News Round-Up

“Is James Timpson the most dangerous man in Britain?” – Labour’s new Prisons Minister doesn’t understand that handing out endless second chances only emboldens career criminals, says Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
“Resist Labour’s surrender to criminals with every sinew” – Letting out thousands of prisoners just 40% through their sentence risks triggering a crime wave of rapes, assaults and robberies, warns Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
“Is Labour’s Housing Minister a Nimby?” – Labour has pledged to get building, but some MPs must shake their Nimby past, writes Jonn Elledge in CapX.
“Rachel Reeves vows to overhaul ‘timid’ planning system” – Rachel Reeves is accused of “silencing” local opposition after she vowed a dramatic overhaul of the “timid” planning system to stop housing developments being blocked, reports the Mail.
“Suspected people smugglers to be hit with travel bans in King’s Speech” – Suspected people smugglers will face travel bans under new counter terrorism-style laws to be set out in Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech, says the Telegraph.
“Labour to allow 100,000 migrants to apply for asylum” – A spokesman for Keir Starmer has indicated that Labour is to allow more than 100,000 migrants to apply for asylum after scrapping Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme, according to the Telegraph.
“In Britain, the Muslim vote is showing up to shape the future” – The emergence of sectarian politics is the really big story from the U.K. General Election, says Laura Perrins in Gript.
“Something rotten in the state of the whole Western world” – In the New English Review, Theodore Dalrymple dissects the current sad state of Western Europe, singling out the disastrous Swedish experiment of importing unassimilable migrants en masse.
“Reform U.K. reaches 65,000 members – up nearly two thirds in a month” – Nigel Farage’s party has attracted 25,000 new members since June 8th, taking its total base to 65,000, reports the Express.
“‘You never know, I might bring Trump to Clacton – he loves the U.K.,’ says toast of town Nigel Farage” – In the Telegraph, Gordon Rayner catches up with Nigel Farage in Clacton as he begins the serious business of being an MP.
“Rishi Sunak: my part in his downfall” – On Substack, Ian Price offers his perspective on Rishi Sunak – a compliant technocrat with a talent for making people poorer.
“Sunak should stay on as Tory leader until November, says Duncan Smith” – Iain Duncan Smith says that Rishi Sunak should continue to lead the Tory party until November, when the search for his successor could be completed, according to the Telegraph.
“David Cameron steps down as Tories announce new shadow team” – Analysis by the Times suggests that centrists will be the dominant force in the forthcoming Tory leadership contest after the party’s Right was decimated by Reform.
“The low-key lunacy of Britain’s new ruling class” – The new Labour Government is full of people who believe the craziest things, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
“Labour’s fanatical centrists are laying the ground for the next populist revolt” – Give Labour credit for at least talking about reform. But its plans do not meet the scale of the challenges, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
“So many Labour MPs, so much uncertainty” – Never has a government been elected with so many MPs and yet the political future seemed so uncertain, laments Vlod Barchuk in TCW.
“The ‘weighted reps’ new electoral system” – On Substack, Peter Kellow has devised a new electoral system that addresses the shortcomings of both PR and FPTP, delivering a system that promises to excite voters and foster a healthy democracy.
“Photo ID prevented hundreds of thousands from voting in General Election” – Polling suggests that photo ID laws may have stopped more than 400,000 people from voting in the General Election, reports the Guardian.
“How the BBC bungled its election night coverage” – Key moments missed, poor judgment calls and sarcastic presenters made the General Election a sloppy night’s work for the BBC, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
“Antisemitism has exploded in British universities” – Some of our most prestigious academic institutions have become hotbeds of Jew hate, writes Helena Ivanov in Spiked.
“Iran’s ‘moderate’ President pledges to support Hezbollah” – Iran’s new President has told Hezbollah’s leader that he will continue to support the terror group and other regional “resistance movements” against Israel, according to the Telegraph.
“Joint open letter to GMC Chair re. persecution of ethical doctors” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance have joined forces with DfPUK, HART and CCVAC to write an open letter to General Medical Council Chair Dame Carrie McEwan urging the GMC to protect doctors speaking out on Covid vaccine harms.
“Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy” – We systematically ignore how scientific claims often contain a normative judgement about what matters to human life, says Max Lacour in the Critic.
“Judge hid Pfizer connections before blocking Covid vaccine lawsuit, complaint alleges” – The impartiality of Australia’s Federal Court is under scrutiny amid allegations that a judge failed to disclose her ties to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer while dismissing a legal challenge to its Covid vaccine, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
“BBC misleads viewers on fitness of ‘men’s milk’ for babies” – The BBC has admitted that a news item on so-called ‘chestfeeding’ was “misleading” and biased, says the Christian Institute.
“Re-arm now or face threat of global conflict, ex-army chief warns” – In an interview with the Times, the outgoing head of the army General Sir Patrick Sanders has called on the U.K. and NATO to wake up to the very real threat of a World War Three-style global conflict within five years.
“A political impasse” – In Taki’s Mag, Theodore Dalrymple assesses the untenable financial and potentially explosive political situation of most Western welfare states.
“France players hail ‘victory of the people’ after campaign against National Rally party” – The election defeat of the far-Right in France was celebrated by many of the national team’s most well-known players, many of whom have African heritage, reports the Telegraph.
“In France, the far-Left is king” – Marine Le Pen lost, but that doesn’t mean France won, says Quico Toro on the Persuasion Substack.
“‘France’s Jeremy Corbyn’ plans to freeze food prices in €300 billion giveaway” – France’s biggest parliamentary force wants to launch a ‘soak-the-rich” spending spree that could cost the taxpayer €300 billion, writes Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
“French Left-wingers ‘prepare to govern’ with 90% tax on rich” – France’s Left-wing New Popular Front says it is preparing to implement a programme that includes a 90% tax rate on the rich after winning the recent parliamentary elections, according to the Times.
“France’s hard-Left could soon bring down the eurozone” – In a great irony, the French parliamentary election results have caused the currency to plummet, remarks Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
“Macron has made France ungovernable” – The Fifth Republic is about to be tested to destruction, says John Keiger in the Telegraph.
“Macron the lame duck” – Emmanuel Macron and his centrist coalition may have been the biggest losers in the country’s parliamentary elections, writes Paul du Quenoy in City Journal.
“The French Left’s Pyrrhic victory” – The French Left’s triumph over the National Rally pits bourgeois radicals against struggling workers, says Tim Black in Spiked.
“Macron emboldened France’s increasingly hateful Left” – The French President hoped to out-manoeuvre the extremes. Instead, he may unintentionally be fanning their flames, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
“Always the ‘far-Right’ bridesmaid…” – Mark Steyn reflects on the aftermath of the French parliamentary elections.
“Why did a Parkinson’s doctor repeatedly visit the White House?” – The American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health, says Emily Yoffe in the Free Press.
“Why is Biden hanging on?” – Replacing Joe Biden before the convention would pose significant problems for Democrat Party leadership, writes Seth Barron in City Journal.
“Joe Biden demands Democrats end stepping-down talk in defiant letter” – Joe Biden says Democrats calling on him to stand down is driving him “nuts” and dared his critics to “go ahead“ and challenge him for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, according to LBC.
“Ed Miliband scraps de facto ban on onshore wind farms” – A de facto ban on onshore wind farms in England has been lifted after planning rules were dropped with immediate effect, reports the Times.
“If we don’t ban smartphones in schools we’ll be on the wrong side of history” – Let’s not be remembered as the country that dragged its feet when it came to protecting its children, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
“Will Anneliese Dodds finally see sense on trans rights?” – Let’s hope that, now she’s Minister for Women and Equalities, Anneliese Dodds has worked out what a woman is, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
“Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism” – We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
“Noel Gallagher takes aim at ‘woke’ Glastonbury” – In Spiked, Thomas Osborne reacts to Oasis star Noel Gallagher’s claim that Glastonbury has been consumed by “virtue-signalling”.
“Andrew Tate accused of £21 million tax evasion” – Social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of failing to pay any tax on £21 million of revenue from their online businesses, reports the BBC.

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