News Round-Up

• “Vigilantes take to streets as grooming gang ringleader released” – Vigilantes are taking to the streets of Rochdale after a Pakistani grooming gang ringleader was released from prison, reports the Telegraph.
• “Change law to kick out Rochdale rapist, No. 10 urged” – Labour MPs are demanding the Government close a legal loophole that is shielding freed Pakistani grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed from deportation, writes the Telegraph.
• “All foreign criminals face deportation” – Every foreign offender will face deportation regardless of the seriousness of their crime under new Government plans announced by Shabana Mahmood, reports the Telegraph.
• “Teen rapists initially spared jail will go to prison, court rules” – The Court of Appeal has ruled that the original sentences handed to two teenage rapists were insufficient, with Ms Justice Norton, Lord Justice Edis and Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr ordering them to prison, according to the Mail.
• “Why Labour’s ‘new safe and legal’ refugee routes will flood the UK with migrants” – In the Conservative Woman, Laura Perrins argues that Labour’s proposed safe and legal refugee routes will open the floodgates to mass migration rather than curb the Channel crossings crisis.
• “‘Godfather of people smugglers’ living in Leicester village” – Twana Jamal, 46, who was jailed for five years in France in 2016 after being identified as one of the most successful people smugglers in Europe, is now living freely in a Leicester village, reports the Telegraph.
• “Burnham has declared war on the South. Your homes and savings are no longer safe” – London and the South East already vastly subsidise the rest of the country, yet Andy Burnham wants to seize southern wealth rather than liberate the North, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Andy Burnham set to ditch Palantir from NHS” – Andy Burnham is poised to axe Palantir from the NHS following pressure from Left-wing critics opposed to the US tech giant’s work with the Israeli Defence Forces, reports the Telegraph.
• “Burnham’s ‘brain’ is far more Left-wing than you think” – Hard-Left MP Miatta Fahnbulleh is expected to wield significant influence over Andy Burnham, raising the prospect of a very radical few years ahead, warns Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Will Andy Burnham be better than Starmer?” – In his Substack, Nick Dixon asks whether Andy Burnham would make a better leader than Keir Starmer.
• “Badenoch blasts ‘moaning’ female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs ‘quota’” – Kemi Badenoch has lashed out at female Labour MPs reportedly demanding Andy Burnham introduce a 50-50 gender split quota in his Government, reports the Mail.
• “Drones spotted over RAF bases were launched from Russian tanker” – The unmanned aerial platforms targeted Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Fairford and Feltwell over four days in 2024, reveals the Mail.
• “Labour failed to prepare properly for power, admits PM’s former aide” – Morgan McSweeney, who served as the Prime Minister’s chief of staff until February this year, says the party “hadn’t done enough to prepare for Government”, according to the Mail.
• “The road projects being killed off to save Labour’s welfare budget” – The Government stands accused of choosing “benefits over battleships” after cutting infrastructure schemes to fund Starmer’s defence plan, reports the Telegraph.
• “Henry Nowak’s murderer is segregated from other prisoners” – Vickrum Digwa, 23, reportedly told guards he did not want to be placed on the wing at HMP Frankland where Soham child killer Ian Huntley was fatally attacked, notes the Mail.
• “Will there be justice for Henry Nowak?” – In the Spectator, David Shipley asks whether Nicola Marfleet, the Director of Investigations for the Independent Office for Police Conduct, can be trusted to get justice for Henry.
• “Pregnant women face being banned from US” – The White House is seeking to bar pregnant foreign nationals from entering the United States in a bid to prevent babies born on American soil to non-citizen parents from obtaining citizenship, reports the Telegraph.
• “Makerfield proves nothing – the Right is on the rise throughout Europe” – The Makerfield by-election result should not be misread as a setback for the Right, which continues to surge across the continent, writes Matt Goodwin in the Conservative Woman.
• “How Britain became Zombieland” – In UnHerd, Mary Harrington argues that Britain has drifted into a state of political paralysis defined by the absence of decisive leadership.
• “How the grammar school rat race left the white working class behind” – The rise of the 11-plus tutoring industry has reshaped the classroom, with profound consequences for the social mobility of the white working class, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is our law praiseworthy?” – It is in the realm of civil liberties that British law has now reached its lowest ebb, writes Yuan Yi Zhu in the Critic.
• “The case against the Equality Act” – While seeming benign, the Equality Act has reduced citizens from being equals before the law to “protected characteristics on legs”, writes Alka Sehgal Cuthbert for the Academy of Ideas.
