News Round-Up
June 14, 2026
Originally posted by: Daily Sceptic
- “Restore activists at ‘white supremacy summit’ with neo-Nazis” – Supporters canvassing for Restore in the knife-edge Makerfield by-election were among those attending a far-Right event that called for a white-only Europe, reports Glen Owen in the Mail.
- “Rupert Lowe: ‘I won’t have woke creeps telling us we’re racist’” – Restore leader Rupert Lowe says he is unfazed by the far-Right label and happy to embrace the term if common sense is how it is defined, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Reform plots £100 million election war chest – the most of any UK party” – If successful, Reform’s fighting fund would exceed any war chest ever assembled by a UK political party, writes Elizabeth Ivens in the Mail.
- “Reform is still not ready for government – and probably won’t ever be” – Reform’s struggles in a seat it should win reveal its own deep-seated mistakes, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is already treating Burnham as PM” – Andy Burnham, the favourite to replace Sir Keir Starmer, is already being treated as a Prime Minister-in-waiting by his own party, reports the Telegraph.
- “Junior doctors in England call off next week’s strike” – Junior doctors in England have stood down strikes due to begin on Monday after receiving a new pay offer from the Government, says the Times.
- “Teens will get social media curfew and chatbot ban” – Daily social media use is to be restricted for 16 and 17-year-olds in a Government move designed to curb unhealthy late-night scrolling habits, reveals the Times.
- “Starmer ‘gambling with children’s lives’ by rushing social media ban” – The father of Molly Russell has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “political opportunism” by rushing out plans to ban children from social media, claims the Telegraph.
- “Labour hands out £770 million in benefits for ‘unknown’ health conditions” – Around £770 million in health benefits went to claimants with no recorded health problems last year, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Relentless’ taxation must stop, warn Gail’s and Boden bosses” – The bosses of Gail’s Bakery and Boden have sounded the alarm over Labour’s “relentless” tax rises, warning that Government policies are driving businesses to breaking point, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Let me help you cut welfare, Badenoch tells Labour” – Kemi Badenoch has written to Sir Keir Starmer – and six of his potential successors – offering Tory support for welfare cuts, says the Telegraph.
- “Kemi and Nigel must put aside their egos” – The bickering between Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage is as maddening as watching squabbling children, and the Right must set aside its egos before the opportunity is lost, writes Sarah Vine in the Mail.
- “Carns warns Miliband: energy is about security, not environment” – Al Carns has delivered a veiled attack on Ed Miliband’s Net Zero policies, declaring that energy policy is a security issue rather than an environmental one, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bran flakes to be classed as junk food under Labour health plan” – Kellogg’s warns that Labour’s proposed junk food classifications could “undo years of work” to make breakfast cereals healthier, notes the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer overrules Ed Miliband on electric car sales targets” – Sir Keir Starmer is moving to water down Net Zero electric vehicle targets after sustained pressure from business and the Unite union over the threat of widespread job losses, says the Times.
- “‘We had to wait nine months to plug in our electric car’” – Homeowners installing electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps are discovering that Britain’s ageing electricity supply cables simply cannot cope with the demand, reveals the Times.
- “Piketty’s eco-Marxist utopia: why degrowth and global redistribution will trap the poor in poverty” – Thomas Piketty’s newly unveiled Global Justice Report, with its embrace of degrowth and wealth redistribution, would condemn the world’s poorest to permanent poverty, argues Tilak K. Doshi in RealClearEnergy.
- “David Bau on how – and whether – artificial intelligence thinks” – In conversation with David Bau, Yascha Mounk explores the mysterious internal processes that drive AI behaviour and why they may be fundamentally alien to human cognition, writes Yascha Mounk on his Substack.
- “Javier Milei’s plan to let AI-led companies run riot in Argentina” – Argentina’s president proposes to grant legal status to “non-human corporations” – businesses run entirely by AI with no human directors – according to the Telegraph.
- “How the diversity industry jettisoned ‘equality of opportunity’ for equity” – Public services including the NHS and police have quietly adopted the woke ideology of ‘equity’ to give minority groups preferential treatment, writes Jill Foster in the Telegraph.
- “On the street in Belfast: ‘Blame politicians for riots, not migrants’” – Citizens and legal migrants in Belfast are united in blaming the Government’s failure to stem illegal arrivals for the riots that have terrified the city, writes Matthew Syed in the Times.
- “HMRC boss behind customer service meltdowns gets honour” – Angela MacDonald has been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath despite presiding over multiple tax office failures that left customers unable to get through, reports the Telegraph.
- “Council officers sacked after being caught on camera threatening man” – Harrow Council has sacked two employees filmed intimidating a man on the street after accusing him of “messing with our money”, reveals Will Hallowell in the Mail.
- “The enshittified robot politics of Mario Voigt, or: how a plagiarist and AI fraud came to govern Thüringen and why nobody can do anything about it” – Mario Voigt, the Minister President of Thüringen who rose to power through a coalition of political convenience, stands accused of plagiarism and AI fraud in a devastating profile, writes Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Peace deal with Iran will be finalised on Sunday, declares Trump” – Donald Trump has declared that a peace deal with Iran – one he says will reopen the Strait of Hormuz – will be signed off today, according to the Times.
- “Gwyneth Paltrow is not so soppy after all” – The Oscar-winning actress has refused to shun an Israeli company despite the current climate of cultural pressure, a stance that deserves more credit than it will likely receive, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Why must Lucy Letby continue to suffer?” – The slow, dragging misery inflicted on Lucy Letby is an indictment of a British justice system that urgently needs its head examined, claims Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “The threat from radical Islam is not just about terrorism” – Watch Nick Timothy being interviewed about the growing Islamist threat.
The threat from radical Islam is not just terrorism.
Islamists seek to subvert our society and our democracy.
But what we have is worth defending.
We have to fight back. pic.twitter.com/ceFmaQ8v81
— Nick Timothy MP (@NJ_Timothy) June 13, 2026
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