky News.
• “Asylum seekers banned from being housed near schools” – Shabana Mahmood has banned asylum seekers from being housed near schools or nurseries, with migrants also barred from newbuild accommodation, reports the Express.
• “The failure to deport the Rochdale grooming gang leader shames Britain” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard writes that the case of Shabir Ahmed – the Rochdale grooming gang leader who cannot be deported – explains precisely why the mainstream parties are haemorrhaging support to Reform.
• “Islamists want to dominate, not integrate” – The Telegraph’s Annabel Denham sits down with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who argues that Islamism is fundamentally incompatible with Western liberal society.
• “Rapist boys spared jail ‘should be detained’” – The Court of Appeal has been told that three teenage boys who were spared jail for a series of rapes in Hampshire should be re-sentenced and sent to detention, reports the Mail.
• “Judge who spared boy rapists jail ‘didn’t take case seriously enough’” – Judge Nicholas Rowland, who spared two teenage boys prison for raping two girls, has been accused of not treating their offending with sufficient “seriousness”, according to BBC News.
• “E-fit released after woman raped in alley on Clapham High Street” – The Met Police have released an e-fit image of a suspect described as Middle Eastern or southern European following a rape in an alley off Clapham High Street, reports the Standard.
• “The three crimes at the heart of Starmer’s defence betrayal” – Underfunding the military puts our children at risk, for it will be they who will have to fight in the future, warns Ben Wallace in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t wreck Starmer’s legacy, Hermer urges Burnham” – The Attorney General has urged Andy Burnham to stay “true to his progressive values” as the incoming PM prepares to enter Downing Street next month, reports the Telegraph.
• “Romesh Ranganathan’s bakery closed by Labour tax rises” – An 89 year-old bakery chain part-owned by comedian Romesh Ranganathan has been forced to close after Labour’s tax rises made the business unviable, says the Standard.
• “The Fabian-founded institution training Britain’s next generation of mayors” – The LSE, founded by the Fabian Society, is training Britain’s next generation of mayors with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, reveals Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
• “White students in the minority at 27 universities” – White British students are a minority in almost one in five universities, analysis by the Telegraph has found.
• “Why white working-class kids fail” – White working-class British pupils are underachieving in spite of other groups’ progress, not because of it, says Kristina Murkett in the Spectator.
• “The TUC’s unduly pessimistic view of race relations at work” – At Don’t Divide Us, Richard Norrie casts a critical eye over the Trades Union Congress’s claim of a “shocking increase in racism at work” and finds the polling evidence to be far less clear-cut than they’d have us believe.
• “Health Data Science Black Internship Programme” – Health Data Research UK is running a paid internship programme explicitly restricted to black applicants, offering real-world health data science experience, training and mentoring.
• “Ex-NHS employee found guilty of fraud after conning the NHS out of £279,000” – Former NHS employee Emmanuel Nbanga has been found guilty of conning the NHS out of £279,000 by selling its own equipment back to them, according to the Solihull Observer.
• “Russia’s top banker pleads with Putin to stop the war on state TV” – Russia’s most powerful banker has broken ranks on state TV to call on Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine as soon as possible, reports the Mail.
• “Trump secretly weighs ‘finishing the job’ in Iran” – Donald Trump has held secret talks with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Daine Caine on resuming full-scale attacks against the Iranian regime, says the Mail.
• “Another study which tries, and fails, to glorify the Covid jab” – A new study claiming to vindicate the Covid jab falls short of its own conclusions, writes Dr Roger Watson in the Conservative Woman.
• “Deaths outnumber births for first time in 50 years” – ONS projections show 588,000 deaths against just 584,000 births in 2026–27 – the first time England and Wales has recorded such a deficit in half a century, according to the Telegraph.
• “Last month was the hottest June on record for England, Met Office says” – Provisional Met Office figures show the average temperature across England in June was 17.1°C, making it the hottest June ever recorded, says the Mail.
• “Union has ‘grave concerns’ over Suffolk school solar panel fires” – The National Education Union is calling for an independent investigation after fires broke out at three Suffolk schools fitted with solar panels, reports BBC News.
• “Asphalt is baking you alive: the real story behind urban heat island temperatures” – Grass fields sit at 30°C, but nearby asphalt can hit 55°C. Over at Climate Change Dispatch, P. Gosselin explains what’s driving the gap.
• “World Bank scraps climate financing after facing pressure from Trump” – The World Bank has abandoned its target of directing 45% of financing to climate-related projects – a pledge made following the UN’s 2023 climate conference – after coming under pressure from the Trump administration, reports the Washington Examiner.
• “Climate researcher Judith Curry says the era of ‘climate stupidity’ is done and declares victory” – With climate desks closing, companies backing away from green targets and voters putting climate change low on their list of concerns, climatologist Dr Judith Curry says the era of “climate stupidity” is over, according to Just the News.
• “Council vows to remove England flags from lamp posts during World Cup” – Cambridge County Council has pledged to tear down England flags hung from lamp posts during the World Cup, insisting that displays of national pride must be conducted in a “safe, inclusive way and with permission”, reports the Mail.
• “How ideology hollowed out children’s literature” – In the Spectator, Gillian Philip argues that the children’s publishing industry has become so consumed by ideological conformity that it now celebrates self-destruction as virtue.
• “Wearing badges as an adult is virtue-signalling narcissism” – Lefties sport badges for one purpose only: to show off, says Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph.
• “Holding the inner flame” – Neither naive idealism nor cynical doomscrolling works; both distort reality. The answer is clear-eyed realism, says Spiff on Substack.
• “This is not incompetence. It is policy” – On Talk, Alex Phillips says the UK’s open borders policies come straight from Fabian Society and UN documents pushing “replacement migration”.

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