- “Labour’s early prisoner release risks more murders, says probation chief” – The head of the Probation Service has warned that the early release of more prisoners threatens to overwhelm a system already under “unprecedented pressure”, reports the Mail.
- “Asylum hotels in poor areas have caused civil unrest, says minister” – A Labour MP has warned that a plan to move more than a thousand asylum seekers next to a small Yorkshire village will create a ratio of six men to every woman and may cause riots, says the Times.
- “The middle classes didn’t work so hard to see their areas ruined by illegal migrants” – The PM is insulting us by implying we aren’t doing our bit. But who asked us to put up with this in the first place? asks Jake Wallis Simons the Telegraph.
- “Do we really all have to ‘play our part’ housing asylum seekers?” – Burnham dimly discerns that people don’t like having asylum seekers living near them but he also seems to view their presence in the country as unavoidable, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Former translator for Army in Afghanistan jailed for raping taxi passenger” – Abdul Nabizada, who became a taxi driver in Scotland after leaving Afghanistan, has been jailed for rape following a trial in Edinburgh, reports the Standard.
- “Three men charged with rape offences, Kirklees” – Mohammed Ali Rehman, 41, Saqib Mahmood Hussain, 46, and Sahir Ahmed, 40, are to appear before Leeds Crown Court next month charged with rape offences in Dewsbury, according to West Yorkshire Police.
- “The Left is finally paying the price for its idiotic belief in open borders” – Middle-class progressives who championed open borders are now confronting the consequences on their own doorsteps, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “There’s another Healey in the Treasury. Is another IMF bailout looming?” – With a second Healey now at the Treasury, the spectre of Britain’s most humiliating economic crisis is rematerialising, notes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Zero hours contract ban could cost business up to £3 billion a year” – The Government has admitted that plans to restrict zero hours contracts could impose “eye-watering” costs of up to £3 billion a year on business, reports the Times.
- “At least 3,800 civil servants never have to go to the office” – The Department for Work and Pensions alone has 2,400 staff on permanent work-from-home contracts, with at least 3,800 civil servants across government never required to set foot in the office, reveals the Times.
- “China spy suspect was ‘member of elite Labour donors circle’” – David Taylor, suspected of spying for China, was reportedly part of Labour’s ‘Rose Network’, giving him privileged access to some of the party’s top figures, reports the Mail.
- “Nigel Farage will win in Clacton, but has he lost Britain?” – As Farage eyes a by-election victory, damning approval ratings and a shifting voter base threaten his wider populist appeal, warns Leaf Arbuthnot in the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge Vice-Chancellor insists Arday case is an ‘aberration’” – Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice has acknowledged the “anger and anxiety”, reports the Telegraph.
- “University of Cambridge whistleblower who reported alleged bullying wins employment tribunal” – A University of Cambridge whistleblower who alleged bullying of female staff inside the university’s Institute of Astronomy has won a law suit against the university, says the Guardian.
- “Scots are £2,700 better off as part of the UK, latest figures show” – In the latest blow to the SNP’s independence case, new figures show that spending per person in Scotland reached £22,281 in 2025–26 – some £2,700 above the UK average, according to the Mail.
- “At least five migrant girls have been raped since arriving in Ceuta” – At least five migrant girls under the age of 14 have allegedly been raped since arriving in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, reports the Mail.
- “Putin threatens to seize European ships” – Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize British ships in the Pacific in response to the capture of Russian shadow fleet vessels, says the Mail.
- “Norwegian wealth fund’s £137 billion profit on SpaceX and tech stocks” – The soaring valuation of Asian semiconductor stocks, and its $1.2 billion holding in SpaceX, helped Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to its strongest quarter in six years, reports the Times.
- “Hundreds of UK GPs earning £300,000 a year” – The Health Foundation has revealed that one in 10 family doctors running their own practice in England now earn at least £250,000 per year, according to the Mail.
- “What did we actually know about Covid vaccination in pregnancy?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson reveal newly released texts showing officials grappling with a striking lack of evidence about the side effects of Covid vaccination in pregnancy.
- “Face recognition cameras to scan Oxford Street, Sadiq Khan suggests” – Facial recognition cameras are expected to be deployed soon by the Met Police to target crime on Oxford Street, reports the Times.
- “AI will mean less drudgery, not fewer jobs” – The future can be rich in careers centred on experimentation and cutting red tape, in spite of AI, but not under Labour’s current policies, writes Juliet Samuel in the Times.
- “Britain’s drought could spark an outbreak of infectious diseases” – Scientists have warned that Britain’s worsening drought could trigger outbreaks of infectious diseases, according to the Mail.
- “Andy Burnham calls Cobra meeting as Britain faces 38°C heat” – Andy Burnham is set to impose a ban on disposable barbecues amid the risk of further wildfires as Britain braces for one of its hottest days on record, reports the Mail.
