News Round-Up

• “Police arrest more revellers on second day of Notting Hill Carnival” – Police have arrested 315 people on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival – after confirming 243 arrests during the “family day” on Sunday, reports the Mail.
• “Boy, 8, goes missing at Notting Hill Carnival” – Police are trying to find an 8 year-old boy who was separated from his parents at the Notting Hill Carnival, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour said prisoner release plan posed ‘unacceptable risk’” – Labour had previously been warned that ending indefinite prison sentences for dangerous offenders could put the public at “unacceptable risk”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Body of ‘murdered’ woman found in Liverpool park was in black bin bag” – A manhunt is underway for the killer of an elderly woman found murdered and dumped in a black bin bag in a park in Liverpool, says the Mail.
• “Burnham turns prison laundries into cells in scramble for space” – Prison laundries are to be converted into accommodation as the Government tries to avoid running out of cells, reports the Telegraph.
• “Kemi’s finally showing the ruthlessness that the Tories need” – Kemi Badenoch’s new-look Shadow Cabinet signals she has no intention of fighting Reform by mimicking it, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “At least 100 children aged 12 or younger in ‘forced marriage’ concerns” – At least 100 children aged 12 or under have been referred to the Government’s forced marriage unit in the past five years, with one campaigner warning that “there will be more to come”, according to Care Appointments.
• “Coming home to a different Britain” – After more than two years reporting for GB News in the US, Steven Edginton writes in the Critic that he has found a country transformed – and not for the better.
• “Army witch hunts put Britain at risk” – In the Telegraph, a former SAS brigadier warns that endless legal actions against soldiers are damaging special forces recruitment and leaving Britain dangerously exposed.
• “Winchester and Canterbury risk losing city status” – Winchester and Canterbury face losing their city status as a consequence of Angela Rayner’s sweeping local government reorganisation, reports the Telegraph.
• “Simon Woolley is not fit to lead a Cambridge college” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan warns that questions over Lord Woolley’s CV raise serious doubts about his suitability to lead a Cambridge college.
• “The boys are not alright and no one is watching” – On her Right Times Substack, Kathy Gyngell argues that decades of focus on girls’ success has left boys catastrophically behind in education, to the detriment of society as a whole.
• “BBC broadcasts ‘f— Farage’ rap at Reading Festival” – The BBC has aired footage of a hip-hop act rapping “f— Nigel Farage” and leading chants of “death to the IDF” at Reading Festival, reports GB News.
• “Inside Nigel Farage’s chaotic expedition to ‘reoccupy’ Chagos Islands” – A Nigel Farage-backed expedition to symbolically reoccupy the Chagos Islands faces challenges with rats, “frazzled” tents and a boat that cannot traverse the surrounding ocean, reveals the Times.
• “Green politician who loves calling her political opponents Nazis married to a literal confessed ex-neo-Nazi” – A Green politician notorious for branding her opponents Nazis has been revealed to be married to a man who has confessed to a neo-Nazi past, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Israel’s warring Right is a headache for Netanyahu” – Israel’s volatile Right is reaching fever pitch as parties face a looming deadline to confirm their candidates for the General Election, reports Paul Nuki in the Telegraph.
• “‘Woke’ was a disaster – even the Left admits it” – In the Telegraph, Celia Walden argues that even as figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distance themselves from the ‘woke’ movement, its punitive orthodoxy has left a lasting chill on free speech in the US.
• “Burnham should listen to his conscience on assisted dying” – In the Telegraph, Charles Moore argues that Andy Burnham’s insistence on a “genuinely free vote” on assisted dying demands he honour his own conscience rather than sidestep the question.
• “GPs treat almost half their patients remotely” – New figures show that family doctors now conduct almost half of all appointments remotely, with video consultations surging to 60% in some areas, according to the Telegraph.
• “Meta settlement ignites global ‘child safety’ digital ID push” – Barely has Washington’s settlement with Meta been concluded before Brussels and Westminster are moving to use it as a pretext for sweeping digital ID mandates in the name of child safety, says Cindy Harper at Reclaim the Net.
• “Can Elon Musk’s SpaceX deliver life on Mars?” – SpaceX’s reusable rockets could soon be launching vast constellations of AI satellites – potentially numbering in the millions – as part of Musk’s ambitious vision for life on Mars, writes Louisa Clarence-Smith in the Times.
• “Holidaymakers clobbered with record £4.6 billion flying taxes under Labour” – Figures quietly published by HMRC reveal that fliers were hit with a record Air Passenger Duty bill of £4.6 billion in 2025/26, reveals the Mail.
• “Tory London mayor contender James Cleverly vows ‘full review’ of ULEZ” – James Cleverly has pledged a full review of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, which charges drivers £12.50 per day if their vehicle fails to meet emissions criteria, according to the Mail.
• “Risk of ‘catastrophic’ event that could leave one million without water rises” – Official documents suggest the risk of water supply failure to a large town has risen to as high as 25% owing to the threat of climate change, says the Times.
• “Protecting rate payers or throwing them to the wind?” – A new analysis argues that hidden cost interactions between renewable and thermal generators – not fuel savings – are the true driver of rising utility bills, writes Kevin Kilty at Watts Up With That?
• “The progress(ives) war on reliable and affordable electricity” – In RealClearEnergy, Geoffrey Pohanka argues that progressive energy policies are actively undermining the reliability and affordability of electricity for ordinary Americans.
• “‘Super’ El Nino misinformaton” – Claims of an imminent “super” El Niño are examined and found wanting by Cliff Mass on his weather blog.
• “John Galliano’s Met show cancelled over antisemitic remarks” – The Metropolitan Museum has cancelled a retrospective for fashion designer John Galliano, 15 years after he was recorded making comments praising Hitler, reports the Times.
• “A revealing book by Mamdani’s father” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple says Mahmood Mamdani’s 1983 book Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda offers a revealing window into the worldview that has shaped his son’s thinking.
• “The Cicero we need now” – Every generation rewrites Cicero according to its own anxieties, and ours is no different, says Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri in the Critic.
• “It’s not just you disagree with me, it’s… you disagree with me and you’re evil for it” – On the Free Speech Union’s ‘Student Specials’ series, philosophy student Lottie Tredgett describes how mentioning her past socialist support for Brexit at university led fellow students to secretly record her and accuse her of racism.

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