News Round-Up

• “Britain is doomed if Burnham lurches Left” – A 1976-style economic crisis looms if Burnham caves to Labour’s power brokers and drags the country sharply to the Left, warns Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
• “City traders £7 billion bet against Burnham Britain” – City traders have placed a £7 billion bet against what the markets are calling “Burnham Britain”, says This is Money.
• “Burnham plots homes tax raid on middle class” – Plans to lower the mansion tax threshold to include homes worth £1.5 million could hit more than 150,000 families with four-figure tax hikes, according to the Mail.
• “Blair warns on ‘wealth taxes’ as Burnham ‘mulls wider mansion tax’” – Tony Blair’s institute has warned that attempting to “tax our way to prosperity” would be “bad policy and bad politics”, reports the Mail.
• “Blow for John Swinney as Andy Burnham rules out second independence referendum” – The First Minister doesn’t have a mandate for Indyref2 after failing to win the backing of Scots voters in the election – but it’s still a relief to get confirmation from Burnham, says Ben Borland in the Scottish Daily Express.
• “The £50 million Manchester ‘ghost town’ overshadowing Burnham’s high street master plan” – A £50 million development once hailed by Andy Burnham as a “blueprint for the future” now serves as a cautionary tale, writes Tom Haynes in the Telegraph.
• “Whose side will Burnham be on?” – In the Mail, Lord Ashcroft wonders whether Britain’s soon-to-be PM will stand with working families or with the welfare claimants and Labour insiders who form his political base.
• “Andy Burnham ‘must make Britain a technical education superpower’” – Alan Milburn, the Government’s adviser on youth unemployment, says that schools, colleges and universities must be rewired to put more emphasis on training young people as tradesmen to help them find work, according to the Times.
• “Andy Burnham’s hobbity utopia will spoil faster than Liz Truss lettuce” – Without a leadership contest, Labour is handing power to a man whose vague and backward-looking economic plans will not survive contact with reality, warns Camilla Long in the Sunday Times.
• “Vance says Burnham ‘or someone else’ must deliver ‘significant change’” – J.D. Vance has warned that a decade-long churn of Prime Ministers shows “something is very broken about British politics”, reports the Mail.
• “‘Labour’s so weak it just agreed a crazy deal that will cost the UK billions’” – Labour’s capitulation to striking NHS doctors has produced a ruinously expensive deal that will cost the country billions, writes Giles Sheldrick in the Express.
• “Bridget Phillipson accused of ‘fabricating her claims of poverty’” – The Education Secretary is facing accusations that she invented her impoverished backstory – her childhood home was actually very comfortable and her mother made a 900% profit when she sold it, says the Mail.
• “Dozens of Labour MPs omit private schooling from Who’s Who” – Almost 40 Labour MPs who went to private school failed to declare it in the pages of biographical reference book Who’s Who, reports the Times.
• “Britain’s cognitive elite has dismantled itself seven years early” – The principle of meritocracy has been abandoned in the name of inclusion, laments Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi says there’s ‘no way back’ for Tory defectors” – Kemi Badenoch has ruled out any return for MPs who defected from the Conservative Party, after some defectors approached the Tories about returning, according to the Mail.
• “Tories target Clacton by-election after new Farage accusations” – Preparations have begun for a by-election in Clacton in the event that Nigel Farage is found to have breached parliamentary rules and has to resign, says the Telegraph.
• “Police look on as Jewish revellers are abused at London Pride” – Met Police officers watched and made no arrests as Jewish people were harassed at London’s Pride March, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police chiefs blasted for ‘inadequate’ leadership in scathing report” – A Home Office-backed report demands a root-and-branch overhaul of police recruitment, training and promotion after finding breathtakingly inadequate leadership at the top of Britain’s forces, reveals the Mail.
• “Khan must tackle muggers like thug who battered me and my girlfriend” – In the Mail, Hugo Vickers recounts being violently attacked by a balaclava-clad mugger in Central London and demands Sadiq Khan redirect his war on motorists towards the violent criminals.
• “Egyptian fans bring chaos to London as they battle with police” – Fans celebrating Egypt’s World Cup win over Australia brought chaos to the streets of London as they clashed with police, climbed on to a double decker bus and brought traffic to a standstill, reports the Mail.
• “Residents of Lake District village furious over plan for kebab shop” – A Lake District village once described by Wordsworth as “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found” faces a battle over a proposed kebab shop, says the Mail.
