News Round-Up

• “Ex-Green candidate shared post calling antisemitic attack a ‘false flag’” – The Green candidate in the Makerfield by-election has stood down after suggesting the firebombing of Jewish-owned ambulances in Golders Green was staged, reports the Telegraph.
• “Zack Polanski faces formal investigation over council tax payments” – The London Assembly is assessing complaints from Labour and the Tories against the Green leader over tax owed on his narrowboat mooring in east London, says the Times.
• “Millions could face soaring bills as Burnham vows council tax overhaul” – Andy Burnham pledged to put up council tax as he formally launched his by-election campaign, says the Mail.
• “Andy Burnham U-turns on trans views” – Burnham’s change in position on trans issues is designed to appeal to voters tempted to elect the Reform candidate on June 18th, according to the Telegraph.
• “Miliband held secret talks with Streeting” – Ed Miliband held secret talks with Wes Streeting in the days leading up to the former health secretary’s resignation from the Cabinet, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Fake candidate plot’ was ‘discussed in Rayner’s kitchen’” – Police are investigating allegations that Atta Ul-Rasool, regarded as a “protégé” of Angela Rayner’s, benefited from fake candidates being nominated in order to split the vote against him, according to the Mail.
• “Bishop of Oxford and imam ask Oxford Union to withdraw Tommy Robinson invitation” – The Bishop of Oxford and a local imam have jointly urged the Oxford Union to rescind its invitation to Tommy Robinson, reveals Anglican Ink.
• “Britain abandoned industry, now we are defenceless” – In the past 50 years, Britain has become primarily a service economy, shrinking its manufacturing base to 8% of GDP, down from 16% in 1990, writes Neil Record in the Telegraph.
• “Ben-Gvir’s crass gloating isn’t the worst thing about the Gaza flotilla” – Not one crumb of food has been delivered to Gaza by the white saviours on board the Gaza flotilla, while Israel has distributed tens of millions of meals to refugees, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
• “No wonder companies are turning their backs on bloated HR industry” – Bolt Financial boss Ryan Breslow’s remarks have restarted the debate about just how useful HR departments are, claims the Mail.
• “Farewell to Stephen Colbert, the lame-duck liberal of American TV” – The end of The Late Show marks the decline of a once-mighty format that became smug, partisan and painfully stale, says Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
• “A tale of two deaths: sainthood for George, silence for Henry” – On his Substack, Frank Haviland compares the reaction to the death of George Floyd, a fentanyl addict and petty criminal, to that of Henry Nowark, an innocent 18 year-old who died after being wrongly arrested by the police.
• “Why did police handcuff Henry Nowak?” – A Sikh man, Vickrum Digwa, is standing trial for the murder of a Polish student, Henry Nowak, notes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Knife-wielding Afghan asylum seeker goes on Morrisons rampage” – Milad Panjshiri, 22, stormed into a supermarket in Bradford, West Yorkshire, clutching a six-inch knife before threatening a worker and trashing the aisles, reports the Mail.
• “Hundreds gather over death of Congolese ‘shoplifter’” – Yves Sakila, 35, was detained by security guards on one of the capital’s busiest shopping streets last Friday in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident, claims the Mail.
• “Afghan migrants charged with rape and child sex abuse offences” – Seven Afghan migrants have been charged with offences that took place against two girls in their early-to-mid teens between August 2023 and May 2025, reports the Mail.
• “When teenage rapists walk free” – A gang of teenage traveller boys who filmed themselves raping lone schoolgirls on two occasions have been spared jail, claims the Spectator.
• “Oxford scientists developing jab to tackle Ebola outbreak in months” – The rare species of Ebola currently spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – known as Bundibugyo – kills 30% to 50% of those infected but there is no vaccine, reports the Mail.
• “Will politicians ever realise that they can’t fix prices?” – The Chancellor’s threats against “profiteers” echo the failed interventions of the 1970s that led to the Winter of Discontent, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard quits” – Tulsi Gabbard was forced to resign by the White House, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Tory leader says the future of North Sea industry is in jeopardy” – Kemi Badenoch has accused John Swinney of “running scared” from the Greens over his party’s failure to back two controversial oil and gas developments, reports the Mail.
• “Horstine the whale: an obituary” – On his Substack, Eugyppius mourns the dumbass whale that swam up the Elbe and met an inevitable end.
• “Hottest day of the year as temperatures hit 28.4C with new heatwave” – Temperatures reach 28.4C in Cambridge, Heathrow and Cranwell, Lincolnshire according to the Met Office, beating the previous 2026 record of 26.6C observed in London on April 8th, says the Mail.
• “Why is it so hot? Scientists credit block of high pressure over Europe” – The heatwave is largely being driven by a large, stable block of high pressure over western Europe, according to Professor Hannah Cloke, a hydrologist at the University of Reading, according the Mail.
• “Time to end the injustice of ‘environmental justice’” – Environmental justice is far from the first policy to harm the people it claims to help, and pulling the plug on as much of this as possible may well be the most important part of Trump’s community development agenda, says Watts Up With That?
• “Labour’s net zero targets risk pushing households to eat less meat” – Households could be urged to eat less meat as Labour signs Britain up to some of the world’s strictest climate targets, reports the Telegraph.
• “Camille Paglia: ‘The feminist establishment tried to dismiss me’” – Long before social media, Camille Paglia trolls her perceived opponents with her exaggerated opinions by analogue means, writes the Times.
• “Oxford students revolt over ban on trans rowers entering Boat Race” – Students are up in arms over the new Rules of Racing policy and are said to be “personally investigating the matter”, says the Mail.
• “Felicity Kendal: Political correctness is helping drive antisemitism” – The actress says people are reluctant to speak out against racist abuse because of political correctness, reports the Telegraph.
• “Woke authors who boycott book festivals should hang their heads in shame” – Fossil Free Books’ virtue-signalling campaign only succeeded in damaging the already-fragile literature scene it claims to defend, argues the Telegraph.
• “What if the west isn’t the villain they told you it was?” – On John Anderson’s podcast, Konstantin Kisin debunks the notoin that Western civilisation is racist.

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