News Round-Up

• “How a routine flight nosedived into a bloody mid-air fight for survival” – In the Times, Charles Bremner recounts the terrifying moment a routine flight to Israel turned into a fight for survival, as passengers battled a bloodied co-pilot after he stabbed the captain and sent the plane into a dive.
• “Hero passenger wrestled hijacker from cockpit to save plane” – A passenger aboard the hijacked plane bound for Israel has described how he wrestled the attacker out of the cockpit and took control of the plane, averting a possible 9/11-style attack, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘British hero’ pulled Flydubai hijack jet out of ‘death plunge’” – The Mail reveals that one of the heroes who saved the hijacked plane, and the lives of those onboard, was a British off-duty pilot.
• “Don’t mess with Israeli airline passengers” – The extraordinary scenes aboard the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight, in which ordinary passengers rose to confront an onboard threat, represent an act of genuine heroism, says Jake Wallis Simon in the Telegraph.
• “Why do we still know so little about the RAF Fairford affair?” – The RAF Fairford arrests raise more questions than answers, writes Travis Aaroe in the Spectator.
• “‘One in, one out’ migrant deal scrapped” – Britain’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant returns deal with France has been scrapped after costing the taxpayer a whopping £84 million, reports the GB News.
• “Taking in more Palestinian refugees is a terrible idea” – The revelation that an ex-Hamas bodyguard was granted British citizenship before plotting a terrorist attack against Jews exposes the lethal failures of the country’s migration policy, argues David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “Migrant who said ‘death to all Jews’ is living at taxpayers’ expense” – A Palestinian illegal migrant who called for the death of all Jews is facing calls for his deportation after he was found housed in a Northamptonshire town at the taxpayers’ expense, reports the Mail.
• “Preacher at London mosque encourages worshippers to beat their wives if they refuse to obey them” – A mosque in London with charitable status is facing an investigation after it published sermons encouraging husbands to beat their wives and condoning the execution of gay people, says the Mail.
• “Plan to turn Grade II-listed pub that survived the Blitz into a mosque is scrapped” – Plans to convert a Grade II-listed pub into a mosque have been scrapped, after it faced more than 800 objections from residents and local groups, reports the Mail.
• “Abuse victim flees to ‘other side of world’ as early release scheme begins” – A domestic abuse victim is fleeing to “the other side of the world” to escape her ex-husband because she has lost faith in the state to protect her and her two children when he’s released early from prison, says the Telegraph.
• “Scrapping triple lock could save nothing, warns IFS” – The Institute for Fiscal Studies warns that Andy Burnham’s plan to scrap the triple lock may fail to raise any money at all, according to the Telegraph.
• “Burnham’s triple lock pledge makes no sense” – The Prime Minister’s plan to raid retirement income for social care fails to stand up to serious scrutiny, says Ros Altman in the Telegraph.
• “Rejoining EU is on the table, says Burnham” – Andy Burnham says it’s possible Labour could fight the next election with a pledge to hold a public vote on rejoining the EU, reports the Sun.
• “Andy Burnham’s talk of rejoining the EU just isn’t serious” – Andy Burnham’s overtures towards EU re-entry are a hollow pitch built on false premises rather than any credible political programme, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “The Labour faithful loved it – that’s why the rest of us should be terrified” – Andy Burnham’s conference address revealed a party wedded to council housing, home confiscation and 1970s-style state control, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Burnham’s real plan for Britain is mad, nasty and shockingly extreme” – The PM is staking everything on reuniting the Left while betting that Tories and Reform will focus on annihilating each other, according to Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Is the Government trying to radicalise me?” – I would prefer it if ministers stopped trying to drive me to the Right, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Two-tier policing – alive and well in Britain today?” – On her Substack, Lynda Rose argues that two-tier policing remains a troubling reality on Britain’s streets.
• “UK rail cops’ £320,000 face-scanning spree nets zero matches” – British Transport Police spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for, according to the Register.
• “Kemi to stop school leavers going straight on the dole” – School leavers will be banned from going straight on the dole under Tory plans to “put the fair back in welfare”, says the Mail.
• “‘We need you’: Inside Tan Ikram’s mission to recruit Pakistani lawyers as judges” – On his Substack, Steven Edginton looks into senior judge Tan Ikram’s meetings with imams and his advisory role with a group that referred to “so-called ‘grooming gangs’”.
