News Round-Up

• “Over 2,000 small boat migrants have entered UK since Burnham became PM” – On Saturday alone, 326 migrants arrived in four boats, bringing the number to 2,057 since Andy Burnham took over from Sir Keir Starmer, reports the Mail.
• “Migrants smuggled out of Britain to Spain” – Illegal migrants are being smuggled out of the UK across the Channel to cash in on Spain’s asylum amnesty, reveals a Telegraph investigation.
• “Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain’s migrant pushback” – Shabana Mahmood has dismissed suggestions that Britain should copy Spain’s approach to rapidly returning migrants who crossed into Ceuta, maintaining that the English Channel creates a fundamentally more complex challenge, according to GB News.
• “A Spanish enclave gripped by fear. The no-borders crew should see this” – In the Mail, Ian Gallagher reports from Ceuta, where locals aren’t buying the EU’s claims that its migrant returns policy is working.
• “Pedro Sanchez holidays as migrants refuse to leave Ceuta” – Spain’s Prime Minister has faced a barrage of criticism after jetting off to the Canary Islands for a holiday during the Ceuta migrant crisis, reports GB News.
• “Gaps in the armour” – Europe is facing a multi-pronged surge in migrants smashing through key weak spots in the continent’s border defences, reveals the Sun.
• “‘I’m determined to get to mainland Europe… I’ll die here trying’” – In the Mail, Ian Gallagher reports from Ceuta, where thousands of migrants are refusing to leave their hillside encampment, vowing to reach mainland Europe at any cost.
• “Rupert Lowe says he can work with Nigel Farage” – Rupert Lowe has declared he is willing to work with Nigel Farage, but only if five conditions are met including refusing to let Tory defectors serve in a Reform-Restore coalition government, says the Express.
• “Foreign criminals sent home to free up UK prison cells” – Foreign criminals are being sent home in a bid to ease the pressure on overcrowded UK prison cells, reports the Sun.
• “Fewer police and more offenders on the streets under early release” – One of Britain’s most senior police officers has warned that cuts to neighbourhood policing are likely as the system seeks to manage 6,000 killers, sex offenders and drug dealers who are expected to be released from custody early, says the Telegraph.
• “£113,000 legal aid handed to brothers who brawled with cops at airport” – The two brothers filmed brawling with police at Manchester Airport have been given £113,000 in legal aid, reveals the Mail.
• “Unions fought for the Equality Act. Now they want it abolished” – A cadre of Scottish women are suing their unions for discriminating against them for their belief in the biological reality of sex, says the Sunday Times.
• “The middle classes have a radicalisation problem” – Why are educated, middle-class young people being pulled towards extremism? In the Spectator, Rory Hanrahan looks at how simple stories of oppression and injustice can offer purpose, belonging and, in some cases, a dangerous path towards political violence.
• “PC Andrew Harper traveller site has £4.2 million taxpayer-funded facelift” – The squalid traveller camp whose residents harboured the killers of PC Andrew Harper has received a £4.2 million taxpayer-funded makeover, reports the Mail.
• “UK city parents keeping kids inside due to lack of opportunities” – Newcastle parents are keeping their children indoors amid fears over a lack of safe things to do outside, reveals Kayleigh Fraser in the Sun.
• “Protests at Super-Valu to continue over Belong To sponsorship” – An Irish parents’ campaign says it will continue protesting outside SuperValu stores over its partnership with Belong To, which the group claims is exposing young people to trans propaganda, according to Gript.
• “Trump calls off Iran attacks, claiming peace deal is close” – President Trump has announced that the “perimeters of a deal” with Iran have been reached and has called off fresh military strikes, reports the Times.
• “MAGA exiles plot launch of new political party” – Some of Donald Trump’s most prominent Right-wing critics, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson, are joining forces to launch a new political party, says the Mail.
• “How many UK Health Secretaries can you name since 2018?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson challenge readers to name every UK Health Secretary since 2018.
• “Don’t forget: there are two multi-trillion dollar pseudoscience scams” – On his Manhattan Contrarian blog, Francis Menton argues that alongside the COVID-19 fraud exposed in Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearings, a second multi-trillion-dollar pseudoscience scam is being quietly overlooked – the ‘Climate Emergency’.
• “Firefighting helicopters crash while battling wildfires in Greece” – A British pilot has survived a horrifying mid-air helicopter crash that killed two while battling the wildfires raging across Greece, reports the Sun.
• “Disappearing villages leave Europe in era of fire” – A generational shift away from farming across parts of Western Europe has replaced pastures and ploughed fields with combustible scrubland, warns Cameron Henderson in the Telegraph.
• “‘Driveway divide’ leaves EV owners £200 worse off under Burnham” – Drivers without a home charger are being forced to pay the full 20% VAT rate on public charging, leaving them hundreds of pounds worse off than those who can charge at home, reports the Telegraph.
• “Read the small print” – A closer look at the fine print behind green energy commitments raises uncomfortable questions about the endless subsidies underpinning them, says Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
• “Climate activists turn on Democrats, demand they talk more about climate change” – In Watts Up With That?, Eric Worrall writes that US activists are demanding the Democrats put climate change front and centre in its messaging.
• “The United States produced more crude oil than any other country in 2025” – The United States led the world in crude oil production in 2025, ahead of Russia, Saudi Arabia and Canada, according to the EIA.
• “Cambridge professor made impossible claim he was on Seven Up decades before he was born” – Cambridge University’s diversity poster boy Prof Jason Arday claims to have featured in the documentary series Seven Up despite being born years after it began, reports the Telegraph.
• “The great unchecked fairy tale of Jason Arday” – On X, Donna-Louise takes a deep dive into the extraordinary claims behind Jason Arday’s rise to become the youngest black person ever appointed to a Cambridge chair.
• “London liberals are only now realising how hated they are in Britain” – In the Telegraph, Ed Cummings interviews veteran broadcaster Trevor Phillips on his big-money move to America, the rise of trans “fantasists” and why some cultures are not “desirable”.
• “Some women crossing on the boats are witches so we kill them” – Chilling interviews with West African migrants describe women being accused of witchcraft during overcrowded boat crossings to Europe and being thrown overboard.

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