- “Questions over who really owns PPE firm linked to Baroness Mone given £200 million” – A tax expert has called for a new investigation into PPE Medpro, a specialist manufacturer of personal protection equipment, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Women’s Open: Oil protesters with flares halt play after making way on to 17th green” – The AIG Women’s Open was halted at a crucial stage when the 17th green was invaded by Extinction Rebellion protesters, says the BBC.
- “Keir Starmer abandons plans for U.K.-wide Ulez zones in blow to Sadiq Khan’s authority” – Labour has done a U-turn on plans to expand low emission zones nationwide, following the Party’s unexpected defeat in the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, according to the Express.
- “Extinction Rebellion founder hits out at Ulez as protesters have tyres slashed” – Around 100 opponents of the London Mayor’s Ulez-scheme in Bromley have had their vehicles attacked, reports the Telegraph.
- “Now ban on oil boilers is thrown into doubt amid Tory backlash” – Plans to ban new oil boilers have been thrown into doubt following backlash among Tory MPs, with some Government insiders now insisting it was just a ‘proposal’, says the Mail.
- “Head of climate watchdog behind boiler ban plan admits he still uses gas heating” – The chief of a climate watchdog responsible for lobbying to ban boilers has admitted he still uses gas heating in his home, reports the Mail.
- “Britain isn’t being told the truth about Net Zero” – Both Labour and the Tories’ room for manoeuvre on green policy is exceptionally limited, explains the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “A great chance (best since 1850s?) to replace the Tories” – Dominic Cummings assesses the prospects of a notional Startup Party, a political project aimed at winning an General Election in 2028 and giving voters “the sort of government they want and deserve”.
- “Germany considers ban on far-Right AfD” – Germany is debating whether to ban the Right-wing Alternative for Germany as the party surges to 21% in the polls, reports the Telegraph.
- “West Yorkshire Police have some explaining to do” – Why did the police arrest a drunk autistic child, asks Robert Jessel in the Critic.
- “Who is Professor Emma Renold?” – The fact that Emma Renold holds a Chair in the Department of Social Sciences at Cardiff University is evidence of academic ‘title inflation’, says Toxic Feminism.
- “The treachery of the atheists” – Why have so many rationalists fallen for the hocus pocus of the trans cult? Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains.
- “Drag queen story time event for children funded by Welsh Government” – A Drag Queen Story Hour in Cardiff last year was funded by the city’s Labour-run administration, according to Yahoo.
- “When I was 14, a transsexual manipulated me into changing sex” – “When I was very young, I was manipulated into sex reassignment by a transsexual man in his mid-40s,” says Polish biologist and science blogger Lukasz Sakowski in the Mail.
- “The narcissism of queer theory” – The ‘queering’ of the Mary Rose is a preposterous attack on history, writes Ann Furedi in Spiked.
- “What happened to the Edinburgh Fringe?” – Leo Kearse joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater on the Spiked Podcast to discuss the woke censors at the Edinburgh Fringe, the junk science about ‘ultra-processed food’ and why middle-aged, privately educated liberals are ruining everything.
- “Biden censors battered – expect an epic Supreme Court showdown” – A federal judge has condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history”, reports the New York Post. Biden v Missouri looks to be heading to the Supreme Court.
- “Vivek Ramaswamy: The millionaire who could be Trump’s heir” – Vivek Ramaswamy, the rising star of the Republican Party, wants to send troops to the Mexican border, abolish Government departments and push for a deal to let Russia keep parts of Ukraine, says the Sunday Times.
- “Musk v Zuckerberg: Florence mayor proposes ‘match of minds’” – The Mayor of Florence is calling on tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to swap a spectacle of fisticuffs for a battle of wits in the birthplace of the Renaissance, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Not only does it punish free speech, it makes compelled speech part of the punishment’” – German Saucedo tells Andrew Doyle on GB News that a Mexican civic has been convicted of “gender-based political violence” for misgendering a political opponent.
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