News Round-Up

• “Trump asks Xi to stop helping Iran” – The US President reportedly made it “very clear” to Xi Jinping that any Chinese support for Tehran is “totally unacceptable”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Footage shows father’s desperate search for son after Iran slaughter” – Nine months on from the largest massacre of protesters in modern history, harrowing footage has emerged of a father searching for his son amid Khamenei’s crimes that most of the world has yet to see, says the Mail.
• “UK gave citizenship to Hamas chief’s guard, then he ‘plotted terror’” – A man known only as ‘Mr X’, who was granted refugee status and later citizenship in suburban England, is accused of co-ordinating antisemitic attacks across Europe on behalf of Hamas, reveals the Times.
• “BBC accused of bias for calling dead terrorists ‘journalists’” – The BBC has reported the deaths of 53 “journalists” in Gaza who have since been claimed as martyrs by Hamas and other terrorist groups, notes the Telegraph.
• “Ireland goalkeeper refuses to play against Israel in Gaza protest” – Ireland’s second-choice goalkeeper has refused to take part in the fixture against Israel following four hours of talks and a players’ vote over whether to proceed with the match, writes the Mail.
• “The humbling of Ed Sheeran is a disaster for the music industry” – Ed Sheeran’s legal ordeal serves as a chilling warning to less powerful performers about the dangers what resistance to bullies might cost them, write Rosie Kay and Eve Barlow in the Telegraph.
• “Revealed: Putin is preparing a base for doomsday nuclear strikes” – An exclusive investigation finds that Russia has revived Operation Dead Hand – its Cold War system designed to guarantee nuclear retaliation even if the Kremlin is destroyed – and is now preparing a dedicated base for it, says the Times.
• “French Minister says police must not stop migrant dinghies in water” – France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has declared that officers damaging migrant dinghies in the water is “unacceptable”, effectively barring police from intervening to halt crossings bound for the UK, according to the Mail.
• “Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship” – The Conservative Party is planning to revoke British citizenship from migrant criminals who commit serious offences as part of a sweeping new package of measures designed to increase deportations, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Why the state punishes migration protestors” – In the Spectator, Laurie Wastell says that the British state is responding to the Channel crossing crisis not by stopping the boats but by jailing dissenters – most recently a 42 year-old father of two sentenced to two years for violent disorder at a south coast protest.
• “Heathrow’s third runway to be delayed until 2039” – Airport chiefs have told Andy Burnham that the deadline for Heathrow expansion needs to be pushed back four years, as ministers concede the 2035 target “has always been ambitious”, reports the Times.
• “Business Secretary warns Labour against rejoining the customs union” – Jonathan Reynolds has broken ranks to warn his own party that rejoining the customs union would not benefit the UK, says the Telegraph.
• “Why the Left is so blind to reasons for not rejoining EU” – In the Mail, Andrew Neil argues that Labour and the Liberal Democrats are wilfully ignoring the strong economic and democratic case against EU re-entry.
• “Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness” – Britain’s willingness to capitulate has only invited further contempt from rivals and allies alike, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour is obsessed with identity politics, says Red Wall MP” – Jonathan Hinder urges his party to stop branding voters concerned about immigration as racists, warning that Labour’s fixation on identity politics is alienating the very communities it needs to win back, notes the Telegraph.
• “‘How many genders?’: Free speech fears over NI conversion Bill” – A Bill that would insert “gender identity” into Northern Ireland’s criminal law for the first time is raising serious free speech alarms, reports Gript.
• “Trio of groups write to Assembly speaker wondering if it is permissible to ask how many gender identities there are” – Three groups have written to the Assembly speaker’s office seeking clarification on whether MLAs are permitted to interrogate the term “gender identity” in debate, reports the News Letter.
• “Polanski’s ‘banter Stasi’: Order that could be from 1980s East Germany” – Leaked Green Party diversity training reveals efforts to crack down on jokes between friends – even when those being mocked are described as “absolutely fine” with them, says the Mail.
