News Round-Up

• “I was given six months to live a decade ago. I’m proof assisted dying I’m proof assisted dying is wrong” – A former NHS nurse who defied a terminal prognosis warns that assisted dying legislation could push vulnerable patients towards an early death before they have exhausted their chances of survival, reports the Telegraph.
• “The defeat of assisted suicide is a victory for the vulnerable” – The Commons rejection of the assisted dying bill represents a victory for a society that protects its most vulnerable members over those who would prioritise individual autonomy above all else, according to the Telegraph.
• “MPs scupper new bid to legalise assisted dying” – Following a passionate and emotionally charged Commons debate in which members spoke candidly about their personal experiences, MPs have voted down a second attempt to legalise assisted dying, says the Mail.
• “Nigel Farage lands record £36 million donation for Reform” – Cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo has handed Reform UK a record-breaking £36 million donation, saying the gift is intended to ensure a “fair fight” at the polls, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Ben Delo: I’m giving Reform millions to make the next election a fair fight” – Bitcoin billionaire Ben Delo explains why he is pouring millions of pounds into Reform UK, arguing that only a level democratic playing field can give Britain a party that is truly ready to govern, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain in greater danger now than after 9/11, says MI5 chief” – MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum warns that the UK now faces ‘the worst of both worlds’ – simultaneous threats from Islamist terrorists and hostile foreign states – making the country more endangered than it was in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, says the Times.
• “We are still failing the moral test of 9/11” – Twenty-five years on from the September 11th attacks, the West’s culture of self-hatred remains as corrosive as ever and it is long past time for a confident reassertion of Western values, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “9/11 and how the Western Left continues to shame itself” – On his Substack, Andrew Devine argues that the Western Left’s response to the legacy of 9/11 has been a continuing source of moral failure and shame.
• “Home Office spent thousands deporting one migrant” – A chartered passenger jet flew to France in January carrying a single individual with complex needs, raising fresh questions about the staggering cost of the Government’s deportation programme, reports the Telegraph.
• “If Burnham won’t make cuts, the IMF will do it for him” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that Britain’s debt crisis was nearly resolved under David Cameron, and that if the Prime Minister refuses to act now, the IMF will eventually force his hand.
• “Car-crash Badenoch interview may have been final straw for Barnett” – Kemi Badenoch faced a bruising interview in which she was asked by Emma Barnett whether she was “willing to make people homeless in the name of national defence”. Barnett has now left the programme, isays the Telegraph.
• “Exclusive: Restore’s rising star quit after supporters branded her a ‘mudblood’” – Orla Minihane departed Restore after just seven months, said to be appalled by abuse – including being branded a ‘mudblood’ – directed at her both in person and online, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Long Eaton school chaplain settles LGBT sermon unfair dismissal case” – Reverend Bernard Randall has reached a confidential settlement with Trent College over his unfair dismissal claim arising from an LGBT sermon, reports BBC News.
• “Stormont ‘conversion therapy’ Bill enables self-ID in law, top KC warns” – A distinguished KC has warned that a private member’s Bill to ban so-called conversion practices in Northern Ireland would enshrine gender self-identification into law, writes the Christian Institute.
• “Exposed: the Cambridge University PR attacking Jason Arday’s black critics” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan reports that Homerton College’s PR chief has been targeting black academics who dared to criticise Professor Jason Arday’s conduct.
• “Why did the British Government label Charlie Kirk supporters ‘extremists’?” – A counter-terrorism unit within the British Government monitored supporters of Charlie Kirk on the grounds that they might promote “free speech”, writes Steven Edginton in the Spectator.
• “Now Michael Gove offers to help the SNP rescue Scots schools” – Tory grandee Michael Gove has offered to share lessons from England’s schools improvement record to help SNP ministers turn around Scotland’s struggling education system, says the Mail.
• “Surprise economic growth offers Healey some relief ahead of Budget” – GDP expanded by 0.4% when economists had forecast stagnation, offering the Chancellor a rare piece of good news before the Budget, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump refuses MBS pleas to stop Houthis’ rapid advance” – The US President has turned down calls from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to launch strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group as they continue their rapid advance, reports the Telegraph.
