News Round-Up

• “Andy Burnham’s Cabinet: who’s in and who’s out?” – The Telegraph runs through the latest changes at the top after Burnham’s coronation as leader.
• “Andy Burnham offers ‘positivity’ but sacks 11 cabinet ministers” – In the Times, Steven Swinford reacts to Andy Burnham’s purge of some of Sir Keir Starmer’s most loyal allies.
• “Rayner returns” – Angela Rayner has made a stunning return to the Cabinet just 10 months after quitting in shame over a tax scandal, reports the Mail.
• “Ed Miliband named Britain’s top diplomat despite Donald Trump rant” – Ed Miliband’s promotion to Foreign Secretary will see him charged with mending Britain’s fraying Special Relationship with the US – despite having branded Trump a racist and a misogynist, writes Greg Heffer in the Mail.
• “There’s no worse choice for Foreign Secretary than Ed Miliband” – Ed Miliband’s catastrophic opposition to military action in Syria makes rewarding him with Britain’s top diplomatic job utterly bonkers, says David Blair in the Telegraph.
• “Burnham has virtually guaranteed that his premiership will fail” – The new Prime Minister’s speech promised “the biggest changes in the last 40 years”, raising expectations no politician can possibly meet, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Andy Burnham vows to ‘end rough sleeping’” – Andy Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping at “the earliest opportunity” in his first speech as Prime Minister – despite seeing homelessness more than double in his last four years as Manchester mayor, says the Mail.
• “Burnham’s battle with Wall Street over Thames Water risks a £20 billion bill” – The new Labour leader’s pledge to nationalise Thames Water risks provoking the ire of hedge funds with billions at stake, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Borrowing costs rise as markets react to Andy Burnham speech” – Gilt yields hit their highest level since May after the new PM promised “flexibility” when it came to interpreting the fiscal rules, says This is Money.
• “Burnham cannot allow Ali Milani near power” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan warns that Andy Burnham’s pledge to be “for all of us” will ring hollow if he hires a man who called 9/11 a “false flag”, which he’s minded to do.
• “Burnham’s authentic northern strategy could utterly destroy Farage” – The new PM could paint Nigel Farage as a posh, southern imposter who offers nothing but Right-wing slogans, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “This is a coup – we must have an election now” – In the Mail, Nigel Farage argues that Andy Burnham has effectively crowbarred his way into No 10 without anyone attempting to block his path, and that Britain now urgently needs a General Election.
• “I want to make Britons richer, happier and prouder” – In the Mail, Kemi Badenoch warns Andy Burnham’s plans will mean higher taxes, more state control and slower growth.
• “Keir Starmer leaves the country in a terrible state” – In the Spectator, Ameer Kotecha argues that Britain under Sir Keir Starmer felt like a country where nothing works and the state serves those who ride on the backs of others.
• “The Starmer arson trial didn’t add up” – On his Substack, Crispin Flintoff says that after 21 days sitting through the Sir Keir Starmer arson trial at the Old Bailey, what he heard in court didn’t match the story the BBC later told about Russia manipulating a trio of useful idiots.
• “UK police admit ‘no evidence’ for charges over supposed far-Right plot” – The Met Police have announced that it has found “no evidence” to charge anyone in connection with a widely reported ‘far-Right’ plot against an Islamic festival in Suffolk, according to Breitbart.
• “Polish national, 35, charged after ‘two teenage girls raped on beach’” – Polish national Dawid Wlach has been charged with two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault following an incident at Great Yarmouth on May 16th, reports the Mail.
• “How the NGO-industrial complex corrupts UK politics” – Well-funded activist organisations pose a far greater threat to British democracy than billionaires or big corporations, argues Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
• “Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crisis” – In the Telegraph, James Rothwell lays bare Germany’s deepening free speech crisis.
• “Japanese firms sell ‘fridges for humans’ to cope with heatwave” – The Do Hiemon “personal cooling box” is the latest extraordinary innovation to emerge from Japan’s battle with extreme summer heat, reports the Times of India.
• “Labour’s AI fund to back £1.9 billion start-up CuspAI” – Labour’s taxpayer-backed AI fund has joined Jeff Bezos in backing British start-up CuspAI, which is now valued at $2.6 billion, says the Telegraph.
• “Households brace for fresh energy bill shock as Iran war pushes oil and gas prices higher” – Households face a renewed energy price shock after oil topped $90 for the first time in more than six weeks and gas soared, reports This is Money.
• “Hosepipe ban extended across South” – South East Water is rolling out hosepipe restrictions to cover customers across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex, says the BBC.
• “A Guardian article indicates the UK’s climate hype may have peaked” – In ClimateRealism, Anthony Watts notes that the Guardian‘s complaint that nearly three-quarters of British media coverage of June’s heatwave failed to mention climate change is itself a telling sign that the climate alarm narrative is losing its grip on journalists.
• “One society in history matches Britain’s Net Zero lunacy” – The Aztecs, whose civilisation was built on sacrificial piety and civilisational self-destruction, are the only historical parallel for Britain’s Net Zero obsession, notes Sean Thomas in the Telegraph.
• “Florida’s wildlife comeback undercuts climate fearmongering” – In Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard says Florida’s wildlife is fighting back, with wetland animals turning the tables on invasive Burmese pythons and throwing a spanner in the works for gloomy climate predictions.
• “Affordable and reliable energy: where to from here?” – In Watt-Logic, Kathryn Porter argues that the hard realities of the energy transition demand an urgent rethink of how governments balance affordability and reliability.
• “WTA launches new sex test policy for female stars” – The Women’s Tennis Association is introducing a new sex testing policy requiring players to pass a cheek swab, blood test or saliva sample before they are eligible to compete on the female-only tour, reports the Mail.
• “As long as they share our values” – On his Substack, Spiff argues that using shared values as a measure of compatibility is a foolish approach.
• “Ed Miliband accuses Trump of ‘misogyny’, ‘racism’ and a ‘peculiar relationship’ with Russia” – Footage shared by Guido Fawkes on X reveals that Ed Miliband, now UK Foreign Secretary, accused Donald Trump of “misogyny”, “racism” and a “peculiar relationship” with both Russia and “the truth”.

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