- “Hate speech rapper ‘must be treated like Lucy Connolly’” – MPs have demanded that the two members of punk band Bobby Vylan “be arrested and prosecuted” like Lucy Connolly following their “offensive” chants at Glastonbury Festival, reports GB News.
- “BBC chiefs ‘should face charges’ over Glastonbury ‘death to IDF’ chant” – Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says that the BBC “appears to have broken the law” by transmitting a punk duo’s calls for the deaths of Israeli soldiers, according to the Mail.
- “BBC Glastonbury boss boasted of ‘bringing nation together’” – The BBC executive in charge of Glastonbury Festival coverage boasted it would “bring the nation together” before it aired a rant calling for the death of the IDF, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer’s denial of two-tier justice is a disgrace” – In the Telegraph, our own Laurie Wastell tears into Lord Hermer’s denial of two-tier justice, accusing him of fronting a system that crushes white working-class dissent while turning a blind eye to violence and hate elsewhere.
- “Starmer faces fresh MP rebellion over farmers’ inheritance tax” – Sir Keir Starmer has been put on notice of a fresh Labour rebellion over the Government’s “family farm tax”, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer told to rein in Rayner’s workers’ rights Bill” – Sir Keir Starmer has been told to rein in Angela Rayner’s new labour laws amid claims they could lead to a £1 billion tax hike, says the Mail.
- “Labour in chaos after Keir Starmer’s benefits U-turn” – Labour is engaged in a fresh bout of infighting as the fallout from Sir Keir Starmer’s benefits U-turn sparked new claims about the PM’s future, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer has had worst start of any new PM, says polling guru” – According to polling guru Sir John Curtice, Sir Keir Starmer has had “the worst start for any newly elected prime minister, Labour or Conservative”, says the Times.
- “Wounded PM gone in a year say allies of Angela Rayner” – Allies of Angela Rayner expect Sir Keir Starmer to be gone within 12 months – with the Deputy Prime Minister most likely to succeed him, reports the Mail.
- “After a dreadful first year, Starmer has no hope of fixing the economy” – Labour has increased taxes and failed to reverse sluggish growth and low confidence, writes Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
- “If ever we needed an effective opposition to rout Labour, it’s now ” – Is there no limit to the price Britain must pay for having given Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party a chance a year ago? asks the Mail in a leading article.
- “Alarm over mounting debts after Starmer’s about-turn on welfare” – The Bank for International Settlements warns that ballooning government debts across Britain and the West risk triggering a global economic crisis, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why Starmer should heed the lyrics of the Beatles and the Kinks” – Taxation is far too high – and raising tax rates even more will only compound Britain’s fiscal and commercial weakness, warns Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s mad planning system is becoming more and more absurd” – While the Joneses get their homes pulled down, Labour kowtows to corporate builders, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Luxury flats left empty as second-home rule backfires” – Luxury flats in one of the UK’s priciest coastal towns have remained unsold for more than three years due to a rule banning second-home purchases, reports the Express.
- “The future of the Right is being shaped over lunch at exclusive clubs” – The future of Right-wing politics in Britain is being decided on the cigar terraces of Mayfair, writes Glen Owen in the Mail.
- “‘I’m bullish about Britain. You should be too’” – Most of our challenges stem from a relatively small number of very big things we are getting wrong, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Islamist extremists fuelling rise in antisemitism, Blunkett warns” – According to ex-Labour Home Secretary Lord Blunkett, Britain faces an “enormous and ongoing threat” from Islamic terrorists, reports the Times.
- “Tories strike unprecedented deal with Reform on migrant crime” – The Conservatives have struck a landmark deal with Reform UK in an attempt to force the Government to reveal the true extent of migrant crime, says the Telegraph.
- “How Denmark’s ghetto laws caught the eye of Kemi Badenoch” – In the Telegraph, Fiona Parker reveals how Denmark’s hardline ‘ghetto laws’ are splitting opinion at home – and catching Kemi Badenoch’s eye as a blueprint for Britain.
- “‘We’ll take every criminal back if Farage is right’” – Albania’s Prime Minister has pledged to take back all Albanian prisoners in the UK in a row with Nigel Farage over how many are in jail, according to GB News.
- “The Equality Act epitomises Westminster’s mindless utopianism” – The damage the Equality Act continues to inflict on the public purse as well as our social fabric can no longer be ignored, warns Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
- “Inside the most dangerous town in Wales fighting a drugs crisis” – “Abandoned” residents living in the “most dangerous town in Wales” have claimed they are inundated with beggars, drug dealers who inject themselves on the street and “child drug dealers”, reports the Mail.
