- “Clapham attacker should have had asylum claim refused under Home Office rules” – Abdul Ezedi’s conviction for sexual assault and his inclusion on sex offenders’ register should have prevented the Home Office granting him asylum, says the Telegraph.
- “Church of England faces questions over acid attack suspect’s conversion” – Abdul Ezedi‘s sylum application was supported by an Anglican priest, reports the Telegraph.
- “Clapham chemical attack suspect ‘a good Muslim’ despite claiming to convert to Christianity” – Friends of the Clapham attacker who claimed to have changed religion to gain asylum say he planned to return to Afghanistan to “find a wife”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi is ignoring what is blindingly obvious to us all: the Tories are now beyond help” – The Party isn’t even trying any more, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Reform support in Red Wall climbs to highest level ever” – Richard Tice’s party is now on 14% across 40 of the traditionally Labour-held seats won by the Tories in 2019, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sunak attempts to rally the troops – but is running out of time” – Some Conservative MPs are already so resigned to defeat that they want an early election before things get even worse, according to the Times.
- “Our MPs must finally wake up to the Islamist threat – both here and in the Middle East” – Britain’s support for Israel is having a momentous impact on domestic security, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph. Huston, we have a problem.
- “The blinkered BBC shamefully ignores Hamas’s genocidal aims” – How often do television news reports remind viewers that one of the main goals of Hamas is to kill as many Jews as possible? Almost never, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “European farmers have stolen our Brexit thunder” – Brexit was far too polite a protest against the EU, claims Ross Clark in the Telegraph. We should take a leaf out of the French farmers’ book.
- “Why are farmers protesting in France and across Europe?” – Workers across the continent are frustrated by cheap imports, the EU’s green laws and higher taxes, reports the Times.
- “Is there nothing to be done? Are there no solutions at all? Are we really stuck in globalist mass-migrant climate freakout deindustrialisation rainbow hell world forever?” – On Substack, Eugyppius sets out some reasons not to give up hope in spite of the gloomy political outlook.
- “Greta Thunberg cleared after judge throws out public order charge” – Greta Thunberg and four other cases have been thrown out at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, according to the Mail.
- “Why Volvo has pulled the plug on its electric car brand” – Volvo has decided to sell its stake in Polestar, says the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer’s £28 billion problem” – Labour looks set to ditch its pledge to spend £28 Billion on ‘green investment’, much to Ed Miliband’s chagrin, says Katie Balls in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s VAT policy is out-of-touch” – Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, has no sympathy for the low-paid employees who’ll be affected by VAT on school fees, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “Lab Origin: The Case is Even Stronger Now” – New evidence has emerged to strengthen the lab origin case, reports Alex Washburne for the Brownstone Institute.
- “The Covid IFR percentage was a scandalous lie” – On Substack, Bill Rice, Jr. discusses the scandalous claim at the beginning of the pandemic that the Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 was 3.4%. The real number is closer to between 0.3 and 0.5%.
- “Covid Research Waste – Bin 3” – How about spending some money on proper scientific studies that can give us answers on the riddle of viral transmission, suggest Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr .Tom Jefferson in Trust the Evidence.
- “Welsh Government Spends £100,000 Telling People To Wash Their Hands” – Public Health Wales has spent a whopping £102,000 of taxpayers’ money instructing people on how to wash their hands, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “The Meaningless Incoherence Of ‘LGBTQ+’” – Time to drop the ubiquitous term, says Andrew Sullivan in the Weekly Dish. It obscures and misleads more than it clarifies.
- “Environment Agency strips ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from its policies” – The quango has removed the ‘gendered’ words from its staff in order to curry favour with Stonewall, according to the Times.
- “Team Trump’s fears that Taylor Swift could keep Biden in power” – According to online speculation among pro-Trump conspiracy theorists, Taylor Swift’s appearance at the Super Bowl will be the crowning moment in a plot to drum up support for Joe Biden, according to the Mail.
- “Jack Barwell describes how he came to be labelled a ‘fascist’ by Left-wing students at Exeter” – Watch a student at Exeter talk about how little tolerance there is for free speech on his university campus.
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