News Round-Up

• “Police ‘receive reports of child rape at school every single day’” – At least 8,500 sexual offences against children aged 13 or under were logged by police between 2021 and 2025 – including 2,000 alleged rapes or attempted rapes, according to the Mail.
• “All domestic abusers to be named and shamed” – Domestic abusers are to be named and shamed in court records for the first time, allowing their movements and behaviour to be tracked by victims and authorities, says the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch drops hint at IHT cut as she kicks off Tory conference” – Kicking off the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Kemi Badenoch hinted at inheritance tax cuts and said she is taking a leaf out of Thatcher’s book by returning to core principles to turn Britain around, notes the Mail.
• “Kemi vows to keep pension triple lock – amid claims some may lose £38,000” – Kemi Badenoch has ruled out following Andy Burnham in ditching the triple lock, as new analysis warns Labour’s plan to scrap it could leave workers £38,000 worse off in retirement, says the Mail.
• “Badenoch tells Labour: stop delaying Henry Nowak inquiry” – Kemi Badenoch is demanding the Government act immediately on the Henry Nowak inquiry, insisting the victim’s family have waited “long enough” for a decision, according to the Telegraph.
• “Penny Mordaunt cleared to stand for Tories in next election” – Ex-Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has passed the Conservative Party’s candidate assessment board after Kemi Badenoch previously blocked her from standing, says the Telegraph.
• “Cricket game near RAF Fairford halted before ‘terror plot’ arrests” – A cricket match near the US-linked RAF Fairford airbase was brought to a halt at around 4.30pm last Saturday after intelligence suggested an imminent attack, reports the Mail.
• “Andy Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials” – Andy Burnham has U-turned on proposals introduced under Sir Keir Starmer that aimed to reduce the courts backlog by limiting jury trials, says the Mail.
• “Burnham is no different from Starmer, say voters” – A new poll finds that seven in 10 Labour voters from 2024 believe Andy Burnham is different in practice from Sir Keir Starmer, while Reform and Tory voters are far more sceptical, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rejoining EU will scupper Labour private school VAT raid” – Andy Burnham would be forced to scrap VAT on private school fees if he presses ahead with plans to rejoin the EU, notes the Telegraph.
• “Home Secretary reveals ministers lobby her for migrant worker visas” – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has revealed her frustration at the “sheer number” of pleas she receives from fellow Government ministers seeking work visas for migrant workers, reports the Mail.
• “Mayfair’s Connaught Hotel has a homeless migrant camp on its doorstep” – Migrants are setting up camp among the luxury boutiques and restaurants of Mayfair’s exclusive Mount Street, says the Mail.
• “Border Force sets out to intercept third migrant boat” – A third migrant vessel believed to have set off from near Utah Beach, the same location as the recent ‘mega boat’ crossings, is being intercepted, reports the Telegraph.
• “Billionaire ranked second on Rich List quits UK for Monaco” – Property tycoon David Reuben, who shares in a £28 billion family fortune, has left Britain for Monaco, says the Sunday Times.
• “I am obsessed with the ignorance of the Jew-haters” – Antisemitism is finding its fiercest home on university campuses, where the profound ignorance underpinning Jew-hatred goes unchallenged, warns Howard Jacobson in the Telegraph.
• “Restore activists claim ‘Jewish ideas ruined country’” – Hard-Right activists are at the centre of Restore Britain’s campaign to win Sir Keir Starmer’s former constituency, according to the Telegraph.
• “Polanski banned from Israel after Greens back ‘Zionism is racism’ motion” – Zack Polanski has been banned from entering Israel after the Green Party adopted a policy declaring that Zionism is racism, reports the Telegraph.
• “Lord Young’s speech in Croatia: does Britain have a free speech crisis?” – The TTE Substack shares the full text of Toby’s recent speech in Croatia, in which the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary sets out the alarming case that Britain is in the grip of a free speech crisis.
• “Flydubai hijacker made hateful religious rants while studying in UK” – Hamam al-Hammami, who severely wounded a pilot using an onboard crash axe in an attempt to seize control of a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, made extremist religious rants while studying at a British university, reveals the Mail.
• “‘Terrorist’ pilot ‘dreamed of crashing plane into Tel Aviv’s airport’” – Sources claim that Flydubai hijacker Hamam al-Hammami had long dreamed of crashing a passenger jet into Tel Aviv’s main airport to cause mass casualties and had planned the attack weeks in advance, says the Mail.
• “Man shot dead in British van ‘carrying illegal migrants’” – A 47 year-old man has been found dead from a gunshot wound inside a British-registered van suspected of transporting illegal migrants through France, reports the Telegraph.