- “Eclipse triggers plea for extra gas to support power grid” – Britain’s grid operator called for extra gas-fired power generation as the solar eclipse put pressure on electricity supplies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Another new study links modern and past global warming to natural changes in cloud cover, not CO2” – A new study argues that natural changes in cloud cover, rather than CO2, are responsible for both modern and historical global warming, according to Kenneth Richard at No Tricks Zone.
- “Ex-RAF pilot Andy Green smashes land speed record in hydrogen vehicle” – Andy Green, the first and only person to break the sound barrier on land, reached 406mph in a JCB Hydromax at the Bonneville Salt Flats, reports the Times.
- “The fervent nonsense that has infected the WNBA” – Irrational obsessions with race and trans ideology have become a mind virus driving the WNBA league to ever higher summits of absurdity, writes John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
- “Prospect pulls plug on Rusbridger and Barber podcast” – Media Confidential, which apparently was the name of Prospect magazine’s weekly podcast hosted by Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber, is no more, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Free Speech Union investigates Carter-Ruck SLAPP letter sent to silence reporting on Jason Arday” – The Free Speech Union says it is investigating who funded a threatening Carter-Ruck letter – effectively a SLAPP – sent to Times Higher Education in connection with the Jason Arday affair.
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What is a SLAPP ?
https://www.wiggin.co.uk/insight/slapps-new-laws-come-into-force/
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
Lawfare.
Of course activists will twist the law to their advantage – they’d be daft not to. Blame the cretins/traitors who passed the law that enabled this activity.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16047001/Britains-drought-outbreak-infectious-diseases.html
What TPTB would refer to as a Brucie Bonus.
“Ex-RAF pilot Andy Green smashes land speed record in hydrogen vehicle”
..and?
everyone knows its not a practical fuel in common day to day use so what are they trying to prove?
JCB, as do Volvo, Takeuchi, Kubota, Hyundai etc know that making a construction machine battery powered is a non starter as is recharging it from a temporary site supply. So, their development team piled into hydrogen engines. Not terribly difficult Hydrogen has 3 x the energy of diesel but liquefies at an extreme low temperature and takes up 4 x the volume of that diesel. Plus it’s quite difficult to keep those tiny molecules inside pipes. And the gas explodes with almost no effort. The speed record is a marketing ploy to draw attention to their lead but the engine and fuel to develop the energy to reach those speeds is less of a problem that running a tracked excavator for a 10h shift on a construction site!
DS is a horrible muddle this morning. There’s a generous selection of pieces but what’s up with the layout?
MODERATOR HERE
Could you elaborate please – looks normal to me
For ‘normal’, read ‘the new layout is not an improvement on the old, which looked just fine’.
It looks like the new normal (lol) to me too. I suspect spud has not seen it before. FWIW I preferred the old one but it seems like a very minor inconvenience to me.
Must have been me or my gadgets then, it just seemed rather a muddle. I’ll try harder next time!
I can’t read Michael Deacon in the Telegraph Because of the pay wall. I hope he correctly includes all those who imposed the immigration mess upon us in his condemnation.
I personally rove an attempt to ignore or excuse the part played by the Tory party in all this. Their supporters in the MSM remained much too quiet and the lies were egregious.
You have to be a grade-A moron to ride an e-scooter says Steven Pollard in the Telegraph.
It’s far simpler: Declare an ‘e-scooter’ to be equivalent to an electrically assisted bicycle. I think the current limits are max speed 15.5mph, max power 500W. Anything beefier is a motor vehicle subject to registration, VED, insurance and driving licence etc. Modification to make it faster makes it a motor vehicle. You ride a bicycle or a new definition e-scooter on the same risks as a bike – as in, ‘be careful playing in the traffic Johnny’. Unregistered vehicles are already seized and crushed – maybe give a 1 year lead-in time with no VED fee so as not to discourage vehicle registration and allow time for existing high powered scooters to get crushed under busses.
E scooters and E bikes are a tool like any other, but it seems to me that they attract a higher than normal percentage of people who abuse the tool and this is made worse by their usually being no consequence for their abuse. It’s a cheap way to go fast that requires no paperwork or effort to learn how to do it safely.
They certainly are. I’d have loved one when I was a kid but would no doubt have been just as much a menace as I was on my bicycle.
There are electric motorcycles regularly in use on a nearby housing estate which if they were ever registered have long since had their plates removed. They are most definitely not electrically assisted bicycles; they accelerate at a phenomenal rate and are almost silent except for tyre noise. If these are ridden by insured and licensed drivers I’m a Dutchman.
There’s another which I’ve regularly seen carrying an adult rider and two young children – in morning peak traffic. No plate, probably no insurance or licence – and three up, youngest probably about 4 years. Lunacy. Where are the cops?