- “Cannabis ‘is worse for society than heroin’, police tsars say” – More than a quarter of police and crime commissioners have written to the Policing minister calling for cannabis to be upgraded to a class A substance, says the Mail.
- “Tesco shoppers baffled as cheap items like ham given security tag” – Packets of ham have been fitted with security tags in the latest anti-shoplifting measures to hit supermarkets, reports the Mail.
- “Strictly star mugged in Central London in ‘traumatising’ ordeal” – A Strictly Come Dancing star has been robbed in broad daylight in London, leaving her “scared and helpless”, says the Mail.
- “Prison nurse struck off after telling offender to ‘get up’” – A prison nurse is angry at being struck off for “not showing kindness” after telling an offender to “get up” when she felt he was feigning injury, reports the Mail.
- “Teachers strike as ‘nine in ten at academy chain need second jobs’” – Nine in ten private school teachers at Britain’s largest academy chain say they’ve had to take second jobs to make ends meet, says the Mail.
- “Two deaf children refused help because they are privately educated” – An outraged mother has revealed how her two profoundly deaf children have been refused access to vital help by a Labour-run council because they’re privately educated, reports the Mail.
- “A British Leyland of TV is the Government’s worst idea yet” – A merger of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 would produce dull programming and create a damaging monopoly, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “BBC staff in ‘open revolt’ after Channel 4 says it will air Gaza doc” – BBC staff are in “open revolt” about top bosses meddling with the channel’s journalism “for political reasons”, reveals the Mail.
- “Bob Vylan, Glastonbury and the banality of Jew hatred” – In Spiked, Tom Slater warns that Glastonbury’s chant of “Death to the IDF” marks the mainstreaming of antisemitism in British culture.
- “Met Police confirm Kneecap will not be prosecuted following ‘Kill your MP’ terror probe” – Counter-terror police have confirmed they will not be charging Irish rap group Kneecap after videos emerged of them calling for the death of British MPs and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, reports GB News.
- “Future of press watchdog financed by late Formula One tycoon in doubt” – The future of Max Mosley–funded press watchdog Impress is in jeopardy, as crippling fees and a lack of major publishers threaten to sink Britain’s state-approved regulation system, says the Mail.
- “The suspended doctor selling sick notes on demand” – A suspended doctor is selling sick notes online to customers who want to go on holiday, take months off work for alleged Covid infection or care for an ill dog, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Lib Dem-led council U-turns on £70 parking fees after ‘tsunami’ of objections” – A Lib Dem-led council has about-turned on controversial plans to charge residents £70 to park outside their own homes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Britain pays such a crippling price for electricity” – Decades of energy policy failure have left businesses and households picking up the bill, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Power plots Ovo merger to create Britain’s third-largest energy supplier” – The Spanish owner of Scottish Power has held talks about a merger with Ovo to create Britain’s third-largest energy supplier, reports Sky News.
- “Wimbledon ban fan-favourite food from menu and replace it with ‘peas’” – The All England Club is on a mission to become more sustainable and has made the decision to replace avocado with crushed peas at this year’s tournament, says the Mail.
- “Safety of German wind turbines heightens after 70-meter rotor blade snaps off” – A 70-metre-long rotor blade of a V150 wind turbine has fallen from a height of 123 meters in Germany, heightening concerns about the safety of wind turbines, reports P. Gosselin on the NoTricksZone.
- “Top EPA official breaks down why agency needs to get back to basics after Biden years” – In a sit-down with the Daily Caller’s Audrey Streb, the Environmental Protection Agency’s David Fotouhi blasts Biden-era waste and grid-strangling rules, pledging to cut red tape, halt green cash abuse and reboot the agency’s core mission.
- “Wind power’s subsidy sham: Grumet’s plea ignores 40 years of unreliability” – In WUWT?, Robert Bradley Jr. exposes the American Clean Power Association’s Jason Grumet’s plea for ongoing wind power subsidies as a decades-long crony capitalist sham.
- “Climate oscillations 4: the Length of Day” – In WUWT?, Andy May explains how changes in the Earth’s rotation, measured by the Length of Day, relate to shifts in wind patterns that influence global temperatures.
- “Media blame early 2025 heat wave on climate change, but history tells a hotter tale” – On Real Clear Energy, Steve Goreham argues that nature – not humans – is to blame for America’s latest heatwave.
