News Round-Up

• “Britain’s abandonment of the white working class is a recipe for anarchy” – Middlesbrough’s descent into lawlessness exposes the fatal cost of post-industrial deprivation and a betrayed underclass, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Middlesbrough knife gangs swap jail time for mental health help” – Knife-carrying criminals in Middlesbrough can avoid prison if they accept mental health support – but participants must first admit their offending, reports the Telegraph.
• “Reform council hires security guards to protect public from migrants” – A Reform UK-led council is set to become the first in the country to pay for town centre security guards to protect residents from asylum seekers, notes the Telegraph.
• “The town where Thursday’s a ‘no-go day’ for women” – The Mail‘s Fred Kelly investigates life near Wethersfield, Britain’s largest asylum seeker facility, where local women say they avoid the town centre on certain days of the week.
• “British citizenship has become meaningless” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill says that a return to his north-west London hometown has convinced him that British citizenship has been so thoroughly devalued as to be rendered entirely hollow.
• “James Cleverly quits Shadow Cabinet to run for London Mayor” – James Cleverly has resigned as a Shadow Cabinet Minister with immediate effect to launch a bid for the London mayoralty, reports the Mail.
• “James Cleverly: Sadiq Khan has let down London, our capital needs a champion” – Writing in the Times, James Cleverly makes his case for the Conservative London mayoral candidacy, arguing that the capital needs more than an administrator.
• “Burnham would be ‘stupid’ to raise wealth taxes in Budget says ally” – Lord Jim O’Neill, who recently turned down an expected Government role, warns that hiking wealth taxes in Labour’s crucial first Budget would damage economic growth, according to the Mail.
• “Kemi Badenoch: Let’s see if Burnham stops Labour’s early release plan” – In the Mail, Kemi Badenoch challenges Andy Burnham to oppose Labour’s early release programme in the wake of a week of violence in Greater Manchester including car rammings, a stabbing and arson.
• “Healey eyes windfall tax on banks and oil companies” – The Treasury is hunting for ways to plug a £4.7 billion hole in the public finances, with windfall taxes on banks and oil companies among the options under consideration, reports the Telegraph.
• “If we keep voting from envy, we will keep getting poorer” – With the top 1% of earners already paying 28% of all income tax, the case that soaking the wealthy will save Britain is fatally undermined, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour backs 20mph speed limits across all new housing developments” – Ministers have endorsed quango proposals to introduce 20mph or lower speed limits, encourage car sharing and make roads narrower on new housing estates, reports the Mail.
• “University accused of muzzling academic over assisted dying” – Dr Kevin Yuill, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sunderland, was formally warned after posting opposition to assisted suicide on social media, notes the Telegraph.
• “English texts ‘dumbed down’ for A-level students” – Fears are growing that A-level pupils are being shielded from classic literature, with the oldest book on one non-fiction reading list dating only from 2018, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestine charity accused of promoting ‘Israel is holocaust paedophile state’ T-shirt” – A pro-Palestine charity faces accusations of promoting merchandise that accuses Israel of genocide, holocaust, paedophilia, sex trafficking and organ harvesting, notes the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s anti-Israel moves damage British interests and may be unlawful” – Proposed trade restrictions on Israel could violate Britain’s own treaty obligations and put businesses at serious legal and commercial risk, according to Natasha Hausdorff in the Telegraph.
• “Hannan: if Right-wing parties can’t do a deal, Left will keep power” – In the Mail, Daniel Hannan argues that unless Right-wing parties find a way to unite, the Left will continue to hold power by default.
• “Trump unveils ‘biggest oil deal in history’ with Venezuela” – President Trump claims a new arrangement with Venezuela will more than double American oil reserves in what he is calling the biggest oil deal in history, reports the Times.
• “Muslim immigrant CBC boss warns ‘do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks’” – The head of Canada’s CBC, a Muslim immigrant, has reportedly instructed staff not to describe the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks, writes Daniel Greenfield in Frontpage Mag.
• “Why on earth shouldn’t we call 9/11 ‘a terrorist attack’?” – The CBC’s directive barring journalists from describing the September 11th attacks as terrorism – justified in the name of impartiality – is lampooned by the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
• “America strikes back against foreign censors with the Rulli GRANITE Act, HR 10,174” – A new US bill, the GRANITE Act, aims to prevent foreign governments from censoring Americans on the internet, with federal legislation introduced on August 27th 2026, says Preston Byrne on his website.
• “Public wary of UK Government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals” – A poll of 2,000 people in the UK finds widespread public unease about Government powers requiring technology companies to build ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications, reveals Bill Goodwin in Computer Weekly.
• “Reform’s Richard Tice isn’t ‘out of touch’ on climate change – ITV News is” – ITV News is itself the party that is misinformed on climate change, not Reform UK’s Richard Tice, whom it wrongly branded “out of touch”, writes Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “Don’t blame gas prices, Miatta!” – In Not a Lot of People Know That Paul Homewood accuses Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh of gaslighting the public over energy bills while failing basic arithmetic.
• “The link between rising temperatures and glacial floods is a telling tale about the direction of climate science” – On his Substack, Ross Clark examines what the claimed link between rising temperatures and glacial floods reveals about the current direction of climate science.
• “Jason Arday’s memoirs don’t have to be true, says former publisher” – The former head of Bloomsbury claims publishers bear no responsibility for fact-checking memoirs because they are “verging on fiction”, according to the Times.
• “Linehan hits out at author Ronson’s ‘cowardice’ in transgender row” – Graham Linehan has hit back at Jon Ronson’s account of their fractured friendship, disputing claims that his anger over the transgender debate drove them apart, reports the Telegraph.
• “My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology” – A searing personal account by Graham Linehan in the Telegraph argues that Jon Ronson’s chapter about his former friend stands as an indictment of the man himself and of trans ideology’s corrosive influence
• “The ludicrous campaign to cancel Ali G… with AI” – A self-styled ‘media watchdog’ has launched an AI-powered email crusade to pressure cinemas into pulling Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, says the Telegraph.
• “Gen Z almost twice as likely to ‘pull a sickie’ as over-55s” – New figures show that four in five workers aged 25 or under have taken a day off sick when perfectly well, nearly double the rate seen among those over 55, notes the Telegraph.
• “Leak: BBC boss sent solidarity message to non-British staff after Northern Ireland attempted beheading” – A leaked message reveals that a BBC executive offered reassurance to foreign staff at the corporation following public backlash over the alleged attack by an illegal migrant, writes Steven Edginton on his Substack.
• “Cambridge and the denial of truth” – In History Reclaimed, Lawrence Goldman argues that Cambridge University has pursued guilt by association over slavery after its own inquiry found no direct link, exposing a troubling institutional denial of its own evidence.
• “Two historians have had enough of woke history” – Watch on X as historians Nigel Biggar and Robert Tombs challenge how Britain’s history is interpreted and taught today, exploring empire, colonialism and national identity.

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