News Round-Up

• “No bombs found in RAF terror plot vans” – No explosive devices were found in the three vans linked to a suspected terror plot targeting RAF Fairford, reports the Telegraph.
• “UK Government pay highest yield 10-year debt auction since 1999” – Britain has paid the highest yield on 10-year debt in 27 years as bond market turbulence batters Andy Burnham’s Britain, says This is Money.
• “Andy Burnham to end triple lock” – The Prime Minister has announced plans to scrap the pensions triple lock by 2030 in order to fund an NHS-style social care system, reports ITV News.
• “Andy Burnham just bottled it” – Andy Burnham promised a historic assault on the triple lock but instead delivered a diluted policy that saves little, writes Rob White in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi attacks Burnham’s ‘1970s’ big state plan for Britain” – Kemi Badenoch has led the backlash against the PM’s conference pledge to hit pensioners in order to fund a Labour lurch to the Left, says the Mail.
• “‘One in, one out’ migrant deal set to collapse” – A senior French immigration official has claimed the UK’s “one in, one out” migrant deal with France is “over”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP compares Epping migrant hotel protesters to proscribed terror group Palestine Action” – Stella Creasy has drawn a comparison between Epping migrant hotel protesters and Palestine Action, the proscribed terror group responsible for more than 3,600 arrests, reports GB News.
• “Henry Nowak’s killer is allowed to appeal his sentence” – A judge has granted Vickrum Digwa the green light to challenge the 21-year sentence handed down for the fatal stabbing of 18 year-old student Henry Nowak, reports the Mail.
• “Police failed to spot Farage firebomb suspect on CCTV” – A suspect in a firebombing attack on Nigel Farage’s house was caught on CCTV but police failed to spot him, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Students now have to pay 84% of the cost of their degrees – report” – A new report finds the Government now covers just a sixth of the cost of an undergraduate degree in England, leaving students to pick up 84% of the tab, according to the Mail.
• “Now more than ever, we must stand up for the SAS” – The ‘feral’ heroes who go to hell and back for the British people deserve our gratitude, not the insult of a state-sponsored witch hunt, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Michelle O’Neill could have emulated Mandela; but she chose Gerry Adams” – On his Substack, Philip Lardner argues that Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill squandered a historic opportunity for reconciliation by aligning herself with Gerry Adams rather than following the conciliatory example of Nelson Mandela.
• “German hard-Left calls for Axel Springer to be seized by Government” – A newly elected Die Linke MP has revived a 1960s campaign to have the Axel Springer media empire – which now owns the Telegraph – nationalised by the state, according to the Telegraph.
• “New York Times exec killed ‘by in-laws’ abused his children, wife says” – The wife of a trans New York Times tech executive who was shot dead by his elderly in-laws claims he abused his children, reports the Mail.
• “We never planned to use masks to stop viruses, because we always knew they never worked” – On his Substack, Ian Miller looks back at how public health guidance before the pandemic repeatedly said masks offered little protection against respiratory viruses – before inconvenient research was quietly brushed aside when policy demanded it.
• “OpenAI abandons release of new AI model over ‘safety concerns’” – OpenAI has pulled its GPT-6.1 Astra model from release after researchers found it had become adept at lying to human users, says the Telegraph.
• “Screen time ‘damages children more than being born into poverty’” – A study of more than 2.8 million children finds that heavy screen use is linked to poorer school performance and weaker language skills – and may do more harm than childhood poverty, reports the BBC.
• “Burnham opens up energy network in challenge to nation” – Andy Burnham has announced the creation of a new state-owned entity, Great British Grid, to compete directly with the regulated energy monopolies, says ITV News.
• “Falklands oil drillers call for Miliband’s support in Milei row” – Ed Miliband has been accused of failing to defend British energy companies against Argentina’s escalating aggression over Falklands drilling rights, reports the Telegraph.
• “Milei gives Britain two-week ultimatum over Falklands” – Argentina has threatened to petition an international court unless Britain halts development of the Sea Lion oilfield near the Falkland Islands within a fortnight, says Sky News.
• “Labour launches ‘war on motorists’ in name of Net Zero” – Councils are being instructed to place cars at the bottom of the transport planning hierarchy as part of Labour’s sweeping Net Zero agenda, reports the Telegraph.
• “Diesel drivers paying price for Government neglect” – President Trump could ban US diesel exports to bring down prices at home, and Paul Homewood warns that British drivers could be left exposed after years of Government inaction on his Not a Lot of People Know That blog.
• “There is a drought in academia: a drought in honest research on the subject of drought and other weather extremes” – Rigorous, unbiased research on climate change and weather extremes is becoming dangerously scarce in universities, warns a guest contributor in ClimateRealism.
• “Earth and Venus surface warmth largely explained by convection and lapse rate, not CO₂ or radiation” – A new study challenges orthodox climate science by finding that the surface warmth of both Earth and Venus is driven primarily by convection and lapse rate rather than CO₂ or radiation, writes Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone.
• “Trans rape suspects can be called men, prosecutors told” – A legal challenge over ‘deception as to sex’ guidelines has prompted the CPS to allow trans rape suspects to be referred to as men in court, reports the Telegraph.
• “How to speak woke… part two” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon provides a second list of the modern Left’s favourite words and phrases – and what they really mean
• “Andy Burnham used his first UN speech to unveil Labour’s new ‘Ministry of Truth’” – Toby warns that Andy Burnham’s new National Centre for Information Defence is less about Russia and more about expanding Whitehall’s monitoring of domestic critics on immigration and government policy.

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