• “Legal fetishism” – On his Substack, Dr David McGrogan examines the contradictions underlying the doctrine of the ‘rule of law’.
• “The irony of Stella Creasy’s view on free speech” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams argues that Stella Creasy’s position on free speech requires progressive guardians to decide who gets to speak.
• “I don’t want to lose Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners” – Andy Burnham has spoken out in defence of Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners, reports the Mirror.
• “MI5 warns British universities over China’s infiltration of academia” – MI5 has called out 100 British academics taking funding from China for research on sensitive topics including AI, says the Mail.
• “Chinese imports ‘threaten to wipe out UK industries in five years’” – Chatham House has warned that cut-price Chinese manufacturers could wipe out whole chunks of British industry within five years, notes the Telegraph.
• “Modern Ireland is sanctimonious and angry” – Ireland’s warm, irreverent, poet-nation stereotype has curdled into something far less appealing, says David Patrikarakos in the Mail.
• “Ceuta is a tinderbox” – Nine weeks after tens of thousands of migrants crossed the Moroccan frontier into Spain’s tiny North African exclave, the situation in Ceuta remains dangerously unresolved, warns Jim Lawley in the Spectator.
• “Netherlands ditches wealth tax over exodus fears” – The Netherlands has dumped plans to tax unrealised gains on shares, bonds and cryptocurrency after warnings it could prompt an investor exodus, reports the Telegraph.
• “Elon Musk’s X sales rebound in UK despite ad boycott” – Elon Musk’s X has posted a rebound in UK sales even after brands pulled millions in advertising spending, says the Telegraph.
• “Burnham warns of energy crisis as bills to soar by most in years” – Andy Burnham has warned that UK households face their steepest energy bill rises in four years this winter, reports the Sun.
• “Diesel crisis deepens as UK’s biggest refinery shuts for 10 weeks” – Fawley refinery in Hampshire will be closed until November for planned maintenance, adding to fears of a squeeze on fuel supplies across the country, says the Telegraph.
• “Diesel price crosses £2-a-litre amid pleas to cancel fuel duty hike” – The average diesel price on the Government’s Fuel Finder site has reached 200.03p per litre, heaping pressure on ministers to reverse the planned fuel duty increase, according to the Mail.
• “Polanski urges Miliband to block Rosebank oil field over Israel links” – Zack Polanski has called on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to halt development of the Rosebank oil field because of its alleged ties to Israel, reports the Telegraph.
• “Green Party bans ‘unacceptable’ words like ‘mother’, ‘female politician’ and ‘homosexual’” – Green Party members have been told to replace terms such as “mothers and fathers” with gender-neutral terminology under new guidance on inclusive language, according to the Express.
• “Inside the Green Party’s Orwellian language guide” – In the Spectator, Noa Hoffman reveals an exclusive look into the Green Party’s glossary of officially ‘unacceptable’ language, published ahead of its conference this weekend.
• “The National Trust should stick to the day job, not lecture us on climate change” – In the Spectator, Harry Mount argues that the National Trust has no business blaming climate change for the fires on Dunwich Heath in Suffolk this summer.
• “‘More and more severe storms’: when can we declare this hypothesis to be definitively falsified?” – Francis Menton writes on his Manhattan Contrarian blog that the much-repeated claim that fossil-fuel-driven climate change increases the frequency and severity of hurricanes is long overdue a reckoning.
• “Cambridge students are being forced to do ‘inclusivity training’” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan reacts to news that Cambridge students will face mandatory 90-minute “inclusivity training” sessions delivered by Stop Hate UK.
• “The question Cambridge still refuses to answer over Jason Arday” – Cambridge placed Jason Arday on a pedestal from which he was always going to be knocked off – and the university still refuses to answer the most uncomfortable questions about how it happened, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “BBC removes article linking bare nails to white supremacy” – The BBC has removed an article which linked a preference for bare nails to “white supremacy”, notes Fox News.
• “Senedd bans the term ‘blanket’” – The Welsh Parliament descended into farce after Presiding Officer Huw Irranca-Davies scolded members like naughty schoolkids for daring to call a near-universal 20mph default a “blanket” policy.

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