• “US sells Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina” – A deal worth £103 million has been struck to supply Argentina with Black Hawk helicopters, coming after Donald Trump suggested he would not defend Britain against Argentine claims, says the Telegraph.
• “Know your enemy – it’s not Israel, it’s Iran” – The Islamic Revolution of 1979 unleashed a virulent ideology that the West dangerously loses sight of by focusing its ire on Israel rather than Tehran, writes the Times.
• “How Jamaica continues to ruin its brand with reparations” – On his Substack, Lipton Matthews argues that Jamaica’s pursuit of reparations is doing lasting damage to the country’s international reputation and brand.
• “Scientists caught trying to make bioweapons with AI” – In one case in May, an unnamed scientist sought help from Anthropic’s Claude AI to plot experiments on the chikungunya virus, highlighting alarming attempts to exploit artificial intelligence for bioweapon development, notes the Telegraph.
• “Why are kids anxious? The top psychologist doesn’t blame phones” – Dr Peter Gray argues that helicopter parenting, not social media, is the true driver of rising childhood anxiety, reports the Times.
• “British car industry is approaching the end of the road” – High costs, restricted access to the EU, and the forced shift to electric vehicles are combining to push mass-market UK car manufacturing towards collapse, notes the Times.
• “Khan prepares to ban log burners in clean air clampdown” – Sadiq Khan is pushing to outlaw wood stoves in private homes across the capital by introducing area-specific bans through new zero-emission zones, reports the Telegraph.
• “Burnham ‘running scared’ of the Greens as he delays drilling approval” – The Prime Minister is set to postpone approving drilling of the North Sea’s Jackdaw oil field until after the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, in a move critics say reveals his fear of Green competition, according to the Mail.
• “Green leader Polanski to take on Labour for Keir Starmer’s former seat” – Zack Polanski has been unveiled as the Green Party’s candidate for the October 8th Holborn and St Pancras by-election after local members selected the populist leader to challenge Labour on its own ground, says the Mail.
• “Zack Polanski blames council for being listed to vote under two names” – The Green Party leader was registered to vote as David Paulden when he last ran for Parliament, and appeared under both names in 2020 and 2021, with Polanski attributing the anomaly to a council error, notes the Mail.
• “Lammy: my seat is at risk from Green-voting hipsters” – David Lammy has admitted that Labour can no longer take his Tottenham constituency for granted amid a surge in Green support, reports the Telegraph.
• “Women ‘quit Greens over extraordinary instances of misogyny’” – A motion submitted for the Greens’ autumn conference makes explosive allegations that the party’s leadership has minimised “extraordinary instances of misogyny”, according to the Mail.
• “Law exams watered down after tests branded discriminatory” – Hundreds of trainee lawyers have successfully lobbied to reduce the difficulty of professional exams after claiming the standards risked creating a “lack of diversity” in the legal profession, says the Telegraph.
• “Harry announces engagements as he and Meghan hit back again at King” – The Duke of Sussex has unveiled a schedule of “September public engagements” supporting charities on both sides of the Atlantic, even as tensions between the Sussexes and the Royal Household continue to escalate, writes Martin Robinson in the Mail.
• “Civil servants ‘made uncomfortable’ by colleague dressed as cat in government office” – Civil servants have expressed dismay that management is permitting a colleague to attend a government office in feline costume, with staff describing the behaviour as deeply “unprofessional”, notes Catriona Stewart in the Scotsman.
• “Don’t sympathise with Lindsay Clancy” – In the Spectator, Lionel Shriver argues that the mistrial in the filicide case of Lindsay Clancy, which coincides with a new UK reissue of her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, should not become an occasion for misplaced public sympathy towards a child killer.
• “‘I don’t need black actors’: How the creator of Taxi Driver became engulfed in a race row” – The controversy surrounding Paul Schrader, the celebrated writer of Taxi Driver, and his incendiary remarks about black actors is simmarised by the Telegraph.
• “Suckers, liars, get me a shovel” – On his Substack, David McGrogan warns readers not to believe the hype, skewering those he regards as suckers and liars with characteristic bluntness.
• “Single speech that torpedoed the Assisted Dying Bill” – Watch Ashley Dalton MP, who has terminal breast cancer, deliver a devastating speech against the Assisted Dying Bill

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