News Round-Up

• “Farmer who alerted cops to RAF terror stumbled upon ‘bomb plotters’” – A hero farmer alerted police to a car bomb plot at RAF Fairford after stumbling across five “Middle Eastern-looking” masked men on his way home from a party, reports the Mail.
• “Trump says RAF Fairford suspects were ‘looking to do big damage’” – Donald Trump has warned the five men arrested over a foiled terror attack at RAF Fairford were “looking to do big damage” to US forces, says the Mail.
• “PM faces Labour conference civil war as Rayner goes rogue on migration” – Andy Burnham is facing a difficult Labour conference with ministers clashing on migration and accusations that he has “ghosted” the Left of the party, reports the Mail.
• “‘Russian arrival’ among migrants who reached UK sparks spying fears” – A Russian man was reportedly among migrants who reached British shores in an unescorted small boat last week, sparking major security concerns, according to the Mail.
• “Outrage over bid to convert UK’s oldest sea fort into migrant centre” – Ministers have been slammed over plans to convert a historic sea fort into a processing centre for small boat migrants – less than a mile from what will be Britain’s largest immigration detention centre, reports the Mail.
• “Photo that makes a mockery of Britain’s small boats deal with France” – French rescue officials have been photographed handing lifejackets to migrants aboard a vessel preparing to set off on a 36-hour crossing from Normandy to England, says the Mail.
• “How ‘benefits cheat’ migrant waged campaign of terror on tenants” – In the Mail, Tom Rawstorne tells the depressing story of migrant landlord Ndumbe Achile Ndumbe, who crammed desperate tenants into a string of rundown northern properties while also defrauding the benefits system.
• “Mahmood ‘breaking law’ if migrant camp built on endangered bird habitat” – A council leader has warned that Shabana Mahmood will break the law if she goes ahead with plans for an asylum camp on land where endangered stone curlews nest, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘We’re not bringing back stupid’ insists Labour’s Lucy Powell” – Education Secretary Lucy Powell has used her party’s Liverpool conference speech to hit back at Tory accusations that Labour is dumbing down the country’s schools, notes the Mail.
• “Forget Burnham’s election denials – it’s all a bluff” – Despite Andy Burnham’s categorical insistence that the next election will not come before 2029, Dan Hodges argues in the Mail that the PM’s denials are a carefully constructed bluff.
• “No great leader got anywhere by being ‘nice’” – Andy Burnham must abandon the TikTok charm offensive and face the tough decisions that real leadership demands, says Camilla Long in the Sunday Times.
• “Haigh says donations cap ‘under consideration’ after Reform £72 million haul” – First Secretary of State Louise Haigh has confirmed the Government is considering amendments to proposed laws on political donations following Reform UK’s £72 million fundraising windfall, reports the Mail.
• “Councils handed power to seize empty homes after just six months” – Labour faces accusations of threatening property rights after granting councils the authority to compulsorily acquire homes left empty for as little as six months, according to the Telegraph.
• “What’s left of Britain’s crumbling empire is up for grabs” – Beset by foreign policy fiascos and threats from within, the UK has never looked weaker, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “Simon and Schuster is right to publish Arday’s memoir” – In the American Conservative, Theodore Dalrymple argues that the public has a legitimate interest in the late Jason Arday’s confabulations and that Simon and Schuster is correct to publish his memoir.
• “Beliefs should not cost people their career, says Christian social worker” – A Christian social worker says that “beliefs should not cost people their career” after losing a job offer because of religious comments he made online, reports the Telegraph.
• “Orange Order parade begins for first time in nearly 30 years” – Ex-Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has met with protesters blocking a loyalist parade which is taking place for the first time in nearly 30 years, says the Mail.
• “Inside the private city where billionaires are free to play God” – The Honduran island of Roatan is best known for world-class diving, but its controversial private city experiment – drawing billionaires with a 1% tax rate – is putting it on the map for different reasons, writes Tom Leonard in the Mail.
• “Letby inquiry ‘ignored evidence of appalling hospital conditions’” – Sir David Davis says that the Lucy Letby inquiry ignored witness evidence of “appalling” conditions at the Countess of Chester Hospital, according to the Telegraph.
• “NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments” – Patient groups are decrying “scandalous” delays after four integrated care boards introduced two-year minimum waits for ADHD and autism assessments amid soaring demand for diagnoses, says the Guardian.
• “Winter and summer plans” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan examine NHS winter and summer preparedness plans and ask whether there is any meaningful difference between them.
• “Bill Gates issues AI warning saying billion people will be killed” – Bill Gates has issued a stark warning about the rapid development of AI and its potential to cause mass casualties, reports the Mail.
• “Burnham sticks with Net Zero” – Andy Burnham has disappointed on energy policy again, laments Oscar Gill-Lewis on the CapX Substack.
• “Wrong, Euronews: climate change has not created a food, energy and economic ‘meta-crisis’” – At ClimateRealism, Anthony Watts challenges Euronews’s claim that climate change is generating a sweeping “meta-crisis” across the global economy.
• “Energy affordability: an IQ test for New Yorkers that they will very likely fail” – Governor Kathy Hochul’s re-election bid is forcing a reckoning over New York’s sky-high energy costs – but on the Manhattan Contrarian blog, Francis Menton warns the state is still on course to make them much worse.
• “Refrigerators: the next battle frontier?” – The next front in modern warfare may not involve missiles or satellites but rather a cascade of small, coordinated failures in everyday devices – including the humble refrigerator, writes Timothy Maney in Watts Up With That?
• “BBC removes Horrible Histories episode featuring slavery and child labour” – The BBC has edited episodes of the Bafta-winning historical comedy Horrible Histories to meet its guidelines for children’s programmes, removing an entire episode featuring slavery, Victorian child workers and chimney sweeps, reports the Telegraph.
• “Fury after castle draped in Pride flag” – A 500ft Pride flag wrapped around a Devon castle has sparked a furious reaction online, notes the Sun.
• “Whoa there, Cochise: what happened to Jaguar?” – On his Substack, C.J. Strachan traces how watching Jaguar lose its mind led him from corporate groupthink to the idea of ‘Cognitive Sovereignty’.
• “Too many people swipe left – it could be the end of days” – In the Mail, Sarah Vine warns that the collapse of dating culture and the rise of endless swiping left is quietly steering humanity toward extinction.
• “Friends of Sir Ranulph Fiennes urge police to investigate ‘captivity’” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes has not been seen publicly for over two years and has reportedly been given a false name by his second wife and moved between a series of care homes, according to the Mail.
• “Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ stepson demands ‘a court to ensure his free will’” – The stepson of Sir Ranulph Fiennes has accused the explorer’s second wife of “exerting a controlling influence” over him for more than two decades and is seeking a court ruling to safeguard his freedom, reports the Mail.
• “Cricket risk thwarts surgery plan for village that couldn’t recruit GP” – Residents of Coniston in the Lake District have seen plans for a new surgery rejected over the risk of stray cricket balls, says the Mail.
• “You’re the Housing Secretary…” – On Sky News’s Sunday Morning Kate McCann confronts Housing Secretary Angela Rayner over whether it is fair for taxpayers to fund a £70,000 refurbishment of radical cleric Abu Hamza’s wife’s £1.7 million council home.

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