I don’t like bans or over regulation as they usually penalise reasonable people rather than the abusers. Regular visible police patrols, on foot and bike as well as by car, and sanctions for abusers. Another problem is that antisocial behaviour was more policed by everyone, but fear of being made the criminal not the victim has stopped that.
Certainly don’t ban them, they’re a great idea. Just distinguish between personal transport like a bicycle and a personal motor vehicle like a motorbike. Motor vehicles have a whole set of rules (and taxes) ready to be applied as appropriate. Probably a bad idea to allow even high powered electric scooters on motorways for example. Bicycles are subject to far fewer rules. Where the distinguishing line is drawn is certainly fair game for debate.
Those big heavy e-bikes scare the crap out of me, if driven into someone they will do very serious damage.
‘The middle classes didn’t work so hard to see their areas ruined by illegal migrants’
Like a bomb going off in your street, lovely middle class semi detached 500k plus. Boom. It’s worth 100k. Not just illegals either, it’s anywhere once there are more than a smattering of foreigners.
We need to resist the intention to make immigration a class issue. Whilst propertied socialists may practise and preach contradictory things, it is the population across the board that has consistently voted against mass-immigration.
It’s hit poor areas hardest both because they have the least influential voices, and because that’s where the cheapest mass-housing exists.
It is a class issue but not in any traditional way. Graduates employed in tax payer funded roles have been overwhelmingly in favour of every damaging policy introduced from Blair to Burnham.
Labour will never resist the temptation to make anything a class issue.
Perhaps migrants should be settled in predominantly Muslim areas to make them feel more at home.
Yes, in “Muslim areas” of Muslim countries.
The implication of what Burnham says he will do is that having these people in your area is not desirable. Racist!
Ok. And what if your job is the drudgery? What happens when ‘drudgery’ is constantly growing – subtly shifting from reading databases to reading datasheets? What happens when your meal is served to you by a robot? What happens when your company expects you to use AI to complete 20% of your job? A 20% bonus or a 20% reduction in jobs identified as ever-expanding ‘drudgery’? Let’s see if Juliet Samuel has a job in ten years time, because today’s so-called journalism is definitely inside that big pot of so-called ‘drudgery’.
Will we have enough lecky to power all of this AI?
Perhaps AI could be used to find the way out of that problem.
Most of today’s “journalism” might as well have been written by AI, for what little it’s worth.
“Putin threatens to seize European ships” – Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize British ships in the Pacific…
‘…the commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, described Britain and France, which have both taken part in shadow fleet seizures, as potential targets for the maritime retaliations.
Admiral Liina said some 1,001 ships had traversed Russian-claimed waters near the South Kuril Islands…off northern Japan…”We have the capabilities to inspect and detain vessels belonging to unfriendly states and their shadow fleet…’
…a former British defence attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, said: “There’s been a risk of Russia responding in kind since the start of the boardings of shadow fleet tankers…It’s not clear what legal basis Putin could use to conduct boardings in international waters, but international law has not stopped Russia before.”
You may not be interested in war but war is very much interested in you and today’s British Army would last about a fortnight of high intensity operations…’
Goose – gander
“ but international law has not stopped “ Britain either.
And a large proportion of the ‘ British shadow fleet ships that Russia might detain will be manned by Russian and Ukrainian senior officers.
WHAT???!!!
The boarding by the UK of the Smyrtos was “illegal” as explained here by a former Head of Maritime Section of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is a former Alternate Head of the UK Delegation at the UN Preparatory Commission for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/06/the-uk-joins-the-pirates/
Interesting that another study showing the heat is due to the lack of cloud cover
Before studies – our ancestors knew that. As a wee bairn I knew that.
COULD.
Can’t go wrong with a statement like that.
Let me guess, they have a model, that says that under certain circumstances, there is a certain probability that infectious diseases could break out. Maybe. If the model is right. Which it might be, but might not.
Modern day “science”.
“New incantation model could finally solve the problem of transmutation of lead into gold, say alchemists.”
Pay me loads of ££££££ and I’ll demonstrate.
Or even ‘send £10 in cash to this P.O. Box and we’ll send you our formula’….
I guess it also means few outbreaks of malaria as mosquitos don’t like dry conditions.
Heat, sunlight (u/v radiation) and dry conditions destroys many harmful pathogens – bacteria, viruses. These pathogens will have evolved to be best adapted to our British temperate conditions, so won’t survive. No pathogens, no disease.
Just as we don’t have tropical disease in Britain because pathogens causing those are adapted to tropical conditions not our temperate climate.
There is a reason why influenza virus activity reaches its height in the Northern Hemisphere in Winter, dissipates as warmer, sunnier Spring approaches, is minimal in Summer, Whilst we are enjoying our Winter ‘flu season, those in the Southern hemisphere are not, it’s Summer there. They have to wait until their Winter season for such joys, which is then our Summer season and no ‘flu.
How is it “scientists” don’t know this?