• “The US should exit the UN” – With the US alone owing $2.196 billion to the UN budget and a further $1.8 billion to separate peacekeeping operations – amounting to one-quarter of all UN funding – the case for a full American withdrawal is overwhelming, says Wendy McElroy for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Jolyon sues Ofcom for not banning TalkTV” – The Good Law Project is dragging Ofcom to the High Court after the watchdog largely declined to act against Murdoch’s TalkTV, reports Guido Fawkes.
• “Revealed: the shady funding of Net Zero” – A complex web of charities, think tanks and advocacy groups is being bankrolled by dark money from abroad to push a Net Zero agenda that leaves working people poorer and the country beholden to hostile powers, write John Power and William Atkinson in the Spectator.
• “Sadiq Khan launches ‘City Climate Facts’ to ‘tackle the growing scourge of climate disinformation’” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill reports that C40 Cities is rolling out an “anti-disinformation service” starting in Cape Town, with Sadiq Khan championing the initiative as a weapon against what he calls the “growing scourge of climate disinformation”.
• “The myth of rising climate costs: Europe’s weather losses are flat once adjusted for growth” – New EEA data show that Europe’s normalised climate disaster losses have remained flat since 1990 once adjusted for economic growth, writes Thomas Richard for Climate Change Dispatch.
• “PBS News is wrong, climate change is not causing Georgia’s drought” – PBS journalists are accused of pushing a climate alarmist narrative by uncritically claiming Georgia’s drought is unprecedented – when publicly available data tell a very different story, writes Linnea Lueken for Watts Up With That.
• “The north-south divide” – The question of when a UK heatwave actually qualifies as a UK heatwave is put under scrutiny by Mark Hodgson for Climate Scepticism.
• “Thanks to climate panic, it’s 100 degrees inside a ‘flagship’ hospital building – this is what the Left wants for us (but not themselves)” – A German hospital where patients and staff are enduring extreme heat is held up as a stark warning about the real-world consequences of climate-driven energy policy by Samuel Short in the Western Journal.
• “Shark attacks are rising in Australia. Green activists don’t want to admit why” – The rising toll of shark attacks on Australian beaches is being driven by the protected status of great whites, yet green activists refuse to confront the evidence, says the Telegraph.
• “Multi-year study of 808 embalmers across five countries finds 75.2% observed unusual white fibrous clots in corpses” – A multi-year study of 808 embalmers spanning five countries has found that 75.2% observed unusual white fibrous clots in corpses, with the anomalous clots estimated to be present in 23.4% of all embalmed bodies, according to Nicolas Hulscher on Substack.
• “Sports club take Lloyds to ombudsman for being ‘de-banked’” – Walsham le Willows Sports Club in Suffolk, which hosts cricket and football, had been with Lloyds for over 70 years before being de-banked – and is now taking the lender to the ombudsman, reports the Mail.
• “Citizen Vigilante and the folly of censorship” – Attempts to ban Uwe Boll’s controversial anti-immigration rape-revenge film across Europe have badly backfired, writes Steven Tucker in Spiked.
• “After 26 years, it’s farewell to Wild Life” – In the Spectator, Aidan Hartley bids a fond farewell to his long-running Africa column, Wild Life, which Toby commissioned way back in 2001 to bring scoops from the continent to the magazine’s new online edition.
• “J.K. Rowling is a national treasure, so why don’t we treat her like one?” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams argues that by any metric – with over 600 million copies of her Harry Potter books sold worldwide – Rowling deserves the national treasure status that our culture stubbornly refuses to grant her.
• “Germany bans workers from calling in sick” – New rules requiring ill employees to obtain doctors’ notes before taking sick leave are being introduced in a bid to boost Germany’s stagnating economy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reform is right to fear the return of Boris” – In the Spectator, Tim Shipman writes that the question of what Boris Johnson is up to – long a familiar one – has become genuinely interesting for the first time in years, and Reform has every reason to be worried.
• “Tice sued after criticising £46 million deal to train Lebanese police” – Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice faces legal action after denouncing a Foreign Office contract worth £46 million to train Lebanese police as “grotesque”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The confessions of J.D. Vance” – Reviewing Vance’s new memoir in the Spectator, Douglas Murray says people should approach it with an open heart and mind, but they won’t.
• “I can’t remember when I was last so disgusted with Trump” – In the Spectator, Lionel Shriver explains why she is so unhappy with Trump over Iran.
• “Spain gives temporary work permits to 609,000 undocumented migrants” – More than 609,000 undocumented migrants have been granted temporary work permits by the Spanish Government as part of the Socialist Prime Minister’s plan to process applications for legal status, reports the Mail.
• “Imagine this is the World Cup” – On X, Xerias hilariously imagines what the World Cup would look like if MAGA played the Dems.

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