• “Riot-hit France closes up to 500 schools amid fears of fresh violence” – Up to 500 schools in France are set to close amid fears of fresh violence as student protests continue to grip the country, according to the Mail.
• “The two Frances” – On his Substack, C.J. Strachan contrasts 800,000 faithful at Mass and 20,000 pilgrims walking to Chartres with smoke rising from burning French schools.
• “Spitting row after Ireland’s latest anti-Israel protests” – Ireland’s footballers again bowed their heads during Israel’s national anthem and refused handshakes ahead of their Nations League fixture, with a spitting incident adding to the disgraceful spectacle, according to the Telegraph.
• “The NATO ally turning its schools into jihadist training grounds” – Turkey is systematically reshaping its school curriculum to teach children to embrace terror, warns Ayaan Hersi Ali on her Restoring the West Substack.
• “BBC editor accuses Trump of inciting violence at US Capitol” – Senior BBC editor Jeremy Bowen has told an audience that a “terribly corrupt” President Trump “lies the whole time” and incited violence at the US Capitol, according to the Telegraph.
• “Whisper it, but America might be winning the Iran war” – Developments are tentatively beginning to favour the US in its confrontation with Iran, notes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “How to think like a New York progressive” – In the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton argues that what critics dismiss as illogic in New York’s progressive orthodoxy is in fact a sophisticated – if deeply flawed – mode of thinking that needs to be understood on its own terms.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg debates Tucker Carlson about Russia” – Jacob Rees-Mogg may be a traditionalist, but his debate with Tucker Carlson on Russia shows a surprisingly poor grasp of common sense, writes John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
• “Why so many social science claims are false” – Academic reward systems that incentivise publication over rigour are driving a epidemic of false claims in the social sciences, warns Christopher J. Ferguson in Watts Up With That?
• “Why are some vaccine injured and others not?” – On the Focal Points Substack, Dan Bongino and Dr Peter McCullough explore the roles of batch variability, immune response, biological susceptibility and individual variation in explaining the uneven toll of COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
• “Brits to be able to use their face as their passport” – New ‘contactless borders’ using facial recognition are being introduced at Birmingham and East Midlands airports in the coming weeks, reports the Mail.
• “Social media users face passport checks to enforce under-16 ban” – Social media companies will be required to demand passports or driving licences as “hard checks” on users’ ages under plans to enforce the under-16 ban, says the Times.
• “Tories pledge to scrap environment agencies and expand Heathrow” – Kemi Badenoch has pledged to abolish Britain’s environmental quangos, end Net Zero regulations and push through a third runway at Heathrow, reports the Times.
• “Climate change can’t be harming Indonesian coffee production – it’s setting records” – In ClimateRealism, H. Sterling Burnett debunks an Asia Nikkei report blaming climate change for failing Indonesian coffee harvests, pointing out that yields have in fact been rising to record levels.
• “Major Nature study retracted after RCP8.5 debunking” – A major research paper in Nature claiming to prove climate change was worsening droughts has been withdrawn following the debunking of its RCP8.5 emissions scenario, notes the Heartland Institute.
• “German expert warns of severe economic and social consequences” – German energy expert Prof Fritz Vahrenholt is warning that the country’s green energy transition risks severe economic and social consequences, writes P. Gosselin in NoTricksZone.
• “Winds of change” – A significant shift in the wind energy landscape raises questions about the abuse of power, says Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
• “The CCC is coming for your holiday” – On his Eigen Values Substack, David Turver reveals that the Climate Change Committee is calling for new taxes and extra costs on flying that threaten to make foreign holidays significantly more expensive.
• “How classrooms become ‘impact’ zones on climate” – A federal-state endorsed teaching group is helping Australian schools brainwash children with climate alarmism and woke ideology, warns Tony Thomas in Climate Scepticism.
• “‘Go woke, go broke’: the fall of Nike” – Sportswear giant Nike lost Kylian Mbappe to rival On and its place on the S&P 100 in a single week in a dramatic illustration of the brand’s ongoing collapse, writes Tim Wigmore in the Telegraph.
• “Cambridge is gorging on social justice foolery and destroying its reputation” – Cambridge University has sacrificed rigour and excellence for DEI gobbledegook, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “The parish where worshippers face £160 fines for going to Mass” – A council has raised £360,000 in a single year from one traffic camera that is catching churchgoers attempting to attend Sunday Mass, reports the Telegraph.
• “This was an emotional interview for me to do” – On GB News, ex-Green Party deputy leader Shahrar Ali shares his deep shame after members voted to declare Zionism a form of racism and the party an anti-Zionist organisation.

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