• “GB News to cut more than a third of staff” – As many as 90 jobs are being cut by GB News, which also faces an investigation by Ofcom over Beverly Turner’s interview with Donald Trump, according to the Times.
• “Russian hackers steal Government logins” – Stolen credentials for Foreign Office and local authority employees are being offered on the dark web for more than £40,000, reveals the Telegraph.
• “UK ditched plans to send aircraft carrier to US parade” – Defence sources say the Royal Navy scrapped plans for HMS Prince of Wales to join NATO vessels in New York’s parade after Trump’s insulting description of Britain’s Armed Forces in March, according to the Mail.
• “Trump threatens Nato on eve of summit” – Donald Trump has warned allies they must increase defence spending or face consequences, reports GB News.
• “Bowing to pressure from Donald Trump at World Cup a shameful new low for Fifa” – Folarin Balogun, the American football team’s best player, has had his red card rescinded after Trump called the President of Fifa – a new low for the notoriously corrupt footballing body, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “The AfD wants to make sending migrants home sexy” – Two years after a secretive “remigration” summit sparked a national outcry, Germany’s AfD is openly campaigning to normalise mass deportations, writes James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
• “Huge crowds gather for funeral of slain Iranian leader Ali Khamenei” – Vast crowds have descended on Tehran’s Grand Mosalla complex for the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reports the Mail.
• “Russia in meltdown: empty petrol pumps and battlefield humiliation” – As Ukrainian strikes obliterate Russia’s critical infrastructure and battlefield losses mount, Vladimir Putin is being pushed toward options once considered unthinkable, says the Mail.
• “Cops investigate if cannibalism linked to death of four year-old boy” – Australian police are investigating whether cannibalism was a factor in the death of a four year-old boy, as his mother is charged with murder, according to the Mail.
• “Labour’s social media ban will fail if ID cards are needed” – Research suggests that two-thirds of the public could drop their support for Labour’s under-16s social media ban if it requires digital ID checks to enforce it, says the Telegraph.
• “Terrorists using AI could cause next pandemic” – The Government is planning curbs on the sale of human DNA as advancing AI systems make it easier for terrorists to create deadly biological weapons, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Even the boss of Google needs lessons to master AI” – In This Is Money, the Chief Executive of Google admits to Ruth Sutherland that even she needs help keeping pace with AI.
• “The £30,000 cost of upgrading to an eco-home” – Despite Government claims that going green saves households £1,200 a year, new analysis shows the upfront cost of eco-home upgrades could take 25 years to recoup, according to the Times.
• “Nuclear safety and Einstein’s truth” – In CFACT, Kelvin Kemm argues that scientific truth is built on hard evidence rather than consensus opinion.
• “The ocean current that warms Europe may be more resilient than feared” – New research suggests the Atlantic ocean current system that keeps Europe’s climate temperate may be far more robust than scientists had previously thought, writes Paul Voosen in Science.
• “Yes, Europe’s heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence” – Heat has killed 200,000 Europeans in four years, with the WHO declaring it a health emergency that surpasses American gun violence as a cause of death, according to Catherina Gioino at Fortune.
• “Who should be held accountable for climate alarmism?” – If the public has been misled over climate change, whether deliberately or through reckless disregard for the evidence, it is time to ask who bears the responsibility, says Anthony Watts in the Western Journal.
• “Grid costs set to soar even higher” – On his Substack, David Turver warns that NESO is calling for an extra £89 billion of grid spending beyond 2030, pointing to yet more soaring costs ahead for Britain’s Net Zero transition.
• “England’s World Cup team: a story about race, class and decline” – In Gript, Kevin Myers argues that today’s England squad reflects a transformed nation in which African athletic talent and the near-total disappearance of the white working-class male from national prominence tell a story of race, class and decline.
• “Bosses braced for half a million sickies after England match” – HR chiefs are predicting more than 500,000 employees will call in sick on Monday following England’s 2am kick-off against Mexico, according to the Telegraph.
• “The extraordinary plot to destroy conspiracist Alex Jones’s online empire” – The Onion is trying to turn Alex Jones’s bankrupt Infowars website into a satirical version of itself, with profits going to the Sandy Hook families – but two years of legal wrangling mean the battle is far from over, reports Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “France vs Morocco quarterfinal sends insurers sobbing” – A meme doing the rounds on X, showing a man sobbing in the shower, captures French insurers’ reaction to France drawing Morocco in the quarter-finals, with mass rioting across the nation inevitable.

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