- “Raise a glass to the shuttering of Climate.gov” – The closing of Climate.gov isn’t just a budget cut; it’s the vanquishing of one of the most lavishly promoted panic-mongering platforms in government history, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
- “Mollusc deposits affirm Arabian sea levels were 2-3 meters higher 7000-6000 years ago” – Another day, another new study has sea levels 2.5 to 3.2 metres higher than they are at present from 7,000 to 6,000 years ago, writes Kenneth Richard on the NoTricksZone.
- “Agriculture: it’s worse than we thought, again” – In Climate Scepticism, Jit tears into Andrew Hultgren et al’s climate crop study, calling out overblown “worse than we thought” claims and shaky CO2 science.
- “Let’s have a big hand for palm oil” – The fact that in Southeast Asia farmers can choose palm oil has reduced the amount of global deforestation that might have taken place, writes Brian Monteith in Country Squire.
- “Another fake Net Zero market that nobody wanted is set to collapse” – Literally nobody asked for bioethanol, says Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph; it is only produced because of green targets.
- “The political footprint of ‘settled science’” – From climate change to Covid, the myth of consensus science has left real-world damage in its wake, writes Laura Hollis on the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Expert says forcing vapers to go to same area as smokers is ‘barbaric’” – A behavioural science guru has called for designated vaping rooms in offices so workers trying to quit cigarettes can stay away from temptation, reports the Mail.
- “Routine masking must never return to care homes” – On Substack, Gary Sidley argues that mandatory masking in care homes strips the elderly of vital human connection in their final years.
- “Millions of lives saved? Scientists demolish the Covid vaccine myth” – In TCW, Dr Roger Watson flags a damning new study that dismantles the claim that Covid vaccines saved millions.
- “Vaccine injury, film maker and scientist” – On YouTube, Dr John Campbell sits down with filmmaker Dean Rainey and Dr David Speicher to discuss their new documentary on vaccine harms, Why Can’t We Talk About This?
- “El Salvador President threatens to send imprisoned gangsters to Paris Fashion Week” – El Salvador’s President has hit back after a Paris Fashion Week show slammed his prison crackdown – saying he’d ship inmates from the country’s notorious mega-prison straight to France, according to the Telegraph.
- “How Israel was turned into the fount of all evil” – The relentless demonisation of the Jewish State is fuelling a vicious new antisemitism, warns Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
- “Iran already repairing nuclear site, satellite image shows” – Iran is already repairing its nuclear site as the UN warns the country could be enriching uranium for a bomb “in a matter of months”, according to Business Insider.
- “Hamas accused of placing bounties on aid staff” – The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is facing a new threat as Hamas terrorists allegedly place bounties on the heads of its workers, including U.S. security personnel and local aid staff, reports Fox News.
- “We have killed Hamas’ October 7th mastermind, IDF claims” – The Hamas mastermind behind the October 7th attacks has reportedly been killed in an Israeli air strike, reports Business Standard.
- “A damaged Iran is more dangerous than before” – Trump should end the menace posed by the Islamic Republic and bring permanent peace to the region, writes Nigel Jones in the Telegraph.
- “Broadcasters must air views that trans women are women, says Ofcom” – Ofcom has warned that broadcasters must give airtime to claims that biological men are women when covering trans issues, according to the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer says ‘get on with it’ as trans ruling ignored” – Sir Keir Starmer has ordered the public sector to get on with implementing the Supreme Court’s gender ruling, reports the Express.
- “Noel Gallagher brands Glastonbury ‘woke’” – Noel Gallagher has described Glastonbury as “kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling”, according to the Express.
- “Grade I listed? Liverpool’s ghastly cathedral should never have been built at all” – Why on earth has ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’ been granted the same architectural status as Admiralty Arch and the Cenotaph? asks Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Milton Keynes: the soulless city” – Conjured out of almost nothing in the 1960s, Milton Keynes is a stark example of public officials acting as rationalist social planners, says Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
- “How an explosive-filled shipwreck in the Thames could trigger a tsunami” – In the Telegraph, Ben East reveals how a munitions-laden WWII wreck off Southend – the SS Richard Montgomery – could still unleash a Thames tsunami.
- “Whitney Webb demolishes the climate agenda in 90 seconds” – Watch journalist Whitney Webb lash out at climate fear-mongering, courtesy of Wide Awake Media.
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