News Round-Up

• “Chancellor’s Budget woes deepen as borrowing surges above expectations” – Economists are warning that the “walls are closing in” on Andy Burnham as figures showed Government borrowing surging ahead of forecasts, reports the Mail.
• “Poll shows Burnham could need ‘rainbow coalition’ after snap election” – Rumours are swirling at Westminster that the PM is considering going to the country early to secure his own mandate, says the Mail.
• “Burnham paves the way for rejoining EU to be in next Labour manifesto” – Andy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on a pledge to rejoin the European Union – as he claimed Brexit was driven by “outside forces”, reports the Mail.
• “Labour is hooked on benefits” – The spiralling welfare bill risks bankrupting the country, warns Ameer Kotecha in the Spectator. And the electoral arithmetic is terrifying.
• “‘Who is he?’ Danny Dyer issues withering putdown of Andy Burnham” – Former EastEnders star Danny Dyer says he “didn’t know” who the Prime Minister was or who voted for him, according to the Mail.
• “Black voters should push for slavery reparations, says Labour MP” – A Left-wing Labour MP has urged Britain’s black voters to pressure Andy Burnham for slavery reparations at a meeting of Caribbean and African community groups, reports GB News.
• “It’s hard to take the Lib Dems seriously” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts argues that the Lib Dems have squandered whatever residual seriousness they once commanded under leaders like Paddy Ashdown and now deserve only ridicule.
• “‘Terrorist granny’ Palestine Action supporter stands in synod election” – An 80 year-old Palestine Action activist facing criminal charges is seeking to represent the Diocese of Salisbury in a Church of England synod election, notes the Telegraph.
• “Charlotte Church brands Ed Sheeran a greedy capitalist in stage rant” – Charlotte Church has launched an extraordinary onstage tirade against Ed Sheeran, branding him a greedy capitalist for failing to back Macklemore over Gaza, says the Mail.
• “The secret Soviet origin of anti-Zionism” – Cold War-era ‘Zionology’ was a Kremlin propaganda drive designed to poison the West with lies that continue to shape modern anti-Zionist discourse, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “I’ve never seen Burnham look so uncomfortable as he was with Trump” – Andy Burnham’s encounter with Donald Trump left the Prime Minister visibly ill at ease, observes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Trump scolds world leaders face-to-face in explosive Iran speech” – Donald Trump has ripped world leaders at the UN General Assembly over their failure to confront the threat posed by Iran, reports the Mail.
• “Iran offers Strait of Hormuz deal as Trump calls off Houthi strikes” – Tehran has reportedly offered a seven-day deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the US lifting its blockade, says the Detroit News.
• “US to open two new military bases in Greenland” – Donald Trump has struck a deal on the security of Greenland that will see the US open two new military bases on the island, according to ITV News.
• “CDU in crisis, or: the Merzpocalypse continues” – Friedrich Merz’s promised ‘Autumn of reforms’ is looking more like an empty promise, with little sign of the political will to tackle Germany’s economic and fiscal mess, writes Eugyppius on his Substack.
• “Patients dying after doctors replaced with nurses, medics warn” – Medics are warning that patients are being harmed and dying because the NHS is replacing doctors with nurses and other healthcare workers, reports the Telegraph.
• “Top journal publishes on Covid vaccine pharmacovigilance failures” – On his Substack, Dr Raphael Lataster writes that the BMJ has found US health officials used a flawed data-mining algorithm to track mRNA Covid vaccine safety, ignored warnings that it wasn’t working and sidelined scientists who tried to fix it.
• “Celebrities ‘buying’ babies will never be OK” – If reports that Lady Gaga and Lena Dunham used surrogates are true, whether they paid or it was an act of altruism, it’s still a cruel industry, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Science is proving Richard Dawkins and the new atheists wrong” – Fresh scientific discoveries are fuelling compelling new arguments for the existence of God, writes Stephen Meyer in the Telegraph.
• “Nvidia chief: zero chance AI will destroy humanity” – Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says there is a “0% chance” that AI causes the end of the world by 2030, according to Fox News.
• “Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices” – Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s industrial giant Ineos has paused production at its three plants in Hull, blaming high UK gas prices, reports the BBC.
• “The UK’s most prominent liberal outlet keeps trying to make the phrase ‘petro-masculinity’ happen, publishes yet another article about fake climate trend” – In the Western Journal, C. Douglas Golden says the Guardian is still pushing the fantasy of ‘petro-masculinity’ as though it were a real cultural trend.
• “100% of Green Climate Fund ‘adaptation’ projects are not about adaptation” – A statistical analysis of the UN’s Green Climate Fund reveals that none of its so-called adaptation projects actually qualify as adaptation, notes David Wojick at CFACT.
• “The Rockefeller gang is back after summer and here’s what they missed” – The Rockefeller-backed climate litigation network is back, complete with a new ‘news’ website hiding the same familiar operatives and Centre for Climate Integrity funding, says Kyle Kohli in EID Climate.
• “Nepal demands climate cash while blaming the West for its Himalayan flood disaster” – Nepal’s Foreign Minister is connecting his country’s devastating flood last month to industrial CO₂ emissions and demanding compensation, when a straightforward appeal to charitable instincts would serve his country far better, writes Angela Wheeler at CO₂ Coalition.
• “Book review: A Very Convenient Warming” – In American Greatness, Lipton Matthews reviews Gregory Wrightstone’s A Very Convenient Warming, which challenges climate catastrophe narratives by arguing that warmer periods and higher CO₂ historically coincided with human flourishing.
• “Sarah Mullally and the real problem with interfaith initiatives” – The Archbishop of Canterbury has inadvertently exposed what interfaith engagement actually is rather than what its practitioners imagine it to be, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “Earl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan over Diana book error” – Earl Spencer has issued an apology to Piers Morgan over false claims made about the presenter in his memoir about Princess Diana, reports ABC News.
• “‘Lefties’ stop Toby Young’s bid to join Savile Club” – Left-wing members of the Savile Club, which counts both Stephen Fry and Edward Fox among its ranks, have reportedly blackballed our Editor-in-Chief’s application to join, according to Richard Eden in the Mail.
• “The Real Housewives of ISIS” – In the wake of the broadcaster’s recent removal of 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look, this clip from BBC Two’s Revolting is a reminder of the kind of dark satire the BBC once went for, with jihadi wives chatting about beheading outfits, matching suicide vests and Instagram posts.

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