• “Is Ofcom picking a fight with America?” – Canada’s bruising dispute with Trump over domestic internet regulation stands as a stark warning to Ofcom about the dangers of crossing the Atlantic, notes the Critic.
• “I’ll stop investing in Britain if Labour hikes capital gains tax” – Wealthy business owners are warning that a push to double capital gains tax could drive them abroad, with jobs and economic growth paying the price, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Why the Archbishop of Canterbury’s award controversy matters” – The row surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury’s award exposes a serious political risk for the Church of England, writes Julian Mann in Christian Today.
• “How Trump plans to use BBC’s own emails to win his $10 billion lawsuit” – Trump’s lawyers are set to use a BBC letter apologising for a misleading edit on Panorama as “proof of malice” in his $10 billion lawsuit against the broadcaster, reports the Times.
• “Mitchell and Webb’s silence on BBC censorship is revealing” – The BBC quietly deleted 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look “in consultation with the programme” makers, yet neither comedian has spoken out – a silence Graham Linehan in the Telegraph says is telling.
• “Left ramps up war on free speech with lawfare, legislation and films attacking Zuckerberg and Musk” – Meta faces tens of billions in damages for allegedly failing to censor American citizens – including Joe Rogan – sufficiently, as the Left intensifies its assault on free speech through courts, legislation and propaganda, writes Michael Shellenberger in Public.
• “Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers” – A Nature investigation uncovers a network of bogus scientific organisations that have been building their ranks by deceiving prominent researchers through deceptive practices.
• “An open letter to Scott Alexander” – AI dangers are real, but Steven Pinker in Quillette argues that doomerism may ultimately prove counterproductive.
• “Why AI risk is real but unnecessarily sensationalised, and why regulatory regimes to limit AI are probably a bad idea” – On his Substack, Eugyppius argues that while AI poses genuine risks, sensationalism around those risks makes heavy-handed regulatory regimes more likely and more dangerous.
• “Why Britain’s diesel prices could hit record highs” – Wars and export threats are depleting global diesel reserves and forcing governments to scramble for solutions as Britain faces the prospect of record pump prices, reports the Times.
• “Sadiq Khan’s LTNs made me flee Britain, says millionaire” – Sir Peter Lampl, one of Britain’s leading philanthropists, has quit the UK citing Lord Khan’s low-traffic neighbourhood policies as the decisive factor in his departure, says the Telegraph.
• “Climate’s past performance uncertain predictor of future” – The predictions of climate doomsayers reveal an embarrassing ignorance of a capricious geological history shaped by natural forces too powerful for human control and too complex for meaningful forecasting, says Vijay Jayaraj in Watts Up With That?
• “Stop the Climate Change Act from killing off the country completely” – On the Right Times Substack, Kathy Gyngell urges readers to sign a petition to suspend the Climate Change Act, which she argues is not merely futile but actively damaging and destructive to the country.
• “The week in energy – September 26th 2026” – On his Substack, Richard Lyon rounds up the week’s key energy developments, including a stark warning from a transition supporter that electricity prices will not follow gas back down.
• “Girl Guides divided into ‘team boy’ and ‘team girl’ to discuss non-binary identities” – Leaders were advised to split Guides into “team boy” and “team girl” groups to discuss gender stereotypes before introducing the concept of non-binary identities, says the Telegraph.
• “Historic Houses: cost and perks of the ‘anti-woke’ alternative to the National Trust” – From Burghley House in Lincolnshire to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the Telegraph reveals what Historic Houses membership costs and which remarkable properties it unlocks as a non-woke alternative to the National Trust.
• “How to speak woke: a glossary of the modern Left” – An essential guide to today’s hottest progressive buzzwords – from “decolonise” to “lived experience” – from the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
• “A record number of illegals have entered the country, but don’t worry, the Government has a plan…” – Watch a new AI satirical video on X featuring Labour’s leading ladies with their plan for responding to the Channel crisis.

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